Sentences with phrase «last public speech»

A pioneer of Conceptual art, the Los Angeles — based artist has worked with composer Sean Griffin to translate language from four influential speeches or manifestos into musical notation: Malcolm X's last public speech, made in 1965 in Detroit's Ford Auditorium; Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (1999), by Canadian Mohawk scholar and activist Taiaiake Alfred; «Indocumentalismo Manifesto — an Emerging Socio - Political Ideological Identity» (2010), by Raúl Alcaraz and Daniel Carrillo; and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, written by French activist and writer Olympe De Gouges in 1791.

Not exact matches

In his first public speech since becoming central bank chief last week, Yi Gang told the China Development Forum in Beijing that opening up leads to progress while closure points to backwardness.

The Public Order Act Last month, we published English barrister Paul Diamond's report on official bigotry against Christianity in England, which uses the Public Order Act and its outlawing of speech that is «threatening, abusive, or insulting» as an excuse.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

Cameron's article (at least in the meaning that was briefed to the Telegraph) appeared to directly contradict the speech given by Clegg to the Public Services Summit last week.

Last year, at a local public meeting, the most eloquent and passionate speech I have heard in support of our local NHS hospital came from a local Tory councillor.

In her first public appearance since James Comey, the former FBI director, began his book tour, Hillary Clinton made only a glancing reference to him in a speech last night and instead focused most of her attacks on President Trump, once again likening him to authoritarians.

Maybe this is his strategy — stay out of the last leadership race — it's likely to produce a dud, get the position of party chairman, make challenging powerful speeches and articles (he has identified the English democratic defecit, Toque, in his New Statesman article, which is about the best on the issue from any MP see: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/08/labour-party-english-england), make more of a public name for himself, then stand when the prospects of victory are real.

Nick Clegg acknowledged Northern Ireland's reliance on public sector jobs makes it especially vulnerable to spending cuts in a speech in the province last night.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of the State Address speech last week, entitled «Built to Lead,» consisted of big plans, including restoring the public trust in government.

There is «apparently no credible plan» as to how to replace the 490,000 public - sector jobs set to be lost, he said at Monday's CBI conference, in his first speech to business leaders since he was elected as party leader last month.

Clinton's comments came during a 32 - minute speech in which she took aim at Walker and his signature legislation that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees and his proposal in the last state budget to cut funding for higher education.

A 60 - second TV ad released by advocates for public financing on Wednesday uses a speech Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year pitching the measure.

Despite Ed Miliband's speech on welfare last week, he has not gained any more of the public's trust on the issue of benefits relative to the other leaders since last month.

Hillary Clinton gave one of her first — and most political — public speeches since losing the presidential election and criticized the much - circulated photo showing an all - male group of Republican lawmakers last month negotiating women's coverage in health care legislation.

Two and a half years after replacing Alan Rusbridger, Kath Viner gave a rare public speech at the Guardian's King's Cross HQ last night.

Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, for instance, delivered a speech last month on the Police Department's controversial stop - and - frisk tactics.

The California law, adopted first, faced two court challenges from SOCE practitioners on the grounds that it violated their free speech rights, but last August a federal appeals court upheld the statute, distinguishing between the rights practitioners enjoy to advocate for the practice in public debate and the limitations on the therapeutic practices they can employ in their professional conduct governed by state licensing.

Last month, he gave a major speech at Bloomberg, setting out his economic case, based on a Keynesian vision of investing in public works to boost growth.

The 60 - second spot released today is built around a speech Cuomo gave last year urging the adoption of a system of public campaign finance.

Last week, Kuria gave a public speech calling for a «manhunt» for supporters of veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, who had greeted the greeted the court ruling with jubilation.

This was what George Osborne's speech on Monday could have been like: the kind of oh - so - sober grimness which has characterised the chancellor's public pronouncements for much of the last five years.

She has also honed a stump speech, talking about her unusual name (yes, that is her first name, and her last name is Dutch), then touching on public schools, small businesses, transportation and infrastructure.

That 2014 Election night was to be Mario Cuomo's last public appearance, he died at age 82 on New Year's Day, just after his son gave two inaugural speeches in New York City and in Buffalo, to begin his second term.

Manning, South Carolina (CNN)- South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to «get South Carolina and America back to work» in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party's nomination.

In a highly political speech lasting just over an hour, the chancellor said the # 83bn public spending cuts over the next four years in the government's most severe financial retrenchment in decades were based on reform, fairness and growth.

In a speech on Monday to the Times CEO summit, he asked «whether it is sustainable for the public sector to consume almost half of our national income, whether it is sustainable to have the current regional imbalances in our economy — so that over the last 10 years for every one job the private sector created in the north or Midlands, 10 jobs were created in the south - east and London».

In public, he is appealing to his own party's core support with interventions such as his controversial speech on immigration last week.

When Boeke met with Sc2.0 colleagues last summer to discuss their next target organism, San Francisco, California — based futurist Andrew Hessel of the software company Autodesk «sort of made this impassioned speech» for a new human genome project that would capture the public's imagination and inspire the field around a single goal, Boeke says.

Perhaps, «I noticed how well you handled the crowd in your speech at the conference last month and improving my public speaking skills is something I'd really like to work on.

Turkey — In one fell swoop last Saturday, the Turkish government banned Wikipedia and television dating shows, and axed 3,974 public officials... freedom of speech and information.

Michael Buble gave a touching speech about his family at his first public appearance since his young son was diagnosed with cancer last year.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to take up a case involving religious music at a public school graduation ceremony, but a dissenting justice warned that a lower court's ruling will restrict student speech rights.

The Reagan Administration's proposal for a constitutional amendment to permit organized prayer in public schools, which the President unveiled in a speech on May 6, was formally sent to Congress last week.

The speech was Vargas» first State of Our Schools speech since taking over when Jean - Claude Brizard left the district to run Chicago Public Schools last year.

In a statement released after Obama's «cradle - to - career» education speech last week, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel welcomed Obama's «vision» for strengthening public education and said, «He's off to a solid start.

Meanwhile DeVos» lack of soft skills required of any political officeholder — along with her failure to hire a strong communications team who can help her prepare for public events — was also on full display last week when she criticized teachers and American public education for not being innovative during a speech before innovation - minded teachers and school leaders at SXSW's annual education conference.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos kicked off her first public speech Wednesday by casting the protestors who sought to block her from visiting a Washington, D.C., middle school last week as part of a divisive opposition that's resistant to fresh ideas... And DeVos, who didn't face protestors Wednesday, praised magnet schools, which are public schools organized around a particular subject area such as arts or technology, as «the original school choice option.»

Her speech at last Saturday's Save Our Schools March in Washington D.C. explains the extent of the trouble public education is in.

Johnson also expressed concern about the «schools - to - prisons» pipeline, something Foxx addressed during a speech last week when she suggested authorities were far to quick to arrest and prosecute Chicago Public Schools students for fighting on school grounds — decisions that bring them into the criminal justice system.

Whatever one thinks of Mitt Romney's acceptance speech last week at the Republican National Convention or actor Clint Eastwood's mocking of President Barack Obama (with help of an empty chair), this can be said: Republicans made a strong case for their proclamation that they are the party strongest on continuing the reform of American public education.

In your speech at Riverside Church last year, you said you were «devoted to each and every child in this city — in traditional public schools, charter schools, and religious schools.»

As one reporter noted, despite the fact that Duncan has dedicated the last few years to undermining public education, his speech to the delegates, «steered clear of mentioning charter schools expansion, teacher evaluation, and aggressive school turnaround — policies at the heart of the Obama administration's agenda...»

The Governor's speech was the culminating highlight of our 4th annual Charter Awareness Day at the Connecticut State Capitol last Thursday, which included informational tabling, lobbying activities, and the presentation of the 2018 Torchbearer Award to Governor Malloy for his tireless work on behalf of public charter school families and kids.

Here is a link to Diane Ravitch's inspiring speech at last weekend's Network of Public Education Conference in Austin Texas.

Artists and institutions around the world have voiced their support for Tania Bruguera, who was detained in Cuba late last year after planning a public performance highlighting limitations on free speech in her home country.

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Last week Paul Alan Levy, the First Amendment lawyer with Public Citizen, came to the same conclusion: bar panels have no business going after people who happen to be lawyers over their political speech.

With the bulk of the Health Budget already in the public domain, last night's Budget speech was less about new announcements and more about selling the already unpopular measures to the Australian public.