Sentences with phrase «other activists came»

Speakers like Daniel Ellsberg and other activists came forward and talked about the deadly potential cost of the missiles going off.

But these proposals hit a wall of legislative resistance, and when Carr and other activists came calling, Schneiderman was the best feasible option.

Not exact matches

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.

In 1964, further evidence against Mandela came to light and he, along with several other activists and saboteurs, stood trial again.

This week on The New Activist, Branden shares his story of how he came to be so optimistic even in the midst of difficult circumstances and how others become that way, too.

Of these, hardly anyone is going to turn up randomly - it will be either existing activists or people who one or other candidate has contacted and persuaded to come along.

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

In fact, many women in the progressive activist space are coming out with similar stories of harassment from colleagues, bosses, clients, members of Congress and other men in positions of power.

The other thing is that — far from the hardline free market ideology of some party leaders and activists — Tory supporters really come across in the poll as utterly indifferent to the issue.

Outreach can include a wide array of possible channels discussed in the chapters to come, including online advertising, digital video, Facebook, direct pitching to bloggers and other activists behind the scenes, Twitter and more.

But whether it was appropriate to accept the donations — which came from unions who have contracts with the city, real estate firms with interests in re-zonings and others matters, activists calling for a horse carriage ban and others — has been questioned.

Anthony Browne, who wrote The Times» story, obviously does not pay enough attention to ConservativeHome as he makes no mention of our hugely relevant Monday finding that UKIP was the favourite choice of party activists when it came to mentioning the other political party closest to their views.

These activists come from the environmental movement, the rank and file of the unions, the movement for criminal justice reform and many other disparate progressive causes.

Others said they knew of fellow Tea Party activists who refused to come to the meeting because they do not trust the Republican leadership.

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Community activists and other local leaders are unhappy that the recent announcement that the City Council had reached a deal with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on changes to his citywide rezoning proposals came with few details, and scant outreach to local groups.

«You can be sure that I can not be idle while all these events are taking place, and we've began, the Togolese president came to see me in Tamale 10 days ago for long discussions, I have been meeting other political activists and definitely, we are all talking to see how we can bring this crisis to a closure and bring stability and peace to Togo,» he said.

I came from neighbouring Brent but, recognising Barnet's significance, and being Jewish myself, I canvassed several times, often accompanied by other Jewish activists.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.

More outcry is likely to come in the coming months as reformers and civil rights activists in D.C., Tennessee and other states learn how the waiver gambit has essentially allowed states to damn children through the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

Given that the idea comes from more - rabid school choice activists such as Evers and Burke (along with University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene) who want to shield voucher programs from any accountability, and would get the backing of traditionalists (who oppose testing altogether), eviscerating the testing mandate exposes Kline and House Republicans to charges (from other conservatives) of hypocrisy and being in bed with unions.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

During Burns» first years as chief executive the Hawaiian Humane Society came under vehement activist criticism for allegedly sidestepping conflict with legal animal use industries, cockfighters with connections in high places, and especially ---- and perhaps most controversially ---- with the longtime Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources policy of trying to purge the islands of feral cats, mongooses, and other non-native wildlife.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — An extraordinary gathering of environmentalists, Nobel Laureates, CEOs, philanthropists, venture capitalists, scientists, social entrepreneurs, youth activists and other leaders in their fields will come together at the gateway to the Pacific Rim April 2 - 3, 2009.

Questions about Field's pro-industry stance on global warming come as the DEC faces accusations from environmental activists that the agency gave the natural gas industry exclusive and unfair access to draft drilling regulations up to six weeks before they were released to the public or to any other stakeholders.

As the year came to a close, Goldman Prize staff took some time to reflect milestones from 2013 — some were victories we were thrilled to celebrate, others were reflective of the dangerous reality in which many grassroots environmental activists carry out their work.

A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward - thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote — making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow.

Once public anxiety rose, activists demanded that the ash be dug up and moved «somewhere else,» regardless of the cost, which could be in the billions — and regardless of the fact that detected levels of chromium - 6 (and other metals) do not pose health risks and come from natural rock formations, as well as from coal.

This comment came to the delight of climate activist journalists, scientists and other commentators.

«That the largest American oil and gas company is the first to come to the table on this issue says a lot about the direction that energy markets are taking,» Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow, said [pdf] in a joint press release with the other activist investor groups.

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.

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.

Kelvin Kemm — The Moral Liberal — August 28, 2012 Wind and solar power + soaring electricity prices = outsourced jobs + more coal burning Meanwhile, eco activists demand «sustainable lifestyles» — for other people By Kelvin Kemm It is amazing how biased the international media is when it comes to reporting on energy generation, -LSB-...]