Sentences with phrase «town as an activist»

But they face resistance from the town as an activist arrives to stop them.

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I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

Misratans should run their town's affairs through their new democratically - elected local council and Benghazi transparency activists must be involved in their local governance — but only as representatives of the central government and not as their own fiefdoms.

Civil rights activists have held rallies and candlelight vigils across cities and towns — with Friday, October 12, officially observed as Condemnation Day, seeing massive turnout of people praying for her life.

In some 40 towns, local party members join activists from as far away as L'Aquila, 400 miles to the south.

«I had children in the schools, so I really knew my community and when I stepped up to say I want to fight for Hamburg, they knew I meant it,» Hochul said of her first political campaign for Hamburg Town Board as a young lawyer and activist.

Two Democratic candidates hoping to take on GOP Rep. John Faso are hosting town hall meetings as activists look to sustain focus on gun control issues following the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

Woodstock as an artist's colony started way before 1969; every town had its artists, musicians, social activists.

She now works as an activist to fight corruption and help the poor and disenfranchised with a variety of local community programs, including The Community Pantry, a food pantry in the town of Middletown that serves about 500 local families.

As a member of the CNY Solidarity Coalition, Balter has been one of the leading activists protesting Trump's policies and urging Katko to hold town hall meetings.

Now it appears that there is already a Ukip candidate for the Essex seaside town who has no intention of meekly moving aside, which makes a nonsense of Ukip as the activists» party.

Grisanti joins two other candidates — Democratic freshman Sen. Ted O'Brien, of Rochester, facing off against Republican Richard Funke; and Andrienne Esposito, a Democratic environmental activist who running against GOP Islip Town Supervisor Tom Croci for the Long Island seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Lee Zeldin — as the NYLCV's top priority candidates this season.

«Tea Party activists are kicking off a grand national tour this weekend with an event targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) in his small home town of Searchlight, Nevada — an event that Tea Party Express describes as a «conservative Woodstock.»

It would be simplistic to label this as a town v country issue, but Tory activists in the countryside are likely go one way and urban floating voters the other.

Walsh's father, a longtime Conservative Party activist and committeeman, served four years in the 1970s as chairman of the Islip Town Conservative Party.

This article from Politico Magazine is our publisher Sal Conforto's «Pick of the Week», involving an immigration activist's experience coming to a Texas border town as an undocumented American and getting stuck.

The environmental one is clear, and it's voiced by Dustin Noble (John Krasinski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Damon), an environmental activist from a small organization that has photos of what fracking did to his family's farm (dead cows in a field) and a science demonstration for the local school of what could — or, as he believes, will — happen if fracking becomes the norm in their town.

At 7 p.m., Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders broadcasts a town hall meeting at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., with student activists to discuss issues such as college affordability.

As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets - among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident - people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

However, the national political conventions that occur every four years during presidential elections offer a unique opportunity to influence individuals who have the power to improve animals» lives directly — this includes elected officials as well as other key decision makers, party officials, activists, and members of the media who are in town for the week's events.

In addition to the ease of travel, what sets this trip apart is its exclusive experiences such as a day spent with Jonathon Scott, the documentarian and host of the hit BBC program «Big Cat Diary,» and a dinner in Cape Town with Joss Kent, AndBeyond's CEO, and Denis Goldberg, a friend and fellow activist of the late Nelson Mandela.

Only a few of those 42 buildings were architectural gems, but collectively they added up to an idea that was bigger; to the city councillors, it represented the shame of the decline of Brantford as a major manufacturing centre; to the local activists it was a part of their collective memory; to me it represented everything that was wrong in the small town mindset that would let their downtown die for a Walmart or a Tim Horton drivethrough.

As apart of the «Moving Planet» campaign organized by 350.org, activists created a giant human - windmill in Paris, gave out bike lessons in Buenos Aires, practiced evacuation measure in the Pacific island of Tuvalu imperiled by rising sea levels, and marched in Cape Town for a strong agreement at the next UN climate meeting hosted in Durban, South Africa.

Ruah Swennerfelt is an activist, homesteader, blogger, and author working on environmental issues as General Secretary of Quaker Earthcare Witness and on the boards of Vermont Interfaith Power and Light and Transition Town Charlotte, Vermont.

Based in Cape Town, McDaid started out as a teacher - turned educational advocate and activist against apartheid before turning to faith - based environmental justice.

But you'd never believe the «subdued» part from the way the town has become the epicenter of anti-coal efforts in the Pacific Northwest, as activists have battled plans for a coal export terminal.

And Stoneman Douglas alum Matt Deitsch, who served as community outreach director for March for Our Lives and whose brother Ryan still attends the school, suggested that activists request town halls in person at elected officials» offices, video recording their answers.