Sentences with phrase «of cultural workers»

His subjects belonged to the generation of cultural workers that emerged relatively unscathed from the first decades of Communist rule in China.

In his digressive text, Moshayedi moves through themes that circulate around the exhibition: the itinerancy of cultural workers; the normalization of medical marijuana in LA; the cultural ascendency of contemporary art; celebrity artist - dilettantes; curatorial hubris; the image wars fought by Daesh and al - Shabaab; the poet David Antin's reflections on his own mortality.

General Public is an independent project space run by a group of cultural workers (visual artists, curators, among others) based in Berlin.

We are a group of cultural workers coming together to address the intersectional conditions of artists, workers, and communities of color.

Her performance served to break up the monotony of the speeches and highlighted the dedication of cultural workers who toil to change lives first and for paychecks second.

Not exact matches

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

Some of the demonstrations, which are also celebrated under the International Workers» Day banner, reflected cultural traditions, and many others were a rallying cry for equal rights, equal pay, and a renewed focus on social, environmental and civil - rights issues.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

«While we see CEOs and the heads of diversity talking about it, what really matters is what those frontline workers and everyday people think and feel about diversity because that's where the real cultural change is going to happen,» said Aubrey Blanche, global head of diversity and inclusion at Atlassian.

The influx of 50,000 workers, many of them young and nearly all tech - oriented, would have an enormous economic and cultural impact.

Cuts to arts and media spawned a coalition of «Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation.»

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.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

A church worker in Beijing repeated to me the tale of a church that had worshipped in a cave during the Cultural Revolution.

However, as the trafficking of children becomes more prevalent, aftercare workers are observing more bridges than chasms amongst trafficked girls from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

This is not to denigrate the many excellent teachers, parents, priests and youth workers involved in young people's lives; we are merely recognising a fact of the cultural battle in which we are engaged.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

In many cases, the franchisees are of the same cultural background as the workers they are exploiting.

What makes this one stand apart is the observations of Judge Salvatore Vasta, who honed in on a problem that needs to be better understand and monitored: business owners or franchisees hiring workers with similar cultural backgrounds.

There is no question that many of the franchisees at 7 - Eleven, Caltex, Pizza Hut and other sectors, hire workers from similar cultural backgrounds.

Fair Work warns of cultural problems after Malaysian business owners exploit Malaysian workers with $ 10 / hour pay.

Even without another football game to further overcrowd the city, which considers itself a cultural oasis in a vast wilderness of oil workers» helmets and Levi's, the downtown area is declared off limits by every sane person, cultured or not.

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

I think it's our responsibility [as birth workers] to let clients know of all their options and opportunities especially when it comes to cultural specificity - that culturally specific care is available.

1) Community and cultural pressures 2) The health worker shortage 3) Lack of maternity legislation 4) Inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes

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.

Highly skilled as most cultural workers are, their projects rarely fit with the government's ideal of a high - salaried permanent move.

In New York City, nonprofits — health and human services and cultural organizations — employ nearly 500,000 workers, just over 15 percent of the total.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

Former staff at Syracuse Peace Council, Sales Manager at Syracuse Cultural Workers, for Bernie Sanders; Howie Hawkins, Green Party gubernatorial candidate 2014, working Teamster (Local 317), for Jill Stein; Kathleen Feyh, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Rhetorical Studies at SU, member of the International Socialist Organization.

Living and doing business in the county is enhanced by a dynamic quality of life, skilled workers, an excellent education system, and a full range of sports, cultural and tourist attractions for all ages.

In the shadow of Rome's Piazza Venezia, subway construction workers found a cultural center that's nearly 2,000 years old.

Health workers pulled out of Liberia and scaled back too soon in Guinea, didn't keep good track of people crisscrossing borders, and dealt ineffectively with cultural beliefs and suspicions of Western aid workers.

College - educated middle - class workers, with material, cultural, and intellectual resources, are more resilient, however, when faced with the effects of possible insecure work in tough times, and therefore are more able to commit to marriage and to planning families.

After a cultural revival in the 60s, in which hundreds of Indian and Pakistani textile workers came to live and work in Leicester, the city has blossomed into a lively, multicultural hub in central England.

Maria Cherry Rangel Cultural Organizer María Cherry Rangel is the daughter of migrant agricultural workers and musicians who worked the land of many Southern states.

In his breakthrough 2009 feature, Dogtooth, a controlling father set out to constrain his three grown - up children within a cultural and linguistic alternative universe, while his 2011 follow - up, Alps, featured a mysterious coterie of hospital workers impersonating lost loved ones to heal grieving families.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

When students from France arrived in Medina, Ohio, last month as part of a cultural exchange, Mayor James Roberts ordered city workers to fly the French flag from the city's firehouse as a welcome.

Consider, for example, starting a unit by showing students an image of two people or groups of people whose differences and known disagreements are likely to trigger historical or cultural assumptions (such as Native Americans and early Great Plains settlers, British and German soldiers from World War I, or police officers near a picket line of striking workers).

Similar to the automobile industry, manufacturing at large too faces the challenge of workers dispersed across several geographies that leads to cultural and language barriers.

«A strong arts and cultural education, for young people from all social, cultural and economic backgrounds, is essential if we are to encourage and inspire the next generation of theatre workers,» she said.

The evaluation focused on three key areas: 1) Implementation (training, staffing, promotion, availability, methods for sustainability, curricular connections), 2) Participation (methods of adoption / education, level of participation, parent / teacher / food service worker roles) and 3) Attitudes (changes in diet / nutrition - related knowledge, behavior, impact of cultural differences, food likes / dislikes, expectations, influences on food selection, etc.).

«We believe that events like the strikes of maritime workers, the Stonewall rebellion, the fight for the 8 - hour day, rent strikes, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black nationalist movement and the rest of our history deserves to be seen by the very people who build and provide the resources to maintain cultural institutions like our foundations and museums.

This generation of artists and cultural workers is so incredibly fortunate to have access to this technology, technology that was basically science fiction when many of the galleries I've named in this post were founded.

The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and home to the Worker Bee, Manchester is one of the most creative cities in the world with a rich cultural heritage to rival any major metropolis.

Arlen Austin (b. 1981, Winooski VT), has worked on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: Columbia University School of the Arts, Scaramouche Gallery, Chinese Staff and Workers» Association, Brooklyn is Burning, Public Art Fund Development Grant, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Sweatshop Free Upper West Side, Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, 6 - 9 Months Project Space, Fischer - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Barefoot in the Head at Bruce High Quality Foundation, White Box and Frederich Petzel Galleries.

Chinatown Art Brigade delivers a statement on role of artists and cultural workers in resisting the Trump regime, during #J20 Action (on the of the Inauguration of Donald Trump) on January 20th, 2017 at the Whitney Museum organized by Occupy Museums.