Sentences with phrase «political coalition of groups»

Wilson hopes that such race - neutral proposals might become the basis for a new political coalition of groups pressing for economic and social reform.

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In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Other perspectives have been available: a veritable host of historians — Paul Kleppner, Robert Swierenga, Richard Jensen, and Ronald Formisano, to name only a few — have demonstrated that American political parties have always been coalitions of «ethnocultural» or «ethnoreligious» groups rather than economic or class - based alliances.

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

What is needed to make this a relevant proposal is a critical empirical analysis of the present situation in terms of whether there is any real likelihood of any class, group, or coalition of groups emerging as the agency of both ideological and political change.

For many, this suspicion appeared to be confirmed in the following election year, when some of the broadcasters formed active coalitions with the «new right» politicians and political groups with a view to countering some of the liberals» moral and political advances of the 1960s.

A coalition of human rights groups, including Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International wrote to the home secretary saying: «We are very concerned that new measures, made in good faith but in a heated political environment, will overextend powers in ways that would be susceptible to abuse, restrict legitimate, free communication and expression and undermine people's privacy.»

King and Smith characterize these two polarizing schools of thought as durable coalitions of political actors, social groups, and governing bodies, drawing on the civil rights messaging initiated by Martin Luther King, Junior and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

A coalition of more than 100 groups from across the political spectrum has formed to oppose a convention to develop possible changes to the state Constitution.

To make an impact in the forthcoming 2019 general election, therefore, what the youths urgently need is the creation of innovative ideas that electorates can buy into, building of alliances / coalition with various pressure groups and being ecumenical in movement with already existing coalitions or political parties.

Clinton has hired two political operatives from her 2016 presidential campaign to help manage Onward Together, the project she founded this spring with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to fund and support a coalition of Democratic groups led by activists and organizers.

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A coalition of more than 100 groups from across the political spectrum has formed a coalition to oppose a convention to develop possible changes to the state Constitution.

With a focus on addressing income inequality for 2014, a coalition of political action groups gathered Tuesday at noon at the State Capitol State Street entrance for the 24th annual People's State of the State rally.

Notable donors: Voice of Teachers for Education Committee, a group associated with education union NYSUT; Coalition for Public Charter Schools, a pro-charter school political action committee; Neighborhood Preservation PAC, a fund representing building owners around the state; New York State ALF - CIO, a state trade union; Angela Battaglia, Vito Lopez's longtime girlfriend; Councilman Stephen Levin.

Hedge fund managers and executives have made nearly $ 40 million in contributions to political candidates and committees in New York since 2000, according to a paper from the Hedge Clippers, an online group backed by a coalition of labor unions and community organizations.

The surprise announcement, rumored during most of the weekend, comes as Senate Republicans face stiff political headwinds this cycle — including an effort from a coalition of labor groups and Democrats to oust them from power.

A coalition of political parties is a group of people with a set of shared goals that present a list of candidates and a electoral program to try to win a set of given elected positions.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

Fair Elections for New York, the coalition of groups pushing for a public matching system for political campaigns, today announced it will begin three - week long effort of rallies and other public events across the state to push the issue.

But at a press conference organized by a political pressure group, Coalition of Democratic Governance (CDG) in Accra yesterday, Mr Motrye, a Ghanaian US based GPS Expert, said, the GPS project was launched by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1973 for use by the United States military originally Navstar GPS.

The largest donations to political candidates or groups was a $ 6,000 consulting fee paid to the Unity Coalition, a political group on Buffalo's East Side, followed by $ 2,260 for Byron Brown for Mayor and $ 1,360 for print advertisements and donations to the Grassroots political organization, a longtime supporter of the mayor.

Legislator pulls together unlikely coalition to condemn Journal News gun map BY DYLAN SKRILOFF The Journal News editorial board and publisher Janet Hasson were condemned Friday, January 4 by law enforcement, a bipartisan group of legislators, County Clerk Paul Piperato and the five major political parties of Rockland County, for their publication of an interactive -LSB-...]

And then left for the 2008 campaigns to be the Political Communications coordinator for the Change to Win Federation, a coalition of labor groups that was instrumental in getting President Obama and many other Democrats elected.

In response, a coalition of groups, including Korean Americans United for Equality, Dari Project, Korean Americans for Political Advancement and the Asian Pride Project, denounced Jung's stance.

The National Housing Taskforce is a sectoral and political coalition convened by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Housing and Planning.

All those in the insolvent group called coalition are all beneficiaries of Okorocha's political successes in Imo.»

The group was created by a «coalition of concerned citizens» and the page shows support for other political - themed groups on the social network such as Ruben Diaz Jr. for Mayor in 2013 and Albany County Young Democrats.

Roland Watson, The Times» political editor, reports (#) that a group of Tory peers are ready to disrupt the Coalition's legislative programme if Cameron and Clegg press on with their plans for a largely elected Upper House:

Joe Pinion, 34, is African - American, founder of the Conservative Color Coalition, a spokesman for climate change advocacy group RepublicEn, and a prominent political commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Radio.

This is the first time Balter has run for a political office, although she has become a recognizable face in Central New York as an organizer of CNY Solidarity Coalition, a grassroots group of activists that formed to oppose the policies of President Donald Trump after he was elected.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined a coalition of labor, business and political groups urging New Yorkers to vote yes on Election Day on Proposition 1, a referendum on a casino plan that would bring to the state new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue for public schools.

Adebayo said «All Progressives Congress is a coalition of different political groups and interests and this is the first time there will be a serious gubernatorial contest under the platfor;, the second term of Ogbeni Aregbesola came at the formative stage of the party hence every interested individual should be allowed to put whatever ideas they have for the growths of the State on the table and allow the party to decide who flies its flags according to the laid down rules of the party's constitution; the zoning should be outrightly jettisoned as it is alien to our party's constitution».

The group which is a coalition of 42 registered political parties vowed to cooperate with INEC to ensure it fulfil its mandate in the interest of the nation's democracy.

He was subsequently picked up by the CID at the International Press Centre in Accra on Tuesday during a press conference by a group of opposition political parties known as the Inter-Party Coalition for National Sovereignty, who are kicking against the Ghana - US Defence Cooperation agreement ratified by Parliament last Friday.

Others are: the Christian Awareness Mission Group (CAMG), Passengers Fundamental Rights Group (PATRGIA), The Political Awareness Group (TIPAG), Centre for Social Justice and Equity of Nigeria (CESJEN), Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS), Veteran Groups for Operation Clean Crusade (VGOCC), Apata - Aiyeraye Social Political Volunteer Group (ASPVG) and De Mainstream Independent Group (DIG).

Tenants PAC is essentially the political arm of the Real Rent Reform Campaign, which is an umbrella organization of pro-tenant groups, including the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, that advocates for tenant protection legislation.

He was picked up at the International Press Centre in Accra today [Tuesday] during a press conference by a group of opposition political parties known as the Inter-Party Coalition for National Sovereignty, who are kicking against the Ghana - US Defence Cooperation agreement ratified by Parliament last Friday.

Some of Valesky's IDC colleagues are facing more push - back — such as losing key political endorsements — from fellow Democrats who are angry the breakaway group forged a coalition with Senate Republicans to jointly run the upper chamber.

Proponents of the gene protection initiative — a diverse coalition of environmental, animal - rights, and political groups that collected 111,000 signatures to bring the proposal to a vote — say their fight isn't over.

American political parties used to be shifting coalitions of interest groups.

The outcome provided advocates with not only a high - profile laboratory for the idea, but also fresh evidence that a political strategy aimed at fusing support from African - American urban leaders to a coalition of Republican groups can work under certain circumstances.

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

Political scientists attribute the groups» state - level successes partly to a rearrangement of political coalitions around education in statehouses, and to a favorable policy climate created by the Obama adminiPolitical scientists attribute the groups» state - level successes partly to a rearrangement of political coalitions around education in statehouses, and to a favorable policy climate created by the Obama adminipolitical coalitions around education in statehouses, and to a favorable policy climate created by the Obama administration.

They are part of the international Open Wing Alliance and have collaborated with the group by sharing relevant information and coordinating campaigns against French - based multinationals.132 Recently, they helped found a coalition of 26 French animal charities focused on political change.

Sandra Steingraber, winner of a Heinz Foundation award, decided to use it to help a newly formed coalition of six environmental and political groups that are working to keep hydrofracking from being allowed in the state.

But the most interesting part of the segment is an interview with Joe Lucas, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electricity.

The Supremes» interpretation of the Fifth Amendment in Kelo v. New London has had an inflammatory effect on bloggers in the past few days — and not a few political action groups (hence The Castle Coalition's graphic).