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The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

«The Trump administration has made very clear that they've declared war on the immigrant community on all levels,» said Javier Valdez, co-executive director of the advocacy group Make the Road New York.

«Considering the decades - long culture of violence on Rikers, some of it perpetuated by staff, it's appalling that Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Ponte would invest in tools that have been shown to cause death,» Glenn Martin, of the advocacy group JustLeadershipUSA, told the New York Daily News in July.

Daniel Bernhard, executive director of the advocacy group Friends of Public Broadcasting, said he was optimistic about Tait's tenure, but needed to wait and see how she changes the CBC.

Dan Gatti of the advocacy group Environment America says the Arkansas spill provides a glimpse into what would happen if the Keystone pipeline got built.

Brian Wynne, the president and CEO of the advocacy group the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, said the FAA has so far analyzed and approved over 5,500 exemptions to use drones for 42 different types of drone operations.

Girls who are on social media are more likely to feel dissatisfied about their bodies,» Josh Golin, executive director of the advocacy group, said on Democracy Now!

The EU - ABC has established, and continues to develop, a series of Advocacy Groups covering both individual commercial sectors (e.g. Automotive; Insurance; Healthcare; Financial Services) and cross-industry issues (e.g. IPR / Illicit Trade; Human Capital; Customs Procedures & Trade Facilitation).

However, the director of an advocacy group for victims of sexual abuse by priests called the steps announced by O'Malley insufficient and irresponsible, saying only one of the named priests was new to public information.

This is broadly true of researchers, of advocacy groups, of philanthropies, and of government bureaucracies.

You can ask people to serve as liaisons for individual schools (ideally, there would be a liaison at every school in the district) or as subcommittee members of your advocacy group.

The study, by Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and co-founder of the advocacy group Challenge Success, analyzes the accuracy of four commonly encountered talking points relating to the AP program:

«If this is a good plan, it should go back to the Plan Commission,» said Eleanor Roemer, general counsel of the advocacy group Friends of the Parks, adding that there should be public meetings of neighborhood groups if the new story is built.

Illinois and other states should legalize and license lay midwives to ensure women have safe and affordable choices for maternity care, according to a coalition of advocacy groups that launched a national campaign Thursday in Chicago.

Rumpler of the advocacy group and others have led campaigns to educate parents and school administrators about lead exposure risks, including the school - based initiative Get the Lead Out.

The experience of advocacy groups on the site is illustrative of the results:

The protesters appeared to be part of the advocacy group Vocal NY, though they chanted much of the same Occupied - inspired slogans and carried signs calling Dicker «The Mouthpiece of Gov. 1 %»

Now, plenty of advocacy groups try to get their members and employees active online, and the question of whether NOM's activities cross any lines seems pretty much up in the air, based on what's in the article itself.

As of January 1, I left my day job at the National Environmental Trust to devote my time to helping a diverse array of advocacy groups, companies and campaigns use the «net to help spread their messages and achieve their political and communications goals.

A number of advocacy groups say there's an opportunity for lawmakers to act to address some of the harm that they say President Trump's policies are causing.

A number of advocacy groups say there's an opportunity for lawmakers to act to address some of the harm that they say President Donald Trump's policies are causing.

A pair of advocacy groups said they're going to court to overturn the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops serving in the military, in the latest legal assault on the controversial directive.

by a trio of advocacy groups.

«Based on their track record, those proposals will include cutting pensions and destroying collective bargaining rights and cutting salaries,» said Julio López Varona, a member of advocacy group Hedge Clippers.

«This is a sad status quo that sends an embarrassing and harmful message to businesses looking to bring jobs to New York» said Greg Biryla, executive director of the advocacy group Unshackle Upstate.

Martínez, who is a member of the advocacy group Make the Road New York (MRNY), said that the elderly and the sick figure among the most vulnerable on the U.S. territory devastated by Hurricane Maria.

«When a rent stabilized tenant moves out of an apartment, through the eviction bonus and preferential rent, which I have, the rent skyrockets,» said Cora Perceval, a member of advocacy group Tenants and Neighbors.

Members of advocacy group Save Inwood Library, which has organized numerous protests against the plan, were in attendance.

As of January 1, I left my day job at the National Environmental Trust to devote my time to helping a diverse array of advocacy groups...

The Campaign for Youth Shelter, a coalition effort by a number of advocacy groups, are pressing the state and city to grow the supply of emergency beds each year by 100 until waiting lists at shelters around the city disappear.

CHELSEA — Project Runway designer Malan Breton and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn are among those expected to attend the 12th annual gala of advocacy group Marriage Equality New York at Chelsea hot spot Slate on Wednesday night.

The new task force has its «work cut out for it,» said Billy Easton, executive director of the advocacy group the Alliance for Quality Education, which is partially funded by teachers» unions, in a statement.

Prentiss, who uses a wheelchair and is Vice-President of the advocacy group Disabled in Action, also said that she felt slighted that the governor did not speak more broadly about others in the community, or about the needs of people with disabilities.

«Today, we're calling on Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo to stop having us beg every year for funding,» said Saundrea Coleman, a resident of Stanley Isaacs Houses and member of the advocacy group Community Voices Heard (CVH).

Stephen Jimenez — a survivor of child sexual abuse and the co-founder of advocacy group New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators — sits down with «In Focus» Host Cheryl Wills to talk about his story of abuse.

Stressing the importance of his appointment as co-Chair of Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons for SDGs, which was announced on 11th April, 2017, by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo indicated that the appointment was not about him, but rather about Ghana as a mark of trust in her leaders.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons by UN Secretary General, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo charged the Committee to discharge its duties efficiently, and ensure that Ghana becomes a shining example for the implementation of the SDGs.

The coalition of advocacy groups backing publicly financed campaigns in New York is happy that Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to include a donor - matching system in his 2014 - 15 budget proposal.

The one - house budget resolutions being voted on Thursday by both chambers backs $ 45 million in funding for direct care workers, money that has been long sought for a campaign of advocacy groups pushing for the fundnig.

New Yorkers United For Marriage, the coalition of advocacy groups formed to push for same - sex marriage, announced this afternoon they plan on holding a rally at the Capitol.

Here's what happened: In 2010, a former state Department of Health employee who was involved in setting budgets and, in a previous role, developing regulations, became executive director of an advocacy group.

Cuomo now faces de Blasio, a surprisingly united legislature, and a swath of advocacy groups that want him to commit to funding more supportive housing before the end of the year.

«At a time when upwards of 90 percent of voters in both major parties say money in politics is a problem, Connecticut Democrats are going backwards toward corruption and the era of John Rowland,» said Karen Hobert - Flynn, senior vice president of the advocacy group Common Cause.

David Denenberg, director of the advocacy group Long Island Clean Air Water and Soil and a former Nassau County legislator who lives in Merrick, said his latest monthly water bill is $ 264.59, and 40 percent to 55 percent of that goes to pay property taxes.

At the ceremony, which was also held to commemorate the President's appointment as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons, President Akufo - Addo also inaugurated a 15 - member Inter-Ministerial Committee for the implementation of SDGs.

The Statewide Source of Income Coalition, a mix of advocacy groups, is renewing a push for a statewide law that would end almost all forms of income discrimination for housing.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

«I've been on buses to Albany with her,» Leonie Haimson, executive director of the advocacy group Class Size Matters, told me.

The governor is also backing a coalition of advocacy groups called New Yorkers United for Marriage in an effort to push the issue.

«He bills himself as a progressive as a person who really is for the low income people, for the working class people as a Democrat, a progressive,» said Jawanza Williams of the advocacy group Vocal NY.