Sentences with phrase «petition campaign»

The two lawyers could earn spots on the ballot only through a rarely successful petition campaign.

A campaign from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has called for the government to employ a larger workforce to ease the strain, prompting an online petition campaigning for change.

Some political critics in Ireland called on Kenny to cancel this year's meeting and a number of petition campaigns urged a boycott, including one from former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, an Irish American.

An international online petition campaign at has been launched in 10 languages world wide to stop the consumption of dog meat, where some groups estimate more than 2 million dogs are raised and killed for food at dog farms in South Korea every year.

They've launched a consumer petition campaign called, «Get Plastic Off My Face And Out Of My Water Now!»

But those who run these email petition campaigns don't seem to be deeply bothered by the ineffectiveness of their chosen tool - probably because email petitions are still the best way for them to build their own list, regardless of whether anyone in power ever sifts through them and reacts accordingly.

Allison — Normally I'd write a much longer answer but since I'm in the middle of this pink slime petition campaign, let me point you to one of the best resources on the Internet for people getting started in trying to improve school food on a local level.

Press release 17 February 2013 (click here to download as pdf) Click here for Save the Children's press release, report and petition campaign Media coverage: Guardian (15 February), PDF 18 February: Daily Mail — Guardian — Daily Telegraph — Daily Mirror JPEG, Guardian (19...

When I first broke the story here about 540 Meals, the new McDonald's documentary intended for use in schools, I could never have imagined I'd still be writing about it three weeks later - or that I'd be spearheading a 70,000 person petition campaign... [Continue reading]

By comparison, two - term incumbent Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican from the North Country, boasted Monday that she had about 6,400 signatures from GOP voters on petitions her campaign filed with the state Board of Elections.

The nonprofit is open about funding the Desert Trails petition campaign, including leasing a five - bedroom home to serve as the parent union's headquarters.

AFP state chapters have a history of advocating for charter schools, conducting petition campaigns and buying radio ads targeting state lawmakers to enact legislation that would increase the number of charter schools.

Instead, it has ignited chaos and controversy in the two communities where petition campaigns have been tried.

Parents from 24th Street Elementary in Los Angeles collect signatures for a parent - trigger petition campaign in January 2013.

No parents have launched a full - fledged parent - trigger campaign outside Southern California, the headquarters for the two advocacy groups devoted to helping parents organize around petition campaigns.

After a firestorm of angry protests and a grassroots petition campaign, PayPal has reversed its previous ban on using the online payment method to sell ebooks that contain themes of rape, incest, or bestiality.

Pershing Square Restoration Society petition campaign to preserve the park's historic monuments.

There has been public outcry since the Latics were first linked with Evans and an online petition campaigning for the 26 - year - old not to be signed had 22,500 signatures by early Monday morning.

Through rallies, trips to Albany and online petition campaigns, Yonkers came together to fight for our schools.

Last fall, during my (ultimately successful) petition campaign against a misleading McDonald's «nutrition education» video intended for classroom use, I also told you about another protest going on against the company's in - school marketing.

Ron Silver, a state senator from Miami, was leading that petition campaign, which he recalls had 100,000 signatures, enough to startle the Legislature and spook the NRA.

A petition campaign is calling on ASDA and Nestlé to own up to the customers they misled with a follow - up email, but this has so far met with refusal.

Recent awareness - based social media campaigns, like Kony 2012 and the Houston launched anti- «pink slime» petition campaign of Bettina Elias Siegel, who blogs at The Lunch Tray, illustrate a real organizing potential for the internet.

For nine days, Jamie Gilson led a group of residents in a petition campaign.

We are receiving widespread support for our «no promotion, cheaper formula» petition campaign.»

Despite New Yorkers» clamoring for comprehensive campaign finance reform, as shown by polls, petition campaigns, and countless op - eds and editorials, the legislature did nothing to address the crisis of corruption in Albany this year.

The settlement puts to rest a petition campaign initiated in February seeking a similar outcome.

The rift widened when she waged a primary against state Sen. Theresa Gerratana in 2016 and then tried a petitioning campaign.

«We're going to count on his completely to engineer a petition campaign that can get Carl into the Republican primary and also help petition him onto a third party line, if necessary.

The Western New York Businessman did not get enough support at the state GOP convention last month to secure a spot in the primary and mounted the petition campaign to make it happen anyway.

On Tuesday, after he announced the petition campaign, Astorino rejected the premise that his opposition to the Common Core was related to a national movement of Conservatives and Tea Party leaders against the standards.

We are planning a series of informational sessions and a petition campaign as a show of community involvement in a lead up to the introduction of the resolution for a town board vote.

«The problem with the commission is that they put out quite nice press releases, but they are not always able to follow up,» says Bart Destrooper of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, who led a petition campaign calling for reform of the Framework program.

The petition campaign was the first test of a new state «parent trigger» law that allows parents to force sweeping change at low - performing schools, including shifting to independently run, publicly financed charters.

The law, formally called the Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, enables a majority of parents at a low - performing school to force a major overhaul through a petition campaign, with reform options ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to converting the traditional public school into a charter.

Every successful parent union had the backing of the Los Angeles - based Parent Revolution, the nonprofit group formed to promote the law, teach parents how to organize into unions and fund their petition campaigns.

The Desert Trails Parent Union ran its petition campaign with the guidance and financial backing of Parent Revolution, a Los Angeles nonprofit formed to help parents use the trigger law.

Rose added that parents at three additional schools won changes without using a petition campaign — most recently at West Athens Elementary.