Sentences with phrase «local activists standing»

Storyteller Sabaah Folayan, together with artist Damon Davis, turn our attention to the young local activists standing on the frontline.

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As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

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:

According to Huffington Post's Paul Waugh, Jeremy Corbyn wants Labour's national executive committee to agree that Labour MPs who want to stand again at the election have to go through a «trigger ballot» so that local activists can vote against them if they want an alternative candidate.

Emma Hardy, a former teacher and local Unite activist, will stand for Alan Johnson's old seat in Hull West.

District Attorney David Soares has been urged by activists to take stand, but says Governor Andrew Cuomo's July executive order giving the state attorney general powers above those of local D.A.'s in civilian police shooting cases has stalled the case, which the administration disputes.

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.

Local activists are making desperate stands to stop new fossil fuel projects, while the giant energy companies are making equally desperate attempts to build while they still can.

«It is up to activists like Leng and affected local communities to make a stand against the short - sighted, greed - driven policies of the Phnom Penh elite.

Members who get elected to the board of their local board often become attached to EOs and their staff, and through the process they often become risk averse, unwilling to be the activist, taking a stand, speaking up and for the interests and causes that originally motivated them to stand for election.