Sentences with phrase «out as activists»

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

But May Day 2018 turned out to be a day of violent clashes between police and protesters, as both left - wing and right - wing activists took to the streets with fire and fists, from Paris to Istanbul.

It rarely pushes out a CEO the way some other activists do, and it often sticks around, often for years, as transformations occur.

Activist hedge fund Third Point, which owns about 6 % of Yahoo's stock, pointed out that Thompson did not have a computer science degree, as many had thought, but a mere accounting degree.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

Shapiro started his career as a syndicated conservative columnist at the age of 17 but wrote a critique in February of Parkland activists like Hogg and Gonzalez, pointing out their youth and saying, «Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors.

As student activists walked out of class Friday morning, they did so demanding passage of a gun control requirement that the Parkland school shooter passed in order to acquire his gun.

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

In this episode we discuss the ancient history of debt cancellation, the untold life of Jesus as an economic justice activist, and more largely Professor Hudson's forthcoming book,»... and forgive them their debts,» out in summer...

The revelation that the Tatts board considered options including a demerger will be of little comfort to activist investors, such as Sandon Capital, which has called for the lucrative lotteries business to be spun out off Tatts.

About 60 survivors — and student activists — born out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled to the infamous Columbine High School in Colorado as part of the Vote for Our Lives rally.

About 60 survivors — and student activists — born out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled to the infamous Columbine High School in Colorado as part of the Vote for Our...

The truth is the social gospel has become its own gospel... leaving out Jesus and salvation and becoming a cynical secular movement who believes the end justifies the means... including Obama's work as «community activist».

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

Christian activist imprisoned by North Korea speaks out as Jimmy Carter brings home friend Aijalon Gomes.

Pro-sod author Leigh Rutledge describes the attack in her book The Gay Decades, June 16, A fist fight broke out at a Philadelphia playhouse when ten gay activists interrupted a lecture by David Rueben and denounced him as a criminal for his views on male gay.

Pro-sod author Leigh Rutledge describes the attack in her book The Gay Decades, June 16, A fist fight broke out at a Philadelphia playhouse when ten gay activists interrupted a lecture by D.r. David Rueben and denounced him as a criminal for his views on male gay.

It is the keystone of many Eastern religions, as Northrop points out, but is not as evident in a practical and activist Western culture.

But Reed, who formerly led the Christian Coalition, charges that the controversy around calls for abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest --- he says anti-abortion activists generally support abortions to save a mother's life - has been blown out of proportion by Democrats and liberals who want to paint the GOP as extremist.

The world views Christianity as more of an angry political activist movement than a spiritual organization devoted to handing out hope and healing to a hurting world.

(Check out my past posts on gender and sexuality, as well as several other «follow Fridays» for links to LGBTQ writers, ministers, and activists.)

Schillebeecks, the Dutch Catholic theologian, developing the theme «The New Testament Churches as Exodus Communities» 13 points out that N.T. Churches were not «activist» churches.

Nutrition activists have been trying since 1994 to get soft drinks and junk food out of the reach of kids such as Vincent, who may find snacks and soda for sale in their cafeteria, vending machines and school stores.

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

Small wonder the poor make poor food choices and suffer obesity, when race - baiting activists in and out of government are labeling the promotion of deferred gratification as a racist cultural bias.

As for Texas, food blogger and school nutrition activist, Bettina Elias Siegel pointed out that the call for cupcake amnesty was unnecessary since the ban on junk food in Texas public schools was lifted more than a decade ago.

Intended for use by policy - makers, national breastfeeding committees, breastfeeding advocates, women's health activists and others working for public health in the community, the Resource sets out why breastfeeding in the context of HIV has never been as safe as it is today.

In support of these lawmakers» efforts and to express our own dismay — as mothers, consumers and food activists — regarding these developments, Nancy, Barbara and I have launched a Change.org petition asking Congress, President Obama and his administration to to keep Chinese - processed chicken out of school meals and other child nutrition programs, and to prevent the importation of Chinese - raised and - slaughtered poultry.

They should also reach out to prominent online voices early, building relationships with relevant bloggers and Twitterers just as they would with local officeholders, party activists and journalists.

In fact, it's usually more effective to print them out and hand - deliver them, particularly as part of a visit from a lobbyist or citizen activist.

I've been invited to make speeches and share my experience as a very successful activist because — it's sounds very over the top, but this is a fact — every time I've stepped out and done my thing with protests it's been 100 % results.

Neither is as effective as it could be without the other: Obama's perceived failures may demoralize many on the Left and make it harder to recruit and energize activists, but Democrats» inability to turn out their supporters in 2009 and 2010 helped create the very conditions that now force him to give in to the Tea Party types again and again.

Again, social media didn't cause the Tunisian Revolution, but they enabled it — without the ability of a small number of activists to pass along shocking news and imagery from the first wave of protests, they might have fizzled out as so many street demonstrations in so many countries have in the past.

Conservative and libertarian activists are on the warpath, and their most important targets may turn out to be Republican leaders seen as apostates from the cause.

Because of the highly competitive primary, Democrats have sought out edges such as endorsements from activist organizations to boost their profiles and candidacies in the bid to take on Faso.

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon urged Democrats on Saturday to carve out an identity apart from just opposition to the president and run «bluer Democrats» in 2018, as she herself mulls a primary challenge to Cuomo.

She arranged a public meeting to discuss options for a memorial, attended by around 800 people, and settled on the idea of a statue as an appropriate memorial, pointing out that there were very few statues of female politicians and activists in Parliament.

The issue, the activist said, is the party machine — designed to take people and «spit them out as corporate kind of manifestations, as representatives of the billionaire.»

cut international development spending and Labour activists go completely ballistic cut ID cards and get attacked as soft on terror, having wasted billions and being weak cut public sector jobs and have a winter of discontent pull out of Afghanistan and really annoy the Americans

AAN may have carried out «grassroots organizing,» but a crucial section of the network's tax return shows the money for that organizing didn't come from grassroots sources such as local activists or small dollar donors.

As the pro Biafran protests grow out of proportion by the day, the Inspector - General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has issued a stern warning to MASSOB and IPOB activists to stop threatening public peace or face the full weight of the law.

As founder Jeffrey Yoo Warren laid out in a crowd - pleasing presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum conference last week, the group helps local activists assemble $ 100 kits that will let them take extremely detailed photographs of a given area using a consumer - grade digital camera hung from a kite or balloon suspended as high as several thousand feet in the aiAs founder Jeffrey Yoo Warren laid out in a crowd - pleasing presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum conference last week, the group helps local activists assemble $ 100 kits that will let them take extremely detailed photographs of a given area using a consumer - grade digital camera hung from a kite or balloon suspended as high as several thousand feet in the aias high as several thousand feet in the aias several thousand feet in the air.

Tom Watson has renewed his war of words with Len McCluskey as he hit out at the union boss for urging Labour activists to oust MPs critical of Jeremy Corbyn.

Grechen Shirley said she and other members of activist groups known as «pop ups» had worked for Democrat Christine Pellegrino's successful state Assembly election, which Schaffer sat out, and planned fundraisers for Democratic county legislative candidates.

A lifelong third - party activist and veteran of Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1972 presidential campaign on the long - forgotten People's Party ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political career.

Tom Watson has renewed his war of words with Len McCluskey as he hit out at the union boss for urging Labour activists to oust MPs critical of...

Of course, many groups and politicians do little but ask and ask and ask, and as I discussed in the section on list - building and list maintenance, that's a quick way to burn out casual supporters and hard - core activists alike.

The race for City Councilwoman Helen Sears» (D - Jackson Heights) seat suffered its first casualty Tuesday as Con Ed spokesman and community activist Alfonso Quiroz dropped out of the race, claiming it was too difficult to compete with the incumbent.

(CNN)- Newt Gingrich is a one - state wonder who is unlikely to play out as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney sought by some tea party activists, one of the movement's driving forces said Sunday.