Sentences with phrase «organized public opposition»

Rivera Herrera and a group of close friends began volunteering their time to organize public opposition to the megaresorts.

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I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.

It says tobacco was and coal is under attack from «well funded, well organized NGO opposition driving regulatory policy, media messaging, and shaping public opinion — often with poor / no science.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos kicked off her first public speech Wednesday by casting the protestors who sought to block her from visiting a Washington, D.C., middle school last week as part of a divisive opposition that's resistant to fresh ideas... And DeVos, who didn't face protestors Wednesday, praised magnet schools, which are public schools organized around a particular subject area such as arts or technology, as «the original school choice option.»

By forming NYCEDF, MORE and its allies intend to increase grassroots support for a fair contract and to organize effective opposition to the new teacher evaluation system imposed on city teachers by State Education Commissioner John King and the high - stakes testing regime that has been so detrimental to the City's public schools and students.

In response, concerned citizens organized a weekly protest before the Legislature called Moral Mondays, where they gathered to show their opposition to the attacks on the public sector and on valued institutions.

Since there was no opportunity for public comments, Surfrider Foundation Georgia, together with other environmental groups, organized an opposition room.

New to this kind of public opposition, these young marchers won't find much practical advice from their parents, mostly members of the coddled Gen X era who are unskilled at organized dissent.

And these weren't organized by the public but by the opposition party, adding to the corruption which apparently plagues the state.