Sentences with phrase «kind of activism»

Does this kind of activism risk alienating the masses?

Other scientists disagree with this kind of activism, most notably Susan Solomon, who was the co-leader of the 2007 I.P.C.C. assessment of climate trends.

The general premise is that you're buying at a discount to asset value, and targeting value that can be unlocked with some kind of activism, consolidation and / or restructuring.

Critics were quick to call the move out for being an ineffective kind of activism, especially given that enough actresses already wear black to award shows, that the red carpet might not look that different.

And that's the real check on the passion underlying any kind of activism: if you can't persuade people that their actions have some realistic path to success, or at least SOME kind of beneficial results, they'll lose that self - loving feeling and drift off to another cause or interest.

The psychological benefits of this kind of activism are considerable, especially for elite students.

That kind of activism is not.

Summers called for smart tax reform and rules to discourage the kind of activism that strips cash out of companies.

Not exact matches

But it's been that kind of year for the 58 - year - old Schultz — out in the realm of political and social activism, as well as inside the caffeinated corporate suite.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

But this kind of «CEO activism» is actually a step forward for corporate involvement in the public square.

«Each period, whether a day, a month, a year or longer, represents an infinite number of possible learning opportunities, revealing more and more about correlations, hedging, law, regulation, culture, sizing positions, trading versus holding, activism, bankruptcy law and practice, government action and political impacts on investing, organizational realities and growth, as well as the kind of personal characteristics that are required to do this job well.»

Redemption, it would seem, is effected by a kind of Green Party activism.»

His reasoning seems to be that such a large community should have enough power to sway political tides — if these leaders and pastors would just guide their congregations toward a kind of political activism.

My relatively nonpartisan definition of JUDICIAL ACTIVISM has to do with an objection to «natural rights» or any other kind of «rights / liberty» jurisprudence — whether it flows from Randy Barnett or Rawls or Hadley Arkes.

This Jewish political activism is the meeting ground for all kinds of Jews.

That's the kind of judicial activism that produced Roe v. Wade.

Transformation occurs not through activism, but through the right kind of passivity.

And some people have fame, and some people are just working hard all the time without much acknowledgement, but I think what you're telling us is kind of a message not just for activism, but for all life, that we can't really control anything.

The site launched last week, and as of this writing it's only partially filled out, but it's a fascinating example of the new kinds of citizen activism the «net is enabling this year.

In his Times piece from yesterday, «Hashtag Activism, and Its Limits,» David Carr at first doesn't seem so sure about this whole online advocacy thing: I'm starting to experience a kind of «favoriting» fatigue — meaning that the digital causes of the day...

Nevertheless, it does limit the potential for Momentum to encourage activism if they are only interested in certain kinds of Labour supporters, and if these supporters are then viewed with suspicion by other elements of the party and therefore likely to get a frosty reception from non-Momentum activists.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Dietz notes that understanding activism is a strong first step to understanding many kinds of environmental stresses, such as air pollution.

As you'll hear in the interview, Jeremy Leggett went into a different kind of climate activism.

The film suggests that only activism on the part of students, parents, and teachers can put a stop to these kinds of attacks.

The internet has great potential for this kind of campaign, but it remains largely unfulfilled and is instead replaced with armchair activism.

By understanding all these challenges, pre-service and in - service teachers, along with teacher educators, will be in a better position to develop the kind of political analysis that lays the foundation for teacher activism.

EveryLibrary's public facing advocacy and activism page action.everylibrary.org has nearly 50,000 members of the public signed up and taking action to support libraries of all kinds.

So the Latin in the book embodies a kind of futility and impermanence, which is echoed in the futility of Simon's — and later Margie's — activism, and also in the impermanence of their romance.

It is refreshing to see a kind of social activism take a forefront and inherent design in the biennial.

A Fierce Kind of Love is a year - long, multi-phase exploration of the stories — both large and intimate — of Pennsylvania's Intellectual Disability Rights Movement, and celebrates the struggle, activism, and fierce love that fuels the desire for dignity.

Since then he's continued to broaden his practice, which now includes music, installation, and a kind of amalgam of community activism and real estate development that has been called large - scale urban intervention.

This volume presents new essays and commissioned visual projects that elaborate on the crucial ideas raised in the forum — the new kinds of cultural identifications facilitated by the Internet; the relationship between art and activism; the poetics of online communication; the relevance of the museum in a digital world; and the complex relationships between bodies, information systems, and urban realities.

So far Liberate Tate's case has been propagated through a series of attention - grabbing, guerrilla - style actions, but in collaboration with Platform — a London - based arts organisation working towards social and ecological justice — Tate à Tête, 2012, an alternative Tate gallery audio guide, has moved both groups» activism into a kind of immaterial territory.

Category ART, BOOKS / PERIODICALS, EDUCATION / ACTIVISM · Tags Before Pictures (Crimp), Book Soup, Dancing Foxes Press, Douglas Crimp, Jack Goldstein, October (journal), Our Kind of Movie: The Films of Andy Warhol (Crimp), Philip Smith, Pictures (Artists Space Crimp), Robert Longo, Sarah Cowan, sherrie Levine, Skylight Books, The Pictures Generation (The Met), Troy Brauntuch, University of Chicago Press, Zoe Leonard

That kind of art — art that is a part of the fabric of a community's life — has fascinated him ever since, whether it is the graffiti and rap movements in the 1970s, the art of AIDS activism of the 1980s, or the Islamic art he studied as a graduate student at Columbia.

In the protests by the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and the Art Workers Coalition, formed in 1969 in response to the passions of 1968, a new kind of artists» activism was born.

Funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, A Fierce Kind of Love, a new play by theater artists Suli Holum and David Bradley, will recount these untold stories, revealing how past activism has informed present - day issues.

Outterbridge is no stranger to this kind of community activism through art, having been the director of the Watts Towers Art Center from 1975 to 1992.

Wangechi Mutu's art is thus thickly connected with activism and she refers to it functioning as a kind of spell — Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic... so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you.

In a panel discussion I chaired recently at Pace University's Center for Ethical Thinking, Dr. Mirele Goldsmith, a New York based environmental psychologist, recounted a case of communal activism as an example of a specific kind of environmental citizenship.

I've heard quite a few environmental campaigners cite the civil rights movement as a model for the kind of bottom - up activism they are trying to trigger around global warming.

Was Andy implying that those on the climate activism side were an equivalent kind of propaganda machine, even though the case for the reality and gravity of climate change is much better validated by the scientific literature?

[UPDATE 12:15 p.m.: Nice blow - by - blow coverage by Itsgettinghotinhere.org of the Clinton Global Initiative panel in which Mr. Gore pushed for all kinds of cllimate activism, and a good post from Joe Romm on where disobedience works, and where it doesn't, and why public figures who live in big houses should do more than speak.]

To create the kind of sustainability that fundamentally links human, environmental and social development, policy, science, education and citizen activism must all work together.

Bart says: The kind of «activism» I see in the initiative of a climate science rapid response team is to improve the communication of scientific understanding via the media to the public.

The kind of «activism» I see in the initiative of a climate science rapid response team is to improve the communication of scientific understanding via the media to the public.

That kind of successful activism would be next to impossible now, because of the Russian government's ever - tightening grip on the media and civil society, says Suren Gazaryan, a zoologist who led the campaign.

Kicking the consumption addiction is absolutely central to gaining some kind of equilibrium in this economy of ours, so however well intentioned our consumer activism is — it must encourage making do with less.