Sentences with phrase «others activists called»

«Breakthrough» hailed by Democrats and others Activists called the announcement nothing short of monumental.

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Members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress and other digital rights activists are calling for a «day of action» on Feb. 11 when they hope to rouse the internet community into collectively speaking out against the NSA and the government's other intrusive surveillance tactics.
And it also sparked discussion about the validity of demands by black activists and others at a number of universities for what some have called «safe spaces» — that is, a space without intrusive or divisive elements like the media.
Activist groups like Open Doors and the Jubilee Campaign are calling for the president to take a firm stance against the Fulani and other groups like them.
About as hilarious as Black activists calling other Blacks «Uncle Toms» because of their disavowing Black hatred and criminality.
Some Haredi newspaper editorials, rabbis, and public activists have spoken out against the violence, calling it a violation of Torah, but others have not.
You call other people imbeciles, while you are probably in your mother's basement typing away on your activist blogs while your joint smolders to a nub.
However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.
I don't think you can legitimately call yourself an activist if you put your opinion out there but then get outraged that other people don't agree with your viewpoint or tactics.
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.
The organisations also backed the call on the President to step aside and go on another medical vacation to look after his health as canvassed by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), and other activists.
Using the mic check style of call and response made popular by the Occupy movement, Brown says he and other activists will stay night and day to pressure lawmakers to add the funds.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey is joining with other gun control activists to call on Congress to approve tough gun laws.
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.
Social media has allowed many of the campaigns to link up and support each other and barely a week passes without a message on Twitter calling for fellow activists to attend a protest somewhere in London.
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.
But these proposals hit a wall of legislative resistance, and when Carr and other activists came calling, Schneiderman was the best feasible option.
Housing Works, VOCAL - NY, Coalition for the Homeless and other activists continued to call on Gov. Cuomo to release the funds for the first 6,000 units of the State's supportive housing commitment.
The Supportive Housing Network of NY and other activists continued to call on State leaders to negotiate and finish the job.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other officials, anxious to avoid the violence that erupted in Ferguson after Officer Darren Wilson walked free, urged calm as activists called for demonstrators to converge at Times Square, Rockefeller Center and other landmarks.
At 11 a.m., Make the Road New York and other activists host a press conference followed by a march to call on de Blasio to end discriminatory school policing policies by eliminating the use of arrests and summons for misdemeanors and non-criminal violations in schools, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.
Are he and Clegg protecting each other, as activists from each side call for their heads as part of any deal?
This morning, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn gathered with other elected officials and community activists in front of the old Fulton Fish Market to call for a regional food market at the Seaport.
Also calling for Democratic unity is the Working Families Party, which organized rallies outside the district offices of IDC members on Wednesday, top officials from the Democratic National Committee, and a variety of other Democratic elected officials and activists.
Hang guessed that more anti-fracking activists — the so - called «fractivists» — support Sanders, but said many others are longtime fans of Clinton from her days as a U.S. senator representing the state.
«As we read today's Quinnipiac poll, more upstate New Yorkers support hydraulic fracturing; others will point to the overall numbers that are heavily skewed by New York City voters who enjoy the benefits of cheap natural gas but have bought into the fear tactics by so - called activists,» said the trade group's executive director, Karen Moreau.
Anji Malhotra, co-author of a study released by the University at Buffalo and Cornell law schools based on two years of research into Buffalo Police Department policing practices, joined other activists Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to call for action to be taken against what they called discriminatory policing practices.
An activist by conscience, Westwood often litters her designs with slogans and other political calls to action, though they are no less beautiful for it.
According to Byrne, and several other activists, many administrators are initially resistant to establishing GSAs, even though the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has encouraged them ever since 1993, when the department (then called the State Board of Education) recommended the establishment of GSAs across the state as one means of providing a supportive environment for LGBT students.
Children are More than Test Scores is a blog run by teacher Jesse Turner, called the «Walking Man» due to his passionate trekking for children from Connecticut to Washington, DC in 2011, and for a myriad of other activist activities fighting for public schools.
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.
In the video above, Titus appears on the Fox morning show Good Day New York with animal activist Cornelia Guest and two other dogs — «little treasures,» as she calls them, named Arabella and Nonny.
Like other animal activists, she has been called an extremist, a fanatic, a zealot.
Nor are so ‐ called show bred puppies any more high strung or hyper than other puppies, as animal rights activists and other opponents to show breeding insist.
Sadira is a cold - blooded assassin who has contracted with Ultratech to quiet whistleblowers, activists, politicians and any other enemies of the megacorporation who might prevent the artificial intelligence called ARIA from executing her plans for an evolved humanity.
On Sunday, October 15, dozens of protesters from the Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) and other local art and anti-gentrification activist groups converged on James Cohan Gallery's Chinatown location to object to what they are calling «racist art.»
A retrospective presented by the Jumex Museum elucidates the collective's progression from troublemakers to activist artists calling attention to the epidemic, which ultimately claimed two of its three members and countless others in the queer creative community.
Neighborhood activists called the work, among other things, «poverty porn».
But when I talk to students and others about forging a smooth path toward roughly 9 billion people seeking decent lives, and the underlying need for an aggressive and sustained energy quest, I always say don't look to those hallways full of gray suits — the fossils, as activists call them — for the breakthroughs.
But first, the Greens, so called «environmental NGOs» and other anti-nuclear activist groups will have to be persuaded to change their views.
Environmental activists and gun control advocates have been calling for colleges and other institutions to withdraw investments in oil companies and gun manufacturers.
Cruz's website belittles climate change activists and calls for an end to the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and all other sources and an end to the «regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.»
By the time I read Storms of my Grandchildren by NASA climate scientist Dr James Hansen and Science as a Contact Sport by Stephen Schneider in 2009, I was well aware that there was lots of other voices of journalists, writers, activists, and scientists calling for action on climate change besides Al Gore.
Elton John, Jon Bon Jovi, Hozier and WALK THE MOON among the world - renowned talent to join US Vice President and Climate Reality Chairman Al Gore lead round - the - clock call to action on Nov. 13 - 14 along with other climate experts & activists; celebrities & musicians
They join Elton John, Jon Bon Jovi, Hozier, WALK THE MOON and other world - renowned talent as Former US Vice President and Climate Reality Chairman Al Gore leads round - the - clock call to action on Nov. 13 - 14 with climate experts & activists; celebrities & musicians
There was no major climate march in Paris — it had been called off in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in the city, replaced by more quiet actions — but activists in other places around the world more than made up for it.
While environmental activists and some politicians claim «the debate is over» and call for immediate action to reduce man - made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact — too small to warrant concern — and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.
Push Europe, a campaign run jointly with other European youth organisations and activists, calling for increased action from European governments to take adequate action to stop climate change.
These and others join Ryan Reynolds, Jon Bon Jovi, Carole King, Vance Joy, Thirty Seconds to Mars, and other world - renowned talent as Former US Vice President and Climate Reality Chairman Al Gore leads round - the - clock call to action on December 5 - 6 with climate experts and activists; celebrities and musicians.
In 2007, the UN General Assembly approved language calling on nations to mandate that all shark fins be landed attached to the body of the shark, marking a major shift in policy and a huge victory for Arauz and other activists working to protect sharks globally.
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