Sentences with phrase «social activist group»

offers an artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization — a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded reform in health care, education, housing, employment, and policing.

She works with other artists but also social activist groups including Artlink Central in Glasgow, which works with the disabled, and Justice for Domestic Workers in London.

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JERUSALEM (AP)-- A group of former Israeli politicians, security officials, artists and social activists on Monday urged the government to hold a national referendum on the future of the Palestinian territories.

The aim is to politicize and strengthen solidarity with other political social groups or activists abroad.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Recruiting a core group of activists is really about building relationships — email is a prime relationship - building tool (social networking, email's possible successor, perhaps even more so).

That did not sit well with some left - wing party activists, the group Rise and Resist, who protested the governor, shouting «shame» and released a video widely viewed on social media.

Earlier today, Bratton's opposition to Cuomo's plan was criticized by Russell Simmons, the hip - hop mogul and social activist who is a longtime friend and supporter of Cuomo, and by the Justice League NYC, a coalition group that led some of the protests following the Eric Garner decision, and met with Mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss police reform issues.

Facebook ads have become an essential tool for political campaigns and activists: the audience is large and diverse, and ads on the social network can be targeted easily at people based on their location, past behavior, interests, demographic characteristics and more («men aged 25 - 34 in Hawaii who like football» would be an targetable group, for instance).

Collaborating through Indivisible groups, Action Network, an existing MoveOn event - scheduling app, social media and other channels, activists made in - district town hall meetings a place of dread for Republicans.

Corbyn had none of that: even his astonishingly successful campaign, primarily a social media operation, was organised by a group called Red Labour, spawned by a Facebook page started by a Brighton - based Labour activist whom Corbyn had never met.

Anti-MTS activist group Pledge 2 Protect also entered the fray with an e-mail blast and a social media mobilization.

May has been an area activist for years and is a member of the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a social justice group formed after the election of President Donald Trump.

Hawkins, along with 12 other people, blockaded the entrance the facility on Tuesday morning, according to social media posts from activist group We Are Seneca Lake.

According to Elliott's slides, this movement includes the Taxpayers» Alliance and other officially non-partisan groups like MigrationWatch and the Countryside Alliance, centre - right charitable thinktanks including the Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange, activist groups like ConservativeHome, and Ukip as well as the Conservative party.

«30 percent of the schools in the district should be reserved for protocol from the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection... The Final selection form the district which excludes the 30 % protocol should include strong women activists, female opinion leaders, other women executives, queen - mothers and members of women groups,» the statement added.

Bianey Garcia, a transgender activist with Make the Road, a social justice group out of neighboring Jackson Heights, said while this is the 13th known attack on trans women in Queens this year, «so many are not reported for fear of going to the police,» partly due to transphobia in official ranks and also to fear of exposure for those who are undocumented immigrants.

General News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: classfmonline.com Hajia Fati is a known activist of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Social pressure group, OccupyGhana ®, has condemned the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for offering a «forced» and «half - hearted» apology over the assault of a journalist by a party supporter, Hajia Fati, at the party's headquarters.

A broad - based coalition of neighborhood activists, social justice and food advocacy groups, top chefs, writers, farmers, fishermen, ranchers, civic leaders and state agencies is revamping the way food is grown, distributed and disposed.

The film follows the efforts of the heroic Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a small group of activists who have made it their mission to disseminate information across news sites, blogs and social media about what's going on in Raqqa, from the strict law to executions on the street.

Living passionately despite ominous ill health is a theme of this social - history drama about a group of Aids activists in early - 1990s Paris, and the film's director, Robin Campillo, accordingly fills every scene with vitality.

Rather than any account of that hopeful, aggrieved, inspiring, yet violent and always controversial social - activist group, we get the story of a monarchy.

The Social Network filmmaker David Fincher has come under fire from a group of safe driving activists after revealing he used to throw «bloodied»...

Because the international press was largely ignoring what was happening in Raqqa, the anonymous activists began to disseminate their images via social media, eventually becoming known as the undercover group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS).

The group gave a President's Award last month to Gladys Noel Bates, the former public school teacher and social activist.

In the summer of 2000, a group of St. Louis education activists, including two Washington University social work professors, was moving full speed ahead with plans to open a new charter school in the Walnut Park section of the city.

While all the usual local suspects have been deeply involved in this walkout — the Oklahoma administrators «association» CCOSA, the Association of School Boards, and school district personnel — a specific group of Oklahoma education activists have orchestrated much of the social media action.

Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs) are an opportunity to build community by learning together, developing as activists, and linking social justice issues with classroom practice.

Also in 1919 Mr. Ernst, social activist Johannes Theodor Baargeld, and several colleagues founded the Cologne Dada group.

By the mid-1970s, this program of demolition and reconstruction had transformed and modernized nearly one - third of the city, yet simultaneously, these methods came under increased scrutiny by local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groups.

By the mid-1970s, this program of demolition and reconstruction had transformed and modernized nearly one - third of the city, as its methods were increasingly questioned by local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groups.

The exhibition features the work of a diverse group of artists and activists to examine the political, social, cultural and aesthetic priorities of women of color.

Organized by Kultura Medialna and curated by Maria Veits for their annual Construction Arts Festival, the exhibition draws on the current political and cultural concerns of Dnepr, the largest city in proximity to the occupied Ukrainian territories and Crimean annexation and addresses disputable territories, belonging and ownership of the public space and its reshaping by various social groups, urban planning and attempts to create a dialogue in and about public spaces between communities, governments and activists.»

The Stockyard Institute was influenced by an awareness of neighborhood histories and an under recognized group of community artists, architects, radical teachers, and local activists where a deep consideration of the social and civic forms of engagement were as critical to their practice as to their lives.

Opening: «My Barbarian: The Audience Is Always Right» at New Museum This show focuses on My Barbarian, the Los Angeles — based collaborative group that appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and normally makes work about how theater can have social and activist possibilities.

Enlisting the help of independent curator and art critic Maria Seda - Reeder as well as Wave Pool Gallery's Executive Director and social practice artist Calcagno Cullen, the group then brought on board the Contemporary Arts Center's Curator of Education, Jaime Thompson to round out their mission: keeping the words and images of progressive activists and allies in the minds and hearts of the public.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

Presenting a diverse group of artists and activists who lived and worked at the intersections of avant - garde art worlds, radical political movements, and profound social change, the exhibition features a wide array of work, including conceptual, performance, film, and video art, as well as photography, painting, sculpture, and printmaking.

La Kunsthalle Mulhouse presents Sous nos yeux («Before our eyes»), a three parts project proposed by Abdellah Karroum, associate curator featuring works by Adel Abdessemed, Gabriella Ciancimino, Badr El Hammami, Pedro Gómez - Egaña and Younès Rahmoun, and an intervention by the group LMDP (l'Autre moitié du paysage) in collaboration with social activists and cultural organisations.

Simpson continues to influence the legacy of black artists today by speaking with artists and activists such as the Art Hoe Collective, a group of young women using social media to give marginalized groups a safe platform to broadcast their artwork.

An engaged social activist, he participated in the art collective Group Material in the 1980s and in a short time developed an influential body of work of Conceptual Art and Minimalism that mixed political critique, emotional affect with formal concerns of art.

It is about the objects that have played a part in social change, and continue to do so — from a Suffragette teacup to the masked Trini dolls made by the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, to anti-apartheid badges to the gorilla masks worn by the art - activist group Guerrilla Girls as part of their protests against the shockingly low number of female artists represented in major galleries in the US.

Throughout, it has had a left - wing edge, providing space for groups like Artists Meeting for Social Change and AIDS activists.

Prompted by Connie Hogarth — an octogenarian activist with so much energy that there's a Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action named for her at Manhattanville College — the group voted on Jan. 3 to give $ 1,000 to the Pachamama Alliance, a nonprofit group working with indigenous groups in Ecuador that are fighting oil companies and the government on several fronts.

Research is beginning to explore how activist groups in the U.S. [1] and Canada [2] are using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action.»

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*... To refresh the raison d'être of the EPA & UN...... To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern...... To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues...... To give enviro - groups a powerful fund - raising and consciousness - raising tool...... and allow them access to the levers of national and international power...... To give activist & green parties a vote - getting wedge issue...... and a case - study justification for their habitual «hammer» (increased regulation and taxation)...... To provide at - a-loss «engagé / enragé» types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise...... To transfer wealth from the West to the South...... To fund alternative energy developers and researchers...

The Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED) was founded by a group of researchers, educators and community activists who saw the need to affirm and revitalize principles of democracy and social justice in energy and environmental policy.