Sentences with phrase «movement leaders»

Beyond the urgent need for digital security, what movement leaders understand is that if they don't create these tools, no one else will.

To that end, he focuses on passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which pits Johnson and his Senate ally Hubert Humphrey (Bradley Whitford) against segregationist Dixiecrats, such as Sen. Richard Russell Jr. (Frank Langella) of Georgia, as well as movement leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. (Anthony Mackie), who were disappointed in the bill's lack of protection for voting rights.

Food movement leaders tend to stick to their specific issues, whether it's advocating for healthy food, fighting for workers» rights or curbing marketing to children.

Once the Local Control Funding Formula was enacted, it was heralded by charter movement leaders for leveling the funding playing field.

For years, charter movement leaders have been stressing quality as the lynchpin for growth; Greg's managed to crystallize it in terms people can grasp: Close 1,000 low - performing charters; open 2,000 great new schools.

Led by Richmond community members, indigenous leaders in the Idle No More movement, and other climate movement leaders, we refused to move until our demands were met or we were arrested.

She spent the 15 years as an activist and movement leader working for progressive change, specialising in large - scale advocacy campaigns that disrupt politics, culture, and polluting industries.

Other movement leaders on the agenda included Becky Robinson from Alley Cat Allies, Brent Toellner and Michelle Davis of Kansas City Pet Project, and Joe Angelo, who was critical in getting to a save rate of 86 percent in San Antonio!

I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.

First up was 12th - grader Veronica Renzette, who sported a close - shaved haircut reminiscent of movement leader Emma Gonzalez, and delivered a fiery speech to match.

That weekend, hundreds of youth climate activists will converge on the University of Montana campus to exchange success stories, hear from movement leaders, learn from each other, and take action to promote solutions to climate change.

Veronica Renzette, a senior, sported a close - shaved haircut reminiscent of Stoneman Douglas movement leader Emma Gonzalez and delivered a fiery speech to match.

Indeed, a conservative movement leader told Axios's Jonathan Swan that Rosenstein is «becoming a conversation at every conservative gathering.»

Iris currently consults, leads Coworking Mastermind groups, heads the board of directors of COSHARE and showcases industry and movement leaders through her media series, Coworking with Iris.

Earlier this summer, I spoke at the General Assembly of the Assemblies of God in Indianapolis at the request of Steve Pike, who is their church planting movement leader (and an all around great guy, having planted a strong church in Colorado and now investing his life in planters).

«Oh you man without a handle,» Henry James, Sr., once complained to movement leader Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Many movement leaders were hard - drinking sexual predators; one prominent champion of the virtuous life used ghostwriters to produce his best - selling books; one prominent Christian right leader was constantly leering and vulgar.

Party and movement leaders vowed to ruin Clinton's presidential honeymoon, and the early confirmation hearings were especially bruising.

Yet, if protest movement leaders do have a mandate it is based on the movement's transparent, «open - source» approach: by inviting many people to participate, the protest expects the protesters» individual experience to serve the public good.

The resolution says the Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement — known as BDS — ignores the world's «myriad despotic regimes,» that BDS movement leaders and supporters engage in «unacceptable anti-Semitic rhetoric» but that it believes both Israelis and Palestinians «have the right to live in safe and secure states, free from fear and violence, with mutual recognition.»

Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala attracted labor, peace, student, community, farm, and democracy movement leaders to their campaign.

That work gained Aull a lot of attention from fellow DIY - ers, including movement leader Mackenzie Cowell, who called her feat «a cool hack.»

«For the first time in a long time, I feel very positive about this, because Donald Trump is not beholden to the pharmaceutical industry,» movement leader Andrew Wakefield told STAT in a phone interview.

September 2, 2014 • Men's rights movement leaders say they're pushing back against the excesses of feminism and highlighting the problems of men and boys.

Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, and Anne - Marie Duff co-star, Brendan Gleeson is quietly commanding as a police inspector sent to put down the movement with similar tactics used against the IRA, and Meryl Streep gets prime billing for a few minutes of screen time as the firebrand movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst.

Home - school movement leaders» reactions do make sense, however.

Since 2002, SoundOut has been a education movement leader focused on student voice, student engagement and Meaningful Student Involvement.

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Effects of 1963 rewrite of history are still felt (See also Quality of Mercy, Part 2) Animal Welfare Institute founder Christine Stevens (1918 - 2002), introduced as Mrs. Roger Stevens, and National Humane Education Society founder Anna Briggs (1910 - 1911), introduced as Catherine Briggs, were probably the last people alive who were noted as humane movement leaders by William -LSB-...]

He experimented with futurism, impressionism and cubism, and during one of his several trips to Paris, movement leader Andre Breton exposed him to the world of Surrealism.

With these Climate Reality supporters joining others from partners throughout the global community, former Vice President Al Gore and Climate Reality President and CEO Ken Berlin and movement leaders together delivered over 6 million names calling out for a breakthrough agreement to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon at a critical juncture in negotiations.

Cathy is a nurse, a labor movement leader, and a true progressive.

Stoneman Douglas student and #NeverAgain movement leader Cameron Kasky told a crowd of 800,000 people Saturday, «Welcome to the revolution.»

In Dream big, the visionaries behind the Family Justice Center movement use testimonies of survivors, staff in existing Centers, and domestic violence movement leaders to paint a future where families come first, and professionals come together to stop family violence.

The RFC bought together student activists, national food movement leaders and higher education sustainability experts to agitate for real food on university campuses.

b. Widespread feelings of helplessness also represent the failure of leadership from official climate movement leaders and politicians to offer an honest assessment of the crisis, advocate for solutions that actually stand a chance of working, and invite individuals to take part in that solution.

«What movement leader has a detail?»

I actually do a presentation when seeking to explain the modern evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.

Sidelining many of the most inspiring aspects of the civil rights movement, the film focuses solely on the nitty - gritty and often alarming way in which Johnson juggled the opposing demands of movement leaders, like Martin Luther King (Anthony Mackie), with those of Southern Democrats, embodied here by Johnson friend and mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell (Frank Langella), to force the act through a divided and, in many cases, openly racist Congress.

Journey from Jackson, Mississippi to Birmingham, Alabama, with Civil Rights movement leader, Roscoe Jones Sr., reconciling the places and narratives of the past with lessons applicable to your work in the present.

Despite calls for moratoriums and regulatory scrutiny of charters, charter movement leaders «keep sticking with the self - serving talking point that less transparency and accountability is a key to creating transformational schools,» the report asserts.

In the early 1990s, together with other movement leaders, she led a campaign that secured more than 5.9 million acres in territorial rights for Colombia's black rural communities.

At the national level labor, movement leaders are drawing on the research of think tanks and academics in advocating for public and private investments in R&D, infrastructure and education — the investments that hard evidence shows creates jobs, builds human capital, and increases competitiveness and productivity.

«Oh you man who fits no formula,» the establishment complained to another movement leader — Jesus Christ.

Others are continuing to look for common ground with feminist and women's movement leaders as sexual harassment continues to dominate the headlines.