Sentences with phrase «organized by activists»

Her brazen tweet went viral and is now seen on T - shirts and signs during events organized by activists from the Never Again movement.

The day is billed as one of protest and advocacy for gender equity organized by the activists behind the Jan. 21 Women's March on Washington.

Not exact matches

Even after apologizing to anti-gun activist David Hogg, the corporate media and the organized left, with a lot of help from gutless corporations, are still determined to dismantle Ingraham's entire professional life — to shut a conservative woman up by removing her platform, all because she accused a teenager of «whining.»

A journalist and human rights activist, Karman has spoken out against the tyranny of President Ali Abdullah Saleh for years, but has recently become the face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising by organizing weekly protests and sit - ins around the capital.

Inspired by similar events organized by a growing group of unlikely activists nationwide, the protest brought about 200 women to ABC's headquarters Monday.

The critical point is that the MyBO features give participating activists tools to organize in their own communities, for instance by throwing house parties and fundraising drives, BEFORE the campaign has begun to direct volunteer activities from above.

Faso has also taken heat for declining to appear at town - hall meetings organized by progressive activist groups.

The TV spot follows a marketing assault from the hotel industry, organized labor, activist groups and city Comptroller Scott Stringer that produced and publicized findings that the online rental service has accelerated gentrification by illegally converting apartments to short - term lodgings for travelers.»

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting organized by a liberal activist group last week.

Led by New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Streets, also known as NYCLASS, the activists and council members at the press conference expressed optimism that the legislation would ultimately pass the City Council next spring and become law, despite the opposition of organized labor and a sizable number of council members.

Astoria resident and gay rights activist Brendan Fay, who helps organize the St. Pat's for All parade in Sunnyside each year, said he was angered by Monserrate, who showed support for the gay and lesbian community at the Queens Pride Parade, but «when the chips were down, he voted no.»

The thorny issue pitted animal rights activists — who relentlessly opposed Mr. de Blasio's main rival for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2013, former Council Speaker Christine Quinn — against organized labor, since the horse drivers are represented by the Teamsters.

The March for Our Lives movement was organized by a group of students - turned - activists who survived shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

In reality, the mushrooming protests have been organized similarly to the very first tea party rallies, by novice political activists (some with campaign experience) getting permits or crowdsourcing their tactics.

The event was organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and attendees included civil rights activist Linda Sarsour; Fatoumata Waggeh of African Communities Together; City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and José Rolando Matalón, who serves as the Senior Rabbi at Manhattan's B'nai Jeshurun synagogue.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Comedian and citizen - activist Randy Credico, who recently qualified for New York's Democratic mayoral primary ballot, is looking to extend his candidacy beyond the hotly - contested September 10th Democratic primary by running in November as the nominee of the Tax Wall Street Party, a newly - organized political party -LSB-...]

The group accused Kwaku Baako of telling the whole world that, he has audio and video recordings of Paul Afoko opening the controversial programme organized by some Serbians for NPP executives and activists in 2014, a claim he has refused to produce evidence.

Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School District.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School DistricBY MICHAEL RICONDA Local parents and community activists organized through the nonprofit organization Advocating For Change met at the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley at 7 p.m. on the evening of January 7 to address problems faced by students in the East Ramapo School Districby students in the East Ramapo School District.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

Faso has taken fire for declining invitations to attend town hall forums organized by progressive activists and has even been confronted by protesters outside his Kinderhook home.

The development, known as Astoria Cove, is viewed as a coup by the de Blasio administration and left - leaning City Council members — a about - face on the part of City Councilmembers occasioned by a 7 percent increase in the amount of affordable housing housing to built — and an agreement to use organized labor during the construction phase, even as speculation builds that the developer, Alma Realty, could flip the property and some activists question whether enough affordable housing will be built.

He made the call during the fourth section of the Youth in Agriculture Workshop organized by National Democratic Congress Youth Activists, in the Ketu - South Constituency of the Volta Region.

The last minute political rally was organized by the New York chapter of the Council on American - Islamic Relations and featured several activists and politicians who promised New York will remain a haven for immigrants.

On the contrary: The only demonstration that made the news was a sit - in by animal rights activists in Milan organized in parallel.

The contest was organized by Xiao Meili, a Chinese women's rights activist.

Led by comedian Chelsea Handler, the independently organized event featured speeches by filmmakers, local politicians and activists, including Aisha Tyler, Jessica Williams, Dolores Huerta and Maria Bello.

Last month, activists organized a «kiss - in» during a church service run by a Greek Orthodox bishop who has threatened to excommunicate politicians supporting same - sex unions.

The conferences were organized by DEEEP, CIVICUS and GCAP, being part of the Civil Society Week (November 8th to 15th), which brought together over 200 activists from around the world (see list here).

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist - profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist — profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

In spite of efforts by activists to organize protests of the USDA action and demand that it return the purged information to the website, the federal government has not changed its stance.

On a global level, Crissy Field Center staff attended the last International Conference on Environmental Education in Ahmedabad, India — a gathering of 1,500 delegates from 90 countries, organized by United Nations agencies UNESCO and UNEP — and for the past six years, they have hosted a youth forum for the Goldman Environmental Prize winners to give budding youth leaders a chance to meet and exchange ideas with these courageous activists.

Another exhibition organized by the Marxist John Reed Club at the socially activist ACA Galleries on Madison Avenue followed under the argument that the NAACP show «wasn't broad enough,» says Mia Curran, a Whitney curatorial assistant who researched the lynching images.

RADICALS II At the Brooklyn Museum in April, a smaller exhibition, «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85,» organized by the museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, came with work by more than 40 artist - activists and a dynamite sourcebook - style catalog.

Fred W. McDarrah The first gay pride march in the United States — organized jointly by Craig Rodwell, who owned the Oscar Wilde Bookshop, and two groups, Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance — made its debut on June 28, 1970.

Using Theater of the Oppressed techniques, considered by many activists as a fundamental tool in collective organizing and learning, Ngo and Truong will act as arbiters as the students use performance to generate a democratic discussion about economic issues.

Pier 18 consisted of a series of ephemeral artworks organized by independent curator, activist, and publisher Willoughby Sharp and executed by 27 (all male) artists at a derelict West River pier in New York in February / March 1971.

The fourth in a series of cross-cultural symposia organized by Lucy Lippard, the four artists interviewed hereÑJapanese - American painter and political activist Betty Kano, conceptual and performance artist Lorraine O'Grady, Hopi weaver Ramona Sakiestewa, and Chicana narrative and installation artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz — discuss their work and its cultural contexts.

As part of CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, an exhibition organized by ABC No Rio (in exile), Occupy Museums organized a discussion between ABC No Rio, the Guerrilla Girls, Decolonize This Place and W.A.G.E. to discuss models of sustainable art activist practice and building a sustainable web of mutual support.

The protest took place at the 2015 Commencement Ceremony yesterday, and was organized by student activist group Free Cooper Union, which has directed a variety of informational and protest actions in response to the landmark tuition decision.

A million artists and activist groups are participating in this thing — and by a million we mean 43, which is quite a bit of organizing.

«Let the Record Show...,» one of the first major art world responses to the AIDS crisis, is organized by Curator William Olander with ACT - UP, sparking the organization of Gran Fury, an activist artists collective that used graphic design strategies to raise awareness about AIDS.

Being conceptually oriented and activist - minded, the annual exhibitions organized by the curatorial fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Studies Program are anomalies these days, and, for that reason, automatically of interest.

The volume also includes a 10 - page timeline — organized by Barbara Baumgartner, PhD, associate director of the Program in Women and Gender Studies in Arts & Sciences — of women's health over the last 400 years; excerpts from Catherine Lord's online diary The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation; and the first English translation of a 1991 interview with artist and activist Zoe Leonard.

at apexart, which highlighted artwork by men on death row at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, activist and artist Fury Young organizes a group show of artwork created by prisoners from all - across the country.

Following last year's Life After Death and Elsewhere at apexart, which highlighted artwork by men on death row at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, activist and artist Fury Young organizes a group show of artwork created by prisoners from all - across the country.

The evening has been organized by Visual AIDS with Gregg Bordowitz and Pati Hertling, in conjunction with the inaugural publication of DUETS, a publication series that pairs artists, activists, writers, and thinkers in dialogues about their creative practices and current social issues around HIV / AIDS.