Sentences with phrase «started by activist»

She argued the policy change is in stark contrast with the #MeToo movement started by activist Tarana Burke.

(The «me too» movement was initially started by the activist Tarana Burke, a sexual assault survivor, in the mid-2000s, according to the Los Angeles Times.)

Not exact matches

Lynas's Malaysian plant is the largest one outside China, and while it could have started production as early as May of this year, safety concerns by local activist groups have set the launch back a number of times.

I'm hardly a rabid anti-corporate activist, but when Nestle showed up in my small northern California town and tried to intimidate legal opponents of its proposed water bottling plant by subpoenaing their private financial records, I started investigating the company, and what I saw was not very encouraging.

But two weeks after she started the lunch blog, a mention by famed food writer and activist Marion Nestle prompted her traffic to soar into the hundreds, and then the thousands.

11.10.2012 New Franchise for Military Veterans Tackles America's Obesity Crisis Military veterans across the nation are becoming health and nutrition activists by starting a veteran - owned franchise with HUMAN Healthy Vending — the nation's leading franchisor of socially - responsible healthy vending machine businesses.

Military veterans across the nation are becoming health and nutrition activists by starting a veteran - owned franchise with HUMAN Healthy Vending (http://www.healthyvending.com)-- the nation's leading franchisor of socially - responsible healthy vending machine businesses.

The other big problem with a challenge is that a contender would be seen by activists as stabbing the leader in the back and would start a vicious civil war inside the party.

Similarly, the CREDO petition (started by a CREDO member, BTW, but being promoted by CREDO itself) asks activists to «Tell NBC News: Correcting Republican lies is part of your job.»

Crowds can be provoked by authorities or activists to start riots that kill people and destroy property.

But Koppell is apparently siding with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that feels the reunification of the warring Democratic factions in the Senate, which was engineered by the governor a few weeks ago as he started to significantly feel pressure from his own primary challenger, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, is too little, too late.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

At 9 a.m., Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican nominee in the NYC race for mayor, will conduct a nine - stop listening tour of NYCHA housing on Monday accompanied by community activist Tony Herbert, starting by meeting Dr.Cindi Ashley (NYCHA - NAACP) and presidents of the Ft. Greene Houses Tenants Association, Mike's Diner, 328 Dekalb Ave., Brooklyn.

Menzies Campbell yesterday publicly rebuked a Liberal Democrat activist for starting campaigning for a by - election before the former incumbent was even buried.

Community Voices Heard, a community activist organization started by single mothers on public assistance in NYC more than two decades ago, was at the forefront of the #NoCuts Coalition rally, along with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, State Senator Marisol Alcantara (D - 31st Senate District), and the leaders of several dozen grassroots, civic and labor organizations.

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.

Using the Google Hangout's chat function, participants such as Joe Kerns, co-founder of the start - up Roundview.co and a volunteer with the New York City Code for America brigade betaNYC, and Chris Whong, a data solutions activist at Socrata who is co-captain of betaNY, asked questions about the degree to which information about constituent services prompted by social media and other avenues is available as public data for analysis.

The party is calling in all the help it can get in making this pitch, inundating potential supporters with an email from Moveon.org, an impassioned plea by actress - activist Cynthia Nixon, an email from Kirsten Gillibrand urging voters to help W.F.P. elect a State Senate, a video by Whoopi Goldberg, and an appeal by Gloria Steinem designed to counteract the Women's Equality Party (which was started by men, and has few women candidates or downballot Democrats on its line).

Founded by two young party activists, Patrick Ruffini and Mindy Finn, the site proposes to start by rebuilding the often marginalized conservative blogosphere.

The Progressive Agenda, the new activist group started this spring by Mayor Bill de Blasio, is planning to hold a forum with presidential candidates from both parties in Iowa City on Dec. 6.

An Egyptian wears a t - shirt with a logo of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), a campaign started by Palestinian activists to boycott Israel and Israeli - made goods, during the launch of its campaign in Cairo, Egypt, in 2015.

The group was started by Minister Lamor M. Whitehead whose father, activist Arthur Miller, was killed in an altercation with police in 1978.

• The grass roots must start making friends, making the point that in times past attempts at Lib - Labbery had been attempted by «party elites» and now needs to be attempted by activists: «There needs to be a much better relationship between the two parties,» he says

After Trump's announcement, many climate activists said that the new president has it backward: Stemming the flow of refugees and immigrants starts by addressing climate change.

That reflects a push starting in the late 1990s by some scientists and activists to make the results of taxpayer - funded research freely available to the public.

Project Semicolon was started in 2013 by activist Amy Bleuel, who lost her father to suicide.

A politician comes out Michael Huffington, after years of struggle, reveals that hes gay — and starts a new life as a gay activist By John Cloud

Anyone can start campaigning for their best romantic interests by getting involved in the Burlington community as an activist or volunteer.

Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.

None more so than the Viva Project, which stands for Vision, Idea, Voice, Action, and was started by a Chicago - based community organizer and policy activist involved in promoting the spread of charter schools in the state.

Now a remarkable website started by a group of young Chicago activists — all women between the ages of 12 and 22 — is collecting the personal stories of such students in print, video, and audio and combining them with survey research, popular education, art, and more.

The website, PETExposed.com, was started by Chattanooga activist Chris Brooks.

A number of Union activists were taken by surprise when schools in their area started collecting data relating to the nationality and country of birth of pupils.

Activist managers, which target governance and strategy reform, beat the MSCI World index by six percentage points a year between the start of 2008 and June 2012, according to data provider Activist Insight.

GISH, or more formally The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, started in 2010, by Actor and Activist Misha Collins, with the goal of bringing people together across the globe for a common good.

His legal case, which started in 2014 and is ongoing, has been marked by tactical manoeuvres and delays that has lent news coverage of his trial an erratic quality and seen activists infrequently picket his trial.

He started attending court proceedings of cases involving political activists who were being prosecuted by the government.

The National Gallery in London, for instance, contains more than 2,300 works; an information request made by the women's activist Tim Symonds at the start of 2011 revealed that only 11 of the artists in that enormous collection are women.

Zoe Leonard, an artist primarily known for her photography, sculpture, and site - specific installations, is also an influential feminist and queer activist who started working in New York City in the 1980s, an era marked by overwhelming loss during the AIDS epidemic.

I started here by commenting that the alarmism from media, activists, politicians and the like was making the job difficult to at times impossible.

Project Drawdown is a climate change mitigation project started by Paul Hawken in 2013, with the input of more than 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists.

The zealots finally abandoned any connection, however tenuous, with Scientific Method quite several years ago when the MSM started saturating the public space with «CAGW causes every extreme weather event» and this egregiousness went entirely publicly unchallenged by our activist heroes

(BTW there is already an amazing tree planting movement, started by Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement, now world - wide, often inspired by youth / children activists.)

Then he started to believe his own press, convinced himself that his opinions were of such value that the «Government» was censoring him, urged by activists (lobbyists without the paycheck) he ventured farther and farther afield and shriller in his calls while on his crusade to save the planet, which served to isolate and marginalize him until now he looks around and can not understand why everyone is not just doing what he says.

Driven by a spirit of self - sufficiency, activists of all shapes in Southeast Asia are starting to turn to solar to modernize communities, create jobs, and jumpstart their economies.

Work on the project was suspended until today, June 7, by the project's German, Swiss and Austrian underwriters due to concerns that the project was not up to World Bank standards on the environment, relocation, cultural heritage, and neighboring states, so the activists» visit to Ankara was a just - under - the - wire attempt to keep construction from starting up again.

Given the cuts to Government spending that are kicking in everywhere, is it time to ask what role green groups should play in a shrinking state?Transition Movement Gets Political I started pondering this question having read a heart - felt and passionate account by Sarah Nicholl and Marietta Birkholtz over at Transition Culture of how climate change and peak oil activists are fighting swinging cuts to schools, libraries and other essential public services.

Looking through the latest offerings on Transition Culture, the blog written by community peak oil activist Rob Hopkins (who we interviewed here), it would appear that the Transition Towns initiative that he started is gaining in influence by the week.

The event is being organized by a small group of natural burial activists and companies, including Final Footprint (Half Moon Bay, CA), Bury Me Naturally (Asheville), Fiberactive (Raleigh, NC), and Renaissance Funeral Home (Raleigh, NC) and appears to be fairly small (no website that I can find)-- but you've got to start somewhere.

That bill was supported by victims» families and was called a «good start» by many of the activists who put together March for Our Lives.