Sentences with phrase «organizing rallies»

«Planned Parenthood stands with the students organizing rallies across Indiana and Kentucky to demand safety from gun violence in their schools.»

Different bar groups are organizing rallies of lawyers in the same cities, but scheduling them at different times and in different locations.

There's a scene early in Justin Simien's debut film Dear White People where Sam (Tessa Thompson)- a student at a fictional Harvard - ish Ivy League school who's known for organizing rallies against racist school policies - has an argument with her white friend -...

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is again playing an active role in his wife's effort to return the family to the White House, hitting the campaign trail hard on her behalf, with plans to appear at organizing rallies tomorrow at Rochester and Buffalo.

Two large union - organized rallies are planned in Athens on the holiday, with employees at many public services nominally on strike.

Much later, Spencer helped organized the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — the home of UVA — where a counterprotestor was killed in August.

«We definitely teamed up,» said Madison Knoop, 18, who organized a rally of 2,500 in Montpelier, Vt., with the support of groups dominated by adults.

Eli and I are organizing this rally with the support of the SEIU.

Former Pakistani lawmaker Ikramullah Shahid told demonstrators protesting the movie in Peshawar on Monday that he'd pay $ 200,000 to anyone who kills the filmmaker, according to Siraj Ul Haq, a senior leader of the religious group that organized the rally.

We organized rallies to stall government cutbacks of programs benefitting black and brown students.

At one point, he organized a rally of 10,000 to fire up Christians to take back the nation.

According to Unite Here Local 1, which organized the rally, 25 percent of CPS schools serve prepackaged meals that arrive at the schools frozen.

According to Unite Here Local 1, which organized the rally, 25 percent of CPS schools serve prepackaged meals that arrive at the schools...

Some Wake County students are organizing a rally May 19, in Raleigh, to promote bringing a school - based health center to the county.

This is not true and not the consensus of Nigerians, majority of fellow planners and not a true reflection of the sincere plan to organize this rally in public interest.

«Hundreds of seniors from as far down as 110th Street and as far up as 220th Street, river to river, rely on ARC Fort Washington every day for a hot meal, fun activities and essential services,» said State Senator Adriano Espaillat, who organized the rally.

The Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) organized the rally and uses it's 4,000 - member network to host similar rallies across the state.

Reyna thanked the New York City Coalition for Adult Literacy and the citywide coalition of community - based organizations, including Opportunity for a Better Tomorrow (OBT) for their leadership in organizing the rally, and Councilmember Menchaca.

Ulrich, a Council Member from Queens who's running for mayor and long a critic of Mayor de Blasio, organized the rally and press conference to «protest Mayor de Blasio's failed homeless policies.»

The Riders Alliance has organized a rally outside the Governor's Midtown office during the this evening's rush.

Also helping organize the rally is Gary Greenberg, an upstate businessman who is bankrolling a political action committee backing candidates who would support the bill if elected to the state Legislature.

«The NPP should not waste their time to organize any rally or campaign, as well as print t - shirts, because the NDC is planning together with the EC to rig the election and that is why they are claiming to pull 1 million votes in the Ashanti region and also have declared operation 50/50 in the Eastern Region.

StudentsFirstNY organized the rally as a part of its grassroots outreach campaign to encourage the passage of Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda, and has mobilized hundreds of parents to make phone calls, canvass and rally on behalf of the Governor's agenda.

They enlisted the help of lawyers from the Legal Aid Society, Councilman Fernando Cabrera, the Borough President's Office and staffers from Congressman Jose E. Serrano's office and then organized a rally in front of the Bank of America on the corner of Fordham Road and Valentine Avenue, last Thursday afternoon.

Seeman, along with Citizen Action of New York's Jamaica Miles, who helped to organize the rally, quoted the Congressional Budget Office estimate that 24 million Americans will lose their health coverage if the plan passes.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, who organized a rally Friday outside P.S. 191, characterized the plan as «a giveaway in the waning days of the administration.»

Councilman Joe Borelli (R - SI), who last week organized a rally outside City Hall to preserve monuments to Columbus, said the mayor's softer stance was welcome, even though it came a bit late.

In the lead up to the passage of the state budget last week, AQE organized a rally in Albany and Nixon, the newly - minted gubernatorial candidate, made an appearance, as she has for years.

Carlene Pinto, the New York Immigration Coalition's immigration campaign manager, helped Jamal organize the rally.

On Tuesday, Mulgrew called on his members to talk to their colleagues about the proposals, organize rallies and attend upcoming political actions in Albany.

Inside the church, Espada, whose office helped organize the rally (and who walked behind a massive banner with his and King's faces on), took the mic to praise the civil rights leader and ask that youngsters there sign a «Resolution for Peace and Nonviolence.»

«This is about economic anxiety» in a society where the top 1 percent «have had 95 percent of the income growth and the bottom third is going backwards,» the governor said during a union - organized rally in Manhattan's Foley Square.

It also was no coincidence that NYSUT coordinated «Days of Actions» that allowed them to organize rallies, forums and other events at schools, giving them access to teachers in the critical weeks before the election.

«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.

What would you say to those organizing a rally against you?

Also calling for Democratic unity is the Working Families Party, which organized rallies outside the district offices of IDC members on Wednesday, top officials from the Democratic National Committee, and a variety of other Democratic elected officials and activists.

They organized a rally at Duli Zugu, where the NPP's Parliamentary Candidate for the Kumbungu Constituency, Iddrisu Muqtar Dems and other party bigwigs from the Northern Region, officially welcomed them to the party.

Rose Bergin, the resident leader of the complex, is organizing the rally against the East 91s Street garbage — the area's second in two weeks — at the plaza at First Avenue and East 93rd Street of the housing complex where she's lived for nearly 30 years.

The grassroots network, whose slogan is «Youth united for clean and just energy,» has a small staff and a larger council and steering committee that help young people organize rallies and publicity campaigns.

She was an undergraduate in Berkeley's astronomy department when her roommate organized a rally against sexual assault and sexual violence, according to investigation documents.

Work with your students to organize a rally that celebrates difference, and design posters to support a campaign designed to bring young people from differing cultural and racial backgrounds together.

Several HCS students are members of Students Demand Action Hudson County and have organized a rally in front of Hoboken City Hall for tomorrow, April 20 at 4:00...

For the November event, parents, community members, faith leaders and politicians organized a rally in support of the Dearborn becoming a STEM community school.

Schools and Communities United, which organized the rally, said that for over 25 years, Milwaukee has been ground zero for school privatization experiments that have failed our children and siphoned over a billion taxpayer dollars into unaccountable operators.

Kicking off the festivities on May 13th, a union front group calling itself the «Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools» organized a rally on the steps of the Supreme Court.

The camp sparked my interest in politics, and I organized rallies throughout my childhood and teenage years to protest injustices large and small.

The Chicago Teachers Union, led by its thoroughly obnoxious and confrontational leader, Karen Lewis, organized a rally last Wednesday in downtown Chicago.

Nope — we were the grammar nerds, the computer geeks, the drama club thespians, the Magic and Pokemon players, the story - loving tale - blazers who were jotting poems in our algebra notebooks, the optimists who organized rallies for equal rights and endangered frogs, the book lovers who were still in the library when they shut off the lights.

Sordyl began organizing the rally against The Family Puppy, owned by John and Debbie Stottele, focusing on «the fact that The Family Puppy and their other chain stores, The Family of Pets, continues to work with brokers and mass - producing commercial breeders whom the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has cited for violations of the Animal Welfare Act.»

«Based on what we saw in Waimanalo, this industry needs a little bit of hand - holding by government, and sometimes you just got ta do that,» said Rep. K. Mark Takai (D - Newtown, Waiau, Pearl City, Waimalu), who also helped organize the rally.