Sentences with phrase «other activist works»

GILBERT & GEORGE's large - scale photowork Smoke Rising, (1989), Nigel Rolfe's Dance Slap for Africa, (1983) and will be shown along with other activist works or works with emphasis on performance including a film by Phil Collins and historic works by Marina Abramović.

Maybe these realities will finally convince them to build ties to other activists working against the administration on other front — as well as force them to finally build a stronger infrastructure for advancing reform at the state and local levels.

This position has meant that his views may seem controversial, but are key to understanding what du Toit and other activists working in conservation have to deal with every day:

In 2007, the UN General Assembly approved language calling on nations to mandate that all shark fins be landed attached to the body of the shark, marking a major shift in policy and a huge victory for Arauz and other activists working to protect sharks globally.

Not exact matches

Even if it falls short in New York, activists say they're going to work to replicate it in 49 other states.

The concern comes in the wake of complaints by environmental activists and trade unions that this deal and others will erode standards for food, work and industry.

Again, the Democratic governor eschews state tax increases and again he faces harsh rebukes from the unions and other left - leaning activists who worked for his two elections.

Here's how it works: Activist investors, usually through the hedge funds they control, typically take a large equity stake in a company to obtain board seats or other means of exerting influence.

I want to thank all of you who protect this blessing — who do this work every day: The healthcare providers, doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, who put your lives on the line to care for others (you are heroes — in my eyes, you are saints); the escorts and the activists; the lobbyists and the clinic defenders; all of you.

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.

There's a portion of it where it's trendy and people are more interested in it because there are celebrities that are involved, there's a lot of, there are some activists that are getting more notoriety than others not necessarily because of the work that they do, but just because of the way of the world.

If so, then golden rice will be delayed for many months, or even longer if more vandalism is done or if the anti-GMO activists find other strategies to hamper and delay the scientists» work.

I am a toLabor trained birth doula and birth activist, and as an Evidence Based Birth Instructor I am able to offer trainings to obstetricians, midwives, nurses, and other doulas in the community in addition to working with expecting families.

, 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.

Intended for use by policy - makers, national breastfeeding committees, breastfeeding advocates, women's health activists and others working for public health in the community, the Resource sets out why breastfeeding in the context of HIV has never been as safe as it is today.

Since that time, I've been honored to work with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D - CT) and a coalition of other legislators, food safety experts and food activists regarding both Chinese - processed chicken in school meals and the prospect of Chinese - raised and - slaughtered chickens eventually reaching our supermarkets and schools.

The resource is intended for policy - makers, breastfeeding advocates, national breastfeeding committees, public health advocates, women's health activists and others working in the community.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

Note that Ivan is describing something very different than traditional mass communications: he's talking about working closely (no doubt frequently one - on - one) with people on Facebook and other networking sites over a long period of time to help build a cadre of very committed activists — something that most electoral campaigns (and even most issue advocacy campaigns) simply can't do, whether because of lack of time or lack of resources.

That way, when the police come after your Twitter activists, others can keep working behind the scenes.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

«Today, Netroots UK brings together a new generation of left activists, working and discussing politics online, withour paymasters the trade unions and many others.»

Other causes there certainly will be: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Twelve Years a Slave may have helped create the conditions that led to the end of slavery, but exorcising its ghosts would be the work of future generations of activists... including our own.

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).

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.

Jumaane Williams is a housing activist making a credible bid for the 45th District seat.He has worked as Housing Director for the unusually - effective Flatbush Development Corporation, and in a number of other community activist positions.

I want to offer some information on our early organizing work to help engage existing soil - based as well as other community - driven urban ag growers, activists, and leaders as local elected officials begin to consider the development of urban ag policy...

Ford and Goodwin point out that UKIP supporters (unlike their activists) are more working class than those of any other party.

Not mentioned was the fact that Miranda, the longtime political consultant for Klein and other politicians involved in the press event, was also working for William Ackman, an activist investor whose hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, has «shorted» Herbalife stock — a position that will reap significant rewards if its value plunges.

Tons of activists are tied up working on the environment, energy, microfinance, and other charitable fields.

Edward Erikson, a consultant who works with prominent Sanders supporter Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream fame) and other activists trying to reduce the role of big money in politics, said Sanders himself deserves the credit for motivating small donors.

Housing Works, VOCAL - NY, Coalition for the Homeless and other activists continued to call on Gov. Cuomo to release the funds for the first 6,000 units of the State's supportive housing commitment.

Teachout, 42, liberal activist who worked on Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign and moved to New York in 2009, was the only other contender for the Working Families Party nod.

NOW, the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States, was founded in 1966 and has hundreds of chapters in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. NOW - NY and NOW - NYC, the New York City chapter, have advocated on a number of issues affecting girls and women, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic violence and child marriage — issues it has worked on with Cuomo and other elected officials.

Besides Kavanagh, other names being mentioned for the job: local District leader Paul Newell, former District leader Jenifer Rajkumar (who works for the New York Department of State) and Lincoln Restler, a Brooklyn activist.

And in a third sign of growing disillusionment with Cuomo by Democrats and others on the political left, Working Families Party activists, furious over Cuomo's alliance with Senate Republicans, are threatening to back someone other than the governor in the November election, a move that would aid GOP gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino, sources said.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

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.

Today, the newly emerged Natalie Egan works as a transgender activist helping others embrace their true identities with her online platform, trans.cafe.

Some of them are part of my life (my sister, my family of friends, my university professors, ladies I collaborate with) and others part of me forever (my mother and grandmother); and then there are also those who I have never actually met, but make an impact all the same: inspiring food bloggers and photographers whose work and kindness I admire and aspire to, poets and activists, comedians and writers who make me feel so damn proud to be a woman.

Signed up for one of two «competing» Gloria Steinem projects in the works (the other being Julie Taymor's My Life on the Road), this March she'll work begin filming on An Uncivil War (Carey Mulligan will topline the pic around a feminist activist and journalist Steinem, lawyer and activist Florynce Kennedy, and others to ratify the ERA, while conservative organizer Phyllis Schlafly advocates against it.

Working with the Education Redesign Lab, mayors of each city will create and lead «Children's Cabinets» composed of superintendents, heads of health and social services, recreation, cultural and arts activists, and other key community leaders.

«I assure you that in both houses of Congress we will work diligently for the enactment of this proposal, and I suspect millions of others throughout the country will, too,» said the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the evangelical political activist and television personality.

Principals and superintendents, by contrast, work in a highly visible context - within a large public organization where their performance is increasingly monitored by state officials, local activists, businesspeople, journalistic outlets, and others.

OCO activists were working with parents who were frustrated with overcrowded, dilapidated, low - performing schools, and saw small schools in the northeast, as led by and explained in books and articles by Deborah Meier and others, as a way to improve the dire overcrowding as well as the quality of teaching and learning.

Working with other groups in Testing Resistance and Reform Spring to help local activist builds their campaigns and link up with one another.

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

The only way they will actually publish your poetry book is if your work has earned you a Pulitzer Prize or some other highly recognized award, or if you are a popular celebrity or a highly successful activist.

Not surprisingly, most of my efforts to seek out potential buyers, and / or other activist investors, will (by necessity) happen off - line — rest assured though, I'm already working on a promising target list of funds & firms.