Sentences with phrase «time of activism»

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The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

And flash activism isn't necessarily just a one - time game of numbers; MoveOn showed that with a big enough membership base, you could mobilize large numbers repeatedly.

On its own, this strategy likely won't satisfy even long - term shareholders, and in its time of trial Talisman has picked up some shorter - term players with a penchant for shareholder activism.

Described by the New York Times «a super-specialist» in human rights activism, Simon Billenness has over 25 years of experience in advising investors on shareholder advocacy.

The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.

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.

Not only is it strange that acquiring companies now enjoy price lifts when they announce deals (e.g., UnitedHealth on the announcement of its deal to purchase Catamaran), but it's odder still that it comes at a time when activism is also causing prices to rise.

In a series of exclusive interviews for a TIME cover story about Icahn and shareholder activism, I have followed Icahn's efforts to get Apple to part with more of its $ 147 billion cash hoard.

«It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable work.»

The other ear listens to the parable of the growing seed in Mark 4:26 - 29 with its rebuke of self - righteous zealotic activism, and its claim that God, not the people, will establish the kingdom when the time is ripe.

His political activism has generated continual press attention, culminating last December in his being named Time magazine's «Person of the Year,» along with Bill and Melinda Gates.

At the same time, the Christian Century pushed a fairy tale about the growing influence of nonviolent activism in Palestinian society.

Time and again, even in the highly academic SIL, Pike had to reassert the place of scholarship and its fundamental importance to producing good translations of the Bible when evangelistic activism threatened to usurp scholarly production and academic rigor.

Ironically, although Barnhill spends less time outlining the cultural and political forces that shape mothers» realities, she does more to inspire me to action — even political activism — than the writers of the more explicitly political volumes.

This week, we talk with Liz Forkin Bohannon, founder of Sseko Designs about how her unique approach to business, fashion and activism is changing the world, one life at a time.

Here's a conflicted piece in this morning's Los Angeles Times — transparently contemptuous of pro-life activism but respectful of the pain of men dealing with their complicity in abortion....

And some people have fame, and some people are just working hard all the time without much acknowledgement, but I think what you're telling us is kind of a message not just for activism, but for all life, that we can't really control anything.

Today, I'm thrilled to introduce Michelle Hickman, the Director of Activism for Best for Babes, and a long time breastfeeding mama.

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.

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In that post I expressed a little bit of ambivalence about selling sweets to raise money — ambivalence that would evolve over the next four years into outright activism against junk food in schools — but at the time I was clearly charmed by the old - timey, innocent feel of the event.

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.

The tools are open to anyone with the time and / or resources to use them, and any side that thinks it has a monopoly on internet activism is likely to be disabused of that notion sooner than it would like.

Now, all of that liberal time and liberal money is found to have gone to build a tool open to corporate messaging and conservative activism.

«The reward of party activism is like embarking on a journey; it starts with a step but covers miles with time.

For 40 Years of Grassroots Activism and Progressive Leadership, The Very Special Inaugural VID Member's Award — Tony Hoffmann, Former District Leader and Two - Time VID President.

At the same time, approximately 700 conservatives gathered at the RightOnline.com conference to discuss the future of online activism.

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.

In his Times piece from yesterday, «Hashtag Activism, and Its Limits,» David Carr at first doesn't seem so sure about this whole online advocacy thing: I'm starting to experience a kind of «favoriting» fatigue — meaning that the digital causes of the day...

The students» courageous activism during a time of immense grief is incredibly inspiring, and I want them to know that state legislators across the country share their sense of urgency,» said Kavanagh, who is the chairman of the American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention.

This week on the Campbell Conversations host Grant Reeher talks with his biographer, Onondaga County Court Judge Joseph Fahey, about the mayor's times, his legacy, and his controversial activism on behalf of Irish independence.

Yet at a time when liberal anger over President Donald Trump and his policies has sparked a wave of progressive activism on all levels, some Democratic insiders privately worry that the party's future stars could grow frustrated if they have nowhere to go.

Under the leadership of Daniel Dromm, at the time an out gay schoolteacher and now the area's City Council member, that activism evolved into a plan for an annual pride event in the borough.

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.

At the same time, new forms of illegal online activism have grown up, with a collective called Anonymous at the vanguard, crippling websites and gleefully exposing secrets.

Most of the time, I keep my head in the science and activism, working at least 40 hours a week to bring you Radio Ecoshock, with 45 new shows a year.

If people put even half of the time, money, and activism into helping autistic people that they do into chasing conspiracy theories, it could change and save lives.

Time dated at the conclusion of the nineties when gay activism was at its height, there has been a regression in the movement and now new momentum.

While times have changed, Lee's touch remains sure; with SGTHI, he's delivered a quirky, sexy, sometimes angry but always celebratory brew of not only black activism and defiant feminism, but also 21st - century individualism.

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.

Bravery in the face of adversity is also a key theme in first time director Nanfu Wang's startling documentary, «Hooligan Sparrow,» a film about female activism and dissent in China and the systematic sexual abuse of children.

At the same time, Ryan's marriage to a liberal Quaker and his own sense of conscience launched him into a tireless career of peace and civil rights activism that stood in direct contrast to his screen persona.

And though she's managed to balance activism and acting, the former still occupies a lot of Gurira's time — from speaking out about violence against women at the United Nations to saying at an awards ceremony five days after the 2016 election that she's «felt a calling to do more.»

At the same time, many CSOs face an existential crisis: for many, the funding situation is getting worse, and the new people's movements and great wave of activism of 2011 happened largely independently of organised civil society.

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

Always «at the right place at the right time,» Nieto found herself a pivotal figure in many movements in multicultural education, from bilingual education and bilingual teacher education to the introduction of ethnic studies in higher education, and has continued her activism throughout her career.

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.

By instilling the core values of collaboration, tolerance, respect, activism and, of course, Innovation, in all of our activities, we will achieve our goal of graduating students, on - time, with an NYS Regents Diploma.