Sentences with phrase «known community activist»

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As community activists know, «problematic people» can't be organized.

Judge dismisses legal challenge to Paul Hobbs vineyard project: A judge has dismissed a challenge to Sonoma County's approval of the controversial Paul Hobbs Winery vineyard project in Sebastopol, potentially ending a long - running legal dispute between the vintner known for his luxury wines and community activists...

Even before the full scope of any change is known, however, Oakbrook Terrace City Council members and community activists are lining up on either side of the political fence.

But MPs, active councillors and even locally well known activists in a given community can have a huge impact on the fate of a planning application.

Cichon is a political newcomer but is known throughout the community as an activist and a former radio reporter.

«I had children in the schools, so I really knew my community and when I stepped up to say I want to fight for Hamburg, they knew I meant it,» Hochul said of her first political campaign for Hamburg Town Board as a young lawyer and activist.

Miriam Colque, community and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cutcommunity and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against CutCommunity Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (Barac)

As a school administrator, attorney, community activist and all around nice guy, Nader knows the needs of his community and will sparkle representing us in Albany!

«As a dedicated neighborhood activist for my entire career, I know the needs of my community and will be a tireless voice for organized labor and our City's progressive values.»

They won control of the council last year and I know from my time working with Ealing's Conservative activists that over many years they have worked tirelessly to build relations with local ethnic communities.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

«She knows the issues, she has the skill set as a lawyer and community activist and she can translate the wishes and desires of constituents to make things happen.

«We believe that the Rev. Que English, a well - known Bronx pastor and community activist, is best - suited to represent the 36th District in the state Senate,» Lohud reported.

No longer is it a race between Rep. Pat Gardnerand Rep. Rashad Taylor, but community activist Kwabena Nkromo has just entered as The Green Party Candidate.

Scott: Well, we talked about this a lot and we've been working with the scientific societies and education societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the same time so.

The idea that a single individual, with great powers, has it within him to save «failing» schools is preposterous: it is insulting to teachers, parents and community activists who know what is needed, but who don't have the necessary resources at hand to make it happen.

As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets - among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident - people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

Vowing to get Jake back by any means necessary, Leon's own journey - on his brand - new BMX bike - will carry him through the lives of a doting but ailing foster mother, Maureen; Maureen's cranky and hilarious sister, Sylvia; a social worker Leon knows only as «The Zebra»; and a colorful community of local gardeners and West Indian political activists.

However, as some consumer watchdogs work to protect Americans from identity thieves, community activists have discovered that many struggling families don't even know what to ask for when seeking debt relief.

Longtime community activist and former St. Cloud Mayor Sherwood R. Brown, 87, died Sunday at a congregate living home in Minneola.The crusty trailer park owner was known for his compassion for animals.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

About The Studio Museum in Harlem Founded in 1968 by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists, The Studio Museum in Harlem is internationally known for its catalytic role in promoting the work of outstanding artists of African descent.

2017 Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Power, Sprueth Magers, Los Angeles, CA Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Dialogues in Drawing, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Women Painting, Martin and Pat Fine Center for the Arts, Miami - Dade College, Miami, FL American African American, Phillips Auctioneers, London, UK Innovators and Activists: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts / New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, Traveling Exhibition 2017 - 2020: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY; Alfred University, Alfred, NY; SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; SUNY Plattsburg, Plattsburg, NY; Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Westchester Community College Center for the Arts, Valhalla, NY Soldary & Solitary: The Pamela J. Joyner & Alfred Gieffrida Collection, Traveling Exhibition 2017 - 2020: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

Founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement, ABC No Rio seeks to facilitate cross-pollination between artists and activists, and is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society, culture, and community.

Many were important civil rights activists, members of the immigrant community, and writers, who were not necessarily well - known at the time but would go on to be.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

South African artist and activist Zanele Muholi (born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972; lives and works in Johannesburg) has, for much of their artistic career, been devoted to recording members of their country's black queer and trans community through the lens of her camera, «for the world to know of our resistance and existence at the height of hate crimes in SA and beyond.»

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

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.»

Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer who sees herself as a «visual activist» and, since her participation in documenta 13, she has also been known as an advocate for the LGBTI communities.

«Known for presenting cross-disciplinary work and underrepresented artists, often in their first museum shows or retrospectives,» he said, «who better to inspire our community of architects, artists, educators, activists and scholars as they embark on the next chapter of their creative lives?»

The book includes well - known figures like playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse, as well as those only identified by their race and ethnicity, with special attention given to peoples of Latinx, African - American, Arab, and Asian descent.

Founded in 1968 by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists, The Studio Museum in Harlem is internationally known for its catalytic role in promoting the work of outstanding artists of African descent.

I knew that we had achieved what we'd set out to do, and had played our part in the huge effort of our community of friends, family and activists to execute our plan.

What: On Thursday, November 9th, community and grassroots leaders from the United States who make up the «U.S. People's Delegation», joined by activists from the Pacific Islands known as the Pacific Climate Warriors and Germany's Ende Gelende activists, will participate in a speak out and share personal stories of how their communities are being impacted by unjust policies, governmental unaccountability, the fossil fuel industry, and ever - present climate disasters.

Among other things, the authors state that [1] «scientists do not know how large the greenhouse effect is, whether it will lead to a harmful amount of global warming, or (if it will) what should be done about it» (p. 560); [2] that «profound disagreements» about global warming exist within the scientific community (p. 560); [3] that so - called «activist scientists» say that the earth's climate is warming (p. 560); [4] that «science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect Is, if it exists at all» (p. 569); [5] and that global warming is «enmeshed in scientific uncertainty» (p. 573).

SeedLiving also features interviews and profiles of well - known growers, chefs and other activists, and news of events and stories of interest to the growing community.

«The government should respect community initiatives and support such efforts instead of becoming a stumbling block,» says well - known water activist Rajendra Singh.

Just a few minute's walk from downtown Carrboro, North Carolina, there's a quiet, wooded 10 acre plot of land that has been used by green activists for the past year and is home to gardening projects, an outdoor movie theatre located inside an abandoned historic community pool and an innovative bike maintenance and repair project known as the ReCYCLEry (more on the ReCYCLEry to follow in a separate post).

Watch Indigenous activists from Idle No More San Francisco stand up to Big Oil by organizing healing walks in communities near refineries.

No, far from it, says Canada's activist community.

Andrew Heslop is a community activist, social commentator and well - known Australian.

Informed by grassroots activists and advocates, citizens and Elders in the community who know what recognition means to them — and what it must mean to Australia.

BELLEVUE, Washington (March 6, 2017)-- As activists, administrators and advisors, the newly - named 2017 Seattle - King County First Citizens are known for their dedication to causes, community, and country, along with their devotion to family and friends.