Sentences with phrase «other activists last»

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The study found that, during the last six years, foriegn journalists have been assaulted while reporting on land protests in Zhejiang and an activist's trial in Sichaun, among other incidents.

Food activist Nancy Huehnergarth tweeted this troubling Dairy Reporter item last Friday, which indicates that the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) are asking the Food & Drug Administration for permission to add aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to the flavored milk sold in U.S. schools without certain front - label disclosures.

Last week, Susan and Lucy, along with other residents, teamed up with housing activists to call on councils to bring them back to London and to investigate the suitability of Boundary House as accommodation for families.

Mark Viverito sought to push Prashak's appointment through last week, but it was postponed after party activists complained that he and other candidates hadn't been vetted.

But last year, challenger Bob Turner took almost 40 percent of the vote in his battle against six - term incumbent Weiner in a year in which Tea Party activists and others opposed to President Barack Obama's policies exacted a heavy toll on Democrats across the country, costing them control of the House.

Others in attendance included a host of other recognizable faces, including Rafael Alequin - Martez, a blogger / activist / journalist who got into a dust up with Pedro Espada's son during the state senator's campaign last year.

And the other — Keith Ellison, a congressman from Minnesota — won Sanders» endorsement and thus the backing of the progressive activists who flocked to the Vermont senator during last year's primary campaign.

Last year, James Hodgkinson, a left - wing activist, opened fire on Republican lawmakers practicing for an upcoming congressional baseball game, seriously injuring GOP Rep. Steve Scalise and several others.

Azulay, Judson and others with ties to Central New York are among 52 environmental activists who signed a letter to Cuomo last week urging him to let FitzPatrick close.

The Assembly member — who said he is interested in seeing the elimination of backdoor borrowing and term limits enacted in both houses, among other changes — has spent the last five years campaigning with Con Con advocates like SUNY New Paltz professor Gerald Benjamin and government reform activist Bill Samuels, participating in countless town halls and panel discussions to help get the word out.

Some, for instance, find much to admire in the simultaneously milquetoast and monstrous Million Dollar Baby, which I've always read as Eastwood's last laugh at disability - rights activists for a failed lawsuit involving an inaccessible inn he ran years prior; others dismiss Gran Torino, his most watchable film since Unforgiven, as a rare spot of trash.

Other speakers included actors Nick Offerman and Maria Bello, writer Lena Waithe, documentary filmmaker Bonni Cohen (who co-directed «An Inconvenient Sequel,» which premiered at Sundance last year), Lakota activist Sage Trudell and Princess Firyan of Jordan.

Jason Andrew has been a longtime activist in the Bushwick artists» community, which burst into unanticipated coherence and visibility last April at the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, with the three - evening run of In The Use of Others for the Change, produced by Andrew's nonprofit organization, Norte Maar.

As I wrote last week, just because bio-gas is made from biodegradable sources doesn't mean it has no impact — and some activists are increasingly worried that demand for biogas will eventually lead to deforestation and other resource depletion issues.

San Francisco's Nob Hill became a hive of green activity last week, as city planners, activists, academics, public officials, businessmen, students, indigenous leaders and others gathered to discuss issues ranging from veganism as a strategy to end

It got a lot of coverage; last year they occupied Mayor Newsom's spot and activists in other cities joined in; I like London's the ping pong Park,

Nebraskans, climate activists, and a slew of others took to the White House last summer to stage a popular protest.

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.

Over the last three years, you and nearly 40,000 other Earthjustice activists submitted public comments that informed the current rule.

In seeking to sue ExxonMobil and other oil and gas companies for contributing to climate change, San Francisco hired the one lawyer who has spent the last decade conspiring with activists to try and figure out a way to blame individual companies for global warming.

One of the study's co-authors is none other than Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the hard left activist who advised the Pope on his eco Encyclical last year and who was responsible for inventing the random and bogus 2 ° C target so often cited by policymakers to justify more green taxes and regulations.

Some scientists were reacting after Trump, among other moves, confirmed last week that he will nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to the lead the Environmental Protection Agency, which he has repeatedly sued and claimed pursued an «activist agenda.»

Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states» attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the climate change agenda under fraud and racketeering laws.

Clinton, who weighed in on the Dakota Access pipeline for the first time last week in a noncommittal statement, finds herself torn between labor unions on one side, who want the jobs created by the project, and Native American activists and environments on the other side, who say the pipeline would pollute water and violate sacred land.

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.

Seems that the last straw was a series of cyber attacks on Google and others trying to steal proprietary information, and trying to read the gmail accounts of human rights activists.

Spearheaded by Stoneman Douglas student activists, the town halls aim to keep the issue of gun violence at the forefront after hundreds of thousands of people marched last month in Washington and other cities, demanding stricter regulations on weapons.

His troubling experience may be different from last month's mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, but he and other students have the same goal as the Parkland activists.