Sentences with phrase «student organizers»

Student organizers of a March 14 walkout at Kingston High School have lent their support to the resolution.

Lyft is offering free rides to those interested in attending Saturday's March for Our Lives demonstration in Tampa.The marches are being led by student organizers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, site of last month's school shooti...

We host a debate with three guests: Mark Epstein, the chairman of the board of trustees for Cooper Union; Victoria Sobel, a Cooper Union student organizer who is among the activists who have occupied the president's office for over a week; and Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon.

Planned Parenthood Generation Action supports student organizers in holding campus administrations accountable for their response to sexual assault on campus, and to ensure that proactive policies are in place to support and protect survivors of sexual assault.

a Cooper Union student organizer who has been working on the Free Cooper campaign.

After walking out, the students marched and listened to student organizers talk about registering to vote, so they can support the «Never Again» movement that survivors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School started.

NATIONAL: Let's hear it for student organizers!

This week, Cooper Union student organizers preparing for an Occupy Wall Street protest against student debt were energized and infuriated by their school's decision to introduce tuition in the graduate program.

An amicable administration, thoughtful trustees, and good faith negotiations are seldom elements of the stories told by student organizers.

During the week, striking assistants were frequently joined on their picket line by members of other unions, such as TWU, CWA, NYSNA and SEIU 1199, said Rosalie Ray, one of the grad student organizers.

Student organizers also credit their success to their recent systemwide strike and to pressure from state legislators.

AOCC student organizers are led by tri-chairs Tony Delarosa, master's candidate in arts in education; Ph.D. candidate Avriel Epps; and Jennifer Kuang, master's candidate in international education policy.

In a later television interview, student organizer Gabriel Nadeau - Dubois said that attempts to force students back to class (as the Superior Court had recently done at one Quebec college) never work, and that a minority of students were using the courts to circumvent the majority's decision to «strike» and picket.

Student organizers originally wanted to have the march and rally on the National Mall — between the Capitol and the Washington Monument — but another event has a permit for that date.

Several student organizers have become mainstays on national TV, promoting the marches, and they landed on the cover of Time magazine.

From the stage, student organizers shouted, «MSD!

While introducing speaker and student organizer Nicole Straight from Cypress Bay High in her hometown of Weston, the congresswoman praised the grassroots efforts from «amazing» students who have led efforts to spur a national dialogue on gun control.

I am moved beyond words that student organizers from across the country and the world will host more than 800 sibling marches that day.

At the same time, student organizers of the March For Our Lives rallied quickly took to social media to offer solidarity with those at YouTube, noting YouTube's early support of their own efforts (as seen in the tweet above).

After walking out, students listened to student organizers talk about their support of the «Never Again» movement that survivors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School started.

This week, Cooper Union student organizers preparing for an Occupy Wall Street protest against student debt were infuriated by their school's decision to introduce tuition in the graduate program.

The student organizers raised more than $ 3 million through an online GoFundMe campaign and worked with Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for universal background checks and other gun control measures.

Some student organizers predicted hundreds of students would join in the event at their schools but knew others would sit out because they disagreed with the political stance.

They left the decision - making to a core group of about 20 student organizers.

«The school's administration has met with the student organizers and advised them that non-school sponsored, student - initiated guest speaker assemblies / meetings are not permitted to take place on campus,»...

The rallies are being planned with help from various groups, including organizers of the Women's March, and have gained support from several prominent Democrats and gun - control groups, according to Alex Wind, one of the student organizers.

Other right - wing conspiracy theorists falsely claimed the shooting was a staged «false flag» operation, and that the student organizers were secretly being led by «left wing gun control activists,» the Miami Herald reported.

Kowalczyk, the student organizer, stressed that the forum is intended to be a positive experience where lawmakers and students can interact.

However, one of the student organizers of Friday's walkout said the event is a direct response to the mass shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 students and educators dead.

«Everyone assumes that all we're really preocuppied with is our cellphones,» said Christie Oreste, a senior and student organizer at Murrow High School, about people in her generation.

«The school's administration has met with the student organizers and advised them that non-school sponsored, student - initiated guest speaker assemblies / meetings are not permitted to take place on campus,» says Cathleen Brennan, a district spokeswoman.

I have been a student organizer in Manhattan's Lower East Side since the 1980s, a minister since 1994, a lawyer since 1999, a professor since 2004, and a graduate and faculty member of the nonpolitical, accredited youth ministry training DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative since 2011.

Pending the administrative takeover of the historically student run Guillermo Morales / Assata Shakur Community and Student Center, the City College of New York (CCNY) recently pressed charges against two student organizers.

The Students for a Free Cooper Union need signed statements of solidarity from students, student organizers, and student groups!

AMY GOODMAN: — is a student organizer at Cooper Union.

«We could hear the screams of people getting beat,» says Fernanda Pardo, 23, a student organizer at John Jay College who was upstairs waiting outside the hearing.

The New York - based nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety donated $ 150,000 to student organizers to cover costs of the Parkland march, including extra police and free shuttles to and from offsite parking, DeAngelis said.

Ryan Deitsch, one of the student organizers of «March for Our Lives,» said Hunter Pollack was set to speak at the Washington rally as late as Saturday morning, even appearing on a printed schedule, but «he never showed up.»

Student organizers of the protest told ABC News» «This Week» Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that they are determined to use protests and political action to make the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, a turning point in the national debate over gun control.

Former Rep. Jack Kingston, R - Ga., on Sunday tweeted a USA Today story about the student organizers helping lead a nationwide student walkout in protest of America's gun laws, adding the message: «O really?

After walking out about 12 p.m., hundreds who were wearing black T - shirts sat on the floor and listened to student organizers talk about registering to vote, so they can support the «Never Again» movement that survivors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School started.

«They never tried to push any of their ideas,» said Casey Sherman, 17, a student organizer and speaker at the Parkland event.

Student organizers have raised more than $ 3 million through an online GoFundMe campaign and worked with Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates universal background checks and other gun control measures.