Sentences with phrase «peace activist for»

Guest — Attorney Jim Lafferty is one of the leaders of the anti-Vietnam War movement and has remained a peace activist for five decades.

As a pioneering conceptual artist, performance artist, film - maker, poet, musician, writer and peace activist for over five decades, Yoko Ono (born 1933) has influenced several generations of artists, musicians and cultural workers across the globe.

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We worked with activists and First Nations in Telkwa, Cache Creek, Smithers, Princeton, Fernie, Iskut, Dease Lake, and throughout the Peace Region, and were able to shut down commercial coalbed methane everywhere in B.C. Dogwood's early support for Tahltan opposition to Shell's massive coalbed methane plan in the Sacred Headwaters led to a high - profile victory when Shell pulled out for good in 2012.

18-05-1952 The American singer and activist Paul Robeson performs for 40,000 people at a union - sponsored concert at the Peace Arch between Washington State and British Columbia.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

For Dear, a peace activist, any genuine spiritual ascent must be accompanied by a commitment to contemplative nonviolence, social justice and radical Christian discipleship.

Fithian is a grassroots activist in the global peace - oriented movement for social justice.

Among these are: A Season for Nonviolence; [29] the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and progressive multi-faith leaders from around the world; an annual Awakened World conference bringing together scientists, futurists, and spiritual activists; participation in the 1998 UNESCO Seminar on Religion and Peace, and the 1999 and 2004 Parliament of the World's Religions.

Today, that is largely forgotten, as all three recognize his greatness: progressives, as an activist for peace and social justice; conservatives, as a defender of the Natural Law and Biblical truth; and the U.S. government, as a symbol of national unity and American principles.

This fundamental debate between historic Christian theism and Enlightenment deism is one that activists can not ignore if we want to ground our search for peace and justice in Jesus» resurrection.

Civil rights activists had to sometimes disturb the peace in an effort to make room for real peace.

It was 1991, and the Madison, Wisconsin, policewoman needed treatment for a back injury - she'd been hoisting a stolen moped out of a car trunk; in the waiting room, Maples flipped through a copy of «Being Peace» by the Buddhist monk and activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

According to Yehezkel Landau, a religious peace activist, the conflict over the land of Israel - Palestine will be resolved only when each side recognizes the other «as a potential sibling and partner» in the struggle for liberation.

In the late 1990s the Chilean government, once again a democracy, responded to the demands of human rights activists by allowing the villa to be restored and converted into a peace park for quiet reflection on the horrors of authoritarianism.

Ever the activist, he marched to Selma, campaigned for peace in Vietnam, threw his weight into the pro-life cause, and created Evangelicals and Catholics Together to pave the way for Catholic - evangelical cooperation on the pastoral front.

Assume that 1982 brings everything peace activists could hope for.

But if it was unjust to link peace work and appeasement in the «40s, the suspicion was more understandable in the «60s, when some American antiwar activists made no effort to conceal their sympathies for an authoritarian regime in North Vietnam.

His prescription for world peace will make little appeal to a hyper - activist generation, but maybe he had something after all.

Bahrain center for Human Rights received Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize to international peace and human rights activists.

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While LRA leader Joseph Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, Ugandan civil society actors and peace activists were skeptical of the U.S. troop deployment to the country.

His Lt. Governor, Gloria Mattera, is a long time peace and single payer universal health care activist from Brooklyn who has often polled 20 % of the vote in her prior races for Borough President and City Council.

An infrastructure of union shop stewards, academics, the «peace movement», union - financed research and constituency activists which had sustained Labour's left in the early 1980s — and almost won the deputy leadership for Tony Benn — had all but disappeared over the following decades.

Currying favor with Dadey, who also happens to hold the No. 2 post in the state GOP, might the first step for Flanagan on the road to making peace with upstate GOPers — both local party leaders and grassroots activists.

Ellen Abbot took a closer look at Ursula Rozum, a 28 - year old activist who works for the Syracuse Peace Council and is running in the race for the newly redistricted 24th Congressional seat as the Green Party candidate.

A Niger Delta Human Rights Activist, Comrade Sam Ebolo on Thursday, August 16 stated that the only remedy for sustainable peace and economic growth in Nigeria...

«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.

Chinese officials, for instance, imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo in 2009 for posting his views on the Internet and then blocked news Web sites that covered the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honoring him last December.

Previously unannounced for security reasons, today's engagements will include a stop at the Eikon Centre in Lisburn, where she and Prince Harry will be meeting with youth peace activists.

This film is a compelling and provocative look at John Lennon's transformation from beloved musical artist to anti-war activist to iconic inspiration for peace that also reveals the true story of why and how the U.S. Government tried to silence him.

They will be joined by other artists and activists such as Alice Braga, Ananda Everingham, Anastacia, Ashton Kutcher, Avan Jogia, Becca, Bill and Melinda Gates, Cate Blanchett, Chelsea Islan, Christina Hendricks, Criolo, Daniel Craig, Diamond, Diego Luna, G.E.M., Gilberto Gil, James Chau, Jamie Oliver, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Winslet, UN Messenger of Peace Lang Lang, Liverpool Football Club captain Jordan Henderson and team mates, Lenine, Mia Maestro, Mafikizolo, Mads Mikkelsen, Mena Suvari, UNDP Champion Michelle Yeoh, Meryl Streep, Malala Yousafzai, Nazanin Boniadi, One Direction, Paloma Faith, Paul Wesley, Phoebe Tonkin, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Richard Branson, Robert Pattinson, Robert Redford, Rodrigo Santoro, Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Hawking, Sun Yang, UN Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder, Tom Hiddleston, Thanh Bui, UNICEF supporter Wagner Moura, Yemi Alade, and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for China Zhou Xun among others.

raising awareness and gain appreciation for the work of the children and their messages with local exhibitions of the artwork made by the young peace activists

Coelho is an outspoken activist for peace and social justice, and also supports the free distribution of his work.

A lifelong activist for peace and social justice, di Suvero has demonstrated a generous commitment to helping artists.

Presented at Tate Liverpool from 21 May to 30 August 2010; this exhibition reveals a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely held view of Picasso as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert.

Facilitated through Mierle Laderman Ukeles» «Peace Table,» this discussion invites artists and activists to share strategies for combating the ever - worsening threat of climate change.

Picasso: Peace and Freedom will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely - held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extroPeace and Freedom will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely - held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extropeace, challenging the widely - held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert.

Presented at Tate Liverpool from 21 May to 30 August 2010, this major exhibition of over 150 works will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist's life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert.

This is the first exhibition to reveal Picasso as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace in the post-War period.

There are hundreds of human rights activists and social workers who are not only speaking for human rights, but who are struggling to achieve their goals of education, peace and equality.

In 2004, for the very first time in its history, the Nobel Committee awarded its prestigious Peace Prize to an environmental activist.

Although both had been feminist writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet / novelist Jan Clausen didn't know each other very well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003, after which they gradually became better acquainted with each other's work.

As politicians copped - out of genuine climate action at the international climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large across the city.

As politicians cop - out on genuine climate action at the international climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large across the city.

Organized by 350.org, the non-profit founded by author and activist Bill McKibben, the San Francisco rally brought together some predictable allies, such as the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and the Berkeley - based Ecology Center, but it also included groups with broader aims, such as the National Organization for Women, Food Not Bombs and 100,000 Poets for Peace.

The highs and lows of their campaign are interspersed by commiseratory teas at Simpsons on The Strand over «indifferent fruit cake» rather than celebratory champagne and with a cameo performance by Lady Hale, playing Crystal MacMillan, activist and one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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This week, it was my honor to interview Louise Gomer Bangel, an educator, world traveler, social activist and founder of the Center for Peace Education and the Greater Cincinnati Center for Social and Emotional Learning.