Sentences with phrase «together interested citizens»

Most of its 40 national member organisations aim to bring together interested citizens, regulators and academics on an individual basis, but many have primarily corporate members (most notably local authorities) and some are government departments or agencies.

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When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.
«specials interests» is just another way of saying «Citizens groups» who get together, pool their money and advocate for their beliefs.
While their governments pitted them against each other, citizens themselves worked together to advance their mutual interests.
You knew something interesting might happen at this afternoon's Personal Democracy Forum panel on citizen - generated content right from the start — as the crowd gathered, a confrontational flier put together by MoveOn.org circulated through the room, accusing MySpace of censoring site members» words and pictures.
You knew something interesting might happen at this afternoon's Personal Democracy Forum panel on citizen - generated content right from the start — as the crowd gathered, a confrontational flier put together by MoveOn.org circulated through the room, accusing MySpace of censoring site...
So on Wednesday, Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany, Common Cause NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, and the New York Public Interest Research Group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo and the two new legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categories.
While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.
MAC hopes this webpage will help pit bull owners, rescue groups, animal control agencies, politicians, journalists and interested citizens learn more about Pit Bulls and how we can work together to help dogs in our state.
While the two negotiating sides are setting out their stalls and a few toys are thrown out of the respective prams it will be in the interests of both sides and particularly in the interests of the current citizens of the EU that there is a coming together of positions to ensure close co-operation for civil justice in the future.
«What we found with social media is we were able to mobilise mass interest, mass participation of people from all over the world, so people came as citizen scientists... to participate in surveys of indigenous threatened species so all of that combination of people standing for Country together was able to show these things are not automatic, that these big projects don't need to happen if people stand (together).
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