Sentences with phrase «society activists like»
We'll tell the story of this exciting transition, speaking with civil society activists like Astrid Puentes Riañio, co-executive director of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, who are driving this change.
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While many Muslim activists share the vision that Islam can provide the framework for their respective societies, there is no consensus on precisely what an Islamic state should look like.
Like the activist or guerrilla martyr, Christ's death is an apparent defeat that is in fact the leading edge of a new society in which the powers behind this death will themselves be overthrown.
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, the Legal Aid Society, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the City Council's Committee on Courts and Legal Services, have all praised the move as a step in the right direction, though some groups like VOCAL - NY and mayoral candidate and activist Bob Gangi have approached the development with caution.
With the hardy skepticism of past films like Sideways and Election, and a streak of Frank Capra grandeur, Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor cook up a parable for our technology - ruled, self - help - obsessed, woke - but - not society, one anchored by Damon's wayward everyman, but rattled and roused by Chau as a disabled Vietnamese activist who, after being forced into a impoverished, downsized existence, still keeps her head above the existential waters.
Despite the challenges, however, participating in this effort for a more just society has given white activists enormously fulfilling lives and, like the Obama volunteers, their own place in history.
Social change and peace movements / campaigns, once considered the dangerous work of local grassroots indigenous activists and civil society, have now transformed into «global crowdfunded - change your Twitter avatar - update your Facebook status - like my page» campaigns.
Some animal activists, like those at the Humane Animal Welfare Society in Waukesha, argue that the rescue of these dogs just helps millers by opening up cages for new dogs to be exploited.
But when he proposes links between his own historical field and that of climate science he drops all scholarly standards and quotes any old conference paper or telephone conversation he feels like; mad activists and conspiracy theorists like Oreskes and Powell; or Mark Maslin, a professor - cum - company director who combines his job at my old university as palaeontologist or geographer or climatologist (all descriptions of his expertise taken from «the Conversation») with that of director of Rezatec Ltd, a company set up by the Royal Society as a «Leading provider of data - as - a-service geospatial data analytics» to serve those who may be worried to death by forecasts of eco-doom to be found in the books and articles of Mark Maslin.
How is it that activists and policy wonks like me can get the message across to civil society that their governments will have no interest in doing anything until something gets shoved down their throat by the people who elect them?