Sentences with phrase «role as an activist»

One of her biggest roles as an activist, she says, is keeping the names alive of those who have been killed by hanging banners off freeway overpasses calling for justice in their name.

They passed a motion saying that their role as activists was to «help organise people in communities to take and use power, to use our political skills to redress grievances and to represent people at all levels of the political structure».

Highlights include interviews with distinguished artists Mira Schor and Janine Antoni, several panels that examine the artist's role as activist, a selection of «Meta - Mentor» panels that tackle the business of being an artist, and a roster of innovative videos in the Media Lounge curated by Micol Hebron, Conrad Gleber, and Cindy Smith.

Not exact matches

CNN: With «Monumental» Kirk Cameron emerges as Christian activist Kirk Cameron could have joined the ranks of former TV heartthrobs who rode off into the sunset, reappearing only for the occasional reunion show or career - reviving role in a TV drama.

Some activists pointed to the less public role in same - sex marriage ballot initiatives in 2012, a marked departure from earlier fights - such as California's Proposition 8 in which the church vocally supported the move to have same - sex marriage banned.

As it stands, the Roundtable is a collaborative effort of wealthy East Coast Catholics, academics, editors, and Church activists who are determined to devise a strategy for establishing a major role for the laity in the governance of the Catholic Church in this country.

All of those countless hours of sermons and worship services will help when Legend takes the stage as Jesus in the televised musical, but even when the curtain drops on Easter Sunday, that message will stay with him, because that's still what fuels John Legend — the singer, the activist, the father — in the real role that he was always born to play.

Instead, what set him apart was his «his single - minded focus on tawhid and drive as a radical activist to implement his credo through his role as guide to an expansionist Saudi state.»

From the outset, German Catholic social theorists and activists played a prominent role in addressing the social question, shaping what we now know as the Catholic social thought tradition.

Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor of the heterosexual - homosexual distinction, homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role of the «parent» to the exercise of certain functions such as education.

It's not entirely clear what Spitzer would do as comptroller for education, but he has indicated he would use the office's audit authority over much of the city's bureaucracy in a more activist role.

Indeed, the ad promises Spitzer will be a city comptroller — whose rather bland job description is to oversee the pension fund and audit agencies — who acts more like an attorney general as he takes an activist investor role.

This announcement is timely, as next month 15 activists will go on trial for their role in grounding a deportation charter flight last year.

Some in the crowd held signs in support of former political activist and Weather Underground Organization member Judith Clark, who was convicted for her role as the driver of a getaway car in the 1981 Brinks heist in Nyack that left a security guard and two police officers dead.

The activists who take part are slowly undergoing a journey a bit like that of the dissident - turned - conformist Winston Smith in 1984, with Nick Clegg playing the role of O'Brien, as the menacing thought police leader who explains to Orwell's hero what needs to be done to serve the party objective, namely, power.

The proposed «Mary Barbour law», named after the «Red Clydeside» political activist who played a leading role in the rent strikes of 1915, is to be lodged at Holyrood as a member's bill.

Furlong, a local street safety activist who embraced her role as an underdog candidate, said she's hit a roadblock in trying to meet her modest goal of $ 30,000 before the September primary.

The activist states that Assemblyman Benjamin is conscious of his status as a role model for African - American men, and feels the need to demonstrate that women can be equal partners.

The former attorney general, who shot to stardom as the «Sheriff of Wall Street,» said he thinks he have a a significant impact on the comptroller's office, giving it a more activist role.

Fracktivists, as anti-hydrofracking activists are called, hope to play a role in New York's presidential primary.

With characteristic bravado, DeLay expressed confidence throughout the trial that he would be exonerated, and he suggested that his victory would open the door to a more active role in federal politics after spending the past four years cooling his heels as a Republican consultant and an informal adviser to tea party activists.

Over the past 30 years, Mr. Lane has maintained leadership roles in union and corporate jobs, while also volunteering in his free time as an activist to help promote social justice issues.

Fracktivists, as anti hydro - fracking activists are called, hope to play a role in New York's Presidential primary.

My work as a community activist on issues such as affordable housing, my background as a member of the Democratic State Committee, and my experience working for Democratic elected officials such as Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, since my days in college, leave me with a deep appreciation and respect for the role working men and women play in making this the Empire State.

He defends the role of Momentum, the grassroots group of activists that grew out of Corbyn's leadership campaign, saying it is maturing as an organisation.

The activist, with close ties to the Congressional Black Caucus and the Clinton campaign, cited several high - profile moves by Jeffries to defend Clinton in the face of attacks by Bernie Sanders as evidence of his newly emerged point man's role.

A day after activists and the families of civilians killed by police demonstrated outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Midtown office, they joined him at John Jay College as he signed an executive order making Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases statewide in which an officer is responsible for a civilian's death — making New York the first state to create such a role to oversee the controversial issue of police - involved homicides.

The book is divided into 3 sections: international standards and the role of science in these standards; issues (ethics and technology); and politics (scientists as human rights activists; NGOs, grassroots and transnational governance.

After being named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998, he landed the role of his father in Steal This Movie, the historical biopic starring Vincent D'Onofrio as»60s activist Abbie Hoffman.

For the role he researched German anti-fascist activists such as the urban terrorist group Revolutionary Cells that led the Entebbe hijacking while insisting that they were humanitarian defenders supporting Israel's oppressed Palestinians.

Miller's most Pirandellian role was as the «decency league» activist in Matinee (1993) who is actually an actor in the employ of William Castle - like showman John Goodman.

He received widespread praise for his role as the former political activist - turned - reluctant hero Theo Faron.

This movie is based on a true story, and is one of the cases that propelled Marshall to his historic role as a civil rights activist.

W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.

These resources have been developed with a visit to the gallery in mind, but they will also provide an sound reference point for anyone wanting to know more about the role of William Morris as an activist and campaigner.

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.

The other session will cover the role of Chicago Public Schools» teachers and administrators, parents, community activists and organizations as responders to the student discipline problem.

In fact I think I was lucky that the shares «only» declined 48 % and that's due the fact that the two large investors have taken an activist role to make sure that most of the remaining cash is returned to shareholder; without them the cash would have probably been «re-invested» by management to keep the company alive (and thus feeding management their salaries) as long as possible.

We're hearing from more of you regularly as you become aware of proposals and activists» efforts at the state and local levels; and we're thankful for the role you play as our eyes and ears on the ground.

It also makes no sense from a marketing stand - point; unless Nintendo's trying to market to «equality» activists that want all the good male roles swapped out for females, it would upset more people than it would please, to see Link treated as a throw - away existence that has no personality, no spirit, and no gender tied to any of it.

During the crisis, artists often assumed the roles not only of activists and advocates but also of caregivers as their friends became sick and began to die.

This free roundtable event takes cue from John Outterbridge's quote, reflecting his overlapping roles as an artist, educator, and activist.

The nationally touring exhibition American People, Black Light also highlighted Ringgold's role as an artist activist and included a selection of her political posters.

Titled ASSEMBLY, this section of the fair includes many activist - minded projects, which Adrienne Edwards say she hopes «will serve as a platform to help us imagine what is possible today through the poetics of protest by breaking down boundaries between galleries and the street, the artist and their audience and making new propositions that open up conversations about the role of art in today's society.»

Titled ASSEMBLY, this section of the fair includes many activist - minded projects, which Adrienne Edwards say she hopes «will serve as a platform to help us imagine what is possible today through the poetics of protest by breaking down boundaries between galleries and the street, the artist and their audience and making new propositions that open up conversations about the role of art i

Complementing the residency and exhibitions will be panel discussions intended for the general public, university students, and faculty in which the exhibiting artists, art historians, and activists will explore topics such as attitudes toward feminist art among women of different generations; the role of artists as agents of change; and the representation of women in the contemporary art world.

These projects underscore the critical role of women — as activists, artists, and community leaders — in the cultural and political mobilization in response to crisis.

This event features photographer and activist McFadden, as he shares his projects After Selma and I AM A Man, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, and revisiting the role of photography and visual culture in the civil rights movement.

He takes an activist role as an artist: Chow serves as Chairman of the Fotanian Artist Village and in 2012 he ran in the Hong Kong Legislative Council elections, for the Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication constituency.