Sentences with phrase «from community members telling»

The series — to be published as an e-book — will also incorporate stories from community members telling of their experiences with the justice system, the impacts of over incarceration, and their ideas for how to create a fairer system.

I then made a huge parental mistake by moving my children out of that environment into another elementary school based on guidance from community members telling me that the school system I was entering was much better.

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BigHair - Stump, who is an enrolled member of the Crow tribe from Montana, told INSIDER that her work represents her identity within her community, and that she only makes designs using patterns from her own tribe.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

I could clearly tell that it was not just me that felt that way, in fact the PR team and the members from Johnsons and Johnsons were clearly in awe by the changes we have effected in our community.

Continuing their battle to stop the mayor from laying off teachers and cutting child care and after - school program funding, a group of parents and community members gathered at City Hall on June 16 to deliver a petition on seven 50 - foot scrolls signed by more than 20,000 New Yorkers telling Mayor Bloomberg and City Council members to invest in school improvement, not cut programs or personnel.

Leading the 71 - member regional observation mission, Mr. Mahama told Prof. Yakubu, who is also Chair of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), that Liberia required all necessary support from ECOWAS and the international community at this critical juncture of its political history.

One of the suspects, Chigbo Daniel, told newsmen that he had been on crime for a long time, noting that he learnt the act of duping unsuspecting members of the public from a fraud syndicate operating in Obosi Community.

Trelawney told us the Avenues Dating events instill a sense of community in members from all walks of life.

I grew up as a member of the homeschool community back when As readers might be able to tell from my articles, I find online dating to be interesting both for its methodology and how it has transformed our culture.

Listening posts that provide opportunities for school leaders to listen / learn from community members, as well as tell their own story about how education has changed.

«Resolutions like this distract us and are perpetuating harmful myths in the community,» Rachel Hazlehurst, of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy told the board, calling the resolution from board member Scott Schmerelson «divisive in nature.»

Animal Welfare League (AWL) executive director and board member Linda Estrada told me (and also Channel 5 in the report below) that she wants to hear from the community.

In line with our commitment to combat piracy and support safer and more secure gameplay for the more than 20 million members of our Xbox LIVE community, we are suspending these modded consoles from Xbox LIVE,» a Microsoft rep told IGN, adding that everyone should know piracy is illegal and that modifying one's console goes against Xbox Live's terms of use.

Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under - told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance from a woman - centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community.

Bat - Ami Hensen, a member of the Jewish faith community in Victoria, explained that she attended to uphold the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as honour her faith: «In our Torah it says, «Justice, Justice shall you pursue» and we're told that the reason justice is repeated twice is because it's not just for ourselves, but for others.»