Sentences with phrase «group rallied support»

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After the rallies, immigrant rights groups will join LGBTQ, African - American and women's organizations this summer to push for the election of new leaders, Salas said, adding that they hope to see more support from Americans who aren't immigrants.

One Facebook group called «United Muslims of America» was allegedly created by the Russians to plan a rally called «Support Hillary.

«We definitely teamed up,» said Madison Knoop, 18, who organized a rally of 2,500 in Montpelier, Vt., with the support of groups dominated by adults.

Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.

Which makes me wonder if this is a church group they was doing some charity event and also happen to be anti-gay... OR was it some anti gay rally / meeting they they were supporting.

A middle - aged widow told how an informal support group (of former church school teachers) rallied round when they received word that her teen - age daughter had run away.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Fed - up New Yorkers who can't join the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence in Washington, D.C., next week can head to the Upper West Side on March 24, where anti-gun violence groups are inviting anyone who wants to support the Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivors to gather.

Several members of the City Council's progressive caucus — including Ben Kallos of Manhattan, Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, and Antonio Reynoso and Carlos Menchaca, both of Brooklyn — went to the rally to support the groups but neither mentioned the governor by name nor joined the anti-Cuomo cheers.

A rally to call for the ouster of Carl P. Paladino from the Buffalo School Board drew support from a wide variety of community groups, from teachers and parents to labor groups and the local affiliate of Black Lives Matter.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the group started by Bloomberg, will hold a rally tomorrow on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to support background check legislation.

You may have heard that Guide Dogs, along with over 40 other organisations and groups of disabled people are supporting a March, a Lobby of Parliament and a Rally on the 11th May to voice anger and concern at the cuts threatening benefits, services, jobs and rights.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued to shore up his support from the left with an email from the state Democratic committee that promotes a rally with Empire State Indivisible, a group that arose after the election of President Donald Trump in 2016.

A variety of unions, community groups, policy advocates are planning a major push to rally support for the bill.

A group of 160 rallied outside PS 372 in Park Slope chanting «More teaching, less testing, support our kids now.»

The new group will also rally support around senators and Assembly members who oppose Cuomo's fiscal plan.

The senator is rallying against the idea of legalizing same sex marriage in New York, an idea that's set to be considered by the legislature in Albany this spring and has the strong support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not to mention a growing coalition of residents and gay - rights groups.

RED HOOK — A group of Red Hook residents is rallying to support the family of an unarmed man who was shot and killed by a police officer last week.

Five supporters, who identified themselves as members of Blacks for Trump, a group that often shows up at Trump rallies in support of the president, gathered outside the hearing room to show support for Stone.

Cuomo denies he'd punish nonprofits for opposing him, though his aides did call City Council members and ask them not to attend a rally Thursday in support of the groups.

The group is due to storm campuses and corporate organizations to rally support for the President His Excellency John Dramani Mahama and the Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur.

The candidates for Nassau district attorney yesterday sought to shore up support on the final weekend before the election, with Republican Kate Murray rallying local GOP clubs while Democrat Madeline Singas courted a business group and party activists.

Grassroot Youth Campaign in support of John Mahama, #iChoose JM, a popular youth group of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Sunday amassed a huge crowd at the Odododiodio Constituency in the Greater Accra Region with a mammoth youth rally which was held at the Bukom Square.

At 1 p.m., the animal rights group Friends of Animals hold a rally in support of an outright ban of the carriage horse industry, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 7 a.m., Food and Water Watch, the New York Public Interest Research Group and activists and supporters of the Stop the Cuomo Tax campaign rally in Times Square, Penn Station and Grand Central against tax increase to support nuclear power plants in upstate New York, Grand Central Terminal by # 7 Train, Penn Station, LIRR area, and Times Square by Shuttle and 2 and 3 train tracks, Manhattan.

The video series, which was organized by the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, is intended to rally support for a possible legislative effort to legalize same - sex marriage in New York, according to an earlier statement from the group.

Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Cuomo's ethics plan has some good elements, but will only be successful if he tries to rally public support like he did when successfully pushing for a $ 15 minimum wage.

Families for Excellent Schools, a group that has collaborated with StudentsFirstNY on rallies in the past, also held a rally in support of Cuomo's proposals on Wednesday afternoon.

Gathered at the Chuggin» Rhino in Pomona from 7 - 9 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, Kim Foskew, Hiram Rivera and Joanna Thompson rallied a group of roughly 50 for support in this year's East Ramapo school board election.

BY SARA GILBERT Candidates promise to change controversial school board policies in East Ramapo district Gathered at the Chuggin» Rhino in Pomona from 7 - 9 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, Kim Foskew, Hiram Rivera and Joanna Thompson rallied a group of roughly 50 for support in this year's East Ramapo school board election.

Left - leaning activists rallying in Manhattan on Thursday criticized Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's alleged threat to defund groups supporting the Working Families Party, which endorsed Cynthia Nixon, his opponent in the Democratic primary.

The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.

In other Espada news, he held a rally today in support of the rent - freeze bill he's sponsoring - a bill some affordable housing groups say will benefit landlords.

According a report in Capital New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning a rally in support of tougher rent regulations, with aides reaching out to officials about attending the event even as tenant groups question his commitment to the issue.

«Today she is rallying outside of DCP,» said Marte, «to protest towers that wouldn't even have been imagined if she had supported the community - based rezoning plan (as envisioned by the Chinatown Working Group).

State Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and State Senator Jesse Hamilton on Tuesday morning joined neighborhood groups to rally in support of bringing back the B71, which was axed in 2010 amid MTA budget cuts.

Those maneuvers will include rallying support from the city's African - American and Latino pols and community leaders, plus business groups — constituencies where Cuomo has a special sensitivity.

Miner complains that the council is a leaderless group of naysayers who delay her initiatives but fail to rally support for viable alternatives.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning a rally Thursday in support of tougher rent regulations, Capital has learned, even as tenant groups question his commitment to the issue.

She rallied support among interest groups, embraced the assembly measure and wrote two more ambitious bills to drive the agenda: The bills would for the first time require the state — through its local agencies — to determine how much groundwater it had, how much was being taken and what effect that was having on the state's surface water supply.

In 2012 the group dropped $ 15,000 in support of a pro-Malloy student rally.

A small group of Madison teachers traveled to Chicago to rally in support of Chicago teachers over Labor Day Weekend.

Speakers at today's rally included Governor Tom Corbett, Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis, Senator Jeffrey Piccola, Senator Anthony Williams, Representative Jim Christiana and representatives from groups around the state who support education reform.

Well - funded advocacy groups like Parent Revolution and StudentsFirst are now using the new movie «Won't Back Down» to rally more support.

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The group at the rally Tuesday said they strongly support the idea, but they said their biggest fight is in their home state.

Families for Excellent Schools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

As part of its 2015 effort to support Governor Malloy's charter school funding initiative, the group bussed in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for a rally on the lawn of the State Capitol in Hartford.

Calling themselves a «grassroots movement» in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's plan to use taxpayer money to open two new charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last week.

The city showed the importance of working together to win the contest, rallying support from citizens, elected officials, animal lovers, pet professionals and animal welfare groups, local media outlets and others.