Sentences with phrase «other activist groups»

But Walmart would still likely face a battle from the City's labor unions and other activist groups over the low wages it pays its workers and over the amount of traffic its store might create.

That same day, Munkhbayar and UMMRL joined several other activist groups in a demonstration outside of the main Parliament building.

Our delegation has been working to coordinate with other activist groups like YOUNGO (a coalition of Youth NGOs) and DCJ (Demand Climate Justice) to create an even stronger, united climate movement in the coming week.

According to his model, the only hope for the world is for radical groups who «adopt a certain set of dynamics that does not fit within the capitalist culture» to come together in «protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups» to save the planet.

Perhaps most important, though, is whether this kind of defense can be utilized by Greenpeace and other activist groups elsewhere in the world, and if so, where.

Being politically financed and politically motivated, it's conclusions should be given no more weight than other activist groups such as Greenpeace.

ERI also has strong ties to several other activist groups that are pushing climate litigation against energy producers.

Protesters from Picture the Homeless and other activist groups could be heard shouting «I can't breathe!»

In February 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in conjunction with several other activist groups filed a brief with the U.S. District Court in New York City in support of ivi.

«And that's a skill that I would say other activists groups don't have.

Not exact matches

One major worry about the story was that it could be used to claim that WhatsApp is not secure, potentially pushing activists and other groups to use more non-secure messaging services.

The attacks, which took place this year and have not been previously reported, jeopardized the communications of activists, journalists and other people in sensitive positions in Iran, where Telegram is used by some 20 million people, said independent cyber researcher Collin Anderson and Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri, who have been studying Iranian hacking groups for three years.

Harrison Jacobs: The top line headline about you, in the New York Times and other outlets is that you've sued the police 75 times, you are the lawyer for Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and every other major activist group.

Schultz is already well - known as one of this generation's CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs» Lloyd Blankfein, Duke Energy's Jim Rogers, and Google's Eric Schmidt — and other high - ranking corporate leaders like Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg.

Activist - targeted Hain Celestial Group Inc. (HAIN) founder and CEO Irwin Simon suggested to TheStreet's (TST) sister publication The Deal on Monday, April 30, that the maker of Terra Chips and other organic and vegetarian foods could be sold down the road because «we're probably not the best guys to take it to the next level.»

Activist groups like Open Doors and the Jubilee Campaign are calling for the president to take a firm stance against the Fulani and other groups like them.

The day before the October 23, 1967, March on the Pentagon, Mr. Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and eight other activists met with an official in the Justice Department and turned in the draft cards of young war resisters — an action that was to result in the indictment of five of the group on conspiracy charges.

The aim is to politicize and strengthen solidarity with other political social groups or activists abroad.

Update (Feb. 25): Assyrian activists tell CNN that they expect ISIS to release a video today threatening to kill the approximately 150 Christian captives unless President Obama and other leaders end joint air strikes against the group.

On the other hand «Christians» face persecution, some secular activists protest loudly with their ideas and any one human group or institution has elements to it that act in a bigoted nature.

Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.

House Democrats starting a Faith Working Group, Democratic activists launched new organizations like Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good while others - such as Sapp and Strider - started new faith - based consulting shops.

They are no different than any other group or activists movement.

It will have become something else... like a lobbying group, an activist group, a missional group, or something other than just a church.

If a church (or mosque or synagogue) hires out its hall to other groups, it will not be lawful to refuse a gay activist group who wish to hire the hall.

This photo released on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018 which provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Ghouta Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an injured Syrian man who was wounded by the shelling of the Syrian government forces, waits to receive treatment at a makeshift hospital, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria.

This photo released on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018 provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Ghouta Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian paramedic, right, treats an injured man who was wounded by the shelling of the Syrian government forces, at a makeshift hospital, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria.

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Can an individual or legal (a citizens» group, activist, NGO among others) entity sue the government for not protecting me from these manifestly dangerous criminals?

Public solidarity between Democratic activists, elected officials, and progressive groups in New York is critical for isolating the IDC and other elected Democrats who caucus with the Republicans.

Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups — both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings — allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.

In a post on National Review Online that has since been removed and replaced, Thomas Peters of NOM congratulated his group and other anti-gay activists for toppling the bill that hasn't even reached the floor for a vote yet:

Campaigns should look for opportunities to join existing communities to learn from others and connect with important or influential voices, and in some cases it will make sense to start a new discussion group or listserv to connect with and organize activists.

Thus, for example, a group of scholars and activists working on borders recently occupied the discursive terrain by introducing new keywords in migration and borders, such as «militant investigation», «counter-mapping» and «bordering» among others (Casas Cortes et al. 2014).

I obviously do not wish to belittle the significance of the deaths of people in the other groups - ethnic Poles, Slovenians, Homosexuals, left - wing political activists, disabled people, Roma, and arguably also prisoners of war from the USSR (my own grandfather was both a Jew and a soldier in the Red Army); and it's important to mention them as well.

Grechen Shirley said she and other members of activist groups known as «pop ups» had worked for Democrat Christine Pellegrino's successful state Assembly election, which Schaffer sat out, and planned fundraisers for Democratic county legislative candidates.

Again, it's tempting to think of Obama's impressive field campaign and his online organizing programs as separate — the 2,500 + field organizers and volunteer neighborhood teams on one side, the online activists using MyBarackObama.com to set up discussion groups and events on the other.

Collaborating through Indivisible groups, Action Network, an existing MoveOn event - scheduling app, social media and other channels, activists made in - district town hall meetings a place of dread for Republicans.

In a letter, Compass, the left - of - centre pressure group, together with Cruddas and other Labour activists, said: «It would be a hugely missed opportunity if the party reforms instigated fell short of the mark in making Labour more democratic.»

Jouniari is the choice of Bernie Sanders supporters and other Democratic activist groups, such as the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, National Nurses United, and Stand up 4 Democracy PAC.

The group threw its weight behind the civil and activist groups protesting the planned law saying that other Nigerians will swell the ranks of the protesters if the National Assembly goes ahead with its anti-people bill.

The Democratic party must be set up to be open to outside groups and other activists.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Collectively, this group — it includes current Labour and Tory voters as well as the undecided — is the Lib Dem «market» (another Coetzee label that can leave the party's more organic activists wincing), and it responds especially well to party lines, of which you can expect to hear much more («Labour wasted their opportunity and ruined the economy», «You can't count on the Tories to care about others»), including the need for the next government to be balanced and sensible.

These were times of fear and loathing, when Labour Party meetings were unpleasant places to be, characterised as small groups of activists firing resolutions at each other from across the room.

Bearing signs saying «Don't balance the budget on the backs of the poor» and shouting «Hey hey, ho ho, the funding cuts have got to go,» the roughly 150 demonstrators, largely from New York City, represented progressive activist groups pushing for rent reductions for people with HIV, homeless services, low - income housing, health care and other issues.

The group hosted a town hall in Sunset Park on Friday night in which activists and residents grilled Public Advocate Letitia James and acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on their positions on broken windows, affordable housing, public housing and other police reform - oriented issues.

National political strategist L. Joy Williams, who was recently appointed as a senior adviser for education activist and actress Cynthia Nixon's gubernatorial campaign, weighed in on what made her join the Nixon campaign and her thoughts on Nixon's advocacy toward people of color and other marginalized groups, on Tuesday night.