Sentences with phrase «other advocates rallied»

Public school parents and other advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall on Thurs., Dec. 7 to call on the city to increase the level of...

At 9 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, members of the Central Park 5 and other advocates rally to call on the New York state Legislature to pass a bill that would require police to implement eyewitness identification reform and to record the entirety of suspect interrogations, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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While NationBuilder and Rally remain bipartisan, Bloomberg reports that federal candidates and other political advocates have spent more than $ 46 million this election cycle on party - specific tech sites, including the Republican - leaning Targeted Victory and the Democratic - leaning Blue State Digital and Bully Pulpit Interactive.

The rallying cry became the «inerrancy of the Scriptures» (the doctrine that defined for its advocates the limits of the post-fundamentalist, «neo-evangelical» coalition which found expression in the National Association of Evangelicals, the Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today, and other institutions of the movement).

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. and other elected officials rally for the inclusion of the Fair Fares proposal in the fiscal 2019 New York City budget, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Crowley, other Council members, advocates and service providers rallied at City Hall last week.

Only one day before massive rallies for universal pre-K and charter schools, other advocates say they've gathered evidence for potentially another lawsuit for more state aid for schools.

At 11 a.m., Sen. Jose Peralta, Rep. Joseph Crowley and other elected officials will be joined by immigrant rights advocates and immigrants to rally in support of Peralta's bill to provide undocumented New Yorkers access to drivers licenses, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 1 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater NY, other elected officials, and construction workers and advocates rally to demand greater safety measures on construction sites across New York City, Broadway and Barclay Street at City Hall Park, Manhattan.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, will be joined by transit advocates from the Bus Turnaround Coalition and other elected officials for a press conference and rally to demand better bus service in the five boroughs.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, RWDSU and others hold a press conference and rally to announce the results of a union vote at SJS Car Wash, 1650 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn.

Also at 10 a.m., the Asian American Federation will partner with the Biking Public Project, Transportation Alternatives, and other advocates to hold the E-Bike Rally to Protect Immigrant Food Delivery Workers to protest de Blasio and the NYPD's planned enforcement of electric bicycle regulations starting in January, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

All the while, elected officials, advocates, service providers, and others will be lobbying, holding press conferences and rallies, writing op - eds, and seeking to influence the budget process to their desired outcomes.

«You as an entity, you have other stores,» said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, who attended the rally along with Councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Levine, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat and Public Advocate Letitia James.

The fight over Cuomo's education agenda will resume Thursday morning with a rally attended by Mulgrew, other union advocates and elected officials who will call on the state to fulfill its Campaign for Fiscal Equity obligations.

One day before massive rallies for universal pre-K and charter schools, other advocates said Monday they have gathered evidence for potentially another lawsuit for more state aid for schools.

And she's also participated in the Women's March, a nationwide women - led rally that advocates for women's rights, as well as other hot button issues such as immigration reform and LGBTQ rights

Springer (bottom l.) joined other survivors and advocates at a protest rally to fight for the passage of the Child Victims Act outside Zurich Insurance Group in Lower Manhattan.

Other charter leaders and advocates who attended the rally said privately that they thought that Tuesday could not have gone better for them optically, but offered only generalized press release - type language on the record, to avoid seeming like they were gloating over a rally that overshadowed the mayor's.

And they would need to identify vocal supporters and work with them to rally others to advocate for change.

ATLANTA, GA — On Thursday, March, 15, more than 150 charter school students, parents, school leaders, teachers, advocates and other organizations that support school choice will rally at the Georgia Capitol in support of Georgia House Bill 787 and the inclusion of funding for HB 430 in the 2019 state budget.

But at the very moment that the children of the land face certain defeat, parents, teachers, the teacher's union (known as the Hartford Federation of Teachers) and other public education advocates rally together to speak out on behalf of their children, the school, the importance of public education and what is right.

Joining ISTA's rally were members of Indiana's other large statewide teachers union, the Indiana Federation of Teachers, and other advocates for public education.

On the other hand, added Schuster — citing a thesis being circulated at the time by Chester Finn, then a faculty member at Vanderbilt — it might be possible for education advocates to rally around a new agenda, one powerful enough to attract widespread support and perhaps even bring federal policy makers back into the fold.

NEA's historic campaign rallied parents, students, educators, civil rights groups, and other public education advocates — both Republicans and Democrats — to email more than 1 million letters and make more than 80,000 phone calls to senators in Washington and flooded their offices back home.

Over the next week, home visiting and other early childhood advocates are expected to rally around «Strong Families Act of 2017,» a bipartisan Senate bill reauthorizing MIECHV introduced last week by Senators Chuck Grassley and Bob Menendez.