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That explanation didn't go very far with Sanders backers such as Nowak, who argue that Perez's election would dampen the enthusiasm of the young activists who Sanders brought into the party.

So begins the film How To Change The World, which tells the story of the young activists who set sail from Vancouver, Canada in 1971 in an old fishing boat to stop the atomic bomb tests, and who would quickly evolve into a passionate and courageous group devoted to saving the whales.

Not exact matches

«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.

«I don't know if anyone has any more experience than he does prosecuting activist campaigns,» says Chris Young, head of contested situations at Credit Suisse, who has known Cohn since the latter started at Elliott.

Calgary - Hawkwood NDP MLA Michael Connolly, the bratty young LGBT activist who was particularly vociferous in his criticism of the absent Jason Kenney during last fallâ $ ™ s debate on the govtâ $ ™ s GSA bi...

Calgary - Hawkwood NDP MLA Michael Connolly, the bratty young LGBT activist who was particularly vociferous in his criticism of the absent Jason Kenney during last fall's debate on the govt's GSA bi...

«It's time for you to stop being politely angry,» Gbowee told CBS news anchor Norah O'Donnell in a sweeping conversation that moved from her native Liberia to the women's marches in the United States last year to the young activists who have emerged in the aftermath of the shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

No More Page 3 was launched in 2012 by activist Lucy - Anne Holmes, who was «sad that the most prominent photograph of a woman in the widest circulation British newspaper is of a young woman in just her pants».

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with the slow - moving, nonviolent tactics that had prevailed in the Civil Rights Movement.

Beginning in 1976, Weyrich, Phillips and Morton Blackwell, who organizes young men and teaches them how to be political activists — Ralph Reed is one of his graduates — launched a concentrated effort to involve conservative churches in their cause.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, who remains controversial even after death for pushing a vegetarian diet for young children in the latest edition of his baby book, was an anti-war activist, civil rights leader, health care reformer and one of the great liberals of the 20th Century.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

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.

Plus, Anatomy of a revolution: Meet the young Egyptian activists who started it all, Wael Ghonim, Egypt, and Viral...

Among the national co-chairs are prominent Arab - American activist Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and founder and CEO of MPower Change, and activist Tamika Mallory, who served as the youngest executive director of Sharpton's NAN.

Many young people who got their first taste of politics on 15 February 2003 became activists years later, and were involved in the Occupy movement and other social movements since.

There are a few students, some young women who say they have never voted before but will for Corbyn, a disabled woman in a wheelchair, some local party activists, and a number of parents with children.

In view of the way Blair is now seen by many activists, including those who — as Patrick Wintour says — either left in 2003 or were too young, it is worth noting that John Prescott and Margaret Beckett, both on the left, did better: they got 43 % of the college between them, including almost half the union votes.

Michie was among an energetic group of young Labour activists who emerged in Sheffield in the 1970s, a number of whom moved on to Westminster.

«I don't think that anyone who has these charges of harassment or sending inappropriate text messages to younger activists has a role on the frontbench of the Labour Party,» Labour MP Jess Phillips told ITV News.

Feldman, a close friend of David Cameron, is facing questions over his handling of an investigation into election aide Mark Clarke, who was accused of bullying young activist Elliott Johnson before his apparent suicide.

In particular, he long ago saw the potential of attracting young activists who are interested in politics, but who do not connect with the hierarchical and bureaucratic culture of traditional political parties.

The activists said the act is cruel to the thousands of young people who stepped out of the shadows to identify themselves as having come to the country illegally.

The only real effect would be for the party to lose the talents of an awful lot of keen activists and young people who want to play a part in getting the next Conservative government elected.

«Today was about creating a connection between a group of young women activists, and they can connect us to other young women activists, who can talk about the reality of what's happening on college campuses,» she said.

ALBANY — Labeling it «structural racism» and the «new Jim Crow,» activist Alice Green released a stinging report Tuesday that condemned recent local sweeps against suspected drug dealers and gang members using a federal racketeering statute for continuing a historical conspiracy of fearful whites to repress young black men who intimidate them.

One of those new members, longtime community activist K Webster, said, «I feel uncomfortable when we start looking for the racist in the room... I am particularly uncomfortable when the person who is the racist in the room is a young Chinese woman who has done a brilliant job leading this board.»

The father of a young Tory activist who took his own life after allegedly being bullied has said minister Grant Shapps» resignation is «not the end of the story».

The father of a young Tory party activist who committed suicide after claims he had been subjected to bullying has said he welcomes news of an independent inquiry into the allegations.

The father of Elliott Johnson, a young activist who committed suicide called for Mr Shapps and Lord Feldman, his successor as party chair, to stand down after it emerged that bullying claims against campaigner Mark Clarke had been raised with the party before his son's death.

A young Tory activist who made allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party and was later found dead on a railway line after being hit by a train, took his own life, a coroner has ruled.

And yet, this effort has also given way to a new wave of young Herero designers, models, and activists who work to keep their heritage alive — even if that means scandalizing certain purists with sheer skirts, detachable sleeves, and sequin bodices.

If you've paid any attention to the young adult book market over the past couple of years, you're probably familiar with The Hate U Give, author Angie Thomas «s wildly popular best - seller about a young black woman who becomes an activist after seeing the police gun down her unarmed friend.

The young man he tries to help at the beginning of the film is a dedicated activist who thinks it would be wrong and cruel for him and his pregnant wife Mary (Amanda Seyfried) to bring another person into a doomed world.

It's in San Francisco that we meet other fiery, passionate young people yearning to find some sense of community, including Roma Guy (Emily Skeggs as a youth and Mary - Louise Parker as an adult) who becomes a women's activist and is married to Diane (Fiona Dourif and Rachel Griffith), a nurse who stepped to the forefront to take care of AIDS patients when the epidemic hit.

Eccentrically structured, and thus slotted in the Wavelengths section for experimental work, Dislocation Blues is narrated, sort of, through intermittent Skype conversations with Cleo Keahna, a young two - spirit Ojibwe and Meskwaki activist who joined the anti-pipeline demonstrations.

One of Toller's few parishioners is a young woman named Mary, played by Amanda Seyfried, who asks him to counsel her husband, Michael, an ex-con and environmental activist.

My two girls who didn't get any love that year were Christina Ricci as Charlize's horribly fickle young lover and Laura Linney as a tragically doomed activist in THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE.

Only someone who lived through the AIDS crisis could craft as vivid and empathetic film about the young, queer, often near - death activists who confronted an indifferent government with the urgency of their suffering.

Andrea Riseborough, who plays Colette McVeigh a young dark tempered woman, surpasses the stereotypical republican activists of the time, and her die - hard exterior we are first met with soon wears down to reveal a somewhat softer, vulnerable woman in search of a peaceful life for herself and her son.

The Names of Love (Unrated) French farce about a free - spirited, young political activist (Sara Forestier) who succeeds in converting right - wing conservatives to her liberal cause by sleeping with them until she meets her match in a stubborn, middle - aged Fascist (Jacques Gamblin).

One of the most rewarding aspects of the film is witnessing Dido's transformation from a shy, subservient, and downtrodden young woman into a confident and determined activist, which is in part due to actress Gugu Mbatha - Raw, who deserves universal recognition for her portrayal of the titular heroine.

Director Brian Knappenberger got everything perfect about telling the life story of the young Aaron Swartz, internet / coder prodigy, co-founder of Reddit, and political activist, who committed suicide in early 2013.

The festival's second prize went to a film that already is something of a commercial hit in Los Angeles and New York: John Sayles» «The Return of the Secaucus Seven», a funny melodrama about a group of friends who were young political activists in the late 1960s and hold a reunion 10 years after the end of that idealistic decade.

World ecology certainly pops up in the feature length commentary by director Richard Fleischer and actress Leigh Taylor - Young — the actress later becoming a bit of an activist herself — and amid several silent pauses, the best material in the track concerns memories of working with actor Edward G. Robinson, who died soon after filming was completed.

I really got to be a part of the community through Spike and [longtime Chicago political activist] Father Michael Pfleger who introduced me to some young peacekeepers, some reformed gang members turned leaders in the South side of Chicago.

The most activist privatizers are those who seek to recapture the schools from the clutches of the «secular humanists» who have supposedly been corrupting young people since...

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

The Democratic Party has its own tensions to resolve under an ideological tent that tries to accommodate both old - line labor unions, which instinctively oppose school choice, and a younger generation of black and Hispanic activists who demand it.

Speakers will include young people who will share how various education policies have impacted their lives; Aliya Moore, a Detroit parent and organizer with Keep the Vote, No Take Over; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, and Tara Stamps, a Chicago public school educator and activist.