Sentences with phrase «well as community activists»

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick joined local, state and federal leaders, as well as community activists and business leaders, on Friday, May 24 to remind local residents and companies of the opportunity to share their story with the judge considering the sentence in the federal case against Tonawanda Coke.

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The creators of Signal, the encrypted messaging app widely used throughout security community — as well as by journalists, activists, and others seeking to stymie government surveillance — announced on Wednesday a major change to the organization's makeup.

Unfortunately, they are doing so without any input from the community, an attitude that activists such as myself, along with Andrea Northup of the D.C. Farm to School Network, and Tara Flakker of Parents for Better D.C. School Food, would like to see changed.

Several Cary homeowners and members of the Citizens for a Better Community, an activist group, told the board that they still back the effort to acquire the property and preserve it as open space.

Because of breastfeeding's well - documented benefits to both baby and mother, many blactavists — Black Lactation Activists, such as Kimberly Seals Allers [158] advocate and support breastfeeding in the African - American community.

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And a digest of the response of blogs to not just the video, but also the organization, points to a contentious relationship (as always) within the activist community about the best way to bring about change.

«Brad and I had good conversations about this campaign and how my experience as a community activist and Democratic District Leader would be an asset in the State Assembly,» she said.

I want to offer some information on our early organizing work to help engage existing soil - based as well as other community - driven urban ag growers, activists, and leaders as local elected officials begin to consider the development of urban ag policy...

Though Democrats far outnumber Republicans in both the city and state, the hope is to train at least 200 potential activists from the black, Hispanic and other non-traditional GOP communities over a six - week period that can be used throughout New York for upcoming congressional and state Senate races as well as be dispatched nationally, Weingartner said.

While New York City voters go to the polls Tuesday to fill vacant City Council, District Attorney, and state legislative seats, as well as to vote for judges, a coalition of advocates and activists, including good government and community groups,...

The advocates included actress Debra Winger, filmmaker Josh Fox and environmental leader Bill McKibben, as well as activists from communities across New York's Southern Tier.

Among Diaz's opponents are Elvin Garcia, a former Bronx aide in Mayor de Blasio's community assistance unit who is openly gay; community activist Amanda Farias, who has the backing of the National Organization of Women as well as Roskoff's club.

«Brad and I had good conversations about this campaign and how my experience as a community activist and Democratic district leader would be an asset in the state Assembly,» Ms. Simon said in a statement.

At 10 a.m., Rep. John Katko will join local non-profit organizations as well as community service activists and anti-poverty groups to participate in a forum on addressing the devastating poverty rate in the City of Syracuse and the surrounding areas, Mary Nelson Center, 2849 South Salina St., Syracuse.

Rounding off the trio, Peekskill activist, Vanessa Agudelo, a lifelong Peekskill resident and community organizer involved in supporting city beautification and green projects expressed her appreciation as well.

«Those who want to be bad active citizens, they're part of the problem as well and that will be dealt with,» said community activist Walt Dixie.

«My understanding is that Moya has some history as an activist in the community and I think that probably put him in good stead as well,» Krasner said.

«As an educator, a community activist, a future political leader and a concerned parent, I will use the best management practices and advances in technology to offer maximum taxpayer value and satisfaction,» he wrote.

An ice expert turned politician, Adams is well respected in his caucus — the Government Caucus on Post-Secondary Education and Research — and is a leading expert in his field, as well as a life - long community activist.

Currently Chelsea is developing a yoga and literacy curriculum for Atlanta area youth organizations, as well as providing trainings for yoga practitioners, educators, community leaders, activists, and students interested in expanding their awareness on issues concerning marginalized youth, individuals, and communities.

A leading bisexual activist, Cruz has spoken across the country on the issues pertaining to the bisexual community, media representation, as well as faith and sexuality at universities and conferences alike.

Anyone can start campaigning for their best romantic interests by getting involved in the Burlington community as an activist or volunteer.

At this point, it becomes obvious that Michael may not have always had the best intentions while he was a gay activist; he just wants others in the LGBT community to do as he does, to Be Like Mike, which now means that everyone who isn't hetero must deny their sexuality and see the light.

In speaking with such members of the gay community as U.S. representatives Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank, as well as radio personality Michelangelo Signorile, activist Larry Kramer, and former N.J. governor Jim McGreevey, Dick is able to explore the complexities of leading a double lifestyle, as well as highlight the double standards of a media that has become obsessed with covering the sex lives of gay public figures.

Alice Cardona was a Puerto Rican whose advocacy for women's rights and bilingual education, as well as her efforts as founder of various organizations for Latinas, have distinguished her in New York activist communities.

In both cases, solidarity thinking makes it difficult for them to comprehend and empathize with concern families and communities have for their children and each other — and leads to loss of trust from those they serve, as well as increased scrutiny from media and activists.

School reformers need to step up their game in this area as well as build ties to grassroots activists and community leaders in order to sustain momentum.

Among the presenters will be former Education Secretary John B. King, Jr.; civil rights activist and former Baltimore schools administrator Deray McKesson; Kaya Henderson, former chancellor of D.C. schools; and Brittany Packnett, vice president of national community alliances for Teach For America; as well as several others.

We recently spoke with Phi, an award - winning poet and community activist, and Bui, a graphic novelist who's won recent acclaim for her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (2017), about their debut picture book, their collaboration, and how their own experiences growing up as Vietnamese immigrants in America helped inform the book.

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This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

In April 2015, Jemison brought together members of Harlem - based community organizations as well as artists, writers, activists, and others for a Utopia Club reading group in MoMA's library, where they discussed black American literary and political visions of an ideal society.

This group of portraits includes well - known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, a local kid who ran errands for Neel, and other children and their families.

In addition to her studio practice Carr is on a number of institutional boards as well as being an activist for local community and political organizations.

Co-founded last year by artist Mark Bradford, philanthropist and collector Eileen Harris Norton, and social activist Allan DiCastro, Art + Practice (A+P) «encourages education and culture by providing life - skills training for foster youth in the 90008 ZIP code as well as free, museum - curated art exhibitions and moderated art lectures to the community of Leimert Park.»

Alice Neel, Uptown features both well known figures such as playwright, actress and author Alice Childress; sociologist Horace R. Clayton Jr.; and community activist Mercedes Arroyo, as well as anonymous individuals like children, families, a taxi driver, a ballet dancer, a nurse and a boy who ran errands for Neels.

Over the three days we will form a community - led action research lab that brings together artists, researchers, data scientists, and activists, as well as community participants in an ambitious and intensive programme of experiments, interventions and performances.

«Known for presenting cross-disciplinary work and underrepresented artists, often in their first museum shows or retrospectives,» he said, «who better to inspire our community of architects, artists, educators, activists and scholars as they embark on the next chapter of their creative lives?»

The book includes well - known figures like playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse, as well as those only identified by their race and ethnicity, with special attention given to peoples of Latinx, African - American, Arab, and Asian descent.

He paints the individuals who surround him — friends, family, acquaintances — as well as notable figures of the African American community — musicians, activists, athletes.

Oh yes, in 2015 it was won by a community activist group called Assemble, full of good intentions but they don't, as far as I can recall, actually describe themselves as artists.»

The activist organization pointed out that to compensate for impacts on the Hudson River during the closure period, Entergy will establish a $ 15 million fund for river restoration and remediation as well as projects providing public benefits to the community.

They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

As you can imagine, for community garden activists wanting immediate permanence, and who have been generally distrustful of the Bloomberg administration throughout this process, this didn't sit well.

The activists were calling for the immediate shut - down of the Valmont Coal Plant, as well as urging the City of Boulder to cut its ties with Xcel Energy and to create a truly sustainable community built on local democracy, locally - generated energy and locally - produced food.»

Environmental, energy, and global warming concern well may be on American's minds — as recent opinion polls Climate Progress is parsing bear out — but collectively we're barely past admitting we have a problem, let alone starting the depth of societal soul searching the activist community would (rightly) like to see.

Germany's impressive wind and solar deployment in recent years has been used by activists in the environmental community, as well as governments, to argue against the need for investment in other zero carbon energy sources, particularly nuclear and other centralized forms of energy.

In a very recent paper published in the University of Toronto Law Journal, LL.M student and trans activist Florence Ashley argues that laws such as Bill C - 16, while symbolically valuable and appreciated by the transgender community, will be largely inconsequential in improving transgender peoples» well being due systemic obstacles and foundational flaws in the legislation's premises.

Reports from the intelligence community at the time, as well as common sense, pegged Guccifer 2.0 not as the Romanian activist he claimed to be, but a Russian operative.