Sentences with phrase «community activists»

This afternoon, members of the City Council and community activists will gather on the steps of City Hall to protest the Department of Aging's decision to close 105 senior centers.

«Teachers, parents and community activists will stand against any attempt to hurt our students and our schools.»

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Community activists and other local leaders are unhappy that the recent announcement that the City Council had reached a deal with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on changes to his citywide rezoning proposals came with few details, and scant outreach to local groups.

On the eve of the due date for Kingsbridge Armory proposals, community activists plan a rally today in hopes of getting a bidder to...

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

«Black power» veteran Barron represents the community activists who've long stayed on the outside, railing at black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the poor.

This morning, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn gathered with other elected officials and community activists in front of the old Fulton Fish Market to call for a regional food market at the Seaport.

But the ambiguity surrounding the other parts of the Seaport's redevelopment has been a source of criticism for community activists.

Sondra Youdelman, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard (CVH), and Sean Barry, Executive Director of Voices of Community Activists and Leaders - NY, released this joint statement.

Providers, parents and community activists will also present a petition signed by hundreds of community members demanding change now.

Community Activists Call on Bloomberg to Clawback Big Bank Subsidies, Demand NYC Budget Fund Jobs & Housing Friday May 11, 2012 at 02:57 pm

On the eve of the due date for Kingsbridge Armory proposals, community activists plan a rally today in hopes of getting a bidder to bring living wages and a new school to the site, the New York Daily News reported, even as a plan for a winter sports complex gained traction.

TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (06/08/2011)(readMedia)-- Members of CSEA and PEF will join with Dutchess - area community activists this Thursday, June 9, 2011 from 4 to 6 p.m. outside the former Hudson River Psychiatric Center Campus on Route 9 for a rally to protect the vital state mental health services that will be lost in the Mid-Hudson Valley community due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's shortsighted plan to close HRPC.

Obtaining these funds was a group effort that also could not have been accomplished without the Principal, teachers and other community activists that all agreed how critical this need was.»

Today his mother, community activists and elected officials gathered in the gymnasium, just a few hundred feet from the scene of the crime.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

Two incumbent city councilmen who represent other portions of the neighborhood are also seeking to defend their seats, as they are being challenged by community activists and political novices.

Greens from three counties joined these other community activists at Wednesday's event.

Community activists in Syracuse are calling on Onondaga County to make changes in policies that prevent family members from seeing deceased loved ones at the medical examiner's office in a timely manner.

But the loophole still exists, and that means we community activists still have our work cut out for us.

According to Mike Lupica, these tolls, set at $ 2 and collected by EZ - Pass technology so as not to slow traffic, were supported by nearly every major leader in the city: «politicians, labor leaders, community activists, even patrician Metropolitan Transportation Authority board members.»

This significant turnaround by the Cuomo administration, which announced plans in 2012 to introduce fracking in New York's Southern Tier, comes after years of unrelenting pressure from community activists, including Greens across New York.

Union Members, Community Activists to Rally Against Loss of Hudson River Psychiatric Center Services Wednesday June 08, 2011 at 01:26 pm

The party's screening committee, made up of union and community activists, made its recommendation after both Sini and David Calone, a venture capitalist and former assistant U.S. attorney, underwent half - hour interviews at the Long Island Progressive Coalition headquarters in Massapequa.

She said she was waiting to see whether community activists could persuade OCIDA to require that COR meet specific goals for hiring Syracuse residents and providing on - site job training.

This coming Mon., Apr. 13th, community activists and leaders will embark on a 250 - mile walk through five states to deliver to Congress what they call «Justice Package» — a set of criminal justice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community investment.

In an email to The Star last week, Mr. Thiele said that Democratic Party leaders and community activists had approached him about the seat held by Lee Zeldin, a Republican serving his second term.

With state budget negotiations making rapid headway towards a final agreement, a proposal that initially would have diverted $ 165 million from a fund meant to help welfare recipients is running into resistance from a scattered group of health care and community activists, according to information obtained by The Record.

Local community activists spoke about the life and times of the civil rights leader.

Mayor Bloomberg often gets criticized by community activists for being too pro-development.

Just Resisting also was part of a coalition of social justice and community activists who demanded last May that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000 in the city's overall 2017 - 18 budget.

A group of about a dozen community activists disrupted a Common Council committee meeting Tuesday to protest the cancellation of the Police Oversight Committee meeting and to urge council members to reschedule the session for September as opposed to waiting until January.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Community activists will gather outside of the Erie County Courts on Friday afternoon to call on Erie County District Attorney John Flynn to make a statement regarding the shooting of a 12 - year - old boy from Buffalo.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick joined local, state and federal leaders, as well as community activists and business leaders, on Friday, May 24 to remind local residents and companies of the opportunity to share their story with the judge considering the sentence in the federal case against Tonawanda Coke.

On Wednesday, October 8th Bronx elected officials, political activists and most importantly community activists lauded Comptroller Tom DiNapoli at a press conference held at the offices of The Bronx Democratic County Committee.

Cuomo added that he also fully supports the union leaders and community activists.

So there was a bittersweet feeling in the air at Mohonk Mountain House as the Gardiner Democratic Committee gathered community activists, current and former public officials, staff from various land trusts and environmental organizations and other local luminaries to review some highlights of Hinchey's career and give him a sentimental sendoff.

The community activists have my full support,» he said on WNYC's «The Brian Lehrer Show.»

Two community activists called on de Blasio to step down, promising more protesters in the coming weeks at City Hall — which has become a «modern day Tammany Hall.»

At 10:30 a.m., Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Sen. Marisol Alcantara, Assemblywoman Carmen De La Rosa, NYC Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, police officials and community activists hold a press conferene following last week's arrest of 32 individuals accused of running a drug marketplace on Vermilyea Avenue, intersection of Vermilyea Avenue and 204th Street, Inwood, the Bronx.

Members of New York Communities for Change, the Real Rent Reform Campaign, and Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL - NY) also took part in the protest.

Instead, as is your style, you obfuscate and divert, by attacking true community activists.

In keeping with the community theme, many of the options now being discussed stem from a June gathering where 75 community activists and technology leaders met to brainstorm ideas.

Community activists and clergy members will gather at White Park on East 106th Street in East Harlem, then walk in silence to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street.

A spokesman for Mark - Viverito said, «The speaker holds the same position on Oscar Lopez Rivera as numerous members of Congress and elected officials all over the country, community activists and faith leaders from across the spectrum.»

ALBANY, NY (01/19/2017)(readMedia)-- Dozens of community activists joined members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) under a grey sky to protest the closing of the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center.

«All of this is happening because of the years of advocacy and dedication of all of you: the elected officials, community activists, community boards, friends, family and neighbors that make up the fabric of The Bronx that 1.4 million New Yorkers so proudly call our home.»

Community activists, echoing community distrust of law enforcement, have been advocating for change in the Buffalo Police Department.

With an annual budget of over $ 130 million, CPC is one of the largest Asian multi-social service non-profit in the U.S. Founded in 1965 by a few civic minded community activists as the first social service agency to serve Chinese - Americans in New York, CPC currently serves over 8,000 clients each day with over 50 programs in 30 locations throughout New York City.