Sentences with phrase «history as an activist»

«The Koch brothers donated $ 87,000 to Andrew Cuomo when he first ran in 2010 because they knew a good investment when they saw one,» the 51 - year - old said at the event, where she also touted her history as an activist on education, women's rights and LGBTQ rights.

«My understanding is that Moya has some history as an activist in the community and I think that probably put him in good stead as well,» Krasner said.

Not exact matches

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

But as a Republican president, perhaps the most pro-firearm chief executive in American history, Trump is, in theory, in a unique position to use his good standing with Second Amendment activists to make the case for gun reforms.

In this episode we discuss the ancient history of debt cancellation, the untold life of Jesus as an economic justice activist, and more largely Professor Hudson's forthcoming book,»... and forgive them their debts,» out in summer...

, 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.

Never in the history of the United Party, UP tradition of what is now referred to by our leaders as Busia, Dombo, Danquah tradition have we suffered so much dissension, division and bad - blood - letting as we see today under the Flagbearership of the man who claimed by some as a longstanding political activist, decision - maker and frontline actor; Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

In a remarkable video he made in Uganda that is posted on YouTube (since removed, though activist and blogger Andrés Duque made a copy, which is posted at the end of this story), Cabrera described the «cultural shifters» throughout history as a despotic rogues» gallery — Communists, Nazis, the North Korean government.

Besides having a long and impressive record as an activist in her community, she has a long history of involvement in disability organizations and advocacy.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

That union's leader, Debora M. Hayes, who has a long history as a labor and strike leader, was recognized as the area's labor activist of the year.

The Gordon Brown memorial pledge, which could just as well have come from the last Prime Minister's lips — the «We are the first Government in history to do X» being a formula of which he was fond — and the first bit of real red kidney - bean stew tossed to Liberal Democrat activists.

Concerning Assemblyman Castro he has a long history as a Democratic activist.

With spouse Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward comprised one of the most successful husband - and - wife tandems in Hollywood history; not only among the most acclaimed film actresses of her era, she was also highly visible as a television and theatrical performer, as well as a prominent social activist.

«There was always a focus on the civil - rights movement and it was as if black history stopped once Dr. King died,» said Raquel Willis, a writer and racial - justice activist in Atlanta.

As two teachers» union activists in cities that have the nation's first publicly funded voucher programs, we believe that never in the history of teacher unionism has there been a greater urgency to rethink strategy.

Warnings from history It should come as no surprise that TV chef turned activist, Jamie Oliver has stepped up his campaign on healthy eating for kids with his attendance at this year's One Young World conference in Switzerland to try and force the obesity issue with the UN, alongside calls from medical journal, the Lancet for international governments to wake up and take action before it is too late.

As with other peaceful protests throughout American history by activists who weren't actively opposed by governments, the protests of those activists would have been just as meaningful even without the threats to their liveAs with other peaceful protests throughout American history by activists who weren't actively opposed by governments, the protests of those activists would have been just as meaningful even without the threats to their liveas meaningful even without the threats to their lives.

To start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislation.

The activist could make history, if she replaces a Confederate General as one of two statues representing Florida in Washington D.C.

They encounter gangsters and guns, strawberries and more strawberries, factory - farms and fishermen, eco-warriors living in trees and social activists, and even, briefly, Mr Mayevskyj (from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian), along they way they are cheated and defeated; but those who emerge at the end do so a little wiser; as does the reader.

Although there is more to the company than Icahn, it is worth examining the activist investor's history and track record, as well as his typical motives.

Carlisle's work succeeds on two levels: It is both a gripping account of some of the most notable episodes in the history of shareholder activism as well as an instructive guide to profiting from mean reversion and activist opportunities in today's market.

Despite pushback from anti-pit-bull activists (and a campaign to award the book one - star reviews on Amazon), Pit Bull has been widely praised as an even - handed, factual exploration of how history and culture shape our perception of pit bull - type dogs (and, for what it's worth, has still earned five stars on Amazon).

While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

And in fact, while Veltkamp isn't ordinarily identified as an activist artist, he has a history of doing just such a thing in his artistic practice: he creates space.

Using artifacts, photographs, audio and visual presentations, as well as interactive components that seek to tell the entire story of activism in the five boroughs, Activist New York presents the passions and conflicts that underlie the city's history of agitation.

As a community activist and artist in Detroit focusing on city history and neighborhood empowerment, Nicole creates large - scale paintings for installation on abandoned buildings.

Of specific note is the artist talk Wynter will be giving on July 5 where she will be discussing her personal practice as well as her involvement with the recent campaign, movement and activist group, WHEREISANAMENDIETA, who have recently protested in London over the exclusion of women of colour within art history.

Jo Kreiter, choreographer and 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellow: Racial Justice and Mass Incarceration Megan Metcalf, Art History PhD candidate, University of California, Los Angeles

Kobena Mercer has appropriately referred to this generation of «cinematic activists» as being engaged with the cultural struggle that takes place within the «domain of image - making» through self conscious cinematic strategies.6 In each instance, the individual filmmakers and voices that make up the collectives, workshops, and groups that formed in this tumultuous period in Britain's cultural history give shape to an image of race otherwise mediated by outside entities.

2 Leigh's conflation of divergent sensibilities, histories, and artistic impulses fits into a respected lineage of artists who are oriented toward feminist and civil rights activist discourses, such as Faith Ringgold, Barbara Chase - Riboud, Noah Purifoy, and Miriam Schapiro, among others.

Smith, whose work often explores feminist themes through depictions of the female body and women from history and mythology, is drawn to the complexity of Bakerʼs career as a performer / showgirl, and a social and political activist.

As an artist, feminist and lifelong activist, Nancy Spero researched the obscured histories of women to create a figurative cast of characters, a kind of repertory company, culled from many eras and cultures.

Media researcher and activist Stephen Duncombe provides theoretical insight on the notion of «propaganda» throughout history, as well as quotes of famous speakers and politicians.

Bearden's achievements as an artist were matched only by his energy as a scholar and arts activist at a time when art history was defined almost exclusively in terms of whiteness.

McCarthy provides a historical overview of the continuities and changes in antiwar art from the 1930s until today, while Kozloff and Rosler contextualize this broader history with their experiences as artists and activists since the 1960s.

Fairey discusses his history as an artist and activist and talks in depth about several of his favorite pieces in the exhibition.

As you sat around the finely crafted gazebo like structure, the viewer shifted their attention to each projection as it screened a different group of LGBT community members, artists, activist, and civic leaders celebrating the queer history of Trinidad ColoradAs you sat around the finely crafted gazebo like structure, the viewer shifted their attention to each projection as it screened a different group of LGBT community members, artists, activist, and civic leaders celebrating the queer history of Trinidad Coloradas it screened a different group of LGBT community members, artists, activist, and civic leaders celebrating the queer history of Trinidad Colorado.

The Stockyard Institute was influenced by an awareness of neighborhood histories and an under recognized group of community artists, architects, radical teachers, and local activists where a deep consideration of the social and civic forms of engagement were as critical to their practice as to their lives.

He's described his curatorial outlook as «a very activist, engaged approach, stemming from a belief that to begin to define what later will be understood as the history of your particular moment is one of the richest aspects of being a curator.»

The show juxtaposes documents of activist histories with presentations that emphasize listening to music as a private experience.

For one, BAF had failed to reach out to Arts in Bushwick and many prominent members of the arts and activist community, which AiB (in a statement released to B+B back in March) worried was evidence that the BAF organizers were «creating a simulation of our community as a commercial space for outsiders or newcomers in the neighborhood who do not know the decade long history of Bushwick Open Studios.»

The exhibition explores themes converging around feminist activists from American history, domestic ornament in service of political messages, such as Quaker abolitionist quilts and pro-Confederacy secessionist cockades, and the recent removal of Baltimore's Confederate monuments.

Performance artist Martha Wilson, founder of Franklin Furnace, instigated an evening of presentations and performances as a «teach - in» with a selection of activist artists from the 1960s to the present, looking at the history of performance art as protest to consider which methods and strategies remain effective in today's political climate.

As a social activist, the artist's work reflects the history and challenges of China in the 21st Century, placed alongside his own reflection and perception of his home country.

In a career as an artist and activist spanning more than 30 years, Ms. Himid has tried to bring black history to greater attention.

Jacqueline Stewart's research and teaching explore African American film cultures from the origins of the medium to the present, as well as the archiving and preservation of moving images, and «orphan» media histories, including nontheatrical, amateur, and activist film and video.