Sentences with phrase «other activists hold»

Not exact matches

I reported here a few weeks ago that the NYT's Dear Abby - type column, «The Ethicist,» was holding an essay contest to descsribe why eating meat is ethical — judged by Peter Singer — who I noted elsewhere, has no business judging anyone's ethics — and other anti meat activists!

The shooting quickly gained attention from Black Lives Matters and other activists and organizations dedicated to holding police responsible, which led to Thursday's protests outside Golden 1 Center and now these messages from the Kings and Celtics.

De La Rosa's defeat of Linares and Alcantara's win in the «open» seat currently held by Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who is heading to Congress, represent a consolidation of power for the three, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, their allies, including Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, and other Uptown politicians and activists, especially those of Dominican descent, but also the larger Hispanic community.

The announcement was made two days after «Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon participated in a march and rally held in Albany by environmentalists and other activists who are critical of Cuomo's efforts to combat climate change.

NEW YORK, NY — JUNE 02: Macy's workers and other union activists hold a demonstration outside of the retailer's flagship store at Herald Square in Manhattan on June 2, 2016 in New York City.

Clegg also held out hope to his party activists and other supporters of Lords reform, saying «My hope is that we will return to it in the next parliament» after 2015.

At 9 a.m., Columbia University holds a panel assessing 50 years of activist by the Rev. Al Sharpton, where expected attendees include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, former Gov. David Paterson, NY1's Errol Louis and others, 2950 Broadway, Manhattan.

Just opposite the activists, a similar number of people hold banners supporting him, some wearing hard hats and safety vests and others in camouflage hunting outfits.

In 2010, Marino banded together with other scientists, activists, and philosophers to draft a «Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans» declaring that no whales and dolphins «should be held in captivity... or removed from their natural environment.»

«Academics, attorneys, and activists can hold any opinion they want about public charter schools and other families» school choices,» said a spokesperson for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in an official response to the AP story.

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.

Although Wong et al hold only 0.5 % of FACT's outstanding stock, we think the presence of Bob Chapman and other noted activist and deep value investors on the register (Baupost Group holds ~ 18 %) indicates a good chance of success for the dissidents.

Deep Value is also a practical guide that reveals little - known valuation metrics that activist investors and other contrarians use to identify attractive, asymmetric investment opportunities with limited downside and enormous upside — undervaluation, large cash holdings, and low payout ratios.

In a desperate bid to drag us back into the isolated darkness where they continue to dwell — a place where facts hold no power, experience no relevance, and the lives of animals no value but where their reputations remain unthreatened by a movement that has since left them behind and rendered their «expertise» irrelevant — there are those who don't want an end to the killing, who continue to argue to other activists, to public officials, and anyone else who will still listen that saving animals instead of killing them is the darker of the two options.

Activists have started petitions and held a public protest against Ebell's role, and on Monday afternoon, the Sierra Club and several other groups were planning to project giant messages across the front of EPA headquarters.

But with Trump's inauguration it will be the beginning of the end for the Green Blob — that sinister cabal of corrupt politicians, UN - and EU - technocrats, bent scientists, shrill activists, rent - seeking corporatists, blood - sucking lawyers and gullible journalists which has held the world to ransom these last four decades by promoting the man - made climate change scare story and other, related environmental scams.

In recent years, other companies targeted by shareholder activists have promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase investments in renewable energy, use more sustainable ingredients and packaging, or hold discussions on implementing take - back policies for electronics recycling.

The young activists, representing a number of youth action groups including SustainUS, the Sierra Student Coalition, the Cascade Climate Network, and other American youth NGOs, kicked off the protest by holding banners in front of the cameras reading «Climate Disaster Ahead» and «Clean Energy Now.»

Greenpeace activists have no respect for what others hold sacred — whether it's Peru's Nazca lines or a Roman Catholic cross in Canada.

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»

Other examples include OPIRG Windsor's The ShakeUP campus station CJAM 99.1 FM which, in tribute to Rolly Marentette, last year replayed a 2013 interview held with the injured worker activist ahead of Day of Mourning — his message still so relevant.