Sentences with phrase «leading the activist group»

The student - led activist group, Students Uniting Memphis (SUM), gathered with 500 community members to bring awareness to the injustices that occur when we divide people into «us» vs. «them.»

Not exact matches

The activist fund recently came off a bitter proxy contest at restaurant group Buffalo Wild Wings, where it won three board seats and led to the resignation of CEO Sally Smith.

«Without understanding if associates are going to be compensated for gas, additional insurance costs, wear and tear on our cars and the potential risks of delivering packages, this program could be creating problems for associates,» said Cynthia Murray, a Walmart employee in Laurel, Md., who leads the Organization United for Respect Walmart, a workers» activist group.

From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

«AS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICANS — including a sizable number of American Jews — question the act of male circumcision, a group of San Francisco activists are advocating to ban circumcision, or what they call male genital mutilation... Many of the leading activists against circumcision around the country are Jewish.»

The next demonstration will take place on January 29th, according to plans from the Education Activist Network and the National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees - the two groups which have taken the lead on most of the later protests.

A coalition of wealthy donors and activists, meanwhile, have created the group NY - LEAD, meant to spur lawmakers to create the system.

While Lipton and activist organizations — like Make the Road Action, a leading immigrants» rights group that endorsed Nixon on Friday — were careful to blame the crack - up on Cuomo, at least one labor leader offered a more scathing indictment of the WFP.

Earlier today, Bratton's opposition to Cuomo's plan was criticized by Russell Simmons, the hip - hop mogul and social activist who is a longtime friend and supporter of Cuomo, and by the Justice League NYC, a coalition group that led some of the protests following the Eric Garner decision, and met with Mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss police reform issues.

Clinton has hired two political operatives from her 2016 presidential campaign to help manage Onward Together, the project she founded this spring with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to fund and support a coalition of Democratic groups led by activists and organizers.

«Led by local activist Yetta Kurland, a group of about 40 people gathered at Union Square in the frigid cold Tuesday evening for a vigil after the horrifying shooting in Tucson on Sat., Jan. 8.

The grassroots activist group Momentum has been holding high - profile campaign days in the target councils of Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, aiming to recapture some of the energy that led to Jeremy Corbyn's surge late in the general election campaign.

Following the 1987 election, the National Executive Committee resumed disciplinary action against members of Militant, who remained in the party, leading to further expulsions of their activists and the two MPs who supported the group.

Thursday afternoon, more than 100 New Yorkers, led by a coalition of environmental activist groups, delivered 11,000 signatures on a petition to the Comptroller's office in Manhattan, urging Thomas DiNapoli to overhaul pension fund investments.

Though none of the names mentioned to be interested in leading the party has official announced his bid, some have been having «secret» meetings with select group of party kingpins and activists, in order to warm their way into their hearts.

On Tuesday, a group of leading civil society activists urged Buhari take medical leave, as his absence «has fuelled further speculations and rumours» about the true state of his health.

Last week, KingstonCitizens.org, the local activist group that led the successful opposition to the Niagara Bottling proposal, last week asked its members to consider whether the group will ask the Kingston Common Council to advocate the DEC taking «lead agency» status in the environmental review.

In fact we recall how on August 20th 2015 a group of NDC activists engaged the media to communicate how they had been financially resourced by the leadership of the NDC, led by its General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia to ILLEGALLY recruit over 10,000 Togolese CITIZEN»S to register on the Ghana electoral roll in 2012.

But there are also a confluence of events that are leading to an estrangement between the WFP and Democratic elected officials in New York and a broader political split between labor and the activist groups that historically were the two backbones of the party.

Lin Sakai, the lead coordinator of the Indivisible groups across the 19th Congressional District, states, «Sunday's NY19Votes canvass action was extraordinary in that is was a 100 % grassroots - lead, first - time - ever collaboration between dozens of emerging and established activist groups from across the district.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

She was a lead organizer with the anti-Trump activist group CNY Solidarity Coalition.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Donny Moss leads a group of activists opposed to Christine Quinn's mayoral candidacy.

Winter joined a group of community activists, led by Ka'aumoana, that tracked down an amenable state legislator, Ezra Kanoho, and advocated for a new law, which establishes two community - based sustainable fisheries in Hawaii, one of them near Winter's adopted home of Ha'ena, Kauai.

Mark Harrington, a leading AIDS activist from the Treatment Action Group in New York, said: «This is a terrible result.

For the role he researched German anti-fascist activists such as the urban terrorist group Revolutionary Cells that led the Entebbe hijacking while insisting that they were humanitarian defenders supporting Israel's oppressed Palestinians.

In London, a group of gay activists led by Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) decide to help the workers by raising money.

One faction of the group, including the more experienced activists who serve as its liaisons with the French government and leading research scientists, encourages a subdued and mournful mood in the group's public actions to draw attention to the AIDS pandemic: candlelight vigils, «Silence = Death» posters, public die - ins.

Theo Faron (Clive Owen) has been involved with an activist group known as «Fishes» led by his wife Julian Taylor (Julian Moore).

It's about a group of Oregon environmental activists; Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning lead the cast.

This one is taking place within the Democratic Party, where the unions» opposition to reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

More important in a state where Latinos represent the largest group of minority public school children, outnumbering African - Americans nearly four to one, leading Latino politicians, activist groups, and business organizations came out in favor of vouchers.

A small Canadian activist fund is leading a group of disgruntled shareholders in a campaign to break - up Research In Motion Limited (USA)(NASDAQ: RIMM).

Activists from the group Decolonize This Place led chants for «repatriation» and «reparations» at New York's Brooklyn Museum

In May, protesters led by the Global Ultra Luxury Faction (GULF), a subset of activist group Gulf Labor, shut down the Guggenheim, just one in a series of demonstrations against the poor conditions facing the workers constructing the Guggenheim's offshoot in Abu Dhabi.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

A 1971 photograph by Jan van Raay shows artist Cliff Joseph leading a group of artist - activists — members of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)-- in the dead of winter protesting the Whitney Museum's controversial exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America (months before its opening on April 7, 1971).

This new performance was initiated by an invitation to community activist groups across London to attend a series of free stand — up comedy workshops led by professional comedian Logan Murray.

Working within the networks of local community and activist groups, including Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IMRO), Migrants Organise, The Independent Workers Union, the Latin American Women's Rights Service and X — Talk — which supports the intersection of sex workers» and migrants» rights — They Are Here have circulated an invitation to a series of free stand — up comedy workshops led by professional comedian Logan Murray.

An artist - founded activist group called MOCA Mobilization made the hiring of a chief curator a leading goal of its petition, which in the last two weeks has gathered 1,755 signatures.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Art Institutions and Feminist Politics Now, a day - long symposium on May 21, 2010, that will bring together an international group of leading artists, writers, curators, historians, and activists to explore the impact of recent debates about art and feminism on museum exhibitions, collections, pedagogy, and cultural politics.

Earlier this week, London Rising Tide, a group of climate change activists, occupied the head offices of the Carbon Neutral Company, one of the leading UK offset providers.

Greenpeace is the world's leading environmental activist group, with approximately 3 million individual members and an annual budget of $ 360 million.

Leading activist Gillian Caldwell went public with her «climate trauma,» as she called it, quitting the group she helped build and posting an article called «16 Tips for Avoiding Climate Burnout,» in which she suggests compartmentalization: «Reinforce boundaries between professional work and personal life.

It was around this time that we began to hear activist groups described as NGOs and see them used as consultees to government on all sorts of issues — culminating in Friend of The Earth activist & Eng Lit graduate Bryony Worthington being brought into government to take the lead in formulating national energy policy.

Mr. Stewart learned about finning when he joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a Greenpeace - style group led by the activist Paul Watson.

Meanwhile, in Cebu, community representatives, environmental activists, and civil society groups led a 60 - kilometer «climate walk» tracing the path of existing and proposed coal plants in the province last March 15 to 18.