Sentences with phrase «what led activists»

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What's indisputably true is that one of the leading spokespeople for the student activists, David Hogg, is the son of a retired FBI agent.

Activists who had led the international sports boycott that helped bring down the South African regime — Kidd among them — essentially asked, «What do we do now?»

On a mother (of a) quest for 15 years as a journalist, activist and nonprofit visionary, Lisa Reagan explores the space between our unsustainable industrial story and the emerging story of what is possible for Cultural Creative families — who are leading the way forward.

«AS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICANS — including a sizable number of American Jews — question the act of male circumcision, a group of San Francisco activists are advocating to ban circumcision, or what they call male genital mutilation... Many of the leading activists against circumcision around the country are Jewish.»

On a Mother (of a) Quest for 15 years as a journalist, activist and nonprofit visionary, Lisa Reagan explores the space between our unsustainable industrial story and the emerging story of what is possible for Cultural Creative families — who are leading the way forward.

What the development is doing is getting activists and young people previously switched off from member - led politics engaged with unionisation.

What led to the attack on the person of the paramount chief of Akyem Abuakwa by the notorious radio show host is unclear, but some say it was during the period the Okyeman Council banned two NDC activists from entering the Ofori Panin Fie at Kyebi, while others claim it was during the time the Okyenhene complained about how the Mahama - led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government was sidelining indigenes of Akyem in his appointments.

Conservative Party activists want David Cameron to be bolder on policy and have remarkably low expectations of what a government led by him would achieve, according to a survey carried out for The Independent.

Given Cuomo's pride in his 2015 directive that led to regulations interpreting sex nondiscrimination provisions of the state Human Rights Law to protect New Yorkers based on their gender identity and expression, the administration's commitment to going the step further to get those reforms codified in law cheered transgender activists at that meeting and others briefed on what took place.

«This was what necessitated the setting up of a revenue apportionment committee led by no less personality than a former Labour leader in Nigeria and veteran labour activists on the continent of Africa, Comrade Hassan Sunmonu».

The event will feature a video introduction from national DREAM activist Jose Antonio Vargas and a Town Hall forum with Assemblyman Francisco, lead sponsor of the New York State Dream Act, to bring together undocumented New Yorkers to share their stories, ask questions, and learn what the next Public Advocate can do to empower immigrant families.

Here, leading environmental activists and activist organizations share what they see as the most effective ways to take action:

Howey, the leading author - activist whose observations find a footing in so many debates in the business today, had written in January a comprehensive dressing down of what he sees as the Guild's shortcomings.

What has led to the rise of activists of late?

From prescient feminist Lynn Hershman Leeson to Cuban artist - activist Tania Bruguera to the female - led collective Futurefarmers to social practitioners Suzanne Lacy and Andrea Bowers, YBCA champions women who are creating new civic imaginaries and redefining what it means to work in the public realm.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

What makes Douglas Crimp's Before Pictures so remarkable is not just its subject — the art historian and AIDS activist's early years leading up to the epoch - defining 1977

At Justin Trudeau's rally in Montreal on August 28th, two climate activists took to the stage and unfurled a banner right next to the Liberal leader, asking him to clarify what his climate commitments are in the lead up to the COP21 conference in Paris.

Among other things, the authors state that [1] «scientists do not know how large the greenhouse effect is, whether it will lead to a harmful amount of global warming, or (if it will) what should be done about it» (p. 560); [2] that «profound disagreements» about global warming exist within the scientific community (p. 560); [3] that so - called «activist scientists» say that the earth's climate is warming (p. 560); [4] that «science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect Is, if it exists at all» (p. 569); [5] and that global warming is «enmeshed in scientific uncertainty» (p. 573).

She notes that many folks involved in Transition are activists anyway, but they find themselves keeping quiet about these activities within the movement — almost leading separate lives depending on what role they are in.

In «Rethinking Gonzales,» Professor Bainbridge writes, «The other day I suggested that Alberto Gonzales struck me as the leading candidate to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, but what I'm hearing from conservative legal activists has led me to rethink that suggestion... My guess is that the nominee will be named Edith.