Sentences with phrase «local action group»

The local action group Mothers Out Front hopes that other towns in the Champlain Valley will pass resolutions to draw attention to this danger on the rails.

«This momentous investment in the town of Newark would not have been possible without the support of many — the voice of primary schools, parents and students, the local action groups, Nottinghamshire LA and Lincoln College Group, our sponsor.

Not exact matches

As a response, Endeavor finally took action in September by opening an office in Miami and assembling a board of local business leaders that includes execs from Virgin Hotels and Cisneros Group, one of the biggest privately held media companies in the world.

«The Commission will not take adverse action on a license renewal application based upon the subjective determination of a listener or group of listeners that the station has broadcast purportedly inappropriate programming,» the FCC commissioners wrote in a recent decision challenging a local radio station license.

Most community groups never get beyond small local actions and, even when a spark catches fire, as in the case of the Occupy movement, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast.

Furthermore, Hoge and Wenger discovered a consensus among judicatory officers regarding pastors who have left local church ministry: «These pastors tended to be loners in the district or presbytery, for whatever reason not part of ministerial friendship groups or action groups.

A pastor will wish to read the basic AA books and pamphlets, which can be obtained from the local group, but no amount of reading is a substitute for the experience of observing AA in action.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

It deserves concerted action on the part of local groups to help fund their local NPR stations, and by national groups to insist that Congress increase the level of federal funding.

Players build their personal statements using locations such as «foodbank», «local estate», «school», or «home»; different groups of people such as «homeless people», «my mates» «work colleagues» or «prisoners» and varying actions such as «visiting», «helping» or «baking», as well as more traditional interpretations of mission such as «preaching», «going» and «church».

State or local mental health associations can provide church social - action groups with current information concerning the problems and needs of their area, including mental health legislation which needs citizen support.

«7 A local church examining its own plot explores at the same time its inescapable identity with the actions of all groups: their linkages, unfoldings, thickenings, and twists.

CNN: Twitter blocks content of German neo-Nazi group Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a policy of local censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.

The local church or a group of churches may move into various forms of action that from the purist position may seem problematic, but at a given moment these may be actions of enormous importance in giving dignity and opportunity to the people of the various congregations and their neighbors.

Much more needs to be done in building local and national citizen - action groups to make their presence felt in government in order to secure media that are responsive to the public interest, both locally and nationally.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

The «Local Church Mental Health Study - Action Project,» using Howard Clinebell's Mental Health Through Christian Community and the Leader's Guide by Paul E. Johnson, is a resource for such groups.

Environmental water managers engage with local community groups and landholders to ensure environmental watering actions realise their full potential.

The watering events were implemented with the assistance of the Raukkan Community Council, the Ngarrandjeri community, the Australian Landscape Trust, the Pike River Land Management Group, private landholders, Local Action Plan Committees, local councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural ResouLocal Action Plan Committees, local councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resoulocal councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

These events were undertaken in partnership with landholders, wetland groups, Local Action Planning Groups, traditional owners and the River Murray Advisory Commgroups, Local Action Planning Groups, traditional owners and the River Murray Advisory CommGroups, traditional owners and the River Murray Advisory Committee.

This watering action will be managed by Nature Foundation South Australia in collaboration with local landholders, Bookpurnong - Lock 4 Environmental Association, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resoaction will be managed by Nature Foundation South Australia in collaboration with local landholders, Bookpurnong - Lock 4 Environmental Association, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resoulocal landholders, Bookpurnong - Lock 4 Environmental Association, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural ResouLocal Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural ResoAction Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

The watering events were implemented with the assistance of the Raukkan Community Council, the Ngarrandjeri community, Mannum Aboriginal Community Association Incorporated, Nildottie Progress Association, the Australian Landscape Trust, the Pike River Land Management Group, private landholders, Local Action Plan Committees, local councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural ResouLocal Action Plan Committees, local councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resoulocal councils and the South Australian Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

Our hope is to have the U.S. government, in partnership with the many stakeholders in the food system, including producers, manufacturers, retailers, non-profits and food advocacy groups, faith organizations as well as leaders from state, tribal, and local government, join in using the Call to Action as an opportunity to further individual and collective actions on preventing food waste.

Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

The district partners with a local non-profit, Research, Education, Action, and Policy (REAP) Food Group, for much of their nutrition education programming.

Residents who belong to the group Citizens for Better Communities, which was formed to muster local support and to lobby government to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit, were also on hand to thank Hoffman and members of the park board for their actions.

But Morton Grove Park District Commissioner Dan Ashta's symbolic actions have spurred an ideological tug of war with a local veterans group, which recently halted cash donations to the Park District until its entire board stands for the pledge at park board meetings.

Strategic Plan Focus for July — Goals 2, 3, and 4 World BF Month is the perfect opportunity to promote a culture supportive and accepting of breastfeeding (goal 2) through parties and health fairs, etc., build, link, and ensure access to state and local resources (goal 3) by providing information to moms about resources online and in your community, and to engage stakeholders in alignment of goals and actions to increase breastfeeding support (goal 4) by pulling in other groups that work with moms and babies to help with World Breastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBM) activities!

Members of local humanist groups attended talks given to parents in Milton Keynes, Wakefield and Bournemouth, and more recently, members of Feminist Action Cambridge (FAC) were able to attend a talk given to secondary pupils in a school.

Optimized for local organizers but useful for larger groups as well, the new Action Network platform officially launched this week: check it out here.

The move is part of recommended actions from a report commissioned by a local environmental group.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

The activist group Citizen Action and local leaders are instead fighting to have the party endorse Zephyr Teachout, a law professor and former aide to Howard Dean, at its convention this weekend.

For example, the People's Action teamed with Indivisible, MoveOn and the Working Families Party to create an online toolkit for local groups pressuring their own members of Congress during the February recess.

The #NoCuts Coalition is comprised of the following groups and individuals: Community Voices Heard, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Manhattan North District Council of Presidents, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), New York Communities for Change, The Black Institute, CASA - New Settlement, MFY Legal Service, Coalition for the Homeless, Pratt Center for Community Development, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, GOLES, FUREE, Legal Aid Society, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, CAAAV, Brooklyn For Peace, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Community Service Society, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, Transport Workers Union Local 100, National Action Network, Racial & Economic Justice, Red Hook Initiative, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), DC37, Picture The Homeless, Greater New York LECET, Unique People Service, United Neighborhood Houses and Supportive Housing Network of New York.

If DEC were to take no action, the decision would then be left to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said Pramilla Malick, who heads a local group opposed to the project.

A steering group will now move to federate these and other local campaigns, to co-ordinate action and beat the Bedroom Tax.

Green Shoots in North Wales is a partnership project between the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), Environment Agency Wales (EAW), the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Cymru (FWAG Cymru) and the Local Biodiversity Action Plan partnerships in North Wales.

Child Poverty Action Group has today published estimates of the costs to the economy and government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.

Child Poverty Action Group is holding a conference for local authorities today in Birmingham (18 July 2013).

Powerful new partnerships with the common aim of achieving a more environmentally and economically sustainable future can be forged by community action groups and local authorities - which often regard each other with mutual suspicion and mistrust according to social scientists.

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

A group of seniors in Ulster County plans to start a local chapter of the StateWide Senior Action Council, Myers said.

Swan, the director of a consumer advocacy organization called Connecticut Citizen Action Group, was an experienced local organizer.

The groups will call for the CEOs of specific big banks and local government officials to take action to address the housing and foreclosure crisis.

In August 2009 during the heated healthcare debates, Flanagan's Conservative Society for Action joined another local group and crashed a town hall meeting Bishop was holding in Setauket.

UPDATE: Murphy's campaign said the initiative «organized under the umbrella of Murphy's re-election committee, will fund organizers to work in collaboration with the campaigns of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and the Connecticut Democratic Party to recruit and train volunteers, offer action alerts to existing organizing groups, provide messaging help to grassroots activists, and provide a conduit between local activism and the fight in Washington to defeat the reckless policies of the Trump administration.»

Perhaps finding out about a local environmental action group (which would allow you to do some networking and find out more about opportunities) could be one of these goals.

Westin has won the endorsement of 314 Action, a nonprofit group formed in 2016 with the goal of getting more scientists and engineers elected to local, state, and national offices.

We have also begun creating local pods — satellite groups — where women can physically come together and talk about the issues that are relevant to their communities, and organize events, organize action, but stay in touch with the global group.