Sentences with phrase «organized by community groups»

The events in Mississippi, which are independently planned and independently funded, include everything from information sessions and open houses at schools to rallies, policy discussions, and movie screenings organized by community groups.

Although many art and craft fairs are organized by community groups, some are sponsored by professional art promoters.

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In several communities there are «Twelve Step Houses,» and halfway houses have been organized and directed by the members of a certain AA group or groups.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

But, while the community action programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to «organize» communities, the AFLA contemplates implementation by functioning groups already (if precariously) in place.

The Mormon group that marched in Salt Lake City was organized by Mormons Building Bridges, a group of lay Mormons who want to show support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.

On December 5, a peaceful demonstration, organized by different faith groups including the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA),

On December 5, a peaceful demonstration, organized by different faith groups including the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy (DACA) was interrupted by law enforcement.

Sulo is a nonprofit group organized by IRRI that helps women become effective leaders in the local community.

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

The Bridging Gowanus community planning process was convened by the local elected officials representing the Gowanus area, organized together with community leaders from resident, civic, environmental, business, arts and housing groups, and facilitated by the Pratt Center for Community Devcommunity planning process was convened by the local elected officials representing the Gowanus area, organized together with community leaders from resident, civic, environmental, business, arts and housing groups, and facilitated by the Pratt Center for Community Devcommunity leaders from resident, civic, environmental, business, arts and housing groups, and facilitated by the Pratt Center for Community DevCommunity Development.

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

The message was made clear during a national Day of Action organized by unions, community groups and schools across the nation and New York yesterday.

In a presentation at the Public Hearing organized by the House of Representatives Committee on the Petroleum Industry Administrative Bill (PIAB), Petroleum Industry Fiscal Bill (PIFB) and the Petroleum Industry Host Community Bill (PIHCB), Group Managing Director of the corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, said the proposed split would prevent a situation where operators would sit perpetually on oil acreages.

The Target NEO 2: Open Community Workshop was organized by a group of planetary scientists alarmed at the way that NASA had conceived and then announced its Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) in early April.

She was the director of the Puerto Rican Association for Community Affairs (PRACA); co-director of Atrévete, a group dedicated to voter registration and political participation organized by the Migration Division; member of the boards of National Women's Political Caucus, National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), and Puerto Rican Educators Association; and a member of various other organizations.

Tags: Chris Larson, community schools, state school takeovers by Félix Pérez; image: candidate Chris Larson addresses school walk - in participants Milwaukee parents, residents, educators, students and community groups are organized, vocal and persistent when it comes to derailing the effort by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his friends in the state legislature to take over their community schools.

Parents, education advocates and civil rights groups, who represent Communities for Los Angeles Student Success, or CLASS, are organizing a «silent protest» on behalf of low - income students, schools and communities by placing 375 empty desks on Beaudry Avenue.

Parents, education advocates and civil rights groups, who represent Communities for Los Angeles Student Success, or CLASS, are organizing a «silent protest» on behalf of low - income students, schools and communities by placing...

This initial conversation led to a commitment by this group to organize a Third Grade Reading Task Force to which met five times in 2014 to review key research, build on past community efforts and to define the goal, scope and pillars of a potential community - wide collective impact effort around early childhood literacy.

Mission New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) is a group of public school educators committed to fighting for social justice in our school system and society at large, by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parent, and student organizations.

New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) is a group of public school educators committed to fighting for social justice in our school system and society at large, by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parent, and student organizations.

That philosophy of quiet and order as a foundation for learning is a trademark of educators at Veterans Memorial and the other eight charter schools run by the Chicago - based United Neighborhood Organization, or UNO, a Latino advocacy group with a history of community organizing.

Metabolism and Communication, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 2003 Love, Magazin4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Germany Patty Chang, Tracy Emin, Naomi Fisher, Paul McCarthy, The Moore Space, Miami, FL (performance, April 26) Water, Water, curated by Lilly Wei, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Awakenings, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Feminine Persuasion, The Kinsey Institute and the School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington, Indiana 2002 Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Le Plateau Frac Ile - de-France (performance only, November 7), Paris, France Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA The Body Electric: Video Art and the Human Body, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Americas Remixed, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (performance / exhibition) Extreme Existence, curated by Klaus Ottmann, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY (performance / exhibition)(catalogue) Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New York Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (performance / exhibition), (Catalog available) Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY Le Studio, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Oral Fixations, curated by Sandra Firmin, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Panorama, curated by Carmen Zita, Room Interior Products, NY Superlounge, curated by Andrea Salerno & Mari Spirito, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY About the Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted to Know), Video Cafe, organized by Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum, NY Mirror Image, curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Traveled to: Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, NY Perspectives: Artists of Chinese Descent in New York, Queens College Art Center, NY Traveled to: Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, March - April 2003 2001 Bodily Acts, curated by Jennifer L. Gray, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Circus Maximus, BeganeGrond, Center for the Contemporary Arts, Utrecht, Holland Group Show, Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany (performance) Mimic, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst and the Bijloke Museum, Gent, Belgium (performance / exhibition) Looking for Mr. Fluxus: In the Footsteps of George Maciunas, Art in General, NY La Hijas de la Tierra (The Daughters of the Earth), IODAC Museum of Contemporary, Spain Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (brochure) 2001 Art + Performance + Technology, in conjunction with the 19th International Sculpture Conference, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (performance) WET, Luise Ross Gallery, New York Trans Sexual Express Barcelona, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Smirk: Women, Art, and Humor, curated by Debra Wacks, Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, New York 2000 Uncomfortable Beauty, Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery, New York Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (performance / exhibition): Traveled to: Kunst - und Kunstgewerbeverein Pforzheim, Germany (April / May 2001) The Art of the Screen Saver, Stanford Art Museum / Cantor Art Center, Stanford, CA Traveled to: ICA, London, England (Feb - March 2002) Steamroller, performance festival organized by Galerie MXM, Prague, Czech Republic (Catalog available) Soma, Soma, Soma, The Sculpture Center, New York Performance Festival, Kunstpanorama, Lucern and USINE, Geneva The Standard Projection: 24/7, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles Deja vu, Art Miami 2000, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach Galerie Fons Welters (two person exhibition with Atelier van Lieshout), Amsterdam ID / y2k, Identity At The Millennium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY 1999 - 2000 Illusion Delusion Denial, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York Mug Shots, Center for Visual Art and Culture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. 1999 IDENDITAT, hat man doch zu viel, Ort halle fur kunst, Feldstr.

3 «$ «6 pm Opening in the Museum's Community Partnership Gallery: An Inclusive World, a group exhibition organized by COPE NYC, a program that examines how art transforms the lives of those with a wide array of needs and abilities, including those deemed «$ Outsider Artists.»

Project Los Altos will be free to the public and is organized by SFMOMA in collaboration with the City of Los Altos and lead sponsor Passerelle Investment Company, a local group working to enhance the vitality of the Los Altos community.

Together, they organized exhibitions of community art groups in a small space by the entrance to the museum's cafeteria on 81st Street.

An annual Open Studio event organized by the group invites the whole Kentucky community to visit the studio building and learn more about the artworks and the people who make them.

The exhibition is free to the public and organized by SFMOMA in collaboration with the City of Los Altos and lead sponsor Passerelle Investment Company, a local group working to enhance the vitality of the Los Altos community.

Its mission is to support local artists and to help promote the arts in the community by organizing opportunities and events for artists to show and publicize their work, including group shows and exhibits throughout the year.

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Since then, some of us have graduated college and gone on to organize Step It Up 2007, an ad - hoc group that coordinated 1400 community events on April 14 calling on congress to cut carbon 80 % by 2050.

For several years, Berman fought efforts by the voter registration / community organizing group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to raise the minimum wage at the state and federacommunity organizing group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to raise the minimum wage at the state and federaCommunity Organizations for Reform Now) to raise the minimum wage at the state and federal levels.

community forums and informal discussions at meetings organized by injured workers» groups, community legal clinics, labour, RAACWI etc

Encouraged students ages 13 - 18 to take an active interest in their community's political issues by organizing group projects which resulted in improving neighborhood conditions.

Our fellows will go on to hone their skills and building programs in their communities by joining their local Planned Parenthood Generation Action group on campus; signing on to become a Defender; joining local community action teams; or seeking career opportunities in organizing.

• Post the Colorado early learning and development guideline videos to your social media channels earlylearningco.org • Raise awareness of child safety issues and helpful childproofing information • Organize a moms» or dads» night out • Put children's books in your lobby and waiting areas • Schedule family events at different times of the day and on different days of the week so that more families can participate • Add information about family - friendly resources on neighborhood websites like Nextdoor • Remind people it's okay to ask for help • Host a play group at a local recreation or community center • Collaborate with childcare centers and schools by joining PTOs, volunteering in classrooms, participating in fundraising and more • Recognize a child or family in distress and offer assistance • Provide parenting education classes for parents and for students before they become parents • Connect parents to one another and to important resources for support