Sentences with phrase «organized groups end»

What happens in the real world is that organized groups end up bending the sovereign power of government toward transferring resources to themselves, away from the less organized.

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What we want is a group so devoted to this purpose and so tightly organized that it can work as effectively for redemptive ends in our time as the first Christians worked for redemptive ends in the first century of our era and as the Nazis have worked for divisive ends in the first century of their would - be era.

At the war's end, following the October Revolution, American authorities saw the threat of Communist revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bombing campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

With a little over three months to go until Election Day, Democrat Domenic Recchia, hoping to wrest the congressional seat that covers Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Staten Island away from Republican Michael Grimm, focused his campaign on the Brooklyn end of the two - borough district on Saturday, organizing a group of volunteers to go door to door for him to talk to voters.

Alliance for Tenant Power, an organization representing a variety of liberal community organizing groups, knocked Mr. de Blasio for not calling for the end of 421a altogether.

The roughly 9,000 students and many of their parents will participate in a rally organized by pro-charter group Families for Excellent Schools, which will push for an «end to New York's failing schools crisis.»

«We are asking our city's mayor and our city's leaders to put an end to education inequality,» said Joe Herrera, of Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter group, which organized the rally.

The Kingston rally in front of city hall was organized by the group «End Jim Crow Action Network.»

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the second oldest organized critics group in the country, held their annual end - of - the - year award gathering this afternoon, with «Birdman» and «Boyhood» taking home the lion's share of the major awards.

Dreeben and Barr describe as «technological» the ways in which teachers form groups and then instruct them; not technological in the sense of using computers or electronic media but in the sense of applying craft knowledge in the pursuit of an occupational end, in this case, the goal of organizing a classroom full of first graders so that they can be taught how to read.

Year - end mapping utilizes the power of positive teacher - student relationships as well as personalized learning, summarizing, group learning, and organizing information graphically.

«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.

LDS primary sources fill this work from beginning to end, organized by themes that define this unique religious group.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

As moderator for the group site Guys Lit Wire she organizes an annual new book donation drive that sees hundreds of books end up in selected school libraries at the hands of donors worldwide.

I really had a great time and learned a lot with a fun group of people, young and old, ended up embracing the organized tours, lost weight and was not bored for a second.

Like a typical sony fan (one who is desperate enough to organize groups and was prepared to cry WAY harder than me to the ends of the earth) you told me I needed to do something... and when I pointed out how I did the best I could with my time etc..

To that end, he quickly recruited Windjammers France, a group of hardcore fans who've been organizing tournaments for 10 years.

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

Wilson's work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including the critically acclaimed Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson, sponsored by the Contemporary Museum at The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore (1992 - 93) and Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979 — 2000, a retrospective organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, which traveled to seven venues nationally from 2001 — 4, including Andover, Berkeley, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Saratoga Springs, and ending its run at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

I'm also starting to organize a loosely collaborative arts group out of our new studio space in the West End.

Mr. Matta - Clark, who died in 1978, organized a group of artists called Anarchitecture, who held long discussions that often ended in dance parties and eventually had a group show at 112 Greene Street, a cooperative gallery where artists were allowed to knock holes in the walls or floors.

I was there in June with a large group of international journalists for a press preview of the exhibition, which ends its run in the Basque port city, along with Rothkopf, who organized the show and was recently promoted to chief curator at the Whitney.

Working project by project, Nixon organizes his cumulative visual research into specific, yet open - ended groupings to which he assigns titles such as EPW: Orange, EPW: Polychrome, and EPW: Silver, among others.

Toward the end of 2014 and into 2015, Berman, Newt Gingrich, and various Berman front groups began pushing Congress to pass the so - called «Employee Rights Act,» a bill whose seven provisions are designed to further weaken unions and make it even harder for workers to organize.

The UNSG's Climate Summit today contributed to the growing sense that the fossil fuel era is ending and delivered some momentum towards an international climate agreement to be signed in Paris next year, according to civil society groups organized in two major networks.

However, with the following tips that build on one another and a focus on the end goal with your group, the experience can be well organized, engaging and rewarding.

The march — organized by the Stoneman Douglas student group #NeverAgain and the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety — is the culmination of a monthlong effort to honor the victims of the shooting, and to push for an end to gun violence.

The company has confirmed that the upgrade prioritizes end user experience, and integrates feedback from organized focus groups.

A group of students who survived the Wednesday mass shooting at a Florida high school is organizing a nationwide march to demand lawmakers make ending gun violence a priority.