Sentences with phrase «in organizing resistance»

Both the Sunrun - backed Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) and Vote Solar appear to have been active in organizing resistance to the bill.

Oil Change works to achieve its mission by producing strategic research and hard - hitting investigations; engaging in domestic and international policy and media spaces; and providing leadership in organizing resistance to the political influence of the fossil fuel industry.

White suburban moms, among many others, have certainly played an important role in organizing resistance to high - stakes tests in actions that have led to important victories in Texas, New York, and beyond as they fight to defend their children from abuse by a multibillion - dollar testing industry that is homogenizing education and draining resources from cash strapped school districts.

Not exact matches

At a talk last July organized by the Long Now Foundation, Raoul Adamchak, who teaches organic farming at UC Davis in California, argued some of the resistance to genetic modification has to do with the reputation of the companies involved.

It was also the position of Jesus in relation to the Pharisees (who wanted to organize resistance to the Romans) and the Zealots.

Across the world, people are organizing resistance, engaging in social struggles and creating alternatives.

The country's Solidarity movement was founded soon after and grew into the most organized resistance to Communism in the Soviet bloc.

In fact, pacifist theorists have urged the development of a civilian - based non-military defense, which would encompass organized but nonviolent resistance, refusal to cooperate with occupying forces, and efforts to undermine enemy morale.

Giuliani spoke at a rally in Berlin organized by the exiled opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran.

(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

The demonstration is being organized by a group calling itself the Ghana First Patriotic Front (GFPF), who have chastised the government for accepting the deal, and the majority in Parliament for ratifying it despite strong resistance by the minority and a host of Ghanaians.

One quarter of U.S.parents are reluctant to get their children vaccinated, and thousand shave filed lawsuits alleging that vaccines caused autism in their kids. Allen, a journalist with a decade - long interest in this topic, shows that unlike other medical procedures, vaccination has inspired organized resistance movements throughout its history.

Furthermore, basic knowledge on how this signaling path is organized and its key role in plant resistance to substrate flooding is the first step towards the biotechnological production of citric fruits that are more resistant to this type of stress.

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

There students take courses in «culture and resistance» where they learn about «systems of oppression» and are taught to organize political action in their communities.

Although a rich history of organized protest, opposition, and resistance by labor unions, professional syndicates, student groups, and Islamist organizations is prominent in both Egyptian and Tunisian modern histories, formulating policy and garnering political support were especially difficult for secular and liberal parties under the newly toppled dictatorships.

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

In early August, Kristen Buras, author of Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance, helped organize a two - day conference in New Orleans on community - centered education researcIn early August, Kristen Buras, author of Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance, helped organize a two - day conference in New Orleans on community - centered education researcin New Orleans on community - centered education research.

This new coalition has launched what they call «Testing Resistance & Reform Spring» (actionnetwork.org/groups/testing-resistance-reform-spring) in an effort to support testing boycotts, rallies, opt - out organizing, town hall forums, and petition drives.

S. Border Experience, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego; CARA: Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation 1965 - 1985, organized by the Smithsonian Institute; and Hispanic Art in the United States, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Vargas» work was included in the seminal exhibit, Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA) organized by UCLA's Wight Gallery, and Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry, organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

They understand the only way out of this is for Boyle Heights to organize and defend the community, and therefore came together to stand with us in our resistance.

Face to Face is organized around the ways in which artists have interpreted and used portraiture, exploring the interplay between themes of self - presentation, performance, love and desire, iconography, and resistance and commemoration.

The 10th Biennial of Havana, with the title «Integration and Resistance in the Global Age,» was held from 27 March to 30 April 2009, and marked 25 years since the first of these exhibitions was organized.

After a two - month artist residency in Brazil from April - June, Nancy Popp will share information on organizing groups, artists and activists she worked with in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, and her experience of the Impeachment, the Occupied Schools movement and the resistance to development around the Olympic Village and Villa Autodromo.

Critical Talk: Megs Morley - Strategies of Collaboration and Resistance 3:30 - 4:30 pm Megs Morley (artist and independent curator) discusses the history of Irish artist - led and self - organized initiatives and their troubled pasts in IMMA's Project Spaces.

Officially the 2nd AAA in the United States (the American Automobile Association was founded in 1902), American Abstract Artists organized in 1936 to combat mainstream resistance to abstract art in America.

Crafting Resistance Opening Reception: January 26th, 2017 5 - 8 pm Exhibition continues through March 28th, 2017 Visual Arts Center — Gallery One (Liberal Arts Building) The Visual Arts Center gallery at Boise State University has organized the exhibition Crafting Resistance featuring the work of twenty artists from around the United States as well as Canada and Mexico whose work creates awareness of political issues, examines issues of racial and social justice, or calls for change in environmental issues and human and equal rights.

We organized thousands to submit comments against the project and last November, over 100 kayaktivists shut down the export terminal for the pipeline in Vancouver showing that Kinder Morgan will not be built without resistance.

In addition to her international organizing, O'Rourke is active in her local and regional fossil fuel resistance movementIn addition to her international organizing, O'Rourke is active in her local and regional fossil fuel resistance movementin her local and regional fossil fuel resistance movements.

Local communities have been fighting back in court, mobilizing villagers and organizing a resistance that put the company in a deadlock.

For our purposes, however, I will speculate presuming an idealized general form of a zombie apocalypse populated with typical, animated, and hungry corpses at a point in time perhaps three months after the collapse of organized human resistance.

With our new program, Project Fierce Urgency, we are training progressive activists and volunteers in effective digital skills to mount aggressive issue - based political advocacy operations to organize the resistance in key states.

Data in ethereum is organized into a massive trie data structure that has a 16th order Merkle tree cryptographically guaranteeing forgery resistance.

Individual consultation includes, but is not limited to self care of the therapist; vicarious traumatization; assessing and treating trauma and abuse; dissociation; attachment; treatment planning; organizing and sequencing treatment in complex cases; therapeutic impasses and resistances; managing self - harm and suicidality; transference and countertransference, setting a therapy frame and helpful boundaries; and private practice issues.