Sentences with phrase «if local activists»

The small advantage of a female candidate suggested by the Angus Reid polling could be overturned if local activists walk away or, worse, support an independent candidate.

What if local activists get motivated enough to start working against incumbents whom Obama supports?

Not exact matches

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

If you're willing to let your supporters take on local responsibilities, activists can hold press events, speak to groups, run fundraisers, gather signatures, etc. — all recruited and organized online.

Again, if you had actually been at the meeting and interviewed those members present, you would find most were not political wonks, but local community activists, community board members, PTA members, green advocates, housing advocates, and the like.

Well before a March 11 earthquake led to a partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, local antinuclear activists and elected officials were warning of the potential for disaster if a hurricane or other unusual weather...

These are just two examples of easily avoidable types of problems that District Leader Frank Gulluscio, who won the Democratic primary last month for the City Council seat currently held by Eric A. Ulrich, state Senator Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), and local community activist Betty Braton say could be avoided in the future if two bills currently before the New York City Council are passed.

Back in June, if you asked longtime Democratic activist Waneta Acker what she thought about merging the Obama campaign with her party's local operations, she'd just strain her neck and tense up.

According to Huffington Post's Paul Waugh, Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour's national executive committee to agree that Labour MPs who want to stand again at the election have to go through a «trigger ballot» so that local activists can vote against them if they want an alternative candidate.

On the positive side, membership has increased since December: people are more likely to join and less likely to leave if they are contacted by their local party, so there is a role for every activist to play.

When I mention clean - coal technology to Judy Bonds, a local activist and coal miner's daughter in Whitesville, West Virginia, she scoffs: «Even if you could get marshmallows to come out of a power plant's smokestacks, you can't wash the blood off coal.»

If You Build It follows designer / activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie county, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives.

The environmental one is clear, and it's voiced by Dustin Noble (John Krasinski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Damon), an environmental activist from a small organization that has photos of what fracking did to his family's farm (dead cows in a field) and a science demonstration for the local school of what could — or, as he believes, will — happen if fracking becomes the norm in their town.

And the school likely wouldn't have such classes, some teachers here say, if the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights hadn't forced the Salt Lake City district to bolster its services for English - learners in response to a complaint by a local activist in 2001.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

When a local activist urged my husband and me to help him distribute Christmas food packages to poor Mayan women, I asked if our presence would evoke images of colonial masters doling out scraps, but he strongly disagreed.

If there can't be accountability in her high - profile case that has received international media coverage and has led to violent clashes in Honduras, then there is little hope for the activists who don't even get a local news story when they are killed.

If they refuse, the Parkland kids and a group called the Town Hall Project, are urging local activists to schedule their own town halls.