Sentences with phrase «march organizers»

So does feminism really come down to a single issue, as march organizers and advocates seem to suggest?

One of the questions facing march organizers and participants will be how to translate this one - day event, regardless of turnout, into meaningful legislative change.

However, Ryan Deitsch, one of the core group of march organizers from Parkland, said Hunter Pollack was on the list of speakers, but didn't show up at Saturday morning's preparation session.

David Yakobovitch is working with regional and national march organizers in New York and Washington D.C. to coordinate flights, buses and hotels for those planning to march on the capital.

Come to the Delhi County Courthouse Square on January 21st from 10 am - 2 pm for a gathering in support of the stated goals of the national march organizers:

Staten Island Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour collided on social media this week over the latter's upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious views.

March organizers said the Dream Act would provide $ 17 million in tuition assistance and benefit more than 100,000 students.

The biggest march — in Washington, DC — drew anywhere from 200,000 to 800,000 people, depending on whether you believe the low - end number put out by the private firm Digital Design & Imaging Service or the high - end number from march organizers.

In Boston, march organizers asked participants over age 21 to take their places behind students spearheading the struggle.

Gun control march organizer Cameron Kasky announced Monday that he is backing out of a debate with pro-Second Amendment Kyle Kashuv.

Per the New York Times, march organizers expect a turnout of more than 200,000 people, while local law enforcement have planned for as many as 400,000 people to march.

As march organizer David Hogg put it, «We're going to make this the voting issue.

«My family and my friends, they're under attack, being criminalized simply because of something so trivial as legal status, which is not right,» march organizer Kayla Kelechian said.

March organizer Bob Bland says the idea for the march bubbled up spontaneously around the country in the days after Trump's election.

March organizers acknowledge the survey's limitations but say it has provided them with important insights into what motivates their supporters.

Much of the crowd, which march organizers estimated at 500, was made up of families with young children, who took part in a premarch festival including displays from West Virginia University's science departments.

Complained march organizer Des D'Sa of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, «About 300 protesters, dressed in official COP17 volunteer uniforms, tore up placards, physically threatened and attacked activists participating in the march.

Right2Know march organizer Katherine DiMatteo, president of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements, said in a press release:

But one of Parkland's core group of march organizers denied that claim and said he was on the list of speakers but didn't show up for a preparation discussion that Saturday morning.

In a blog post, the company said it has teamed up with march organizers in 50 U.S. cities to offer the service.

March organizers hoped to keep pressure on, making the $ 1.05 tag available on their website and encouraging all marchers to print it out and tie one on.

Palestinian - American activist and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour called for liberals to be «united» in the face of President Donald Trump's agenda, railing against «divisive» elements in the progressive movement that would throw marginalized groups «under the bus.»

In the aftermath of the March for Our Lives, these former Women's March organizers ask: is marching a useful way to make changes in our government?

Elizabeth Love, a 17 - year - old advocate and march organizer in Salt Lake City, said mentioned parts of their platform, which includes universal background checks and a waiting period for gun purchases.

The event will be a gathering, rather than a march, in support of the stated goals of the national march organizers — «Being proactive about women's rights,» and even more broadly, «stand on social justice and human rights issues, ranging from race, ethnicity, gender, religion, immigration and healthcare.»

«Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms or on their way home from school,» Women's March organizers, who are setting up the school walkout, said in a statement.

They calmly watched as Emma Gonzalez, a march organizer, stood in silence for minutes in honor of her dead classmates.

The final item on the march organizers» petition, though, could potentially reduce gun violence substantially.

At the inaugural Women's Convention in Detroit in October, put on by the Women's March organizers, Herndon - De La Rosa, of New Wave Feminists, asked «if there was room in their campaign for women who might regret their abortions, say if it was done out of coercion, or if that counted as reinforcing stigma.»

Staten Island Assemblywoman and GOP NYC mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis said she returned campaign contributions from Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour, and condemned CUNY's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy for inviting the Women's March organizer to speak at its commencement next month.

Staten Island Assemblywoman and GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis told the Observer last night that she returned campaign contributions from Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour — and condemned the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy for inviting the Women's March organizer to speak at its commencement next month.

Palestinian - American activist and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour speaking at a May Day rally in Foley Square for immigrant and workers» rights.

Linda Sarsour, another march organizer, says the march will send a message that black, Hispanic and Muslim women will stand up to the Trump administration.

«That said, to the extent that the march organizers maintain their emphasis on a positive and apolitical message regarding empirical science and its role in decision making, I expect that, at a minimum, ASPB will support the participation of its members in the march.»

The march organizers — an eclectic mix of researchers and science communicators who came together online — were unprepared for how quickly the march gained support, scrambling to draft a mission statement, appoint a team, and set an official march date over the weekend.

«This is where the brutality begins,» said Asa Khalif, a march organizer who also leads the Pennsylvania chapter of Black Lives Matter.

The exhibit features the work of 60 contemporary artists with works revolving around inspirational women, including Michelle Obama, Women's March organizer and activist Linda Sarsour, and Betty Freidan just to name a few.

(For better or worse, the NYPD and the march organizers have asked that bows and arrows be left at the guild hall.)

If the march organizers get their way, they are going to destroy any chance of dealing with climate change.

March organizers are — bluntly — lying when they claim that Indian Point and Diablo Canyon can be replaced with solar and wind.

The total combined budget of the march organizers is well over $ 250 million per year.

As such, the march organizers are increasing the threat of climate change, and hurting the people they claim to want to protect.

Women's March organizers have lent their voices to the call, encouraging students, teachers and their allies to walk out of schools on March 14 to protest gun violence.

(CNN)- Women's March organizers are encouraging students, teachers and their allies to walk out of schools on March 14 to protest gun violence.

«Every kid in this country now goes to school wondering if this day might be their last,» says the march organizers» website.

«I guess he's got a different agenda than their agenda,» Andrew Pollack said of the march organizers.

To help students prepare for the walkouts, Women's March organizers have provided downloadable «tool kits,» which include sample letters to school officials to let them participate, along with an explanation of students» rights.