Sentences with phrase «direct action group»

Best Actress winner Frances McDormand said: «I appreciate a well organised act of civil disobedience... Happily, the feminist protest and direct action group Sisters Uncut had been on hand to provide some.»

While we've seen AIDS history on screen before, this new iteration about the direct action group is both tragic and heartening...

But Jay Tiernan, of direct action group Stop the Cull, said: «Natural England's authorisation of continued culling in both Somerset and Gloucestershire can only be viewed as an admission of a complete failure of the culls to address bovine TB in cattle.»

UK Uncut - the direct action group who occupied upmarket retailer Fortnum and Mason during Saturday's protest - came under criticism from Mr Cameron, who condemned their refusal to dismiss the violent scenes at the march.

She and her Georgetown buddy Zal Batmanglij, while they were unable to get work in film, spent that first summer trawling around the country with backpacks living off the grid with anarchist collectives, direct action groups and freegans, dumpster diving and train hopping, which later became rich fodder for their current film, their second together, the terrorist thriller «The East» (May 31).

Not exact matches

The legal action is not direct a response to Match Group's initial lawsuit.

Attackers often dedicate their action to the group despite having no direct contact with it.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

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Those among the older established religious groups who have become dissatisfied with conventional religiosity may also be divided into those opting for direct political action and those seeking to form new religious communities.

It takes an equally long time before, through the cooperation of generations of members, a ritual has evolved that both creates and directs the actions and interactions of a group.

Brooks defended the group's peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness against war and for a more peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»

Persons or groups with strong commitments to social action or evangelical faith often shun direct engagement with Wiltshire - like churches, dismissing them as lost to the cause, and instead issue more general pronouncements that avoid the nastiness of encounter with specific congregations whose values oppose their own.

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At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

Clearly, I would agree that the way in which we might express either pride, or shame, or a mixture of both, for either our family history and the actions of our direct familial ancestors, or for those of any broader community - such as a nation or other group - is qualitatively different from our relationship from our own direct personal actions, or indeed the actions of a political community of which we are part.

Clinton launched Onward Together in April of last year with the intent of providing funding to established liberal groups that could quickly counter President Donald Trump using direct action and protests.

Ulster People for Justice and Democracy, inspired by the Bernie Sanders campaign for President, is a grassroots group in Ulster County, NY, building an inclusive, responsive democracy through advocacy, education, and direct political action.

«The combination of foundation - funded front - groups, big lobbying budgets, [political action committee] donations, and direct campaign contributions makes Koch Industries and the Koch brothers among the most formidable obstacles to advancing clean energy and climate policy in the U.S.,» Greenpeace says.

Finally, in our groups, we wrote and presented personalised action plans as to how we were intending to direct our careers in the future.

In the absence of meaningful federal action, two groups of states have gone beyond RPS and enacted direct climate policies.

Smartly - directed action picture stars Jeff Wincott as a cop who risks it all to stop a group of dirty policemen who have worked out a look - the - other - way deal with a drug czar.

For instance, last year we had the fantastic Troll Hunter, a Norwegian fantasy film directed by Andre Ovredal about a group of students who get more than they bargained for when they attempt to capture the actions of a supposed bear poacher on camera.

The first two Bad Boys movies starring Will Smith & Martin Lawrence were directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, when this group was actually delivering great action movies.

The punished group may often have no direct association with the other individuals or groups, or direct control over their actions.

There are too many to mention here, but examples include free twilight CPD programmes to all staff within an alliance; placement schemes for senior leaders to gain experience of working in other schools and contexts; a mentoring programme for newly - employed heads; developing innovative programmes for School Direct trainees; SLEs offering one - day diagnostics as well as longer deployments focused on increasing attainment and progress in specific subjects; and the establishment of cross-alliance research groups meeting regularly to develop action research.

Voluntary action, free from direct economic benefits, is characterized by intrinsic motivations which promote, primarily by altruism focused towards the improvement of the social situation of certain human groups that are generally at a disadvantage against the human group which comes from the volunteer.

In 1998, the board passed Procedures for Initiating Academic - Year Governor's Schools (PDF) to direct the actions of regional planning groups.

The group is actually two entities, one a political action committee (PAC) that will be a direct player in the election and the other its advocacy arm that will take the issues to the airwaves.

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The Society and its community of volunteers and cat caregivers also work with government organizations, community groups and other animal welfare organizations to address cat - related issues humanely through mediation, education and direct action.

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ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was formed in 1987 as a direct - action advocacy group in the fight against the AIDS pandemic.

The protest took place at the 2015 Commencement Ceremony yesterday, and was organized by student activist group Free Cooper Union, which has directed a variety of informational and protest actions in response to the landmark tuition decision.

Another group gathered simultaneously outside the museum to protest, accompanied by artist collective the Guerrilla Girls, who are widely known for their own socially critical artwork and actions often directed at major museums.

If power is developed when one group of people direct the actions of another group, it is necessary to specify how one group differs from at the other so that the group in power can define itself.

The Energizing Finance research, done in partnership with the World Bank Group, Climate Policy Initiative, the African Development Bank, Practical Action Consulting and E3 Analytics, delivers a strong wake - up call to the levels of finance flowing to close energy access gaps, but also creates a roadmap of opportunities which, if finance is more strategically directed, will allow us to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, and provide affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.

Captain Paul Watson, leader of the controversial direct - action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, said in the first episode of Animal Planet's Whale Wars that his organization disrupts whaling becaus...

Organizers Lisa Fithian and Monica Hunken led the group in a short nonviolent direct action training and a song was introduced which went:

«Civil society» groups» direct action / disruption is utterly incongruous with their actual status.

«The people who are forming affinity groups to take direct action against pipelines now have the challenge of working in their neighborhoods to ground this work,» he says.

Yet what Koch - affiliated groups like ALEC and the American Energy Alliance manage to do is take policies that save jobs and strengthen (clean) energy security and make them all about President Obama's agenda: any show of support for clean energy, goes their pro-fossil fuel line of reasoning, is a direct endorsement of climate action / the existence of climate change, and thus can not be tolerated.

Whatever one thinks of the rights and wrongs of such direct action, the spate of recent occupations has certainly highlighted how easy it is for determined groups of individuals, be they protesters or terrorists, to gain access to our airports.

In fact, many green groups are actively involved in activities that either replace or supplement state services with direct community action.

Grassroots groups engaging in and training for direct action such as the Tar Sands Blockade, Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, the Unist» ot» en Camp, and Moccasins on the Ground have shown us how direct action can empower local communities and push establishment green groups to embrace bolder tactics.

As members of Rising Tide North America, a continental network of grassroots groups taking direct action and finding community - based solutions to the root causes of the climate crisis, we believe that to build the climate justice movement we need, we can have no keystone — no singular solution, campaign, project, or decision maker.

We must begin to discuss and develop our steps on how we should shift our strategy, realign priorities, escalate direct action, support local groups and campaigns, and keep as many new activists involved as possible.

An estranged former member of direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd alleges it ordered its own boat to be scuttled to win public sympathy.