Sentences with phrase «waves of activism»

We've seen early waves of activism on women's issues and gun control.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

But it's spurred a wave of activism that may have gone about as far as it can go.

The April 20 walkout will be a test for the staying power of this new wave of activism.

Through it all — the heartbreak and tears — our students have united and sparked a wave of activism in this country.

«Our protests and our work have sparked a new wave of activism which will grow stronger by the day,» he pledged.

At the same time, many CSOs face an existential crisis: for many, the funding situation is getting worse, and the new people's movements and great wave of activism of 2011 happened largely independently of organised civil society.

Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, said the agreement would kick off a new wave of activism targeted against big carbon reserves.

It's also a bit confusing to compare K's latest screeds with the earlier sunny allegation that Trump's election wasn't a problem since it had unleashed a wave of activism that would move the country a bit closer to a sane climate policy.

The backlash to the 1969 White Paper was monumental, leading not only to its withdrawal in 1970, but to a wave of activism, academic work and court decisions over the next five decades.

Through it all — the heartbreak and tears — our students have united and sparked a wave of activism in this country.

Amid the wave of activism, Florida passed a law curbing young peoples» access to rifles; the NRA has sued to try to block it.

Not exact matches

Trump to take center stage at the NRA convention as the gun industry faces a wave of backlash, activism and weak demand

When animal welfare activism comes up in conversation, it's only natural to think of angry protesters waving gruesome photos on the street or a bucket of red paint splashed on someone's brand new fur coat.

The successful revolt comes amid a wave of investor activism in Switzerland, where Nestlé also faces demands for change from U.S. - based investors, while Credit Suisse is under attack from home - grown ones.

The Feb. 14 massacre is the worst school shooting in Florida history and sparked nationwide outrage, a wave of student activism and a law restricting gun sales.

The mass shooting has prompted a wave of youth activism that has reverberated from South Florida to Washington, where hundreds of students gathered outside the White House gates on Wednesday before the listening session, chanting, «Enough is enough!»

But this was just the beginning of a new wave of teenage activism against gun violence.

The late 80s and 90s saw an intensification of the rock identification with leftist activism that had always been there, but which had suffered through some hesitant and confused years when punk and new wave crashed onto the scene with their anti-hippie and sometimes even anti-Labor ire in the late 70s and early 80s, a confusion heightened by the Thatcher / Reagan victories and the mainstream «morning again» mood they brought.

How should mainstream political organizations — and politicians themselves — respond to this new wave of tech - enabled citizen activism?

It's the third rally calling for more stringent gun laws since the Valentine's Day shooting at a South Florida high school when 17 people were killed, triggering a wave of student activism.

Yet at a time when liberal anger over President Donald Trump and his policies has sparked a wave of progressive activism on all levels, some Democratic insiders privately worry that the party's future stars could grow frustrated if they have nowhere to go.

In the weeks before the midterms, polls of congressional races were starting to register the results of the rising dissatisfaction with Obamacare, combined with the surging wave of Tea Party activism.

New, extreme levels of censorship in Turkey could lead to waves of digital activism by tech - savvy generations.

Outspoken Uranus has been in warrior - sign Aries since 2011, giving rise to waves of anger met with widespread activism.

My job as a «vaginapractor» and the many women choosing to step into my office represent the next wave of feminism that includes our cycles, our biology, and our pleasure — activism that I wholeheartedly champion and that I think we can all get behind.

Schools are experiencing a tidal wave of student activism in response to the shooting in Parkland, Florida.

The Black Church has been a cornerstone of African American community and activism for centuries, and its role has subjected it to repeated and vicious attacks from the original Klu Klux Klan of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, through the rise of the Second Klan in the 1920s and the waves of riots and violence inflicted upon African American communities across the country, to the waves of violence against the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

A wave of student activism that began in Broward County, where a high school shooting massacre last week left 17 dead, spread Wednesday to surrounding schools and across the nation, including thousands of students who took part in school walk - outs throughout Palm Beach County.

The exhibition title references the currently popular wave of woman - led activism, as well as women who have been steadily claiming their own ground for centuries, sometimes alone and sometimes collectively.

Harris says the volume offers «ephemeral moments and emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and»90s, against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization.»

Shown for the first time, this exhibition of thirty - four chromogenic prints selected from the artist's personal archive of 35 mm Ektachrome color reversal slides represents a unique document of ephemeral moments and emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and 1990s against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization.

Brooklyn Museum's «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85» reorients the conversation around race, feminism, political activism and art during the emergence of second - wave feminism by highlighting the often dismissed work of women artists of color.

Ho sees the direct activism of the eighties and nineties — Suzanne Lacy, Barbara Kruger, David Wojnarowicz — being replaced by a formalist wave of the late 2000s — Joshua Abelow, Dana Frankfort, Roger White.

In the past decade, one of Lambert - Beatty's chief research concerns has been the potential and limits of political art in contemporary practice, which she has explored through work on hybrids of art and activism such as Women on Waves and The Yes Men.

Their practice has been at the forefront of a new wave of art - activism that is non-binary in its blending of forms; integrating collaborative creative practice with strategic campaigning goals.

Focussing on performance and media - based works, as well as the activism that was intergral to first wave Feminism, this exhibition made visible the radical operative of Feminist art and politics within art today.

The title, «Waves,» alludes to these cultural relations, as well as to the organization, study and production of feminist theory and activism — and how it has been grouped in recent history as first, second and third feminist wWaves,» alludes to these cultural relations, as well as to the organization, study and production of feminist theory and activism — and how it has been grouped in recent history as first, second and third feminist waveswaves.

«Decades of coastal activism and environmental research have facilitated Surfrider Foundation's success at protecting oceans, beaches and waves,» said Mark Rauscher, Surfrider Foundation's Assistant Environmental Director, «Beachapedia strives to capture that knowledge.»

New, extreme levels of censorship in Turkey could lead to waves of digital activism by tech - savvy generations.