Sentences with phrase «fight against closures»

The Justice Singers have played at Hirut Restaurant twice, for the community legal clinics» fight against closures in 2014, and for the Joe Hill tribute in 2015, and have toured to Hamilton, sponsored by the Hamilton & District Injured Workers» Group.

Vincent Lindon stars as a worker fighting against the closure of his factory in the latest film from French writer - director Stéphane Brizé.

As student representative of the course, she fought against its closure in the mid-198os.

Not exact matches

The struggles include fighting for the rights of the child (International Convention of 1989) and in particular the right to organise and educate the growing number of children in work, for the freedom of trade unions, the right to strike, against company closures due to the search for greater profitability.

Professor and activist Cornel West has vowed to fight against the school's closure, as have Harlem Councilwoman Inez Dickens and State Sen. Bill Perkins.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Given that we have had to endure and fight against cuts to education, aid to local governments, state operations and we are fighting health care cuts and closures of hospitals like SUNY Downstate or mental health facilities, we need to start talking about how we sustain services that people need, before we consider tax cuts.

Cilento later added, «Given that we have had to endure and fight against cuts to education, aid to local governments, state operations and we are fighting health care cuts and closures of hospitals like SUNY Downstate or mental health facilities, we need to start talking about how we sustain services that people need, before we consider tax cuts.

The film explores how our mind fights against depression, often convincing the body that it has to carry out irrational tasks as a way to achieve metaphorical closure on a painful episode in life.

A broad network of parents from across West Northumberland have launched a campaign to fight against the proposed closure of 16 rural schools.

«We fought very hard against the attempt by the previous Labor - Green Government to forcibly close schools, and we remain categorically opposed to forced closures,» he said in a statement.

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

Education Minister Jeremy Rockcliff has long fought against such closures stating, «In many instances, schools are the lifeblood of regional communities, and we firmly believe it is up to local communities to determine their future, not have it imposed from on high against their wishes.»

We are proud that we have been able to use these tools to fight against school library closures and librarian layoffs and that we've won so many of them.

A quarter of the world's oil refineries risk closure by 2035 if governments meet targets to limit fossil fuel burning in the fight against global warming, a report released on Thursday said.