Sentences with phrase «of activists across»

Patkar founded NAPM in the early 1990's to establish a network of activists across the country.

On Saturday, May 19, we'll be linking hands with thousands of activists across the world in a powerful show of action called «Hands Across The Sand.»

Well, thousands of activists across the country have come together to express their desire to change the political system, and many of them are still at it.

Not exact matches

While Noah projects the righteous ardor of a campus activist, British - born Oliver comes across as an exasperated high school teacher.

Elliott had originally invested in the obscure financial stock as part of an arbitrage trade, but when a colleague saw that the company was laying groundwork to shield itself from activist investors, he went across the hall to Cohn for the first time.

The B.C. Government's activist - driven agenda against Kinder Morgan is sending chills through the investment community across Canada and beyond, warned Chris Gardner, president of the Independent Contractors and Business Association.

It was not that long ago faith leaders and millions of activists organized across the globe to press President George W. Bush to respond to the AIDS pandemic and fund solutions to end extreme global poverty.

At that time, Benedict was an activist with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the interfaith peace and justice group headquartered across the river in Nyack.

Holding a brief vigil and press conference in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington, D.C., the group of pastors and activists said they were incensed by the results of recent «undercover» inquiries into several Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.

Halki Summit II: Theology, Ecology, and the Word Heybeliada, Turkey June 8 - 10 The Halki Summit is a gathering of activists, scientists, journalists, business leaders, theologians, and academics engaging and working across intellectual boundaries to bring the global environmental discussion to a new and richer place.

Towards the end of the Parliamentary session before the recess, a lobby was organised in Portcullis House (the office building many MPs use just across Bridge Street, overlooking the Thames) by Not Dead Yet UK, in which disabled activists invited their MPs to discuss assisted suicide with them.

While researching my prior post about Nikki Haley coming under attack by her fellow South Carolina Republicans for her Sikh heritage, I came across a local activist, Oran Smith of the Palmetto Family Council, who told CNN, «Most people can't even pronounce «Sikh,» even the ones that are criticizing her.»

«America's food manufacturing network is the envy of the world because our supply chain works cooperatively across all fifty states, but today that system is being put at - risk by activists supporting a patchwork of laws that would only confuse consumers and drive up their food costs.

11.10.2012 New Franchise for Military Veterans Tackles America's Obesity Crisis Military veterans across the nation are becoming health and nutrition activists by starting a veteran - owned franchise with HUMAN Healthy Vending — the nation's leading franchisor of socially - responsible healthy vending machine businesses.

Military veterans across the nation are becoming health and nutrition activists by starting a veteran - owned franchise with HUMAN Healthy Vending (http://www.healthyvending.com)-- the nation's leading franchisor of socially - responsible healthy vending machine businesses.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

But the last thing the occupiers want to resemble is either the long - time activists camped out in Lafayette Park across from the White House, ignored by everyone except tourists posing for photographs, or the aftermath of a Lollapalooza mosh pit.

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

Civil rights activists have held rallies and candlelight vigils across cities and towns — with Friday, October 12, officially observed as Condemnation Day, seeing massive turnout of people praying for her life.

Its authors are mainly Green Party campaigners and activists from a range of countries across Europe, each with a different background, all with valuable experience to share.

That's why activists like myself are uniting New Yorkers across the state to demand the state Senate pass the Child Victims Act, which would finally deliver justice to survivors of childhood sex abuse.

It was the culmination of a seven - year review process that spanned two governors and spurred countless protests and rallies across the state, with anti-fracking activists often picketing outside Cuomo's events urging him to ban the practice and pro-fracking landowners saying it would be a boost to the economy.

Today's summit on tax was the culmination of months of campaigning by activists on an issue which has angered voters across the western world.

Last Saturday, scores of pro-European activist groups joined the latest day of action across Britain organised jointly by Open Britain, the European Movement and its partners Britain for Europe, Scientists for EU and Healthier in the EU.

The event, known as CPAC, is one of the oldest and largest yearly gatherings of conservative leaders and activists from across the country.

The other thing is that — far from the hardline free market ideology of some party leaders and activists — Tory supporters really come across in the poll as utterly indifferent to the issue.

«Senator Klein is obviously lashing out due to the tremendous amount of pressure from so many Democratic leaders including the DNC leadership, the entire New York Democratic Congressional Delegation, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, numerous Democratic County Leaders, and Democratic activists across the state,» Murphy said.

«Our endorsement in the Governor's race will be determined by our state committee, which is comprised of 232 labor, community and grassroots activists from across New York State,» said New York WFP director Bill Lipton.

Day, that I was considering this effort, I've received an outpouring of support, both here in the city and across the state - from activists, elected officials, and everyday New Yorkers yearning for progressive change,» Williams added.»

A spokesman for Mark - Viverito said, «The speaker holds the same position on Oscar Lopez Rivera as numerous members of Congress and elected officials all over the country, community activists and faith leaders from across the spectrum.»

Impressively the Lib Dems can turn out an army of activists from across the country for a by - election but won't be able to repeat the trick across the whole country at the next general election.

But last year, challenger Bob Turner took almost 40 percent of the vote in his battle against six - term incumbent Weiner in a year in which Tea Party activists and others opposed to President Barack Obama's policies exacted a heavy toll on Democrats across the country, costing them control of the House.

Capital Region activists on Saturday will commemorate the one - year anniversary of the 2017 Women's March on Washington — and the sister marches it inspired across the United States and around the world — with march and rally.

Individual and local advocacy can help fight global climate change, environmental activists said Saturday at an afternoon forum in Albany's Westminster Presbyterian Church — one of many events across the world in advance of the Paris climate talks that start tomorrow and run to Dec. 11.

These were times of fear and loathing, when Labour Party meetings were unpleasant places to be, characterised as small groups of activists firing resolutions at each other from across the room.

Clarke worked as director of the RoadTrip2015 and RoadTrip2020 campaigns, which involved bussing hundreds of young activists to Tory target seats across the country.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Tea Party activists across America should plan to go out and recruit supporters from every Fourth of July celebration in their community.»

Instead, party committees and independent groups like House Majority PAC sent an uncounted number of email appeals that collectively raised tens of millions of dollars from activists across the country.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

The protest which witnessed the presence of activists and mostly youths converging from across several states took - off from the Unity Fountain, Maitama, Abuja.

An outpouring of activists and environmental advocates marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary, and call on government to take climate change seriously.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

The unease across the party was highlighted yesterday when 35 current or former Conservative associations handed in a letter to Downing Street that accused the prime minister of showing «utter contempt» for the grassroots activists after pressing ahead with legislation for equal marriage.

John Major had to deal with a very significant Europhile tendency in the parliamentary party and in those days I used to come across Europhile activists frequently, they were probably a majority in the constituency I lived in.Now however I doubt more than 20 % of our parliamentary could be classified in any sense as Europhile and amongst the activists that I meet they are rarer than Hens teeth, even on this blog there are only a handful.

Lin Sakai, the lead coordinator of the Indivisible groups across the 19th Congressional District, states, «Sunday's NY19Votes canvass action was extraordinary in that is was a 100 % grassroots - lead, first - time - ever collaboration between dozens of emerging and established activist groups from across the district.

Little noticed in the reports about the Democrats selected to run as 2012 Obama delegates in congressional districts across New York was the absence of elected officials and activists who supported then - candidate Barack Obama in 2008.

This significant turnaround by the Cuomo administration, which announced plans in 2012 to introduce fracking in New York's Southern Tier, comes after years of unrelenting pressure from community activists, including Greens across New York.

It may not presently have an effective national structure to support local organizing, but there is a base of organizers and activists that have kept the party going across the country.

Some party activists across the country last week also demanded the immediate reinstatement of Mr Afoko, saying he had been elected and due process must be followed.