Sentences with phrase «story of a young activist»

So begins the film How To Change The World, which tells the story of the young activists who set sail from Vancouver, Canada in 1971 in an old fishing boat to stop the atomic bomb tests, and who would quickly evolve into a passionate and courageous group devoted to saving the whales.

Not exact matches

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

The father of a young Tory activist who took his own life after allegedly being bullied has said minister Grant Shapps» resignation is «not the end of the story».

Selma tells the story of Martin Luther King's visit to Selma, Alabama where civil rights activists organize a march after the shooting death of a young, Black man.

Director Brian Knappenberger got everything perfect about telling the life story of the young Aaron Swartz, internet / coder prodigy, co-founder of Reddit, and political activist, who committed suicide in early 2013.

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.

Inspired by her grandmother's stories of urban activist Jane Jacobs, young Lucia takes a walk with her grandmother and begins to notice the people, activities, jobs, cultures, and beauty that make up her diverse Toronto neighborhood.

The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist.

«There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the hippest of all is Los Angeles's painting nun,» noted Newsweek in its 1967 cover story on Sister Corita Kent, the artist, activist, and teacher, whose first career survey, as The Saratogian reports, opened at the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore college this week.

The reason I suggest that is that, like that young member of the Liberal Party who told me that he thought this was all a load of nonsense until he actually heard it, I think there are many people in this place who actually have to hear these stories told, not through the prism of some of the activists in the reconciliation movement but by the very people who lived this pain.