Sentences with phrase «told by activists»

The reason we should act now to combat climate change, we're constantly told by activists, scientists and politicians, is to make sure the world is safe to be enjoyed by «future generations.»

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets?

Here are the most important things you can do to save the environment, as told by activists.

Not exact matches

«Most cases are not even investigated and go unpunished,» because of indifference by authorities and residents, Teresa Carmona, an anti-crime activist, told USA Today.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

Patrick G. D. Riley Wauwatosa, WI And it came to pass that, as the Federal judiciary sat in the courts of law interpreting the Constitution, the anti-usurpationists and the cultural warriors and the original intentionites came and said, Tell us, by what authority make ye these activist rulings?

While researching my prior post about Nikki Haley coming under attack by her fellow South Carolina Republicans for her Sikh heritage, I came across a local activist, Oran Smith of the Palmetto Family Council, who told CNN, «Most people can't even pronounce «Sikh,» even the ones that are criticizing her.»

Splitter herself was told by an anti-GMO activist that she's «poisoning» her kids, and she has every right to take issue with that vitrolic language.

This is a month - long online seminar program hosted by authors, speakers, and social justice activists Patti Digh and Victor Lee Lewis, who was featured in the documentary film, The Color of Fear, with help from a community of people who want and are willing to help us understand the reality of racism by telling their stories and sharing their resources.

Similarly, the CREDO petition (started by a CREDO member, BTW, but being promoted by CREDO itself) asks activists to «Tell NBC News: Correcting Republican lies is part of your job.»

And if there's not someone in place by January, it'll be too late,» a Democratic activist told The Post.

«I want to give people hope with my vision for where this city can go,» Ellis told The Alt shortly after Mayor Kathy Sheehan's State of the City address (which was delayed and disrupted by protests by social justice activists and union members).

In the recording obtained by The Observer, he went on to tell activists it was «absolutely crucial» that they secured a change to the party's rules to ensure that a left wing contender can replace Corbyn when he stands down.

He's expected to tell Tory activists that it's time to shake off the victim culture that he believes Wales has had for too long and to unlock the huge opportunities ahead by working closely with Westminster.

We fight for fairness, we fight for justice, we act first, we lead by example,» he told the crowd cheering activists in rain slickers and carrying union signs, sounding more like an Occupy Wall Street protester than the fiscally conservative governor who has often aroused liberal ire.

A far left activist expelled from the Labour party today took to the airwaves to defend himself - and was told by Tony Blair's former speechwriter that there was «no place» in the party for his views.

The group accused Kwaku Baako of telling the whole world that, he has audio and video recordings of Paul Afoko opening the controversial programme organized by some Serbians for NPP executives and activists in 2014, a claim he has refused to produce evidence.

Gibbon was struck by the number of Liberal Democrats in parliament who told him how worried they were about the images that the cartoonists were embedding in the public consciousness (and in the minds of their party activists).

«I think for careful observers, there's a big progressive movement formed by activists that's coming, and the Working Families Party is going to electoralize that at the polls,» WFP state director Bill Lipton told Gotham Gazette at Thursday's rally.

Pro-Corbyn activist Christine Shawcroft told a CND fringe event: «Next year there will be an election for two seats on the Conference Arrangements Committee, and for years and years these seats have been held by ministers,

Conservative party claims that they were not properly told about the behaviour of a controversial election aide later accused of bullying an activist who is believed to have killed himself have been contradicted by the uncovering of a letter sent to the then party chairman eight months before the death.

Helen Newlove, who was made a peer by David Cameron after the general election, will act as a «champion for active, safer communities», May will tell Conservative activists at their conference in Birmingham.

The local party chair, Ian McKenzie, who had accused party bosses of a «stitch - up», told the Guardian both Daby and Dacres had also made the shortlist drawn up by local activists.

Two legislative sources told The Alt they expect this week will be critical in efforts to entice the IDC to end their deal with Republicans — partly due to backroom efforts by union heads, activists and «heavy hitters» in the Democratic Party and partly due to intense protests planned by activists in IDC member districts.

(CNN)- Debbie Dingell, longtime Democratic activist and wife of veteran Rep. John Dingell, is seriously considering a run for the Senate seat that will be vacated by retiring Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan next year, a knowledgeable source told CNN.

As one Labour activist told me, the plan was to cling on by dragging their supporters out by hook or by crook — and it worked.

I Am Michael, executive produced by Gus Van Sant, tells the true story of Michael Glatze (played by James Franco), a former gay activist who denounced homosexuality and became a Christian pastor.

Written and directed by Justin Kelly, the film tells the true story of a gay activist who became a straight Christian pastor.

All Eyez on Me tells Shakur's story from 1971 when he features as a bump in the stomach of pregnant activist Afeni Shakur to his ultimately fatal 1996 Las Vegas drive - by shooting by at large assailants.

But when school districts were told by states around 2011 that they would have to change their curricula to fit the Core — states had to overhaul their overall standards and testing plans first — opposition exploded, first from tea - party activists, then from progressives who chaffed under Washington - driven, test - fixated education.

Founded by chef and Activist, Daniel Klein and Co - producer / Cameragirl Mirra Fine, the duo spent their most recent season wandering the world, you know, like Cain from Kung Fu, including stops in China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa and Ethiopia, all in an effort «to tell the stories of real food and the people who make it.»

There is a great article by Linda Besemer, «Abstraction: Politics and Possibilities,» which tells a history of activist artists who make abstract work.

Humor is one of the most powerful and effective political weapons, so, one wondered, why couldn't we do that here: unfortunately when that tactic was tried last year in New York at a Citibank branch a block down from NYU's Skirball Center, the police arrived and arrested a bunch of activists as well as possibly innocent by - standers although the Occupy activists had purposefully dressed in business attire so it was a little hard to tell, but the hilarity of the Spanish scene was preemptively aborted.

Manuel de Falla / Stokely Carmichael brings together the score of a 1904 opera — La vida breve (Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

(Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

It concerns a monologue performed by transgender activist Debra Soshoux, quoting from the text but delivered as if it's one half of an interview; it's a litany of Lord's unsparing and wry observations from her chemotherapy, the kind of stuff nobody tells you ahead of time.

The couple's accomplishments - as patrons, philanthropists and political activists who lived and worked along a Paris - Houston - New York axis - is told in lively texts and remembrances by contributors such as the artist Dorothea Tanning, architect Renzo Piano, film scholar Gerald O'Grady, architectural historian Stephen Fox, curators Bertrand Davezac and Walter Hopps, and Africanist Kristina Van Dyke.

Margaret Tali will discuss the meanings of Romani exclusion and what it has to tell us about artistic scenes, their nature and alignments by focusing on the work of an outstanding Finnish - Romani artist, writer and activist, Kiba Lumberg, who advocates her artistic practice as a human right.

«This is the first time that Stills has been exhibited in its entirety,» Witkovsky told the full house attending an illuminating panel in the museum's auditorium, moderated by Laurie Simmons with artists Liz Deschenes, Sara VanDerBeek, and activist Kate Linker.

Helen Million Ruby, one of the founding members of the activist group Mother Art and a student at the Feminist Studio Workshop in the Los Angeles Woman's Building, was told by Judy Chicago that she couldn't be a mother and an artist - the -LSB-...]

I suppose if I had to define activist it would come down to a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, a member of the tribe who knows that there is sin and imperfection in the world, and by God or Gaia, they are going to do tell you about it, possibly rather than planting their own gardens.

These hearings were far more extensive because the commission did not want to repeat the embarrassment of being told by a federal appellate court that it had failed to develop an adequate record, and because there was now a much larger and better funded community of environmental activists intervening to oppose the plant.

In announcing his approval, Gov. Heineman — executive of the state Big Green activists told us was most threatened by the pipeline — said Nebraska alone will reap $ 418 million in economic benefit.

A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward - thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote — making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow.

In the interview Mörner tells science journalist Alex Reichmuth that climate and sea level science has been completely politicized and hijacked by an activist agenda and has become a «quasi religion».

Allen is often cited by the BBC and in British newspapers as if he were a neutral expert on «climate change», which clearly he isn't: he's an ardent activist as we can tell both from his presence at this workshop and also from his statements.

«But the relentless focus by activist scientists on the Arctic decline does suggest a political imperative rather than a scientific one — and when put together with the story of the US temperature records, it's hard to avoid the impression that what the public is being told is less than the unvarnished truth»

AT the beginning of the Century we were told by Dr David Viner — fmr senior activist scientist at the UEA's climatic research unit (CRU)-- that Snowfall would become «a very rare and exciting event,» and that «Children just aren't going to know what snow is.»