Sentences with phrase «decades of activism»

The Supreme Court began its long withdrawal from the civil rights fray in the early 1970s, after two decades of activism on racial integration.

After several decades of activism, deaf men and women are now largely accepted within mainstream Japanese society.

In July of 1993, after decades of activism, New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board opened its doors.

In its place was emerging a new Thomas, a woman familiar in conservative circles for her decades of activism.

The race is yet another place for the WFP, so successful last year, to flex their muscles: Ms. Simon has superior name recognition in the area and many more decades of activism under her belt, but labor unions are desperately trying to elect one of their own in Mr. Sikora.

The year that Martin Luther King, Jr., died may yet stand as a high - water mark in a decade of activism and aspirations.

Not exact matches

Decades of research show that people will be more willing to engage in activism that is easy, and less costly - emotionally, physically, or financially.

During the last decade, a resurgence in feminist activism has inspired a new generation of women to fight for equality following a relatively quiet few years for feminist campaigns.

For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.

Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

The the Heritage experts go on to give five «egregrious» examples of judicial activism over the past decade.

I had the privilege a few years ago of meeting Dr. Cornel West, a man who has been engaged in activism and justice work for decades.

Political theologies and theologies of social activism, coinciding as they did with the protest movements of the past decade, sought to secure a transcendent reference point for a minority cadre confronting the status quo.

On July 6th 2017, Mark Reinfeld was inducted into the North American Vegetarian Society's Vegetarian Hall of Fame for his decades of work in the field of food activism.

During his time as a radio announcer at WNEW, Justin jumped into labor activism and served as shop steward where he represented and defended the interests of his fellow employees and advocated to get all union members retroactively paid for decades of overtime work on weekends and overnights.

He is actively seeking the endorsement of the Working Families Party, and stresses his decades - long activism for the rights of labor.

«In the City Council, I will use my decades of community and senior activism to deliver for the South Bronx and East Harlem.»

Newell huddled with supporters in front of the former Jewish Daily Forward Building in Straus Square, a center of left - leaning activism for decades.

Out of the traditions and organizational culture established during the late 1940s and 1950s came AAAS's activism of subsequent decades on social issues such as racial justice, the environment, and the war in Vietnam.

Expressing disillusionment with Iran's current state of affairs, Alimohammadi recounted his political activism from 3 decades ago when he participated in the Islamic revolution.

The film presents poetry in the context of the living presence of Ferlinghetti as he reads many of his significant poems, discusses his political and social activism and gives viewers an insight into his public and private life as it unfolds over nine remarkable decades.

The picture was a dream project for the filmmaker for more than two decades, and it's no surprise that it takes the shape of a hallowed pamphlet, wafting from one historical event to another — the early humiliation as a «coolie barrister,» the activism in South Africa, the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, the Dandi Salt March of 1930, the «Quit India» resolution — in a cloud of incense.

Kennedy, known as the «lion of the Senate,» left a a proud legacy of activism during nearly five decades in office.

And after two decades of presidential activism in K — 12 education, seeing an administration respect the limits on federal capacity would be a welcome surprise.

Fur farming's an increasingly specialized (& unsubsidized) activity, the number of fur farms has been in decline for the past 3 decades (only stabilizing in the last couple of years), and farmers continue to face an uncertain & potentially expensive future of regulation (& animal rights activism).

There Hayden became chief author of the Port Huron Statement, the foundation document for more than a decade of campus activism, and a generation of political engagement by former student activists that continues to be felt in the nomination of then - student activist Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate for U.S. president.

The Gallery's curated exhibition History, Painting connects three painters whose work reflects three distinct movements in American social activism over a period of three decades.

Nearly four decades after Lonidier exhibited his 1977 installation «The Health and Safety Game» at the Whitney, the artist continues to base his artistic practice in community organizing, and to reflect on the relevance of activism and the labor movement to the creation of art.

Cuban dissident performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera has been challenging and probing political systems — as well as the boundary between art and activism — and advocating for freedom of expression for over two decades.

Formed in New York City in 1991 through their immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around gay rights, fierce pussy brought lesbian identity and visibility directly into the streets.

By juxtaposing mainstream network news, activist footage, artists» work, and popular entertainment from the last turbulent decades, Untitled references regimes of power that precipitated a generation of AIDS and queer activism and continues today with international struggle and expression.

After three decades of «creative activism,» the feminist masked avengers have planned an ambitious multi-venue festival that targets sexism and racism in the realms of art, politics and pop culture.

In the past decade, one of Lambert - Beatty's chief research concerns has been the potential and limits of political art in contemporary practice, which she has explored through work on hybrids of art and activism such as Women on Waves and The Yes Men.

This groundbreaking survey of two decades of black American art and the political activism of African - American artists introduced leading figures such as Barkley L. Hendricks and Melvyn Edwards to enthusiastic new audiences.

Artist Lubaina Himid has spent the past three decades or so creating a significant body of work that's as powerful in its activism statements as in its arresting visual qualities.

For nearly five decades, Howardena Pindell has explored the intersection of art and activism.

Special gallery installations will juxtapose the diverse and competing aesthetics that were the topical subjects of magazine articles, as well as museum and gallery shows during the»80s: the «Bad Boys» of painting, feminist conceptualism, appropriation and the Pictures Generation, «abstraction and culture,» political activism, the graffiti movement, and Warhol and the decade of art celebrity.

Beyond its contribution to family hagiography - not to mention key chapters that will leave architecture lovers swooning - Art and Activism is an indispensable history of several pivotal decades in the development of Houston's art scene.

During their decade of art and activism following their manifesto, the Cairo group explored the possibilities of the unconscious mind like their European surrealist counterparts, but with decidedly different imagery and agendas.

The performance will take place in the gallery within the current exhibition, Rising, a major new commission by New York - based artist Judith Bernstein, reflecting on a prolific five decade - long career at the forefront of feminist activism and political injustice, her first solo presentation to take place in the UK.

Over the past two decades, Los Angeles - based artist Connie Samaras (born 1950) has used photography and video — as well as writing, teaching and political activism — to explore the aspirations and anxieties of the imagined future through depictions of built environments that she calls «speculative landscapes.»

Sculptor, essayist, poet, performer, and American Indian Movement activist, Jimmie Durham has been exhibiting work internationally as a means of political activism since the 1960s, but the Cherokee artist has been enjoying a widening influence in recent decades.

The decade also saw the growing political activism of the local art community due to the Vietnam war and the civil rights struggle.

Laurie Dougherty, who previously offered a reasoned and impassioned defense of activism as a vital force for progress in the next few decades on humanity's planet, weighs in now with one of the (far too) irregular Dot Earth reader commentaries on books.

James E. Hansen, the NASA scientist who has moved ever more into the arena of environmental activism after four decades of climate research, has called on the public to join him at a large demonstration on global warming March 2 at an antiquated power plant supplying the Capitol with electricity and heat from a mix of coil, oil and natural gas.

The Governor's Office of Planning and Research also provides helpful advice to Californian citizens on how to identify us: «Many of the deniers share some traits...» This witch hunt follows a serious drought, caused by the decades - old environmental activism of Jerry Brown.

Dr. Bevington is the author of The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear (Island Press, 2009), which chronicles the powerful impact of grassroots forest and biodiversity protection groups on environmental policies in the United States over the past two decades.

«Decades of coastal activism and environmental research have facilitated Surfrider Foundation's success at protecting oceans, beaches and waves,» said Mark Rauscher, Surfrider Foundation's Assistant Environmental Director, «Beachapedia strives to capture that knowledge.»

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The common good of mankind was given at least equal billing four decades ago, though that no longer appears to be the case in much climate change activism and literature [comparing the Rio Declaration of the»80s to the 1972 Stockholm Declaration].