Sentences with phrase «told by members of that community»

That's not to say that it is essential, but as an important example of cinematic storytelling representing positive LGBTQ experience, i'm glad it is being told by members of that community.

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In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

«Internal history» is the history that participating members of a community tell about themselves; in it the importance of events and their interconnections are assessed by the events» capacity to shape the community's common life and invest it with meaning.

I then made a huge parental mistake by moving my children out of that environment into another elementary school based on guidance from community members telling me that the school system I was entering was much better.

As community members told me earlier this year, ELN may fight and attack ex-FARC members to regain control or simply expand their area of control by co-opting FARC supporters.

«We're held accountable and are elected by the members of our community and a special prosecutor wouldn't have that same accountability to the voters,» Mr. Donovan told Brian Lehrer on WNYC this morning.

«Confronted by spending cuts, some police chiefs and community safety partnership members may be tempted to reduce the amount of work they do in relation to anti-social behaviour and to concentrate instead upon volume crime,» Sir Denis told the BBC.

«The Council is taking the politics out of member items once and for all by implementing a new system to distribute funding equally while providing additional resources to support lower income communities,» Mark - Viverito told reporters.

Continuing their battle to stop the mayor from laying off teachers and cutting child care and after - school program funding, a group of parents and community members gathered at City Hall on June 16 to deliver a petition on seven 50 - foot scrolls signed by more than 20,000 New Yorkers telling Mayor Bloomberg and City Council members to invest in school improvement, not cut programs or personnel.

The party said it read with utmost disgust the frivolous statement credited to the minister where he reportedly told Nigerians and other members of the public that the attacks on two communities in Benue State that led to the death of over 74 people and destruction of properties worth millions of naira were as a result of the open grazing prohibition law enacted by the state government.

Olivas's Parity Project addresses this problem by helping its 25 member media organizations locate reporters of color and by setting up community boards whose members advise those organizations on what kinds of stories need to be told.

Also focused on the access to education for communities of color, The Pushouts, directed by Katie Galloway and co-directed by Dawn Valadez, tells the story of professor and author Dr. Victor Rios, a former gang member, who attempts to inspire the youth in neighborhoods similar to those where he grew up, so that they can change their personal paths in spite of a system that sets them up for failure.

Teachers and school leaders could facilitate this opportunity by: a) setting aside specific time for students to engage in this form of design - based education, for instance, by establishing design and innovation labs; b) infusing in the curriculum opportunities for students to establish links to this activity; c) structuring opportunities to inspire students to study and solve a problem, for instance showcasing current and past students» exemplary projects; d) providing opportunities for students to present their projects to an authentic audience of peers and members of the community; and e) not telling students what projects to work on by staying hands - off.

Theories about the meteor first began with Tilted Towers as the main target, but a recent leak by a community member told players that Dusty Depot would be the intended target of the mass destruction caused by the meteor, and now it has finally been confirmed.

Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks to bring the untold and under - told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance from a woman - centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community.

In 2014 Tillmans traveled to Russia, where he interviewed and photographed a number of members of St. Petersburg's gay community, who told personal stories of ostracism by antigay laws.

The second was an oral history project: audio and video recordings of stories told by members of Beacon's African - American community.

Similarly, the fact that more than half of the referrals are being made by community members tells the story of the community acceptance and cultural safety created by the project.

Ask any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person and they will tell you stories of the back stabbing, bullying and even physical violence perpetrated by community members against each other.

VACCA have conducted research around lateral violence and cultural safety where young people have reported being told by older family members to attack other community members as part of long held feuds.