Sentences with phrase «when local activist»

When a local activist urged my husband and me to help him distribute Christmas food packages to poor Mayan women, I asked if our presence would evoke images of colonial masters doling out scraps, but he strongly disagreed.

I also thought about protesting when local activist June Griffin got away with vandalizing a Mexican store in town.

Amazing things can happen when local activists coordinate their efforts.

Not exact matches

Contrary to what you're saying in this post, I know many local activists who can and do articulate alternative economic strategy - in such simple, powerful terms as tax the rich, protect jobs, save welfare - quite clearly when talking to local media and elsewhere.

«Campaigns should really be focusing on the work in the field and be more careful of what they're doing when it comes to Nevada — Culinary's turf is the casinos,» said Jose Macias, a well - known local activist who is supporting Sanders, because of his support for a $ 15 minimum wage.

That prized position became available when Mark Reckless made a shock defection from the Tories, but local Conservative activists didn't want Mackinlay chopping and changing constituencies.

When I surveyed the state and regional political blogs in the BlogAds network a few weeks ago, I was shocked at how few campaigns were bothering to advertise on sites that would seem to be precisely targeting the local activists they'd most want to reach.

According to the Telegraph, Tory activists are also angry at him urging his MPs to ignore the views of their local associations when deciding which side to back.

Oleh town in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State played host to dignitaries from far and near when the Odio - Ologbo of Oleh Kingdom, HRM A.W.O. Ovrawah, JP, FCAII, on Friday, the 12th of May, 2017, conferred on Constitutional Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, the Chieftaincy title of OKPOROKPO (the Lion of Oleh Kingdom).

Addressing some 400 delegates at the Guardian's conference fringe debate, Mr Campbell also risked the wrath of grassroots activists when he attacked the reluctance of Lib Dems in local government to devolve power.

An outspoken liberal generally allied with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mark - Viverito tends to favor the views of tenants and local activists when it comes to real estate issues in New York.

When I mention clean - coal technology to Judy Bonds, a local activist and coal miner's daughter in Whitesville, West Virginia, she scoffs: «Even if you could get marshmallows to come out of a power plant's smokestacks, you can't wash the blood off coal.»

Locals have looked forward to this outdoor nonprofit performing arts series every summer since 1938, when it was founded by civic activist and arts patron Rosalie Meyer Stern.

When the local press reported that Edison was expected to assume management of many of the city's schools, the local teachers union mobilized in opposition, and groups of parent and student activists held rallies throughout the city.

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.

What they do not want is for their activities to be exposed through the collaboration of local activists with sympathetic visitors ---- as occurred in Oklahoma when some of Senator James Inhofe's own supporters called Showing Animals Respect & Kindness to help them document the pigeon shooting mayhem.

Rather than applying for a traditional loan through mainstream banks, Vimala — a prominent local food and media activist — appealed to her community for small loans when planning to expand from catering into a full - time restaurant.

If there can't be accountability in her high - profile case that has received international media coverage and has led to violent clashes in Honduras, then there is little hope for the activists who don't even get a local news story when they are killed.