Sentences with phrase «social activists on»

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 program drew attention from social activists on topics, including abortion, who orchestrated boycotts of Berkshire subsidiaries or their products.

Not exact matches

Celebrities including rights activist Bianca Jagger, singer Charlotte Church and actor Ian McKellen expressed their support for the protest on social media.

A super interesting social activist, he helped author a paper that led to the Istanbul Protocol on documenting torture at just 21 years of age.

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

Si2 provides overview reports on the main environmental, social and governance issues raised by activist shareholders in their proposals to companies, as well as impartial breakout reports on the proposals awaiting votes at companies.

Some of Hollywood biggest and most vocal stars took to social media on Thursday to bash Fox news Host Laura Ingraham after she issued an apology to Parkland shooting survivor - turned gun control activist David Hogg.

So far, I have proposed that many activist evangelicals have really come to hold their social views on the basis of cultural osmosis or legitimate political argumentation.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

We forget that just as our most heated discussions on social media emerge from the context of a cultural conversation, so too did the treatises of theologians and activists past.

She, along with many other national leaders and social activists of different stripes, began fasting on November 12th while staked out in a tent on the National Mall in Washington D.C..

We also need research on how to reach people who get their information from streaming media and mobile devices and whose social networks do not include many conservative activists.

We should commend the electronic church for its venturesome outreach to parched multitudes thirsting for what activists readily overlook in their assault on social structures — namely, a personal faith.

Because of this, some may regard this as a book on «prophetic preaching» designed for «social activists.»

This prominent, activist Philadelphia Eagles safety was emphasizing the power of NFL players» voices on American social injustice.

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.

One evening, while chastising myself for slacking off on this important parenting / birth activist / blogger task, I got to wondering about birth stories as a social phenomenon: Why do (some) women write their birth stories?

It helps to connect aggressively with potential «friends,» perhaps starting with the candidate's own social connections and moving on to party activists, local officials, bloggers and the members of your own supporter list (include a link to your profile pages in mass emails and people will do some of the work for you).

Social media activists effectively had a longer attention span for the protests than the mainstream media, a great example of the internet's ability to let individual communicators spread the word about what they care about and keep attention on an issue that the wider world is ignoring.

And, her mentions on activists» social media outstripped her mentions in the mainstream media (as did Ted Cruz's, but not the other Republican candidates).

But as it becomes normal rather than exceptional for campaigns to have a presence on Facebook and other social media channels, politicians will have to endure many more attempts by activists to take over their pages to get attention for their issues or their demands.

With the Ashanti Regional activists campaigning for the reinstatement of Kwabena Agyepong following up press conferences in Kumasi with latest ones in Accra, a spillover of the campaign on to social media has seen Kwabena Agyepong being touted as an Ashanti who is being demonized by the Akyem President, Akufo - Addo.

The other cool thing we're doing is adding a social layer on top of the actions to build a greater sense of community among activists.

For a start, you'll want to populate your following with people you know: it helps to connect aggressively (though perhaps not TOO aggressively) with potential «friends,» perhaps starting with the candidate's own social connections and moving on to party activists, local officials, bloggers and the members of your own supporter list (include a link to your profile pages in mass emails and people will do some of the work for you).

Also, this is a good example of how what we do as on social media as individual activists can be as important as what a campaign does itself.

Just think of the social media mileage — blog posts to alert members about the challenge, updates on and by activists taking the challenge, announcing winners, and more!

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

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.

If activists persist in supporting policies on the basis that they are infused with social liberal values and principles, rather than their popularity with the swing voter in the centre ground, then that is oh so endearingly and impractically childlike.

Disgruntled Lib Dem activists, mainly based around the left - leaning Social Liberal Forum (SLF), were ready to register their concerns just over a week later at the Lib Dem spring conference, which began on 8 March 2013.

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).

Here's something to check out: a former anti-gay-marriage activist is accusing the National Organization for Marriage of shady dealings on the internets, claiming that the organization formed a «SWAT team» of social media commenters to give the illusion of popular support to...

In a twitter post, Clinton thanks «activist b --- es supporting b --- es» — a move that seemed to garner mixed reviews on social media

Also on the panel were Linda Sarsour, co-founder of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, and social justice activist, originally from Brooklyn, and Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and activist.

However, the co-founder of Digital Media Development initiative and Social Media activist, Blossom Ozurumba, also advised participants to build networks on Social Media, noting that `' relationship is greater than money».

According to the organisation, «The bill will also have chilling effect on freedom of expression in the country, as it will create an atmosphere of fear among bloggers and online activists who may not post critical commentary on Facebook or other social media platforms for fear of being sent to jail.

Many young people who got their first taste of politics on 15 February 2003 became activists years later, and were involved in the Occupy movement and other social movements since.

Trump said that women who get an abortion should receive «some form of punishment» if it is ever outlawed, drawing swift condemnation from activists on both sides of the divisive social issue.

Social media has allowed many of the campaigns to link up and support each other and barely a week passes without a message on Twitter calling for fellow activists to attend a protest somewhere in London.

Activists Thursday said a higher minimum wage would pull families out of poverty, reduce reliance on social services and increase sales taxes.

Cuomo has always been a triangular progressive, hoping his stances on social issues — gay rights, gun control, abortion rights — will sufficiently endear him to the left flank of his party that he could govern as a fiscal moderate, once described by liberal activists as «Governor One Percent» and as «a good, moderate Republican» by Dean Skelos, the former leader of the state Senate.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

New York City's most prominent Latino leaders, activists, politicians and members of the Latino communities gathered at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social work today at the first Summit on Latinos (SOL): «Shaping the Future of New York City», where -LSB-...]

Family and friends of Nigerian lawyer, entrepreneur, social activist and founder of Chocolate City Audu Maikori were not allowed from seeing him in detention ahead of his court appearance in Kaduna on March 13.

There is currently a massive campaign in the media, particularly on social media, by NDC activists in support of the EC chairperson.

Some of their activists on social media have in fact threatened to lynch persons they unilaterally declare as «aliens» should they turn out to vote.

Rhodes is campaigning for an activist government that will promote prosperity while alleviating real social problems, and he accuses Faso of shortchanging local communities — from his vote on Trumpcare to his support for harsh budget cuts to agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

Later that same day, delegates will participate in a program focused on the future of the labor movement by well - known labor and social justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. in the Hart Theatre of The Egg, at 2 p.m. Fletcher is currently the director of Field Services and Education for the American Federation of Government Employees.

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.

Woodard has been an activist on many social issues for more than 70 years, said his daughter, and insisted on attending the rally.