Sentences with phrase «community against the expansion»

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Medicaid is the tool under Obamacare that is being used to plan for covering 20 - 30 million of the uninsured.The Supremes will strike a major blow against universal health care coverage if the mandate and Medicaid expansion of struck down.In addition, a negative decision on Obamacare will affect the closing of the Medicare Part D donut hole; the ability of youth remaining on parents» policies until age 26; and the funding of hundreds of community health centers.That is a lot of power being given to 5 unelected, lifetime tenure, white men.

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

District 3 Community Education Council president Noah Gotbaum, who's led the charge against Upper West Success Academy's expansion, scoffed at the poll and the application numbers.

SAVE (Saratogians Against Vegas - Style Expansion) discuss their fight to keep gambling out of the community.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

Manari Ushigua, President of Sápara Nation, asked for LDF's support of his community's fight against rapid expansion of oil drilling across the tribe's territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

While the broad trend in Brazil was bad news for its forests, there were moments of elation for environmentalists, including the creation of the 12,000 - square - kilometer (4,630 - square - mile) Turubaxi - Téa Indigenous Territory in Amazonas state; some of Temer's most environmentally damaging proposals failed to advance; infrastructure expansion in Brazil and neighboring countries got bogged down by corruption scandals and basic economics; indigenous communities won a series of legal victories and settlements against the state, and the headline deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon fell 16 percent versus last year.

Please spread the word #decoalonise, and let us together demonstrate community resistance against coal expansion in Africa!

Religious leaders and more than 100 members of diverse faith communities joined the protest against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline in Burnaby on Saturday

28 April, 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Burnaby, BC)-- Religious leaders and more than 100 members of diverse faith communities joined the protest against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline in Burnaby on Saturday, joining more than 200 people who have been arrested blocking Kinder Morgan's Burnaby tank farm gates since March 10th.

«Dear Alan, I am writing to express my immense gratitude and respect for your courageous act of activism for our community by speaking out against climate change and expressing serious concerns about Kinder Morgan's pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain.