Sentences with phrase «local activists in»

It would be impossible for any one organization to persuade every college and university to sign the pledge, so we're turning to our network of local activists in the Electronic Frontier Alliance and beyond.

Wright has helped publicize the recent wave of destruction in the world press, has presented information on the decimation of Madagascar's forests to the U.S. government, and has worked with local activists in Madagascar to halt the illegal logging.

Later that year, Best Friends partnered with local activists in Virginia to rescue over 180 mill dogs from the same county.

The speed of the selection process had drawn anger from some local activists in Lewisham East.

Hawkins joined Freedom School students and various local activists in Utica this past May Day at a protest to demand a $ 15 / hr minimum wage.

He enjoys strong support from local activists in our community.

The prime minister announced his resignation in front of local activists in his Sedgefield constituency.

However, the man himself insists that the article was wrong in many of its assertions and yesterday sent the following message to local activists in the Richmond Park constituency in which he is standing, to explain that he has not in fact been a «non-dom» since April:

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

To see both sides, Theroux meets with both the Milwaukee Police Department's homicide division as they patrol District 5 - where the homicide average is over 12 times the national average - and with families and local social activists in the area.

With many categories of institutional investors thus eliminated as potential activists, we are left mainly with union and state and local pension funds, which in fact generally have been the most active institutions with respect to corporate governance issues.

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A new study by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace are home to rapid job and population growth — but some local officials and activists say too little is known about what kinds of jobs are being created in the area, and who is benefiting.

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.

The New York Times: Seeking to Clear a Path Between Yoga and Islam As a community activist in Queens, Muhammad Rashid has fought for the rights of immigrants held in detention, sought the preservation of local movie theaters and held a street fair to promote diversity.

Catholic and pro-life activist Robert Colquhoun's goal is to «end abortion in the local community».

I also thought about protesting when local activist June Griffin got away with vandalizing a Mexican store in town.

The second definition would be Black Lives Matters a decentralized movement that maintains its momentum by having local organizers and activists take on a clarion call to people in their own spaces.

Monique Cullars - Doty is a local activist, and the aunt of Marcus Golden, a 24 - year - old man who was shot and killed by police in Minneapolis.

A local activist just confirmed to me that protests for #AltonSterling are planned for tonight, starting in an hour, despite storms.

To monitor the Sialkot plant, which opened in January, Reebok hired local human - rights activists to make surprise inspections and enlisted the services of the Ernst and Young branch in nearby Lahore to ensure that the factory's output corresponds to its input in materials.

We look forward to the cultural shift in the U.S. toward the use of simple, reusable cloth diapers through local activists like you.

It helps to connect aggressively with potential «friends,» perhaps starting with the candidate's own social connections and moving on to party activists, local officials, bloggers and the members of your own supporter list (include a link to your profile pages in mass emails and people will do some of the work for you).

Among those said to be in the firing line from local activists is Hilary Benn, someone Jarvis says is «an outstanding Member of Parliament and a great ambassador for the Labour party».

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

Veteran New York Democratic operative / activist June O'Neill is stepping entirely off the political stage, giving up all her remaining duties in both the state and local organizations she once headed, The Watertown Times reports.

Misratans should run their town's affairs through their new democratically - elected local council and Benghazi transparency activists must be involved in their local governance — but only as representatives of the central government and not as their own fiefdoms.

The BBC has reported that man challenging Farage in Birmingham was «a local Labour activist» called Luke Holland.

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Contrary to what you're saying in this post, I know many local activists who can and do articulate alternative economic strategy - in such simple, powerful terms as tax the rich, protect jobs, save welfare - quite clearly when talking to local media and elsewhere.

(You were one of the 23 people who did X in your Congressional District) Organize call - ins to talk shows at the local level (thanks Wellstone Camp) Target specialized media (ethnic, religious, association, etc.) Do something newsworthy, eg «activists are collecting dead bugs to deliver to Congressman Porker today.

Local activists have plenty of resources to draw on, too, as I argued in a recent Campaigns & Elections column:

For a start, you'll want to populate your following with people you know: it helps to connect aggressively (though perhaps not TOO aggressively) with potential «friends,» perhaps starting with the candidate's own social connections and moving on to party activists, local officials, bloggers and the members of your own supporter list (include a link to your profile pages in mass emails and people will do some of the work for you).

In his article on political mobilisation during the Quit India movement, Greenough focused in particular on Midnapore district in Bengal, where a rebel national government had been set up by local activists of the Indian National CongresIn his article on political mobilisation during the Quit India movement, Greenough focused in particular on Midnapore district in Bengal, where a rebel national government had been set up by local activists of the Indian National Congresin particular on Midnapore district in Bengal, where a rebel national government had been set up by local activists of the Indian National Congresin Bengal, where a rebel national government had been set up by local activists of the Indian National Congress.

In some 40 towns, local party members join activists from as far away as L'Aquila, 400 miles to the south.

Successful insurgencies rely on support from the local community, and in this case it was local activists, not high - priced opposition researchers, who surfaced evidence of Perez Williams's anti-abortion rights advocacy.

«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.

BY NATHAN RILEY Right in Cynthia Nixon's backyard, just weeks after the actor and activist announced her Democratic primary challenge to Andrew Cuomo, the Hell's Kitchen Democrats — a progressive newcomer on the local political club scene — voted Thursday night to endorse the two - term governor for reelection.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

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.

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.

When I surveyed the state and regional political blogs in the BlogAds network a few weeks ago, I was shocked at how few campaigns were bothering to advertise on sites that would seem to be precisely targeting the local activists they'd most want to reach.

Also at 11 a.m., the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, the Rev. Khader El - Yateem and local community activists will gather to demand that the Fort Hamilton Army Base rename General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive, 101st Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn.

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.

While they haven't made significant progress in the polls since their last showing, local activists believe they can perform strongly against both the Conservatives and Labour.

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.

Environmental activists protested outside a Cuomo fundraiser in Manhattan on April 13, with signs against various local projects and fliers urging the governor to «Stop all fracking infrastructure.»

The party has a reputation as a hard worker: its councillors run intensive local campaigns, its activists are highly visible in their local communities, and the party just gets things done.

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

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