Sentences with phrase «local activist yetta»

Back in 2016, a local activist obtained two documents from the City of Seattle related to the smart meter technology.

On January 14, beginning at 10:30 am, in cooperation with local activist attorney Judy Kosovich and Jim Turner, UDC - DCSL will host a networking and, we hope, an organizing extravaganza.

A Missouri ruling is likely to end a contentious nine - year dispute between a local activist who claims that Husch Blackwell LLP, an AmLaw 100 firm — used the legal system to squelch his speech rights, according to Bloomberg Law.

Pat Melancon, a local activist, told Bill Moyers last year:

«We're not going away — residents won't lay down,» said local activist John Laforet, adding opponents are already fired up «because of the way we've been treated by the government.

Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested this afternoon in West Virginia along with NASA climatologist James Hansen, local activist Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network, Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds, 94 - year - old former U.S. Representative Ken Hechler and more than a dozen others.

We are the world's largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 75 national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent.

We won't let the people and environment of Cascade Locks be the next victim of their corporate strongarming,» said Michael O'Heaney, Executive Director for the Story of Stuff Project, which along with several other national organizations, including Food & Water Watch, is supporting the local activist efforts.

According to one local activist, the event radicalized the protesters.

It will be curated by local activist and poet Amani O +.

Curated by local activist and poet Amani O +.

But Joyce Ravitz, chairperson of the Cooper Square Committee, and local activist Frances Golding who is a founder of the group, sent out an email notice of the event to the signatories of their «Save St. Mark's Bookshop» online petition.

Twelve calves bought from a dairy farm by a local activist were transported to a southern California «rescue» that deprived these calves of veterinary care for a week.

Chicken Farm Dog Rescue: In July 2016, Humane Society International worked with Free Korean Dogs to assist a local activist called Jinoak in South Korea with the re-homing dogs who had been rescued from a dog meat farm.

By joining a local activist organization, you can increase the strength of your voice 100 times, and you will get to have some input in forming policy for the group.

That policy brief provides clear instructions to any local elected official or local activist who would like to gather and view for themselves possible evidence of 7507 violations in their city or county.

Working with other groups in Testing Resistance and Reform Spring to help local activist builds their campaigns and link up with one another.

Mary Levy, a local activist who's been tracking DC schools since 1980, told Washingtonian in 2007, ««I have never figured out why it is so hard to do in DCPS what is absolutely routine elsewhere»... Like ordering books, paying teachers, fixing bathrooms.»

When a local activist urged my husband and me to help him distribute Christmas food packages to poor Mayan women, I asked if our presence would evoke images of colonial masters doling out scraps, but he strongly disagreed.

And the school likely wouldn't have such classes, some teachers here say, if the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights hadn't forced the Salt Lake City district to bolster its services for English - learners in response to a complaint by a local activist in 2001.

Max doesn't have much of a character arc, or many redeeming qualities for that matter, refusing to help a local activist (Melonie Diaz) until his back is up against the wall, despite having recently discovered these incredible powers.

I received this email from a local activist.

When I mention clean - coal technology to Judy Bonds, a local activist and coal miner's daughter in Whitesville, West Virginia, she scoffs: «Even if you could get marshmallows to come out of a power plant's smokestacks, you can't wash the blood off coal.»

The pie wielder and local activist, Sean Thompson, 32, said Thursday that the mayor overreacted, sending him to the hospital for nine stitches before he went to jail.

But he will have to campaign for the special Nov. 6 election without public funding, since he missed the one - week window to apply for matching funds, and without the support of the Bronx Democratic party, which will back local activist and union organizer, Andy King.

As Republicans set the wheels in motion to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, local activist are urging Congressman Chris Collins and his peers not to end the health care plan unless they've got a replacement ready to go.

Steve Boder, a retiree living in Plainview, is one local activist who has pushed for lower taxes or at least a tax freeze.

Alexis Baden - Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association, and Adam Eidinger, a local activist and founder of «Occupy Monsanto,» dropped more than $ 2,000 worth of dollar bills onto the floor around 4 p.m. to raise attention about large corporations» influence on the legislation.

Local activist Susan Filgueras and Councilwoman Luanne Konopko were especially helpful during a summer trip to Albany in gaining Cuomo's attendance in Stony Point.

Two names mentioned as possible challengers — Lillian Perez (chief of staff for Sen. Eric Schneiderman) and Haile Rivera (a local activist and former Obama organizer)-- have said they're not looking to run against Espada.

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.

Luis Tejada, a local activist who also ran in the last Senate primary, rounds out the field.

Ali Najmi, a Queens attorney and local activist, will not challenge Assemblyman David Weprin after all.

Local activist and musician Joe Driscoll is running Syracuse's Common Council.

Dr. Becker has been a doctor, successful small businessman, town councilman, and local activist in the Hudson Valley for the last three decades, and that's the kind of experience we deserve in a Representative.»

Some of Cuomo's staff also attended a recent meeting of 350 Brooklyn, a local activist group with ties to the Green Party that is focused on climate change.

Brooklyn District 43 (Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights): Progressive Justin Brannan, a local activist and former staffer to termed - out Councilman Vincent Gentile, bested Palestinian - American Rev. Khader El - Yateem, who embraced the support of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The growth in Labour's local activist base and organisation was reflected in the elections following the war, the co-operative movement now providing its own resources to the Co-operative Party after the armistice.

Local activist Marlon Anderson, who seeks to run for mayor, said the report is an example of the continued lack of leadership in Albany.

«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.

Rachel May, coordinator of the university's sustainability education, has been a local activist for years.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

65 AD, Part B Incumbents Pedro Cardi & Alice Cancel are being challenged by local activist Ken Paskar & tenant leader Daisy Paez.

76 AD Part B District Leaders Kim Moscaritolo & Adam Roberts are facing local activist Madeline Piel & Joshua Kravitz.

«Campaigns should really be focusing on the work in the field and be more careful of what they're doing when it comes to Nevada — Culinary's turf is the casinos,» said Jose Macias, a well - known local activist who is supporting Sanders, because of his support for a $ 15 minimum wage.

Two of the posts were tweeted by a local activist and flagged for The Intercept, while two other activists sent two additional posts.

They have been upset for a long time and this rate hike will not help the company's reputation,» said Howie Hawkins, a local activist who has voiced support for publicly - owned power utilities.

Local activist Kamillah Hanks is running against her, assailing the incumbent for not doing enough or being responsive to the district's needs.

Rather, the campaign is responsible for building a local activist infrastructure so strong that local leadership will independently handle the burden of finding event attendees themselves.

Nevertheless the time has come where militias and local activist groups constitute the primary barrier to stability, reconstruction, and a democratic transition.