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«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.

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.

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Since women make up just 15.9 % of the board seats of Canada's 500 largest companies by revenue according to advocacy group Catalyst, investors looking to apply a gender - lens strategy may find better pickings south of the border.

While it's unclear so far which group, exactly, will be leading the charge, Inc. has confirmed the existence of at least one: BayShare, which describes itself as an «advocacy organization in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to make the Bay Area the best place on the planet for sharing.»

According to a May 12 letter made public by passenger advocacy group Flyers Rights this week, the Department of Transportation decided not to fine the airline.

Zuckerberg, who has been making political headlines with his political advocacy group, FWD.us, has been lobbying members of Congress to push for comprehensive immigration reform.

These Advocacy Groups are made up from leading MNCs in each area plus Committee representatives from our European Chamber of Commerce members.

But even the expansion of rent controls to newer buildings, which has been welcomed by tenant groups, hasn't made finding an affordable rental easier, said Mary Todorow, research / policy analyst with the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario.

CNN: Expectations high for first Hindu member of Congress Just days after Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was sworn in as the first Hindu member of Congress, Hindu American advocacy groups made it clear that they hope Gabbard will help represent the nation's wider Hindu community, on top of her Hawaiian constituents.

We must also make room in our schemes for the likes of the American Jewish Committee, World Vision, Bread for the World, the Christian Coalition, local right - to - life groups and denominationally linked gay - lesbian advocacy groups.

«For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church,» says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington.

Although the ACCC said the legal action follows a complaint from the Obesity Policy Coalition on toddler foods which make health claims but are made mostly from fruit juice concentrate, consumer advocacy group CHOICE also reported on one of the Shreadz products produced by Heinz in May 2016.

The other founders of the group who have been working very hard to promote and emphasize the importance of health advocacy made single served pizzas from coconut flour.

We are made up of individuals and members from other Chicago area breastfeeding advocacy groups and ILCA affiliates:

Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition www.chicagoareabfc.org An advocacy group made up of individuals dedicated to protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding and increasing its acceptance in the greater Chicago area.

It's why I'm thankful for breastfeeding advocacy groups such as Best for Babes and The American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine that are making strides to do just that.

This tactic isn't new, of course, since advocacy groups have pushed advertisers to drop their support of particular networks and shows many times in the past, but that doesn't make it any less effective.

LGBT advocacy groups in recent years have focused on make GENDA the law, especially in the years after the passage of the legaliztion of same - sex marriage.

Felkel said that as advocacy groups have enthusiastically embraced technologies like email, they've lost sight of the personal touch and real - life relationships that makes for successful lobbying.

This sounds like a good development for both advocacy groups and Congressional staff, since it'll help both do their jobs more effectively and efficiently — without the free flow of relevant information, Congress can't make good decisions.

Crain's has conducted an analysis of data scraped and made publicly available by advocacy group InsideAirbnb, and found the number of users making their homes available is up slightly from February.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

Business advocacy groups like Unshackle Upstate were at first skeptical, but worked with Cuomo to, among other things, make sure it didn't allow competitors from other states to put similar New York businesses out of work.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements made by the co-chairman of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through the 2013 - 14 budget passed last month, which included an increase of more than $ 358 million for transit.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

Hoylman's Democratic colleague Daniel Squadron, who represents Lower Manhattan and portions of Brooklyn and is the lead sponsor on GENDA, said the group's decision «makes me concerned about advocacy on the many outstanding critical LGBT issues moving forward,» mentioning specifically that bill, Hoylman's «conversion therapy» measure, and statewide social service spending.

She's also a member of Make the Road Action Fund, a grassroots advocacy group which works among working class Latino communities to promote policy solutions.

State leaders and advocacy groups have accused the board of making decisions that favor private school students at the expense of public school children, many of whom are low - income, have disabilities or are immigrants who don't speak English.

«Joseph Dussich, the owner of a company in Queens that makes anti-rat garbage bags [made] two donations of $ 50,000 apiece to a political advocacy group run by allies of Mayor Bill de Blasio [last year].

Washington (CNN)-- A leading Muslim advocacy group accused potential presidential candidate Herman Cain of spewing «bigoted speech» Monday following remarks he made at a conservative conference last weekend.

LGBT activist Will Rodriguez - Kennedy is a Republican - turned - Democrat and former president of the local chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, a Republican gay rights advocacy group (he resigned after making a purchasing mistake with the group's debit card).

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is swinging their weight behind an effort that's making end - of - session push for an overhaul of campaign finance laws this year.

This group, which gets funding from the Council to provide various services to immigrants (literacy classes, «outreach» on rights, etc.), controversially makes its clients attend organizational and advocacy meetings as a condition of receiving services.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

Also last week, the leaders of an affordable housing nonprofit and a labor - backed advocacy group provided statements to reporters chiding Wu for comments he made about internet startup Airbnb.

Furlong is an activist from Queens and a founding member of Make Queens Safer, an advocacy group that aims to make the neighborhood's streets secMake Queens Safer, an advocacy group that aims to make the neighborhood's streets secmake the neighborhood's streets secure.

With the greatest respect once again, we of the Public Interest Advocacy Group (PIAG) call on the leadership of our august house to facilitate with adequate speed, all processes leading to making the Joe Ghartey Committee Report on the bribery scandal that was alleged to have hit Ghana's Parliamentary House.

National political strategist L. Joy Williams, who was recently appointed as a senior adviser for education activist and actress Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial campaign, weighed in on what made her join the Nixon campaign and her thoughts on Nixon's advocacy toward people of color and other marginalized groups, on Tuesday night.

The Public Interest Advocacy Group has called on the Joe Ghartey committee to make public, the report on its investigation into the bribery allegations made against the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko and some members of Parliament's Appointments Committee.

It's how he was able to help renovate the Newburgh Armory, pulling in residents and advocacy groups from around our communities to help make the dream of a vibrant community resource a reality.

Originally, the advocacy groups formed a coalition, led by Ohio's League of Women Voters, which gathered more than 200,000 signatures for the measure to make it to November's ballot.

The resolution goes on to criticize «firearms ownership advocacy organizations» like the NRA, claiming that the groups «have irresponsibly pushed to make the use of firearms an accepted response to anger and fear» and «recklessly advocated the use of firearms as a simplistic answer to an array of social problems.»

It should be celebrated,» said Jose Lopez, of the immigrant advocacy groups Make the Road New York and Communities United for Police Reform.

Opponents, which included an odd coalition of the Catholic Church and women's advocacy groups, argued no - fault divorce debases marriage, making it too easy for couples who should be working out their problems to throw in the towel (the church) and suggested it will now be too easy for the wealthier spouse — usually the man — to leave their partners without adequate resources (NOW - NYS President Marica Pappas blasted what she dubbed «divorce on demand»).

Make The Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group, SEIU 32BJ, the UFT and the Working Families Party, organizations endorsing Salamanca, are also clients of his campaign consultant, Red Horse Strategies.

Grey - Owens told Gay City News at that time that transgender advocates were already in discussions about forming a trans - focused advocacy group — with the ability to make political donations — to ensure that GENDA and other issues of specific concern to their community would be prioritized by Democratic legislators in Albany.

The Deputy Director of Operations, EFCC, Mr. Iliyasu Kwarbai, made this vow after receiving a petition against Patience and the ruling All Progressives Congress from a group of protesters, under the aegis of Human Rights Defenders and Advocacy Centre, who marched to the EFCC office in Ikoyi Lagos.

Council members and advocacy groups are fighting for deeper levels of affordable housing in the plan and de Blasio received a victory over the weekend when a leading critic of the proposals, Real Affordability for All, agreed to endorse the plan in exchange for a study to determine ways to make the proposals more affordable.

Governor Cuomo made a rare campaign stop in the Third District in October on behalf of Adrienne Esposito, a Democrat and the executive director of an environmental advocacy group.