Sentences with phrase «grassroots activist group»

The problem is not shady Russian researchers; it's Facebook's core business model of collect, store, analyze, exploit,» Maciej Ceglowski, a prominent San Francisco web developer and leader of grassroots activist group Tech Solidarity, wrote in a tweet Saturday.

Freedom Action is a Web - based grassroots activist group dedicated to putting freedom on the offensive.

Beginning in 2015, Wallis collaborated with grassroots activist group We Charge Genocide to hold a series of quilting circles to memorialize 144 individuals killed by the Chicago Police Department or in police custody over the previous ten years.

The progressive grassroots activist group Rise & Resist has started a post-card campaign calling on Cuomo to reunify the fractured state Senate Democrats, focusing on the «destructive relationship» between the governor and the IDC.

A progressive grassroots activist group has started a postcard campaign calling on Cuomo to reunite the fractured state Senate Democrats.

The grassroots activist group Momentum has been holding high - profile campaign days in the target councils of Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, aiming to recapture some of the energy that led to Jeremy Corbyn's surge late in the general election campaign.

The curious dance of Saturday's proceedings comes as the WFP, originally formed as a coalition between labor unions and grassroots activist groups, has been somewhat depleted after the exodus of Cuomo - allied unions and is fighting to remain a force in liberal New York.

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We have to act together in any and all capacities that we can, whether as grassroots groups, community organizations, charities, unions, activists, universities and, most of all, as citizens, without asking for permission or waiting for public funding.

Traditional nonprofits and activist groups are happy to get in on the act, but the energy is coming straight from the grassroots.

Grassroots campaign group Momentum said its thousands of activists had helped to boost Labour's showing in a series of key areas, including Trafford, where the Conservatives lost control, and Wandsworth.

The group was joined by more than 100 grassroots community activists as they blocked off the State Street entrance of the Capitol Building in Albany.

The harsh assessment and decision by Perez Williams set off a firestorm among grassroots Democratic groups and party activists in Central New York who support Balter and view the challenge by Perez Williams as a betrayal.

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.

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.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

UPDATE: Murphy's campaign said the initiative «organized under the umbrella of Murphy's re-election committee, will fund organizers to work in collaboration with the campaigns of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and the Connecticut Democratic Party to recruit and train volunteers, offer action alerts to existing organizing groups, provide messaging help to grassroots activists, and provide a conduit between local activism and the fight in Washington to defeat the reckless policies of the Trump administration.»

He defends the role of Momentum, the grassroots group of activists that grew out of Corbyn's leadership campaign, saying it is maturing as an organisation.

It takes place in the early 1990s, following a group of grassroots activists in Paris trying to combat public and bureaucratic indifference with regard to the AIDS epidemic, for which potential pharmaceutical remedies are being sidetracked by sociopolitical obstacles.

Contact your state representative, write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or connect with church groups and grassroots activists who can help influence state leaders.

The Center's heroes come from all walks of life — volunteers, educators, grassroots activists, concerned citizens, and more — with diverse backgrounds and age groups.

Michelada Think Tank is a group of socially conscious artists who are interested in hosting conversations, creating safe place, opening opportunity to connect and build with other people of color (PoC) and allies who are socially engaged / community artists and grassroots activist type folks interested in creative ways of making change happen.

It's known as the Kochtopus — the extensive network of think tanks, institutes, university departments, political funding arms and «grassroots» activist groups funded by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch.

Some of the most valued services activists provide the Billionaire's Club includes promulgation of propaganda, which creates an artificial echo chamber; appearance of a faux grassroots movement; access to nimble and transient groups under fiscal sponsorship arrangements; distance / anonymity between donations made by well - known donors and activities of risky activist groups; and above all — the ability to leverage tens of millions of dollars in questionable foreign funding.

We are the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 75 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent.

ActionAid USA African Services Committee AIDS Foundation of Chicago AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland Alliance for a Just Society BAART Programs California NOW Center for Biological Diversity Center for Economic and Social Rights Center of Concern Chicago Political Economy Group Conference of Major Superiors of Men Corporate Accountability International DYNS Services EcoEquity EG Justice Food & Water Watch Foundation Earth Franciscan Action Network Friends of the Earth U.S. Gender Action Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Grassroots International Greenpeace USA Health Global Access Project (GAP) HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) HIV / AIDS Law Project Holy Cross International Justice Office Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy International HIV / AIDS Alliance USA International Rivers Jobs with Justice Jubilee Oregon Jubilee USA Network Labor Campaign for Single Payer Labor Network for Sustainability Lifelong AIDS Alliance Main Street Alliance Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas, USA Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns National Nurses United National Organization for Women (NOW) NETWORK New Rules for Global Finance Nicaragua Center for Community Action Oxfam America PeterCares House PR CoNCRA Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Raging Grannies Rainforest Action Network RESULTS Right to the City Alliance Sustainable Energy and Economy Network / Institute for Policy Studies Sisters of the Holy Cross — Congregation Justice Committee START at Westminster SustainUS Tax Justice Network USA Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL - NY) Wealth for the Common Good Women Together for Change, Inc. 350.

There was a group there that was particularly interested in mountaintop removal coal mining and getting the college to stop investing in coal companies, and the activist organization 350.org, which is probably the biggest grassroots climate - action organization, noticed this movement and were interested to see if they could scale it up.

For too long it has been held hostage by a minority of hard left, deep green activists whose anti-capitalist agenda has been given a veneer of respectability by the intervention of high end law firms, glossy environmental consultancies, Hollywood campaigners, «caring» grassroots pressure groups, expert scientific witnesses, «independent» moviemakers and sympathetic mainstream media coverage.

«Movements need enemies,» declares Bill McKibben, the author, activist and leader of grassroots group 350.org.

In reality, the activists, especially in Canada, look less like grassroots groups than like subsidiaries of large U.S. institutional donors, many with billions of dollars of assets — organizations that have funneled colossal amounts of money to anti-oil sands groups over the past decade.

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