Sentences with phrase «local activist groups»

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

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

Lynas's Malaysian plant is the largest one outside China, and while it could have started production as early as May of this year, safety concerns by local activist groups have set the launch back a number of times.

The local activist group Uprose believes «the Amazon bid would be just the latest in a long line of uninvited changes to the community,» the Village Voice reported.

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.

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.

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It's about all of these community groups, these activists, these non-profits, these local leaders as clergy saying, «Forget about Krasner.

The policy director of a Koch - backed activist group discusses his opposition to local governments giving tax breaks to Amazon.

The Association organizes local advocates and activists for cloth diapers through a member - supported resource center which plans campaigns, trains organizers, distributes educational information, supports local groups, and connects users to the Cloth Diaper industry.

The Real Diaper Association organizes local advocates and activists for cloth diapers through a member - supported resource center which plans campaigns, trains organizers, distributes educational information, and supports local groups, and connects users to the U.S. Cloth Diaper industry.

Just as online astroturfing can hide a corporate agenda behind a faux network of local activists, digital channels can let a small group — or a single loud voice — act like a substantial movement.

If you're willing to let your supporters take on local responsibilities, activists can hold press events, speak to groups, run fundraisers, gather signatures, etc. — all recruited and organized online.

NY19Votes has now put over 1,000 volunteers out on doors, empowered local Indivisible groups to run their own local canvasses and provided training for hundreds of leaders and activists.

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.

Today, Renzi's PD is a (not particularly comfortable) home for a number of ideological and interest groups, frustrated activists and local leaders exerting a strong micro-level power (Calise 2013).

As founder Jeffrey Yoo Warren laid out in a crowd - pleasing presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum conference last week, the group helps local activists assemble $ 100 kits that will let them take extremely detailed photographs of a given area using a consumer - grade digital camera hung from a kite or balloon suspended as high as several thousand feet in the air.

A group of about 30 local elected officials, activists and concerned residents gathered Tuesday afternoon outside Rep. John Katko's (R - Camillus) office in downtown Syracuse to protest his support for the controversial Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Besides packaging the tools, these national groups seeded local efforts, steering their members to activist networks in their communities.

«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 New Republic: «Indivisible NY19, a local chapter of national anti-Trump activist group Indivisible, sponsored Maloney's town hall on Monday.

These days, priests seize on digital media to preach their sermons, stir up fervour, warn of danger, rival religions, groups, races... people can organize themselves into mobs using their mobile phones, send for backup, find like - minded activists in local groups.

So I went to a shop I know is run by a gay couple in my constituency, I went to some activists, I went to a local residents» group that is run by a gay couple.

Cuomo was under intense pressure from criminal justice activists, and a group of mothers who lost their sons to police shootings to pass a bill taking investigations out of the hands of local DAs.

Andrea Vecchio of East Islip, a longtime activist in local and regional taxpayer groups, said that fluctuations in caps can be considered desirable.

Its founding members are Arthur Cheliotes, the president of the Communications Workers of America union Local 1180, Hugo Neu Corporation CEO Wendy Neu, and NYCLASS, a group of animals rights activists who have demanded an end to horse - drawn carriage rides, which Quinn supports.

The GOP plan also included money sought by the IDC for local groups, including $ 70,000 for The Black Institute founded by longtime activist Bertha Lewis, an IDC supporter.

LGBT activist Will Rodriguez - Kennedy is a Republican - turned - Democrat and former president of the local chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, a Republican gay rights advocacy group (he resigned after making a purchasing mistake with the group's debit card).

The candidates for Nassau district attorney yesterday sought to shore up support on the final weekend before the election, with Republican Kate Murray rallying local GOP clubs while Democrat Madeline Singas courted a business group and party activists.

A local group of activists called «Save North Cove» issued a statement Tuesday saying authority chairman Dennis Mehiel should recuse himself from the vote because he has patronized marinas run by Farkas's company.

Hearing the $ 900,000 cost per job figure, Sam Magavern, executive director of the Partnership for the Public Good, a coalition of local nonprofit activist groups, shook his head and sighed.

However, since quitting the shadow cabinet in protest at Corbyn's leadership in July 2016, Alexander has come under pressure from pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum, including some local activists who are also members of the far left Alliance for Workers» Liberty.

As part of the agreement, the Yankees also created a Community Benefits Fund, controlled by a volunteer board, that would give out $ 800,000 a year in grants to local community groups, $ 100,000 a year in equipment and merchandise, and 15,000 free game tickets.While some of these grants, merchandise and tickets have been distributed, activists at the rally said much of it remains unaccounted for.

At 10 a.m., Rep. John Katko will join local non-profit organizations as well as community service activists and anti-poverty groups to participate in a forum on addressing the devastating poverty rate in the City of Syracuse and the surrounding areas, Mary Nelson Center, 2849 South Salina St., Syracuse.

Stella has been working for Labour alongside local activists and community campaign groups for many years as an active member of our Walthamstow constituency, whether as a branch secretary, GC delegate, LGC delegate or a campaign organiser.

From left: David Paterson and Tom Duane A group of local activists held a rally today, urging Governor David Paterson to sign a bill...

Saturday's rally was spearheaded by local Tea Party activist Rus Thompson and the Shooters Committee On Political Education, a gun advocacy group.

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Community activists and other local leaders are unhappy that the recent announcement that the City Council had reached a deal with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on changes to his citywide rezoning proposals came with few details, and scant outreach to local groups.

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.»

She is also a keen community activist and volunteers in several local groups.

A range of groups, from businesses, school leaders and progressive activists in New York also spoke out against the House vote, and the provision to end the state and local tax deduction, saying they will be harmful to state residents.

The Service Employees International Union Local 1877, a union workers group, the California Labor Federation and other local political activists organized the proLocal 1877, a union workers group, the California Labor Federation and other local political activists organized the prolocal political activists organized the protest.

The BAA had been founded in 1887 by an eclectic group of former Civil War officers, Boston Brahmins and local luminaries including the celebrated Irish poet and activist John Boyle O'Reilly.

Working in tandem with such groups as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for a Safe Environment, along with the Teamsters and Longshoremen's unions and local activists like Martha Cota, they've done extensive lobbying in Sacramento and community organizing to push for enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act and compel the Port of Los Angeles to initiate a suite of pollution - reduction strategies that have cleaned up the air.

Amongst those trying to escape is Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose reputation as an anti-Nazi activist has prompted an elite group of German officers to call on the local French authority.

Contact your state representative, write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, or connect with church groups and grassroots activists who can help influence state leaders.

When the local press reported that Edison was expected to assume management of many of the city's schools, the local teachers union mobilized in opposition, and groups of parent and student activists held rallies throughout the city.

While all the usual local suspects have been deeply involved in this walkout — the Oklahoma administrators «association» CCOSA, the Association of School Boards, and school district personnel — a specific group of Oklahoma education activists have orchestrated much of the social media action.

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

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.

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.