Sentences with phrase «time as activism»

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As I've said a number of times before, my goal with The Cannabist — distilled into one sentence — was to create something that avoided the blind activism of High Times and completely ditched the prohibitionist Drug War narratives that had been reported so many times before in mainstream media outtimes before, my goal with The Cannabist — distilled into one sentence — was to create something that avoided the blind activism of High Times and completely ditched the prohibitionist Drug War narratives that had been reported so many times before in mainstream media outTimes and completely ditched the prohibitionist Drug War narratives that had been reported so many times before in mainstream media outtimes before in mainstream media outlets.

I have spent some time writing about school lunch topics on my blog as well, but have recently been focusing on wider subjects in the sustainable food system as they pertain to government policy and activism.

At that time, Laurie was better known for her environmental activism and as the executive producer of... [Continue reading]

The findings were released by First Lady Michelle Obama who has taken on the issue of childhood obesity as her focus for activism during her husband's time in office.

Such activism is viewed as too derivative of 1970s - style «picking winners», while at the same time it is acceptable for public policy to artificially inflate the housing market.

During his time as a radio announcer at WNEW, Justin jumped into labor activism and served as shop steward where he represented and defended the interests of his fellow employees and advocated to get all union members retroactively paid for decades of overtime work on weekends and overnights.

She was twice nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, only to see her first nomination filibustered and her second sunk by charges of judicial activism by Senate Republicans over gun industry litigation during her time as solicitor general.

«Many describe the life of a scholar and an activist as one of isolation and constant pressure, but also of determination,» as they try to maintain scholarly standards while also devoting time to activism, June writes.

It's not the first time that Trump's actions have triggered activism among scientists, a group that, as a whole, has traditionally couched itself as nonpartisan.

For Jolie, her desire to save the entire third world, one orphan at a time, manifests itself in a picture that poses the big - lipped beauty carefully as a fashion plate and a sainted martyr; a debutante with an amazing wardrobe and a UN worker with a streak of activism; and a figure in its way as ridiculous as Gooding Jr.'s caricature of a severely mentally - disabled man (James Robert Kennedy) that reminds, of all things, of that acorn - crazed, pre-verbal prehistoric squirrel from Ice Age.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

As a new father, Jonas is excited to spend more time with his family and pursue new opportunities tied to his deep passion for racial equity and social justice policy and activism.

To start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislation.

I'm fairly well informed on Vietnam and our war there and it has been of abiding interest given the loss of friends and relatives who died for it or of it as well as my own activism during the time.

Founded by long - time animal activists Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, Our Hen House serves as a central clearinghouse for ideas and opportunities to create positive change for animals ranging from grassroots activism to advocacy through the arts.

If you want to share one story about gentrification in 2015, I'd encourage you to chose this one — so far it only has been viewed about a third as many times as Singer's email, despite containing vital resources for moving beyond armchair activism.

Some painters also apprehended the eighties as a time of revived political activism, stimulated particularly by the U.S. government's support for brutal right - wing elements in Latin America.

Formed in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, General Idea is internationally recognized for work that tackled such subjects as the myth of the artist, the role of mass media, the relationship between the body and the identity, issues of gender and sexual repression, and famously HIV / AIDS activism at a time when talking about the disease was a taboo.

Art made by women becomes necessarily and solely about feminist activism (or worse, some essentialist archetype of women's work, as was the case with Ken Johnson's review in The New York Times of Michelle Grabner's recent show at James Cohan Gallery), and queer individuals must always make art that is about non-normative sexuality.

Long known for her unflagging commitment to art, artists, and activism as the dynamic director since 1994 of Creative Time — the not - for - profit powerhouse that brought us Kara Walker's sugar sphinx last year, among many other spectacular projects — with this appointment Pasternak becomes the first woman to lead one of the very large encyclopedic New York art museums.

Initially curated by Creative Time chief curator Nato Thompson, Living As Form (The Nomadic Version) is a traveling show that explores twenty years of socially and politically engaged art, from community building to activism projects.

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The criminalization of environmental activism: Goldman Prize winners such as Yul Choi and Marc Ona faced jail time, fines and persecution from their governments as a result of their advocacy work.

Keeping the discussion of your link for another time, I'll observe that lobbying is considered as one instance of activism.

Charlotte DuCann, writing over at the Transition Network, argues that it is time for the Transition Movement to «lock on» and embrace explicitly political activism as a means to furthering local resilience.

She spoke of how, were it not for her time here as a graduate student in law, she would have done none of this — to have engaged in activism to the extent she has done, to have found the courage to take on the role of an ally, and even to have written and performed poetry on issues that move her.

And the current economic instability may increase consumer activism, as times get harder and people become more anxious to realise money owing.

Drawing inspiration from international black civil rights movements in North America, South Africa and the United States, Sol brought the same spirit of civil rights activism to Australia, fighting for equal rights for First Nations Australians... At a time when First Nations people were denied the same basic civil services such as access to the mainstream legal and medical system, Sol worked to ensure First Nations people had their own Aboriginal controlled services to fill the gap.