Sentences with phrase «put on the advocacy»

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The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products on Amazon's website in June and found that Amazon (amzn) put reference prices, or list prices, on about 46 % of them.

AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill is a rare opportunity for AWEA members and others who want to help advance wind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal level.

On the other side of the ledger, an oil spill in Burrard Inlet would put at risk industries, including tourism, real estate and agriculture, that together employ over 200,000 people, according to Vancouver - based CRED (Conversations for Responsible Economic Development), a non-profit research and advocacy group.

In comparison, gun control advocates are motivated by more abstract notions of reducing gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies by engaging more actively in advocacy work, which could make the gun control movement feel more relatable.

Carlson's advocacy may have emboldened her players, but she worries that it's also put a target on her back.

The Public Health Advocacy Institute («PHAI») has urged the USDA to put a provision in the agency's proposed wellness policy rules that would prohibit companies from using brand names, logos, characters, etc. on school product packaging if those same marketing elements are also used on products which don't meet the Smart Snacks nutritional requirements.

-LSB-...] the Motherhood Activism, Advocacy and Agency Conference we have been talking a lot about the expectations that are put on mothers and the expectations -LSB-...]

From what I understand, NABA's advocacy role includes putting pressure on lawmakers.

So, one of the pieces of the project I was working on this week (which is different from the project I was working on LAST week) was to put together a quick online advocacy strategy overview for a website I'm designing and spec» ing out (another company is building it in Drupal).

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Klein, a Bronx Democrat who leads the growing, seven - member conference, sharply rebuked the efforts over the last several days by mainline Democrats to unify the conference by involving Cuomo and putting public pressure on him through various left - leaning advocacy groups and the Working Families Party.

These are just a few of the restrictions outlined in a new water quality control measure touted by state Assemblymen Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst), during a conference put on by Long Island Clean Water Partnership advocacy groups in Islandia Thursday.

I went to something similar put on by the New Organizing Institute soon after the ’06 elections, and it was like a summer camp for online advocacy nerds.

Speaking of webinars, I'm thinking of putting on a public freebie in the next few weeks, focusing on the essentials of creating an online advocacy strategy (of course, the goal is to use the talk to gin up new biz).

Tomorrow at 4 pm Eastern we get to have a little fun: the good folks at Salsa have asked me to lead a webinar on «Campaigning in 2012: Putting the Web to Work for Elections & Advocacy.»

A group of folks in the field, inspired by a discussion at RootsCampDC, has put together a brief manifesto about how nice it would be if our advocacy applications could share data easily, and they're asking practitioners to sign on.

He noted, for example, that the other four constitutional questions to be put to voters on the November ballot don't read as advocacy to persuade voters.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo put the kibosh on the Senate Democrats» proposed property tax cap circuit breaker, which has also been endorsed by a number of taxpayer advocacy groups.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Seventeen months after outlining a bold plan to remake the housing opportunities for queer seniors nationwide, SAGE or Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders announced it has the financing in place to put shovel to earth on two affordable housing developments — one in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and the other on -LSB-...]

ANHD and its allies had launched a public advocacy campaign to put pressure on Signature, but president Benjamin Dulchin said the group recently let up on their public campaign as the two sides met to negotiate.

«On our part as government, we will do more of public enlightenment, we will do more of advocacy and whatever it is that the association is doing, I want to be put in the front burner because I want to be a partner in this.

«I think I'm more of service and can be more influential being a voice for Puerto Rico here, and really advocacy working to develop an agenda to put pressure on Congress and this administration, working with philanthropy,» she said.

On April 18, 2018, advocacy groups protested for the Driver License Access and Privacy Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses in New York and would also protect their information to prevent putting them at risk for deportation.

That followed a massive and showy rally put on by Families for Excellent Schools, the charter advocacy group, where Ms. Moskowitz, often seen as the face of charter schools, did not speak.

Patrick Coleman, director of organizing and advocacy at non-profit Tenants & Neighbors, said the bill's focus on the level of debt tied to rent roll was needed to stabilize the distressed buildings, put in peril after their owners borrowed too much.

Efforts by several advocacy groups to put pressure on the duty bearers to have the bill passed have also not yielded any positive results.

But the campaign manager for Democratic challenger Vanessa Glushefski said her team is putting their money on social media and other «mixed media,» including radio and billboards and other peer - to - peer advocacy and GOTV strategies.

The public health advocacy group found that 92 % of apples contained two or more pesticides, putting them on top of the list (translation: buy organic apples).

That's the verdict rendered at a two - day conference this week put on by Teachers College, Columbia University, and by the Campaign for Educational Equity, a research and advocacy organization based at the college.

«For the first time, we have put dollar figures on what has always been known anecdotally: The unions exert a great deal of influence on domestic policy, due to the sheer amount of money they spend on political advocacy, and at times pushing political agendas that are at odds with those of their members.»

The Seattle Times published the following article in today's newspaper: Advocacy groups file initiative to put charter schools on November ballot — According to the text, the initiative sets out several guidelines, including a stipulation that any charter schools must be nonprofit and must not be religious.

«What we don't want to do is simply put a tablet on top of a textbook and call the job done,» said Phillip Lovell, vice president for policy and advocacy at the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization that supported increased funding for E-rate.

Some teachers in urban systems expressed the view that advocacy by parents is a key to changing these conditions: Parents can put pressure on the system without being fired and can get the attention of the school board or mayor.

More recently, the advocacy group Parents United for Responsible Education put the issue on the front burner when it filed a federal civil rights complaint against the district's retention policy because of its disparate racial impact.

The Education Law Center in Newark, the advocacy organization that has led the Abbott v. Burke litigation, had Education Law Center Letter on Regulationsthreatened a legal challenge] asserting that the accountability measures were being put in place without required regulations.

Interesting: @MarieForce is putting together an advocacy group of indies to deal directly with Amazon (& others) on a range of issues of common concern.

On the web, there are independent standards that have been developed and defended through advocacy, and as a result, anyone can put up a website on any server, and all people need in order to read it is the site's addresOn the web, there are independent standards that have been developed and defended through advocacy, and as a result, anyone can put up a website on any server, and all people need in order to read it is the site's addreson any server, and all people need in order to read it is the site's address.

While 49 out of 50 U.S. states have a law stipulating that consumers must be able to put a credit «freeze» on their file, the action is not available in Canada, according to John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.

So I'm here in Washington, DC at the No - Kill Conference put on by The No - Kill Advocacy group, and I'm listening and talking to mostly like - minded people.

I think that really my goal with HSUS is to create a powerful mainstream animal - care and advocacy organization that represents the broader movement's interests and puts the issue of animal protection high on the national radar screen.

THL's specific role within the animal advocacy movement's institutional outreach efforts is to put pressure on companies to change their policies.»

Open Cages also appears to put significant focus on growing the animal advocacy movement in relatively neglected countries in Eastern Europe.

So if you want low emissions energy, you must put your efforts into removing the impediments to low cost nuclear — that is the impediments than have been put on nuclear as a result of the 50 years of anti-nuke advocacy and protests by (mostly) those who share your ideological beliefs.

The «Progressives» will need to get broad agreement to remove the impediments that have been put on nuclear as a result of the 50 years of anti-nuke advocacy and protests by (mostly) those who share the «Progressives» ideological beliefs.

The new company would go on to put at least $ 16 million towards funding climate - denying advocacy groups and think tanks between 1998 and 2005.

After uniting leaders in the policy, business, construction, utility, low - income advocacy and environmental arenas to win a 30 % efficiency boost in America's model energy code, the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition is now campaigning to put future IECCs on a path of continued progress.

«As to our advocacy around a carbon tax — I would not support putting a carbon tax in place today because I think we still have a lot of gains to be made through technology and other less intrusive policies on the economy which are showing results,» he said in a speech before The City Club of Cleveland.

The Heartland Institute — an overtly political organization, with a history that includes advocacy on the part of the tobacco industry to put in doubt conclusions about the harm caused by secondhand smoke, publishes material that scientifically shows recent warming is likely due to natural variation.

... advocacy on the part of the tobacco industry to put in doubt conclusions about the harm caused by secondhand smoke

Matthew Nisbet recently proposed «New Model for Climate Advocacy» that urges climate advocates to put all technologies and options on the table for consideration in an effort to gain broad public and political support («A New Model for Climate Advocacy «-RRB-.