Sentences with phrase «vocal community leaders»

Anpo Wicahpi, the Pine Ridge Girls» School, is an all - girls school that uses an empowerment and cultural rootedness approach to transform Lakota girls, living in one of the poorest counties in America into strong, activist, vocal community leaders.

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And I speak up when a few vocal evangelical leaders say hateful things about LGBT people or encourage bullying or condone misogyny because I feel like I have this investment in the community and it's important for those invested in the community to speak up when its leaders are hurting our witness to the world... But I'm not sure I can do that anymore.
Reginald Brown, community leader for VOCAL - NY, announces plans to stay at the Capitol until the New York State budget includes more money to fight HIV / AIDS.
Members of New York Communities for Change, the Real Rent Reform Campaign, and Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL - NY) also took part in the protest.
NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.
«Instead of giving hedge fund managers and others on Wall Street billions in tax cuts so they can gamble with our money, Governor Cuomo should make them pay their fair share and invest in our communities,» said Wayne Starks, a VOCAL - NY Board member and leader from Brooklyn.
The Islington councillor is a vocal supporter of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and was previously the chair of Operation Trident, which tackled the effects of gun crime on black communities.
The honorees were Jennifer Flynn Walker, a co-founder and longtime leader at Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL - NY), Charles Rice - Gonzalez, an author and the -LSB-...]
The honorees were Jennifer Flynn Walker, a co-founder and longtime leader at Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL - NY), Charles Rice - Gonzalez, an author and the co-founder of BAAD!
Member groups in the New Deal for New York campaign include Community Voices Heard (CVH, in New York City, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and Yonkers), Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope (NOAH, in Niagara County), People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH, in Buffalo), Syracuse United Neighbors (SUN), Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL, in New York City, Westchester and Albany), and VOICE (in Erie County).
Individuals from around the city and state joined together in this protest, including low - income members of Community Voices Heard from Newburgh and New Yorkers living with HIV / AIDS that came as members of Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY).
It's interesting how the precursor leaders haven't been able to capitalize on their early support which is just another example to the vocal community during the first week of December, that nothing matters until the Oscar voters get to voting.
What has taken them off - guard, however, is the vocal and bitter opposition among many leaders in the home - schooling community.
Since the news of mid-year cuts last fall, many other teachers, students groups, school leaders, parents, and community members have been vocal in demanding no more cuts to school sites.
In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.
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In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.
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