Sentences with phrase «growing group of activist»

The two collaborated on a few «open letters» about education issues which received a great deal of media attention and were co-signed by a growing group of activist parents.

Radio Interview: «A growing group of activists, ecologists, authors and scientists are saying only a serious economic crash could save us from climate doom.»

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That group grew out of what some have said are liberal Christian activist groups but in recent weeks has grown to include a broad scope of Protestant, Catholic and evangelical leaders.

«It's really encouraging to see such a drop in consumption of bottled water among young people, because as they grow up, the overall market is definitely going to decline further,» says Jon Dee, the managing director of activist group Do Something!

It's called the «Center for Consumer Freedom,» a self - appointed watch - dog group that monitors «a growing cabal of activists» who've «meddled in American's lives in recent years.»

The court action grew out of a clash between sponsors of the nativity scenes and a group of atheist activists who competed with the churches for limited space in Santa Monica's biggest public park and managed to dominate last year's holiday displays with anti-religious messages.

Inspired by similar events organized by a growing group of unlikely activists nationwide, the protest brought about 200 women to ABC's headquarters Monday.

The New York Progressive Action Network, an activist group that grew out of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, recently endorsed Cynthia Nixon for governor and Jumaane Williams for lieutenant governor.

«I'm reaching out to the wide variety of activist groups that were put in place and continue to grow since the last presidential election,» Gipson said in a Talk - 1300 radio interview on Monday.

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.

With a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkers.

A broad - based coalition of neighborhood activists, social justice and food advocacy groups, top chefs, writers, farmers, fishermen, ranchers, civic leaders and state agencies is revamping the way food is grown, distributed and disposed.

Avinash Kar, senior attorney at environmental activist group the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the overall decline offers a «glimmer of hope» that the growing epidemic of drug - resistant infections can be beaten.

In the electric first half of BPM (Beats Per Minute) the film charts the movement of a group of HIV / AIDS activists in France in the early 1990s, just as the virus became a household name and those ravaged by it had grown tired of the pervasive silence around the pandemic.

This one is taking place within the Democratic Party, where the unions» opposition to reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

But Williams - Bolar's new group is already getting help from the Samuel and the Connecticut Parents Union; Samuel has already introduced Williams - Bolar to the growing network of Parent Power activists and to Whitney Tilson, whose e-mails reach into the core of the overall school reform movement.

It has grown haphazardly, with isolated successes and failures... To have a political effect, the «extended peers» of science have traditionally needed to operate largely by means of activist pressure - groups using the media to create public alarm.»

A diverse but increasingly unified and politically influential group of interests supports the commercial growing of hemp, including farmers, businesses, nutritionists, activists, and green consumers.

Sponsored by three activist groups — Oil Change International, Environmental Action, and The Other 98 % — the 30 - second ad was part of a crowd - funded campaign to point out the fatal flaw in ExxonMobil's business model to maximize oil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generations.