Sentences with phrase «of activism trying»

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies.

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She and others are still trying to navigate the world of activism, even as they're sure of the message.

A student at an elite Chinese university accused the school of trying to muzzle her #MeToo activism in an open letter that set off a scramble by the country's censors.

All I'm seeing out of this is that a career pastor got more involved with activism than community service, found his activism to be incompatible with his denomination and decided to try to turn his leaving the church into future speaking engagements.

And there were «credible reports» that Beijing tried to force Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims to return to China from abroad because of their activism for religious freedom, the U.S. said.

We can all pat each other on the back for our tolerance, and love motivated response, as witness the death of many a church which tried to take a stand against gay activism.

One naturally suspects that a sort of reflexive sexism is behind it, although to be fair Nick Robinson faced similar attacks when he was BBC political editor, including protests in Scotland whipped - up by then - SNP leader Alex Salmond, who cynically manipulated this strain of left - wing anti-media activism to try to threaten Robinson into producing more sympathetic coverage.

The race is yet another place for the WFP, so successful last year, to flex their muscles: Ms. Simon has superior name recognition in the area and many more decades of activism under her belt, but labor unions are desperately trying to elect one of their own in Mr. Sikora.

He ran a Web site that basically did several rights activism in these communities and he was trying to help these parents organize and demand investigation into the collapse of these schools and he has been arrested.

«Many describe the life of a scholar and an activist as one of isolation and constant pressure, but also of determination,» as they try to maintain scholarly standards while also devoting time to activism, June writes.

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

Wastes a Denzel Washington Performance — David Sims thinks that Dan Gilroy's legal drama does a poor job of trying to tackle the American justice system, the death of activism, and a pulpy crime story all at once.

Dan Gilroy's legal drama tries to tackle the American justice system, the death of activism, and a pulpy crime story all at once.

As heroic and important as RBSS's activism is, however, it's the quieter moments of personal reflection that linger most, as when one of the organization's founders succumbs to a fit of uncontrollable shaking, his body processing the grief and loss that he has so assiduously tried to keep at bay while literally trying to save his country.

When I'm not at Fordham, I teach a seminar in civics and citizenship to twelfth graders at Democracy Prep, a New York City charter school that consciously (some might say aggressively) tries to inculcate a sense of civic duty and a spirit of activism.

Last week Katherine Head, one of the founders of Unchained Activism For Animals, contacted me about how the animal rescue group, which is run entirely by teenagers, is trying to save the life of a one - eyed cat named Trooper.

The BBC has a problem with false impartiality in some of its reporting, and its coverage of transgender activism is no exception As a journalist, one tries their best to abide by -LSB-...]

I've heard quite a few environmental campaigners cite the civil rights movement as a model for the kind of bottom - up activism they are trying to trigger around global warming.

But it isn't good politics for her to trumpet a liberal transformation of the court when she's trying to win over the median voter, who may well be skeptical of more judicial activism.

We explore projects and perspectives in architecture, art, policy, and activism — tried and tested in New York City — that offer new ways of understanding, representing, and improving urban life and landscape worldwide.

Amid the wave of activism, Florida passed a law curbing young peoples» access to rifles; the NRA has sued to try to block it.

We explore projects and perspectives in architecture, art, policy, and activism — tried and tested in New York City — that offer new ways of understanding, representing, and improving urban life and landscape worldwide.