Sentences with phrase «community against the project»

BROKE, through holding community meetings and rallies and through its website, has worked diligently to educate and mobilize the community against the project since it announcement in 2012.

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Indigenous leaders, First Nations communities, even Amnesty International, have all expressed concerns about «man camps» at resource development projects and the potential for exploitation and violence against Indigenous women they pose.

New wine, a new logic of community that comes from a solidarity culture was projected against the old wine, the old culture.

They can be challenged to work in projects to improve their community through political and social action, to help eradicate sexism, racism, ageism (discrimination against aging persons), and poverty, all of which damage marriages and families.

I strongly urge all Islamic communities in all over USA to stand united against this project and show the true face of our religion.

If citizens from across the globe lobbied their governments and the international community to stand against the Rosia Montana Project, not only would this important heritage site be preserved — but from these lessons learned, other locations can be protected from similar exploitation.

East Side members also voted Sunday to team up with Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of community groups that recently launched a campaign against the East 91st Street project — and has vowed to keep any pro-MTS politician out of office.

Miriam Colque, community and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cutcommunity and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against CutCommunity Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (Barac)

Adams came out against the Rabsky Group's plan to redevelop 200 Harrison Ave. — open land once owned by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer — contrary the community board's recommendation, and instead aligned himself with community groups who've protested the project since last fall, arguing it perpetuates segregation in the neighborhood.

Despite this, the Staten Island Community Contractor's Association had about a dozen protesters outside the stadium yesterday who said they are against using non-Staten Island contractors for the project.

INWOOD — A City Council committee in charge of rezoning unanimously voted against the Sherman Plaza project Tuesday morning, a day after Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez announced he could not support the project due to community opposition.

«The community is adamantly against this project and I join them in hoping we preserve the current state of this beautiful park.»

asked Noah Gotbaum, a member of Community Education Council 3, which passed a resolution this month supporting the bill and has come out against the high - rise project.

Nearly two dozen members of the Saugerties chapter of the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline, a bi-state group that has spearheaded opposition to the project in communities along the proposed route in New York and New Jersey, showed up at the meeting.

«Although SIDA officials engage a third party to complete a cost - benefit analysis (CBA) for proposed projects, the CBAs do not adequately compare the community costs against the expected benefits,» the audit said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — State Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli said today that he thinks Mayor Stephanie Miner should drop a lawsuit against COR Development over the Inner Harbor project because it could cost the community jobs.

I already understand that, which is why I proudly attach my name to these bills, and why I stand up and speak out against projects in our community that will jeopardize affordability.

He used the opportunity to call on corporate Ghana, celebrities and all Ghanaians to come on board the «ONE LOVE ELIMINATION OF SCHOOLS UNDER TREES» project and help put smiles on the faces of children in communities with such schools by replacing them with befitting structures as we compliment the effort of Central government to win the war against schools under trees as Ghanaians.

Since Cuomo announced the project last May, community members have continued to push back against the microgrid proposal that would continue to be powered by natural gas — a facility that seemed all too similar to the ANSWERS plant the community members rallied against only a couple of decades prior.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT CommunityCommunity Center.

A: The short answer is, the Town Board makes local zoning and other laws, and the Zoning and Planning Boards review project applications for conformance with the law, with common sense and the needs of the community to be protected against concerns such as traffic, drainage, ugliness and health and safety threats.

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, along with 19 other community advocacy groups, filed a lawsuit today against the Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Companies, in an attempt to block the approval of the massive Atlantic Yards project in Prospect Heights.

Bloch and other influential voices in the community projected a drop in degree production against rising demand and came up with a massive predicted shortfall over the next decade and beyond.

That was met with a negative reaction by many, albeit unfairly so — you can read our balanced review of the movie here — while some quarters of the online film community took against Netflix for releasing the film, instead it being released in cinemas, branding the project with the outdated stigma of a straight to VOD release.

But an $ 18.4 million construction project to remodel the structure has pitted school officials against alumni in the seaside community near Boston.

The aim of the project is to empower women and community people in the above mentioned locations (Khartoum, Blue Nile and White Nile states), to be able tosupport ending violence against women and gender justice interventions (FGM, GBV, early marriage, and other forms of VAW).

Project Connect joins students, schools, and communities to make a powerful statement about uniting against bullying.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

Partners Against Hate Partners Against Hate was started as a project of several nonprofits to provide educational and counteraction strategies for young people and community professionals who interact with them.

The Puppy Mill Project applauds and appreciates Drs. Rovner's and Lohmar's courage in taking a stand against puppy mills and speaking up for what is best for animals, setting a wonderful example and embodying the values we believe the veterinary community should uphold.

Representing the fourth pillar of Project CARS» four ways to play the game (Career, Solo, Online and Community), the Driver Network is described as an «always - accessible suite of features focused around allowing players to connect, compare, share and compete against each other».

At the urging of his close friend, the artist Paul McCarthy, Puusemp gathered newspaper clippings, letters, and public notices that chronicled the Rosendale project, publishing them as a single volume titled Beyond Art — Dissolution of Rosendale, N.Y.. Now, in an exhibit titled «Against the Romance of Community,» the Swiss Institute explores those documents alongside other artworks focused on how communities behave, interact, and identity themselves.

She is Adjunct Curator at Swiss Institute, New York, where she has worked on several exhibitions including «Nancy Lupo: Parent and Parroting,» «Olga Balema: Early Man,» and «Against the Romance of Community,» along with curated projects by Alex Baczynski - Jenkins and Nina Beier (all 2016).

The forum will include brief presentations by several collectives including, #ArtsGoBK, BRIC, Chinatown and Lower East Side Artists Against Displacement, The Creative Resistance, the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance, Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM)- Moving Arts, For Freedoms, Hands Off Our Revolution, Hunter Community Action Coalition, The Illuminator, Kingsbridge Project, Love City Arts Collective, Occupy Museums, Resistance Media Collective, TVR - Imagine Liberation team, TVR - News, Wendy's Subway, Word Up Books, along with many others.

Community - based projects in Nepal and India's Uttar Pradesh have used risk - mapping to retrofit schools against earthquakes, while simultaneously training local builders in techniques of disaster - resilient construction.

They are competing against the Project Drawdown Community Team, led by team captain Jeff Gilliland.

Earthjustice represents the Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, Coalition For A Safe Environment (Wilmington, CA), Del Amo Action Committee (Torrance, CA), California Communities Against Toxics, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Air Alliance Houston, Community In - Power & Development Association (Port Arthur, TX), Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, Clean Air Council (Philadelphia, PA), Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (West Virginia).

Many community - led fights against projects are localised and may not be on the Fossil Free map yet.

We recall again the fact that two Auditors General for Ontario chastised the government for having implemented a green energy program including highly invasive wind power projects in quiet rural communities against their wishes, with no cost - benefit analysis.

By purchasing Gold Standard credits from this project, companies will not only reduce carbon emissions, they will finance a world - leading community - impact project that delivers against a number of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: reducing deforestation, tackling fuel poverty and reducing household air pollution.»

«We don't take control of a project, but instead try and create the tools that decision - makers need to succeed or fail on their own merits — such as finding out who has the rights to payments for ecosystem services and how you can get information about these new and completely untested markets into the hands of communities so they can understand what they're committing to and weigh that against what they can receive.»

According to a Feb. 2 report by Global Witness and The Guardian, 197 activists were killed in 2017 for defending their communities and natural resources against agribusiness, mining companies, infrastructure projects and poachers.

We're going to stand up again and protect our communities against this reckless and unnecessary project.»

In what turned out to be a whirlwind year, our activities ranged from bursting the gigantic balloon of 13 gigatonnes CO2 - equivalent of «hot air», to achieving a major victory against coal power projects in the CDM, to helping local communities negatively affected by CDM projects to be heard at international level.

Audrey Huntley and Krysta Williams talk about a new community - based database project that is part of working against the violence experienced by indigenous women and towards decolonization.

On November 2, lawyers from Miami Law's Health Rights Clinic, with Florida Legal Services and the Community Justice Project, sued DCF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on behalf of the Miami Workers Center, New Florida Majority, and a class of disabled individuals claiming that the system discriminated against persons with disabilities who could not endure these conditions.

The community coming up against these usage tensions gives Ethereum's developers tangible data to act on in order to fine tune the project and meet future usage demands.

Since 2014 a men's healing project in seven Darwin town communities has been making headway against a backdrop of significant trauma, poverty and inadequate infrastructure in the communities.

The project encouraged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take action against depression and anxiety through the telling of their own stories across the community radio sector.

These ideas are also the foundation of my community work for marriage in The Family Formation Project, where we work with urban unmarried couples who have a child and a desire to make their relationships work against great odds.