Sentences with phrase «first time an activist»

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«We voted on the first of October and now we have to defend our vote and defend our republic in the polling stations and this time they aren't going to use violence against us,» says Eduard Morell, an activist for the ERC in Terrassa.

You can describe Jordan Hewson in many ways — a social activist, a first - time tech entrepreneur, a 27 - year - old living in Brooklyn, New York.

At 56, he pursued elected office for the first time after a 30 - year career defending radical activist groups like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia.

Elliott had originally invested in the obscure financial stock as part of an arbitrage trade, but when a colleague saw that the company was laying groundwork to shield itself from activist investors, he went across the hall to Cohn for the first time.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

One of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's most visible student activists will postpone his first year of college to devote time to political causes, CNN is reporting.

She was a stay - at - home mother who launched a full - time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end - run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

We met her in person for the first time at BlogHer ’10 but have respected her and her activist voice for years.

Through The Arena Summit, we've met thousands of first time civic leaders, activists, and candidates.

RIP Edith Windsor, the gay - rights activist whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same - sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights to myriad federal benefits, who died today in Manhattan at the age of 88.

A first - time candidate, El - Yateem ran with the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America as well as Sunset Park Councilmember Carlos Menchaca and noted Arab - American civil rights activist Linda Sarsour.

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

The first time most people heard the name Ian Murphy was after the editor of the satirical Buffalo - based website the Beast passed himself off as conservative billionaire activist David Koch and talked to Wisconsin governor Scott Walker for twenty minutes on the phone in the midst of union unrest there.

House Speaker John Boehner has repeatedly said he will not allow a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which passed the Senate for the first time this year, and activists are growing impatient.

A common criticism of the five leadership candidates, both in Westminster and among party activists, is that they have failed to articulate a new social - democratic vision for a Labour Party tasting opposition for the first time in 13 years.

Journalists, activists and members of the public alike were taken aback at the manner in which the two brothers repeatedly clashed with each other for the first time at the NS - hosted debate.

«This is the first time that we have an opportunity to get somebody who's not actually a part of the system, to become a part of the system, to be able to possibly make changes,» said Manuel Alarcon, a 46 - year - old Conservative Party activist on Long Island.

Lin Sakai, the lead coordinator of the Indivisible groups across the 19th Congressional District, states, «Sunday's NY19Votes canvass action was extraordinary in that is was a 100 % grassroots - lead, first - time - ever collaboration between dozens of emerging and established activist groups from across the district.

Ann Brown, Indivisible Western Ulster coordinator and Ellenville lead site organizer states, «Having so many first - time activists turnout in Ellenville was a huge inspiration.

Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist and first - time political candidate, has drawn a large amount of support from Tea Party activists in the state that has helped propel him into the lead, according to recent Louisville Courier - Journal / WHAS Bluegrass Polls.

IPR has learned from party insiders and activists that for the first time in the history of the Alaskan Independence Party, founded in 1974.

For the first time in more than a decade, the party is absolutely desperate for activists and might actually listen to what they have to say.

This is the first time Balter has run for a political office, although she has become a recognizable face in Central New York as an organizer of CNY Solidarity Coalition, a grassroots group of activists that formed to oppose the policies of President Donald Trump after he was elected.

A long - time resident and activist in New York City's Chinatown, Jenny is the first Chinese - American elected as a Democratic District Leader in the Chinatown / Lower East Side area, a party position that she has held since 1995.

The luncheon in Mixner's honor represented the first time a British Prime Minister honored an LGBT activist in this manor.

Aubry, whose district covers Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Corona and LeFrak City, faces an opponent for the first time in years in Democratic community activist Anthony Miranda.

Mike Kruglinski, who is also chair of the GDC, began proceedings with a testimonial to a longtime Democratic activist and public servant conspicuously missing from the caucus for the first time in many decades: Dr. David Straus, who died in June after a brief illness.

He was speaking after Lib Dem activists broke with tradition and voted in favour of nuclear power for the first time in the party's history.

The community activist and first - time nominee pledged to bring a background in financial analysis to bear on the Town Board.

If activists were to succeed in stopping TMT, it wouldn't be the first time: In 2002 a federal court blocked a NASA plan to build a half dozen 1.8 - meter telescopes on the mountain because it failed to do a comprehensive environmental assessment; NASA eventually abandoned the project.

At first, some JST activists devoted considerable time to the effort, causing «a little friction» with faculty members who were concerned that they get their scientific work done, Tolman says.

Heading directly to the huge convention center here that this week was hosting the first - ever HIV R4P conference, a gathering of researchers and activists working on all HIV prevention efforts, Motsoaledi wasted no time in making connections.

However, the first of Five Acts «five SFF screenings is today at 2:15 PM MT.. That's just a few hours after long time activist Fonda takes the stage with Gloria Allred, Common, Maria Bello and Daveed Diggs in a now snowy Utah resort town.

Among this year's notable first - time nominees is artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei, who received two nominations for Cinematography and Production for his film Human Flow.

Andrea Riseborough, who plays Colette McVeigh a young dark tempered woman, surpasses the stereotypical republican activists of the time, and her die - hard exterior we are first met with soon wears down to reveal a somewhat softer, vulnerable woman in search of a peaceful life for herself and her son.

When Mark suggests that marchers in the pride parade raise money for the striking miners, it's the launch of the activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), an organization whose members will include Joe (George MacKay), a suburban college student tentatively taking his first steps out of the closet; defiantly flamboyant actor Jonathan (Dominic West) and his partner Gethin (Andrew Scott), whose encounters with the miners will bring him home to Wales for the first time in decades; and Steph (Faye Marsay), who loudly and proudly reminds everyone that she's the «L» in the group.

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

Sixty - six years later, the artist and activist is showing her work in America for the first time in an effort to ensure such horror is never repeated.

For over three decades the Guerrilla Girls have been exposing and challenging sexism and racism in the visual arts, politics and culture at large, and now for the first time the anonymous feminist activist group revisit their 1986 campaign «It's Even Worse in Europe».

In Un Coup de Dent, renowned artist and activist Nancy Spero will present a body of early, expressionistic works referred to as the Black Paintings and a group of related drawings, created between 1954 and 1965 and exhibited comprehensively in the United States for the first time since 1985.

«Which is why Katy and I have made it our mission to make this singular activist private collection accessible to the public for the first time in a tour across city art galleries and some of the country's leading seats of learning.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

Now for the first time, the anonymous feminist activist group revisit their 1986 campaign «It's Even Worse in Europe».

«This is the first time that Stills has been exhibited in its entirety,» Witkovsky told the full house attending an illuminating panel in the museum's auditorium, moderated by Laurie Simmons with artists Liz Deschenes, Sara VanDerBeek, and activist Kate Linker.

The Cooper Union graduates are among the many co-founders of the student activist group Free Cooper Union, which protested the college's decision to charge tuition for the first time in its history, and both Sobel and Gollan contributed to Artforum's recent «Class Dismissed: A Roundtable on Art School, USC, and Cooper Union» piece, along with artists Frances Stark and Jory Rabinovitz, curator Helen Molesworth, and others.

I imagine this was the first time eminent psychoanalysts, environmental professionals, activists and scholars have gathered within these hallowed halls to contemplate our current environmental predicaments.

This was the first time that an FPC license had been reversed on environmental grounds and the first time that environmental activists gained standing to sue in federal court.

For the first time, fracking was an issue represented by the Goldman Prize: Jonathan Deal, a wildlife photographer turned environmental activist in South Africa, was named a winner of the 2013 Goldman Prize for his work to fight fracking in his beloved Karoo.