Sentences with phrase «including organized groups»

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The event, called Find your Fearless: Women, Ambition & Leadership, was organized by trade magazine PRWeek and communications agency Zeno Group and included a panel discussion on women's leadership, on which I participated.

According to the story, major white supremacy groups used Discord to organize protests and rallies, including one carried out in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a 32 - year - old civil rights activist.

For their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor law.

Putin's strength rests on the fact that he represents the interests of well - organized power groups, including the secret police and the military, says Andrei Korobkov, a politics professor at Middle Tennessee State University.

In addition to launching the Asia Pacific Youth Council in 2016, APF Canada has organized a variety of student - focused engagements, including the Asia Connect Student Working Groups (2016 - 17), the Building Bridges: Connecting Asia and Entrepreneurship event (2017), and the ASEAN Dialogues (2017 - 18).

The letter campaign was organized by the group Fwd.us, which urges changes in immigration law and was founded by tech leaders including Mr. Zuckerberg.

He also stands trial in several other cases, including charges of leaking secrets to Qatar, conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to destabilize Egypt, and organizing a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak...

They do not include, for example, Catholic Charities» extensive network of 1,400 charitable agencies serving 18 million people; the Catholic Health Association's 600 hospitals and 300 long term care facilities serving 20 million people; or the Campaign for Human Development's efforts to organize and empower the poor, with 200 local antipoverty groups working to improve policies, practices and laws affecting low - income people.

On December 5, a peaceful demonstration, organized by different faith groups including the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA),

On December 5, a peaceful demonstration, organized by different faith groups including the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy (DACA) was interrupted by law enforcement.

Using the hashtag #PrayForRefugees, Christian groups including World Vision, World Relief, the International Mission Board, Operation Mobilisation, and Lutheran World Relief (among others) have organized a special day of prayer for today, March 15, as part of a Lenten prayer campaign.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

League promoters, who include the mayor's office, the police and Park District, and non-profit recreation groups, say that adult monitors will organize the games.

Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support was established in 1977 and has been active in numerous pregnancy loss advocacy and awareness activities including everything from promoting the rights of parents to bury their miscarried babies, to organizing support groups around the nation.

Each eBook includes a collection of free kids» craft projects and activities organized around a theme, such as holidays, type of materials, age group, and more.

Fagan and Iglesias16 explored the effects of Head Start fathers» participation in a program that included three components: classroom volunteering, attendance at organized fun activities, and a monthly support group.

Responsibilities will include planning and executing email campaigns to support our 50 - state organizing strategy and coordinating messaging for more than 20 separate constituency groups.

This time we talked about several things that have been recent obsessions on Epolitics.com, including the Kochs» new data / politics empire, the digital role of other outside groups in the upcoming campaigns, the fierce competition for digital staff, Dave Leichtman's proposed Democratic 50 - state digital organizing strategy and much more.

These territories are also home to numerous groups involved the drug trade and other transnational organized crime, including right - wing groups that evolved from paramilitary groups demobilized between 2003 and 2006.

At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

Last Wednesday night, several of the groups, including the Real Rent Reform Campaign — made up of organized tenants, labor organizations and community groups that advocate for «progressive» pro-tenant legislation — held a well - attended town hall meeting in Brooklyn (they estimated the crowd at about 200 attendees) while the board of the influential Tenants PAC met separately and decided on endorsements for state legislative races.

«Trump Tuesdays» are part of a growing national trend organized — in some areas — by groups including People's Action and MoveOn.org.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

«One only needs to look to the Working Families Party (WFP)-- whose leadership includes a number of high - ranking labor union officials — to see what organized labor has been able to accomplish politically,» the group wrote in its report.

The evening protest outside the Koch estate was organized by a coalition of liberal groups, including MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement and the Long Island Progressive Coalition, a Massapequa - based nonprofit.

Walsh ran his campaign with support of Republicans and Democrats alike, including a citizen - organized group called Dems for Ben.

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.

Borough President Katz and Assembly Member Markey hosted the press conference in their capacities as co-chairs of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City's Parks Department, NYC & Company, the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that have worked for the past six months to organize and coordinate a fun, exciting and hopefully memorable series of events to celebrate the anniversaries.

Proposals leading to the 2016 legislation came from a Cuomo - organized working group that included the head of the New York State Beer Wholesalers Association.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

Seven Koch - backed groups spent roughly $ 77 million on television advertising, officials said, including 11 Senate races, and almost double that amount on grass - roots organizing.

The initiative included independent focus and discussion groups organized by the committee and the Duke Administrative Women's Network to identify the causes for gender disparities in the workplace.

The group included 17 rowers, 11 football (soccer) players and 18 endurance runners recruited from University of Cambridge sports teams and clubs, as well as 37 women who did not participate in organized sports.

The recently organized ASU School of Life Sciences (SOLS) has as part of its mission the instigation of collaborative research and training in areas that need strong links between diverse groups, including experimental, computational, theoretical, and mathematical biologists.

Founded in 2002 this caucus organizes many social events — including monthly bar nights and discussion groups — and also provides a list of student liaisons for prospective graduate students to contact with questions about each department.

He is now organizing a group of experts, including evolutionary scientists and theologians who believe in evolution, to counter the SRT's campaign by working to improve the teaching of evolution in the classroom, and in broader public life.

Opportunities for Collaboration is being organized to accommodate and encourage small - group interactions, including optional evening dinner discussions, breakout sessions, and lunch table topics.

The Mars Society is an all - volunteer group, so your membership dues are used solely to promote the mission of the Mars Society, including coordinating public and political outreach, establishing educational programming, convening our annual international convention and organizing and managing Mars simulations and research studies at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert and the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) in the Canadian arctic.

Specifically, we have generated clusters of transcripts that behave the same way under the entire spectrum of the sixty - seven experimental conditions; we have assembled genes in groups according to their time of expression during successive days of ES cell differentiation; we have included expression profiles of specific gene classes such as transcription regulatory factors and Expressed Sequence Tags; transcripts have been arranged in «Expression Waves» and juxtaposed to genes with opposite or complementary expression patterns; we have designed search engines to display the expression profile of any transcript during ES cell differentiation; gene expression data have been organized in animated graphs of KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways; and finally, we have incorporated advanced functional annotations for individual genes or gene clusters of interest and links to microarray and genomic resources.

We will be offering organized activities and classes, including Flow and Gentle Hatha Yoga classes, meditation and pranayama (breath) workshops, a yoga philosophy talk, and small - group personalized restorative yoga classes.

Your Dashboard, the first page upon login, organizes and displays activity in your Activity Feed, including the latest likes, pokes, and messages, while also featuring public profile updates from favorited members and favorited Group activity.

In addition to being its own chat room, ElderCare Online also provides links to other mature chat groups, which are organized into sessions (usually from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST) and include suggested topics to get the ball rolling.

Fleury organizes his team, a group that includes bomb technician Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), intelligence analyst Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) and forensic examiner Janet Mayes.

In its third year, the program at Spencer's school includes opportunities for single classes to learn the rules of organized games and for larger group play during lunch period recess.

In the Winter 2012 issue of Ed Next, Bruno Manno wrote about the growing number of advocacy groups that empower parents to take active roles in promoting school improvement in their communities, including Parent Revolution, which has helped California parents organize to pull the «parent trigger.»

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generatgroup of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generatGroup to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

SPANISH SOCIOCULTURAL ACTIVITIES Las Redes Sociales Includes: - Text on origins / history of social networks with interesting facts - Set of comprehension questions on the text - Group Activity involving creating your own social network and presenting it to the class in Spanish - Spidergram to organize a class discussion on Social Networks and the impact they have on society

Master's student Megan Red Shirt - Shaw, Oglala Lakota and a member of the HGSE student group Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education (FIERCE)-- which prepares educators to resist the manifestations of colonialism in school systems — has thrown herself into the work of advocacy, helping organize protests and events at HGSE, including a donation drive for the DAPL protestors.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

Master's student Megan Red Shirt - Shaw, Oglala Lakota and a member of the HGSE student group Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education (FIERCE)-- which prepares educators to resist the manifestations of colonialism in school systems — has thrown herself into the work of advocacy, helping organize protests and events at HGSE, including a donation drive for...