Sentences with phrase «even issue advocacy»

The MTA has a strict ad policy that forbids promoting political candidates or even issue advocacy.

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You recently wrote about how you feel like after being outspoken about advocacy of some of these big issues that are happening in the country, you felt like there were some people, even your own fans, that turned on you.

«Working alongside pro-choice women on issues of human trafficking, domestic violence, genocide, foster care, and even special needs adoption has been among the most meaningful work I've been a part of,» said Kelly Rosati, Focus on the Family's vice president of advocacy for children and a speaker at the Evangelicals for Life conference this week.

Note that Ivan is describing something very different than traditional mass communications: he's talking about working closely (no doubt frequently one - on - one) with people on Facebook and other networking sites over a long period of time to help build a cadre of very committed activists — something that most electoral campaigns (and even most issue advocacy campaigns) simply can't do, whether because of lack of time or lack of resources.

Washington (CNN)- Sen. John Cornyn, R - Texas, dismissed a request Wednesday from an influential social conservative organization to skip a fundraiser for a Republican gay and lesbian advocacy group, saying that even though he does not agree with the group on social issues he shares its views on fiscal discipline and economic policy.

So far, I'm impressed, since even out of the box it's more than adequate for the kind of issue advocacy sites I'm starting to build clients these days (bidness has started coming in nicely, a source of some relief here in the e.politics bunker).

Campaign consultants are often accused of lagging behind their counterparts in the commercial marketing world and even the political issue advocacy world, but a major reason is that they HAVE to use methods that are known to work — when you have very little time to get your candidate elected, you're going to be biased toward tactics that you know you can trust.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Even as New York State adopts new regulations interpreting the Human Rights Law to provide transgender nondiscrimination protections and the city issues a new, stronger guidance on its municipal transgender rights ordinance, 30 activists and advocacy groups from the trans community are taking aim at the Empire State Pride Agenda over its -LSB-...]

Look at the bill, it is full of broad sweeping provisions and disclosure requirements that have nothing to do with campaign expenditures that include organizations that aren't even involved in lobbying, but pure issue advocacy.

The state Board of Regents, in its spending proposal issued last month, called for an additional $ 125 million, while advocacy groups have called for even more.

Bill McKibben, co-founder of the nonprofit climate advocacy group 350.org, took particular issue with Exxon Mobil's assertion that it remained confident that the supply - and - demand equation for petroleum would remain in its favor, even in an era of generally tightening carbon regulation.

It's also worth noting that the film is based on a true story from 1984, when these advocacy issues were unfortunately even more taboo than they are today.

Advocacy groups from across the state have issued a call for testing transparency, even starting an online petition calling for the ability to review questions and answers after standardized tests are administered.

He spoke on Wednesday evening before about 100 public school teachers at a panel hosted by Educators 4 Excellence, an advocacy group for public school teachers, at the Scholastic Corporation headquarters in SoHo, focusing on two of the most controversial issues of the last year: Common Core implementation and teacher evaluations.

When it comes to strategies and tactics related to issue advocacy, disagreements can arise even more often.

The public records were not only a useful tool for animal advocacy groups, but also for journalist covering animal welfare issues and even pet store owners looking to check the records of commercial breeders.

This isn't necessarily a «bad» thing per se (i.e. people, even scientists, have opinions on such issues), but when listening to their opinions, the public must remember that this advocacy is not from a position of [unusual] expertise (unlike for example our host here [Roger Pielke jnr], where this confluence of science and decision making IS the specific area of expertise).

Even the Royal Society has had issues with the idea that advocacy should not be part of science, with a group of 43 members, led by Andrew Montford, attacking the outspoken stance of their leaders on climate change.

Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians did not officially take part in the demonstration, even though the D.C. - based Indian advocacy organization in August issued a statement against the pipeline, saying it poses a major threat to Indians.

This is even more important in the context of our strategic framework, which is examining the nature and extent of our role as a regulator, and in which the Society is committed to advocacy on the issue of access to justice for equity - seeking groups.

There was no systematic advocacy surrounding public benefits, housing or consumer protection, even though low - income residents had very frequent legal problems touching on these issues.

Across the country, the use of LARCs among adolescent girls has been increasing even as teenage pregnancy rates have been falling, according to Heather Boonstra, director of public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization for sexual and reproductive health issues.

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