Sentences with phrase «move by activist»

They also pre-empt any move by activist Dan Loeb to install his own candidates.

Even the Democratic Party in 2012 removed the «rare» qualifier from their platform, moved by activists who want to erase any sense that abortion should be minimized any more than another medical procedure.

Organized by an Asheville, N.C. - based environmental group called the Dogwood Alliance, the protest is the latest move by activists to draw attention to the wood pellet industry's growth in the South, where they allege forests are being chopped down unsustainably so European nations can meet renewable energy targets.

Not exact matches

Police used water hoses in below - freezing temperatures to keep about 400 protesters at bay, a move criticized by activist groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and elected officials concerned about freedom of expression and the escalation of violence.

The move is part of a renewed national groundswell of action to prevent further gun violence, inspired by the student activists who survived a recent school shooting in Florida

Their move follows an activist campaign by hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which is pushing Yahoo to consider a deal with AOL and unlock Yahoo's valuable stakes in Asian Web companies.

This wasn't the work of activists or a public arts campaign, but a move by the suits at advertising agency McCann New York.

Duperreault arguably owes his new job to pressure put on AIG by activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been agitating for new management to join the company and move to split it up and sell the parts to unlock value for shareholders.

It may have seemed like a shrewd move by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley last year when she named prominent environmental activist Tzeporah Berman to the new Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG).

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with the slow - moving, nonviolent tactics that had prevailed in the Civil Rights Movement.

And Jack Scott, the feared «sports activist,» moves right into Walton's house, fills his head with more radical ideas, and soon Walton is being hounded all across the country by the FBI because Scott allegedly is hiding Patty Hearst and her Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers.

Gov. Cuomo said Tuesday he «strongly» backs a new proposal to unite warring Democrats in the state Senate, a move demanded by left - wing activists as the governor heads into an election year.

The move was a described as a shocking reversal by the government, and has fueled hopes for broader amnesty for dozens of jailed activists.

The activist advised the government to «ignore calls by armchair critics that the CBN governor should be sacked over recession», saying such move would worsen the economy.

The move by party activists comes after the Portsmouth South MP was suspended from the party last week

And in a third sign of growing disillusionment with Cuomo by Democrats and others on the political left, Working Families Party activists, furious over Cuomo's alliance with Senate Republicans, are threatening to back someone other than the governor in the November election, a move that would aid GOP gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino, sources said.

(Queens, NY)-- Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Joe Crowley (D - Queens, the Bronx) was joined by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today to discuss tenants» rights with local renters and activists at Woodside on the Move in Woodside.

The activist, with close ties to the Congressional Black Caucus and the Clinton campaign, cited several high - profile moves by Jeffries to defend Clinton in the face of attacks by Bernie Sanders as evidence of his newly emerged point man's role.

Environmental activists said they are heartened by the number of countries that are moved to action but said pressure must remain on nations to both improve their targets and build a way in the Paris deal to regularly review and ratchet up carbon - cutting commitments.

TO BE TAKEI is an entertaining and moving look at the many roles played by eclectic 76 - year - old actor / activist George Takei whose wit, humor and grace has allowed him to become an internationally beloved figure.

In her latest film, «Night Moves,» a ragtag triumvirate of determined activists - cum - eco-terrorists, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard, decide to make a grand statement about over-consumption and the destruction of natural resources by blowing up a hydroelectric dam on the Oregon river near where they live.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

It was a bold and a controversial move by the mayor, who once was an activist member of the local teachers union.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

By KARA SCANNELL and DAN FITZPATRICK In a major win for activist investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to toss out decades - old rules in a move that will give activists significantly more power to determine who sits on corporate boards.

(Washington, D.C., March 29, 2013) Despite public opposition, the Florida legislature is moving towards approving legislation that would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists, in the face of potential public health and property value impacts, as well as predicted high mortality for native animals.

Brooklyn - based artist and activist Ann Lewis talks about: Her recent move to Greenpoint from Bushwick, where she was kicked out of her live / work loft when the building was bought by two hedge - fund entities; the realities of living in an...

The Detroit home of civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been dismantled and moved across the Atlantic by a Berlin - based artist after it faced demolition in its original location.

Her lexicon focused on the gesturing female figure as the protagonist, moving across space and defying the strictures of linear time by mixing historical narratives, drawing equally from ancient working processes and formats with her activist orientation and an ongoing questioning of the formation and construction of memory and representation, particularly the representation of women.

Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Grant Location: Anywhere This year's Artist as Activist Fellowship provides the opportunity for creative professionals who are committed to moving the dial on mass incarceration, and by extension racial justice, to seek a robust set of resources to advance their work.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

The Mexican military and police forces, emboldened by the posibility of obtaining billions of dollars from the US through the Bush Merida Initiative are moving in on indigenous and activist communities in Chiapas and still persecuting people in Oaxaca, where US reporter Brad Will was murdered, along with dozens of others, still with impunity.

Recent moves by Peru's government to weaken environmental and land rights legislation have raised the stakes further for activists.

As apart of the «Moving Planet» campaign organized by 350.org, activists created a giant human - windmill in Paris, gave out bike lessons in Buenos Aires, practiced evacuation measure in the Pacific island of Tuvalu imperiled by rising sea levels, and marched in Cape Town for a strong agreement at the next UN climate meeting hosted in Durban, South Africa.

That the move is likely a good one for the nation and its taxpayers is demonstrated by the howls from green activists.

Malek - Wiley and so many other Louisiana residents and activists are floored by this political move - and they're tired of Big Oil running the state's politics.

When a scientist declares, as Brulle did in that Newsday op - ed, that we «must do what is necessary to save the planet» and that activists need to present «dramatic, global threats» to persuade people to make great sacrifices and move toward that «alternative social order,» his work is properly subject to the scrutiny applied to commentary by political activists.

Lead by Kanahus Manuel and other activists from the Secwepemc tribes, volunteer builders from all over North America have began showing up to help with the construction of the tiny homes, which are being constructed on wheels so they can easily be moved along the proposed pipeline route according to where they are needed.

In a move hailed by conservation activists, President Obama initiated potential diplomatic sanctions against Iceland this week for its commercial whaling activity.

The arguments that many activists put forward are effectively a cascade of «one follows the other» assumptions that diminish in their necessity and certainty as they move away from what has been established by climate science, into the increasingly contingent domain of Nth - order effects of Nth - order effects.

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The next move by the pro-choice activists will be the first attempt to erode incrementally the requirement that two doctors sign the form authorising abortion.

They are kept on paper instead, a move heavily promoted by gun - rights activists who seek to limit gun regulations.