Sentences with phrase «other activists met»

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 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

Not exact matches

NFRD is a unique opportunity to meet other student food waste activists, hear from prominent speakers in the movement to end food waste, and bond with your FRN chapter.

This White House invitation (sent through their Office of Public Engagement) is a classic example of blogger / online activist relations — they can't exactly give us exclusive information or the other usual goodies we online communicators use to entice online opinion leaders, but they CAN give us a seat in a meeting room in the White House complex, which is pretty damn cool all around.

Inspired by Saturday's address by Pope Francis at the third World Meeting of Popular Movements — a meeting hosted by the Vatican that brought together delegates representing the poor, unemployed and others struggling at the margins of society — longtime antiwar activist and former gubernatorial candidate Brian P. Moore of Florida yesterday endorsed Rocky De La Fuente's longshot bid for the presMeeting of Popular Movements — a meeting hosted by the Vatican that brought together delegates representing the poor, unemployed and others struggling at the margins of society — longtime antiwar activist and former gubernatorial candidate Brian P. Moore of Florida yesterday endorsed Rocky De La Fuente's longshot bid for the presmeeting hosted by the Vatican that brought together delegates representing the poor, unemployed and others struggling at the margins of society — longtime antiwar activist and former gubernatorial candidate Brian P. Moore of Florida yesterday endorsed Rocky De La Fuente's longshot bid for the presidency.

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.

Ono and Lennon, along with a couple of dozen other anti fracking activists, attempted to deliver a letter to Governor Cuomo, asking for a meeting.

At 9:30 a.m., actor James Cromwell joins We Are Seneca Lakes and other activists outside ConEd's shareholder meeting to call for end to fracked gas infrastructure expansion, 4 Irving Pl., Manhattan.

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.

Most of the meeting consisted of PSC reps hearing and taking notes on statements from public officials, residents, activists and other local leaders and residents.

Given Cuomo's pride in his 2015 directive that led to regulations interpreting sex nondiscrimination provisions of the state Human Rights Law to protect New Yorkers based on their gender identity and expression, the administration's commitment to going the step further to get those reforms codified in law cheered transgender activists at that meeting and others briefed on what took place.

Bishop and other GOP legislators expressed no such concerns, of course, when Tea Party activists shouted down politicians during town hall meetings over Obamacare, or showed up armed at rallies to protest gun control.

They met at a breakfast event as community boards, housing activists, preservations, elected officials, and others consider the de Blasio administration's ambitious rezoning plans, which have received quite a bit of pushback so far.

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

The conservative firebrand is also planning to meet with several state lawmakers and other Republican activists amid reports that she is weighing a presidential bid.

In the North West, the Left suffered from the decision by renegade Unite activist John Wiseman to resign as an NPF representative from the North West regional party (though he had failed to attend the crucial final meeting of the NPF in 2014) in order to stand against the agreed Left slate alongside one other candidate.

«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.

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.

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It's in San Francisco that we meet other fiery, passionate young people yearning to find some sense of community, including Roma Guy (Emily Skeggs as a youth and Mary - Louise Parker as an adult) who becomes a women's activist and is married to Diane (Fiona Dourif and Rachel Griffith), a nurse who stepped to the forefront to take care of AIDS patients when the epidemic hit.

Maud divides her time between the laundry and her new activist friends, including outspoken pharmacist Edith Ellyn, portrayed with suitable vaunts and conviction from the ever irrefutable Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, The King's Speech), she also meets Inspector Arthur Steed (Brendan Gleeson), who heads an investigation to quell the suffragette movement utilizing modernistic surveillance cameras, and other underhand tactics.

Hotels and other public venues are frequently pressured to not rent meeting rooms to activists, who note that they have also been intimidated and followed by security officers.

Monday, August 1: Buffalo Community Activists & Clergy to Host Emergency Town Hall Meeting to Address Educational Crisis Community groups co-hosting meeting; Northeast Charter Schools Network, clergy leaders, the Buffalo Black Lives Matter chapter and others toMeeting to Address Educational Crisis Community groups co-hosting meeting; Northeast Charter Schools Network, clergy leaders, the Buffalo Black Lives Matter chapter and others tomeeting; Northeast Charter Schools Network, clergy leaders, the Buffalo Black Lives Matter chapter and others to attend

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

IT is rare indeed to chance upon that hybrid artist / activist / community organizer: that gem of a person who not only successfully runs their own practice, developing thgeir work as a formidable artist, but also finds time to initiate and organize community meetings and projects on the side, supporting scores of other creative types on the up - and - up in the process.

During COP and PrepCon meetings CAN activists send a daily lobbying newsletter, ECO, to all diplomatic delegates and the media with full access to U.N. facilities that are closed to all other NGOs.

To become an Activist Council member, individuals must complete a full - day training session designed to bring new activists up to speed on current reproductive health, rights, and justice issues, review sexual and reproductive health care services offered at PPNYC, learn important messaging skills, and meet other New Yorkers passionate about protecting people's access to health care.