Sentences with phrase «local coalition of groups»

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Known as the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, the group is comprised of business, labour, environmental and community organizations — including The Vancouver Board of Trade, Unifor Local 111, Tourism Vancouver, Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association, David Suzuki Foundation, Greater Vancouver Gateway Council, and BC Chamber of Commerce.

This requires local and national coalitions of public interest groups to organize to demand that the existing regulatory processes work to protect the public rather than the industry they are supposed to regulate.

We must also make room in our schemes for the likes of the American Jewish Committee, World Vision, Bread for the World, the Christian Coalition, local right - to - life groups and denominationally linked gay - lesbian advocacy groups.

His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

In the latter state, after the large Western International Conference on Economic Dislocation last fall, a statewide coalition of eight local groups was formed.

Coalition, a group of several local organizing factions, with plans to hold a forum and to create an educational fund for Clark's kids, and try to «support transformational change.»

In doing so, he built coalitions of local businesses, community groups and politicians.

More impact from Geoffrey Canada's recent speech in Minneapolis: The Twin Cities Daily Planet reports that on Saturday, a coalition of local groups announced the launch of the Northside Achievement Zone, inspired by the success of the Harlem Children's Zone.

And speaking of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, look around to see if there is a local group — a food policy council, a chapter of Slow Food, a food bank, a public health department, Kiwanis, Rotary, the Junior League, maybe a social justice organization — that can provide you with a home and some support.

And this all comes as a coalition of groups calls for a reduction in state mandated spending in light of a 2 percent cap on local property taxes now in effect.

Those groups formed a coalition this year with the goal of stripping away mandates in order to comply with the 2 percent cap on local property tax levy increases.

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.

Andy Reynolds, spokesperson for the Coalition for Economic Justice, an association of local labor and community groups, said: «The cost per job is so high that it is extremely unlikely that the public will really see a return on its investment.»

«When public dollars are spent, the jobs that are created should be stable, pay decently, and have benefits — they should have the things people need to live,» said Kirk Laubenstein, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Justice, a local labor group.

«A determined coalition of local environmental groups and elected officials were able to protect that view for what we fervently hope will be the next 400 years, and beyond.»

Monday night, hosted by the Coalition for Queens and a smattering of local Democratic and technology groups, wasn't about showing which mayoral candidate knows the most about technology.

A coalition of local government officials and green groups have criticized the plan as one that creates a «junkyard» in the Adirondack Park, and have expressed concerns over the environmental impacts.

INWOOD — An Uptown coalition composed of local organizations and community groups hosted a public hearing with City Council members to discuss the mayor's plan to rezone city neighborhoods to create and preserve affordable housing.

Sampson, along with a coalition of business groups and chambers of commerce, is in Albany today to lobby for the 2 percent cap on local property taxes as proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The group says it is a «coalition of state and local government organizations, service providers and other stakeholders» opposed to ending SALT deductions.

Flanagan appeared at a news conference held by a coalition of business groups and the fiscal watchdog the Empire Center, which released a report and website showing the regional and statewide savings from limiting local levy increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (Overall since the cap has been in place, the Empire Center says $ 7.6 million billion has been saved).

A coalition of eight local groups announced Thursday an effort to bring renewable energy and good - paying energy jobs to the Buffalo Niagara region.

Sue Rosenberg, who has helped to coordinate local efforts of the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline, a group organizing opponents to the project in both New York and New Jersey, said she was pleased with Wednesday's turnout.

Though county and state officials have been driving hard to prevent the approval of the plant, the strongest opposition came from local environmental groups such as Riverkeeper and the Rockland Water Coalition, which was formed from a collection of smaller organizations to fight desalination.

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.

The display, along with informational materials and resource tables by a coalition of local AIDS service groups, will be available for viewing during regular open hours.

After police expressed frustration at their inability of garner cooperation from the local Latino community, many of whom were undocumented immigrants, a coalition of church and nonprofit groups came up with the idea of local identification cards.

A determined coalition of local environmental groups and elected officials were able to protect that view for what I hope will be the next 400 years,» said State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

Green groups and local officials have also criticized the proposal as part of a growing coalition anchored by the Adirondack Council and Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages.

Mr Cameron said the coalition government's academies agenda, giving local groups the opportunity to take control of their schools, reflected the popular enthusiasm for devolving power as far as possible.

A coalition of education groups on Wednesday sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo pointing to the impact ending state and local tax deductions would have on school spending.

Balter, 41, of Syracuse, has jumped into the public spotlight this year as an organizer for the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a local coalition of grassroots groups that formed after Donald Trump won the presidential Coalition, a local coalition of grassroots groups that formed after Donald Trump won the presidential coalition of grassroots groups that formed after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

A coalition of upstate business groups is in Albany today to lobby for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed 2 percent cap on local and school property taxes, meeting with Assembly Democrats in an effort to push the measure into law.

Road salt poses the biggest environmental threat to the Adirondack Park since acid rain, say a coalition of environmental groups, citing emerging scientific data detailing the effects on local watersheds.

Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of nonprofits and local businesses which aims to unite locals against the project, hopes the masks will highlight the pollution, vermin and other health hazards the group feels the station will produce.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it corporate welfare and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs,» Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

On Saturday, the Coalition for Community Advancement, an alliance of local groups, marched through the neighborhood taking down signs with messages like «We buy Houses — any House, And Condition» and «Tenant Evictions Here.»

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign grLocal Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign grlocal campaign groups.

DeFrancisco ridiculed a challenge issued Friday morning by the Central New York Fight for $ 15 Coalition, a group of local labor officials and others, who said DeFrancisco should try to live on minimum wage for a week.

EAST HARLEM — A small coalition of local community groups held a press conference Monday to call on mayor Bill de Blasio to halt his proposed rezoning of the neighborhood.

A coalition of community groups and local officials will rally at LaGuardia Place at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, to protect open spaces from New York University.

We are supporting the Fair Courts campaign, a coalition of local groups in North Carolina that are fighting this partisan attempt to gerrymander judicial districts in the state.

That's what our campaign has been about: local constituents,» said the Rev. Jason McGuire, a leader of the Coalition to Save Marriage in New York, an umbrella group that opposes same - sex marriage on social and religious grounds.

Similar efforts are taking place nationwide, such as a coalition of African - Americans and Latinos stopping a sewage treatment plant from being built in their Northern Manhattan neighborhood, and a multicultural group in Boston helping local communities fight, among other things, a diesel power plant slated to be built next to an elementary school.

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.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

The teacher found numerous SMEs at a local volunteer coalition involved in various aspects of cleaning the river, including one group developing a work of consciousness - raising art to be floated on a barge.

A union - led coalition of local and national groups has launched a campaign against Ohio's charter school program, hoping to stir up enough controversy to make charter schools an election issue.

The Coalition for Teaching Quality represents a broad cross-section of over 100 local, state, and national organizations representing civil rights, disability, parent, student, community, and education groups.

A coalition of education - advocacy groups behind the effort is seeking a maximum of 40 public charter schools over five years, operated by qualified nonprofits and overseen by a local school board or a special state commission.