Sentences with phrase «town hall meeting organized»

made the appeal on the sidelines of a district town hall meeting organized by MAP International, a Christian Non Governmental Organization implementing the Ghana Strengthening and Accountability Mechanisms Project (GSAM) in the Brong Ahafo Region.

Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting organized by a liberal activist group last week.

A task force of over 30 arts leaders developed a 13 actionable strategies — taking into consideration data from a survey conducted across local arts organizations and input from 650 community members who attended town hall meetings organized by the Arts Commission around the issues of cultural inclusion and equity in the arts — that were incorporated into a report presented to the supervisors.

Not exact matches

Liberal groups are organizing hard in part because they took such a beating in the 2009 congressional recess (most notably in «town hall» meetings that turned into viral - video - ready Tea Party rallies), but both sides are cranking up their efforts to reach congressmembers while they're home in their districts: witness Heritage Action's nine - stop rally tour, featuring Ted Cruz.

Faso has also taken heat for declining to appear at town - hall meetings organized by progressive activist groups.

At 6 p.m., parents, community leaders, educators; the Rev. Mike Walrond; Manhattan BP Gale Brewer; former NYC Councilman Robert Jackson and others attend an AQE - organized town hall meeting criticizing Cuomo's education budget proposals, Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts, 215 W. 114th St., Harlem.

Last Wednesday night, several of the groups, including the Real Rent Reform Campaign — made up of organized tenants, labor organizations and community groups that advocate for «progressive» pro-tenant legislation — held a well - attended town hall meeting in Brooklyn (they estimated the crowd at about 200 attendees) while the board of the influential Tenants PAC met separately and decided on endorsements for state legislative races.

«People are clearly concerned by the rise in the number of slashings and stabbings, so we are organizing this town hall meeting on public safety in an effort to inform the public about how to best protect themselves,» Peralta said.

Newly appointed state Department of Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner Darryl Towns said he was working to keep apartment rents affordable during a town hall meeting Sunday organized by state Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) at the Samuel Field Y in Little Neck.

Alcantara did not appear to have attended Espaillat's Saturday Town Hall, but during an earlier Town Hall Meeting Friday night that she organized about immigration, she said, when it comes to the IDC, she's not into the politics of «this person is in this party of that person.»

Two of three candidates in the race for the 24th congressional district, met with voters in Cayuga county yesterday during a town hall forum organized by one of those candidates, Republican Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle.

She is among members of the coalition who have protested against Katko, calling for him to hold town hall meetings that are not organized panel discussions on specific topics.

Rodriguez previously organized a transportation town hall on Jan. 30 — following a series of breakdowns in the elevators of the 168th Street station — but the MTA was a no - show for that meeting as well.

Speaking at a Town Hall Meeting today [Monday] organized by Accra - based Joy FM to mark the government's first 100 days in office, Dr. Bawumia revealed that, government had taken a major step by halting the issuance of mining licenses to address the problem.

Members of the Korean American Community Foundation organized the event which was billed as a «Town Hall Meeting,» minus the people elected to represent us.

The action plan that the task force has put together calls for identifying and boycotting local businesses that sell synthetic marijuana, organizing a town hall meeting about the drug, and reaching out to and providing services for Bronxites in The Hub who are using drugs.

In February 2007, AAAS organized a town hall - style meeting to highlight the human impacts of climate change, and to showcase science - and technology - based strategies for confronting the issue.

Organize magnet school supporters to participate in the town hall meeting and provide them with questions and / or talking points.

Pennsauken, NJ — Ordinary people respond to white flight by organizing groups and town hall meetings to develop a shared vision for Pennsauken.

Administrators can provide open office hours to listen to individual students and organize larger town hall style meetings to hear student concerns.

Politics kills safety forum: A Palm Beach County town hall meeting about school safety is canceled after the school district gets complaints that it appeared to be related to gun - control events organized by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and to the Democratic party.

And, if she's not out running her own business, belly dancing, kickboxing, organizing a Town Hall or board of director's meeting, Erika Armstrong is writing at her house on the hill with her two girls, three dogs, rabbits, horses, guinea pigs and any other strays she finds along the way.

Many of them organize community builds, group discussions, and town hall meetings.

The teen activist is now calling for March for Our Lives supporters to help a group called Town Hall Project, which is organizing town hall meetings with political representatives and their constituents in two weTown Hall Project, which is organizing town hall meetings with political representatives and their constituents in two weHall Project, which is organizing town hall meetings with political representatives and their constituents in two wetown hall meetings with political representatives and their constituents in two wehall meetings with political representatives and their constituents in two weeks.

The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board talk about the Town Hall Project, a nonprofit working with the Parkland students to help organize meetings with local legislators addressing gun reform.

Since the shooting, Parkland survivors have met with Florida state legislators, challenged the NRA in a CNN town hall, organized protests in Tallahassee, and inspired thousands of students to participate in a National School Walkout on the shooting's one - month anniversary.

Advocating tougher gun laws and safer schools, Parkland student David Hogg and others in the student - led #NeverAgain movement are calling on Twitter supporters to organize town - hall meetings during the current congressional recess, which ends April 9.

People marched, showed up at town hall meetings across America, flooded the Congressional switchboard with calls, organized online, stood up for access to health care.

There will be some sort of Town Hall meeting, or workshop, put on by a local Supervisor in L.A. County, Mike Antonovich, which is one of several swiftly organized after the expose that appeared in the Los Angeles Times last week which clearly demonstrated the utter failure of the child support enforcement system.

The Street Town Hall, organized by Springfield Indivisible, Empower Missouri, Advocates of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, Jobs with Justice, and Missouri Health Care for All, brought together Missourians who are frustrated with Sen. Blunt's refusal to schedule a town hall meeting and meet publicly with constitueTown Hall, organized by Springfield Indivisible, Empower Missouri, Advocates of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, Jobs with Justice, and Missouri Health Care for All, brought together Missourians who are frustrated with Sen. Blunt's refusal to schedule a town hall meeting and meet publicly with constitueHall, organized by Springfield Indivisible, Empower Missouri, Advocates of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, Jobs with Justice, and Missouri Health Care for All, brought together Missourians who are frustrated with Sen. Blunt's refusal to schedule a town hall meeting and meet publicly with constituetown hall meeting and meet publicly with constituehall meeting and meet publicly with constituents.