Sentences with phrase «of cultural activists»

Yurumein is the first in the series, featuring images, video footage and interviews that were collected by a team of cultural activists.

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«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works with companies on the receiving end of activist campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

The inchoate, messy anger of the film mirrors the free - floating frustration of our cultural moment, and I'm stunned to see activists all over the world latch onto the film's central concept by erecting billboards meant to shame politicians into action on a variety of societal issues.

BioEdge has the latest report: «There is a small minority of activists who say that there is a cultural identity in being born deaf and that we should....

He questions whether the Willow Creek activist, pragmatic approach sufficiently recognizes the limits of the current cultural tools and ideas that are allowed to dominate its message.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

So far, I have proposed that many activist evangelicals have really come to hold their social views on the basis of cultural osmosis or legitimate political argumentation.

It was a cultural clash between an elite and much of the public, between liberal intellectuals and the Obama administration on the one hand and the mass of Tea party activists on the other.

He recently wrote Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics: Styles of Engagement among Grassroots Activists (University of Chicago Press).

We forget that just as our most heated discussions on social media emerge from the context of a cultural conversation, so too did the treatises of theologians and activists past.

Patrick G. D. Riley Wauwatosa, WI And it came to pass that, as the Federal judiciary sat in the courts of law interpreting the Constitution, the anti-usurpationists and the cultural warriors and the original intentionites came and said, Tell us, by what authority make ye these activist rulings?

The German, Roman Catholic thinker and activist, Hans Kung, has formulated a statement of values that has been accepted by persons from many different cultural and religious backgrounds.

RIP to a transcendent athlete, cultural icon and one of the most high profile and influential activists of his time.

On a mother (of a) quest for 15 years as a journalist, activist and nonprofit visionary, Lisa Reagan explores the space between our unsustainable industrial story and the emerging story of what is possible for Cultural Creative families — who are leading the way forward.

Small wonder the poor make poor food choices and suffer obesity, when race - baiting activists in and out of government are labeling the promotion of deferred gratification as a racist cultural bias.

The following media is presented to aid you, the cloth diaper advocate and activist, in creating a cultural shift to increase the use of cloth diapers.

On a Mother (of a) Quest for 15 years as a journalist, activist and nonprofit visionary, Lisa Reagan explores the space between our unsustainable industrial story and the emerging story of what is possible for Cultural Creative families — who are leading the way forward.

We look forward to the cultural shift in the U.S. toward the use of simple, reusable cloth diapers through local activists like you.

However, rather than simply accepting the opinion of states and critical Western scholars as the point of reference, the edited book Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South by Rama Mani and Tom Weiss addresses the important and so far under - researched question of what scholars and activists from the global south really think about the R2P principle and how the R2P implementation process can account for those southern concerns and insights.

During the many sit - ins, cultural events and discussions at the Park, people of very different backgrounds, who would otherwise not come into contact — Turkish secularists and nationalists, Kurdish activists, members of the creative professions and white collar workers, Socialists, religious and ethnic minorities, Islamists as well as LGBT and gender campaigners — found a way to manage coexistence and respect for pluralism.

In a remarkable video he made in Uganda that is posted on YouTube (since removed, though activist and blogger Andrés Duque made a copy, which is posted at the end of this story), Cabrera described the «cultural shifters» throughout history as a despotic rogues» gallery — Communists, Nazis, the North Korean government.

Right activist and spokesperson of the Pan Yoruba Socio - cultural group, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin has reacted to the statement credited to governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over the...

► Luis Tejada, a community and tenants» rights activist, is running for the second consecutive time with what he describes as a «candidate for tenants» platform, using his work as the founder and executive director of the Mirabal Sister Cultural and Community Center in Washington Heights.

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

In this time of change and cultural revolution, lots of activists and instigators are entering the global playing field.

Social activist who thinks beyond capitalism and socialism with a mindset aimed at building a sustainable economy based on increasing equality, and the preservation of our natural wealth and cultural diversity...

There are discussions of shifting cultural identity in a changing urban landscape, and Melonie Diaz as an activist against gentrification; however, by the end of The Cobbler this progresses into an under - explained «Gotcha!»

Working with the Education Redesign Lab, mayors of each city will create and lead «Children's Cabinets» composed of superintendents, heads of health and social services, recreation, cultural and arts activists, and other key community leaders.

«Instead of stimulating worthy discussions about over-testing, cultural bias in tests, and the misuse of test data,» responded the anti-reform Network for Public Education in the Washington Post, «these activists would rather claim a false mantle of civil rights activism.»

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

With a strong devotion to her cultural heritage, Brauen is an activist in the Tibetan Freedom movement, seeking to bring attention to the suffering and the violation of...

One of the most prominent cultural figures of the 21st century, Ai Weiwei is a Beijing - based artist and activist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, film, architecture, and social criticism.

This fully illustrated catalogue, designed by Philipp Hubert and co-published by ArtAsiaPacific and Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, includes texts by exhibition curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, curator and writer David Elliott and Tibetan cultural activist Jamyang Norbu.

Stuart Comer (formerly Curator: Film at Tate Modern, London, now Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA) commented that his section of the Biennial «acknowledges the complexity of contemporary art practice by including many types of cultural producers: editorial collectives, artist - curators, activists, musicians, poets, dancers, filmmakers, painters, sculptors and photographers.

The exhibition Murakami by Murakami features not only his artworks, but also aspects of his activities as a collector, gallerist, cultural entrepreneur and activist.

Participants: artist and poet Etel Adnan; artist Maria Thereza Alves; artist Korakrit Arunanondchai; artist Ed Atkins; conservationist Jonathan Baillie; architect Alessandro Bava; writer and media activist Franco «Bifo» Berardi; designer Irma Boom; Founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Founder of The Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand; artist James Bridle; EDGE Foundation founder John Brockman; philosopher Federico Campagna; artist Heman Chong; martist Yve Laris Cohen; odel and actress Lily Cole; neuroscientist Molly Crockett; philosopher Helena Cronin; film - maker Adam Curtis; artist Jesse Darling; artist Benedict Drew; artist and poet Jimmie Durham; mathematician Marcus du Sautoy; palaeontologist Richard Fortey; agriculturalist and biodiversity archivist Cary Fowler; artists Gilbert & George; cultural critic and queer theorist Jack Halberstam; artist Susan Hiller; artist and designer Marguerite Humeau; choreographer Mette Ingvartsen; environmental social scientist Jennifer Jacquet; biologist and author Steve Jones; former Royal Navy Rear Admiral Nick Lambert; speculative designer Lisa Ma; biologist Georgina Mace; physicist Chiara Marletto; film - maker Sandy McLeod; artist and activist Gustav Metzger; artist Katja Novitskova; artist Trevor Paglen; artist Cornelia Parker; artist Hetain Patel; anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli; evolutionary ornithologist Richard Prum; design writer Alice Rawsthorn; astrophysicist Martin Rees; Professor, Operational Research, Jonathan Rosenhead; artist Jeremy Shaw; artist Shimabuku; film - maker Eyal Sivan; writer Adam Thirlwell; environmental lawyer James Thornton; musician and sound recordist Chris Watson; artist Cerith Wyn Evans and artist Anna Zett.

Ai Weiwei (born 1957 in Beijing) is an internationally known artist and activist who addresses social, cultural, and political issues throughout his diverse body of work.

Kobena Mercer has appropriately referred to this generation of «cinematic activists» as being engaged with the cultural struggle that takes place within the «domain of image - making» through self conscious cinematic strategies.6 In each instance, the individual filmmakers and voices that make up the collectives, workshops, and groups that formed in this tumultuous period in Britain's cultural history give shape to an image of race otherwise mediated by outside entities.

Although Martha Wilson, who is based in New York, is best known as an alternative - museum founder, cultural activist, freedom of expression advocate, educator, and mother, she has also worked as an artist in her own right.

The exhibition features the work of a diverse group of artists and activists to examine the political, social, cultural and aesthetic priorities of women of color.

This week, rather than focusing on the work of specific artists we are sharing an article written by Favianna Rodriguez: an interdisciplinary artist, cultural organizer and political activist based in Oakland.

A 1971 photograph by Jan van Raay shows artist Cliff Joseph leading a group of artist - activists — members of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)-- in the dead of winter protesting the Whitney Museum's controversial exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America (months before its opening on April 7, 1971).

Michael Piazza's death in 2006 robbed Chicago of one of its most persistent cultural and social activists, an artist and teacher who believed that creativity could be a corrective and redemptive force with the potential to ameliorate the conditions...

Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice, a collaborative project between grunt gallery and the Belkin Art Gallery that I co-organized with Shelly Rosenblum, aimed to bring together a cross-disciplinary group of artists, curators, writers, educators, scholars, students and activists to explore the embodied theory of Indigenous resurgence and cultural representation — from the perspectives of their own disciplines and one another's.

Organized by Kultura Medialna and curated by Maria Veits for their annual Construction Arts Festival, the exhibition draws on the current political and cultural concerns of Dnepr, the largest city in proximity to the occupied Ukrainian territories and Crimean annexation and addresses disputable territories, belonging and ownership of the public space and its reshaping by various social groups, urban planning and attempts to create a dialogue in and about public spaces between communities, governments and activists.»

En Foco provides its photographers, curators, critics & cultural activists with forum to advocate on behalf of an inclusive cultural policy that historically has been lacking in substance.

Long involved in the Chicano art movement, he has been student, peer, and mentor to three generations of artists / activists dedicated to social justice and the preservation and evolution of their cultural traditions.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

These projects underscore the critical role of women — as activists, artists, and community leaders — in the cultural and political mobilization in response to crisis.