Sentences with phrase «work as an activist»

But, aside from helping your team to win, there is another great reason to campaign: working as an activist, even briefly, flips on its head any preconceived notions and truisms about election campaigning.

She now works as an activist to fight corruption and help the poor and disenfranchised with a variety of local community programs, including The Community Pantry, a food pantry in the town of Middletown that serves about 500 local families.

Nixon also touted her behind - the - scenes work as an activist pushing for legislation in private meetings with lawmakers.

Seamans is new to the political scene, but has been working as an activist for Western New Yorkers for several years.

Maria Urbina, national political director of the Indivisible Project, lauded Balter's health care advocacy and her work as an activist with the Central New York Solidarity Coalition.

Learning Objective To give students a background into art as being a statement to reform society, to see an artists who works as an activist to make statements about the corruption in the Chinese Government.

Animal Sheltering Magazine is for everyone who cares about the animals in their community - from humane society directors to city animal control managers to kennel staff, volunteers, and private individuals working as activists, breed rescuers, wildlife rehabbers, veterinarians, and others.

Coming from Edelson, who began working as an activist during the civil rights movement, the homage to a woman who struck back at her violent husband reads as a wry monument to direct action.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Seth is a committed activist and previously worked for 13 years as a nationally recognized Atlanta - based corporate attorney.

Away from the camera, she is a fashion designer and also works as a women's rights activist for the UN's Women's Political Participation and Leadership programme.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

United Republic will be coalition building, organizing across the country, as well as issuing grants to home - grown activists to help give you the resources to get our work done.

As we are a team of unlikely activists — the anti-Wall Street Wall Streeters — the three ups / three downs system helps us work together, remain happier, and allows me to harness creative thinking from all angles, not just my own.

Barclays is giving advice «on value - boosting transactions — such as spinoffs, splitoffs and carveouts — to help deter activists,» and working with companies «to pinpoint the factors driving poor performance, such as the company's balance sheet, operating performance, or corporate structure.»

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

We should then remind the activists that, while their work may be a parable of God's kingdom, as Luther said, this kingdom does not depend on their efforts, which are always enfeebled by a self - love that elicits God's judgment.

The truth is the social gospel has become its own gospel... leaving out Jesus and salvation and becoming a cynical secular movement who believes the end justifies the means... including Obama's work as «community activist».

The mountaintop experience, in the lives of great social activists such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., motivates them to descend from the mountain and work for the transformation of the world.

As Christians — conservative and progressive, gay and straight, activists and slacktivists — we must direct our efforts instead toward bridging this divide, which is going to take a lot of hard work, a lot of disappointment, a lot of tears, a lot of compromise, a lot of honesty, a lot of mistakes, a lot of apologies, a lot of listening, a lot of forgiveness, a lot of meal sharing, a lot of gospel.

House Democrats starting a Faith Working Group, Democratic activists launched new organizations like Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good while others - such as Sapp and Strider - started new faith - based consulting shops.

Since these activists believe the most crucially needed transformation is individual, they have argued for religious transformation as a legitimate means of doing government - funded social work.

Assisting a beggar at the door of the Nunciature (even if it was Corporal Hitler) is hardly tantamount to bankrolling a political activist and in any case the post First World War charitable activities of Archbishop Pacelli in Berlin and throughout Germany were the precursor to the establishment of what would eventually become the Institute of Religious Works (aka «Vatican Bank») under the direct supervision of the nun who ran Pacelli's household before and after his election as pope.

Anytime a scientific organization endorses sod, remember Gittings words: They are running scared.Pro - sod activists have learned that intimidation and strategic alliances work, and they are never hesitant about using intimidation and psyc manipulation to reach the goals of their radical agenda.Adopting terrorism as a means, pro-sod activists set their vicious sights on D.r. David Reuben, one of the best - known psyc in the area of human sxu in 1974.

I am a researcher and activist working to protect the separation of church & state and am founder of a project called The Kryptonite Project where we compiled a list of ReBiblicans (not republicans) who ran for national and gubernatorial offices in every state and put this info in an interactive map to make access as simple as possible for voters.

Immigrants — as well as chefs, activists, restaurant owners, servers, and lawyers — take center stage at these dinners, engaging and educating diners about the realities undocumented people face living and working here.

In addition to working as an educator, she is also a political activist for positive educational change for children.

I am a toLabor trained birth doula and birth activist, and as an Evidence Based Birth Instructor I am able to offer trainings to obstetricians, midwives, nurses, and other doulas in the community in addition to working with expecting families.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

It will bring together scholars who research maternal activism as well as activists who work with and on behalf of mothers.

My doula practice is an extension of my political beliefs and work as an organizer and activist around issues of social justice.

I consider my work «radical» because, although «radical» or «activist» work at large is perceived as protests and / or changing legislation, I believe that the emotional labor, relationship building, and advocacy are important (and overlooked) parts of justice work.

Intended for use by policy - makers, national breastfeeding committees, breastfeeding advocates, women's health activists and others working for public health in the community, the Resource sets out why breastfeeding in the context of HIV has never been as safe as it is today.

To Feed And Be Fed (8 min) Ann Cooper is the tough, hard working chef whose convictions drive her to reinvent herself as a school reform activist.

As I have stressed repeatedly, the Mayor must protect the needs of Lower Manhattan's residents and businesses as he fulfills his duty to safeguard the First Amendment rights of Occupy Wall Street activists and allows them to continue their important work.&raquAs I have stressed repeatedly, the Mayor must protect the needs of Lower Manhattan's residents and businesses as he fulfills his duty to safeguard the First Amendment rights of Occupy Wall Street activists and allows them to continue their important work.&raquas he fulfills his duty to safeguard the First Amendment rights of Occupy Wall Street activists and allows them to continue their important work.»

As one small example, I spoke to a group of pro-choice activists a few weeks ago, many of whom work with students on college campuses.

Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.

The Working Families Party, whose base combines labor unions and individuals and activist groups, has emerged as a force in New York through unusual «fusion» laws that allow candidates to run on more than one party line.

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is set to appear on ballots in at least 39 states, and party activists are working in places such as swing state Ohio to get his name before voters this fall.

Freedom from Torture works closely with survivors to support their development as activists and advocates.

Haile Rivera, a Bronx activist who worked on Espada's campaign, is floating Sen Ruben Diaz Sr. as the next majority leader.

The little - known Long entered the race in February, but quickly worked to establish her street credentials as a conservative judicial activist.

The youth activists stormed the assembly to forcefully takeover as the new revenue collectors due to a change in government, indicating that they worked for the victory of the NPP and it was apt they are given jobs to also fend for their families.

It might make sense that, say, technology bloggers would be disproportionately male, since many more men than women work in high - tech (and obsess about it), but politics is a different animal — women may still be underrepresented in top elected offices, but at least as many women as men work as political activists and political staff or as volunteers.

Thus, for example, a group of scholars and activists working on borders recently occupied the discursive terrain by introducing new keywords in migration and borders, such as «militant investigation», «counter-mapping» and «bordering» among others (Casas Cortes et al. 2014).

Grechen Shirley said she and other members of activist groups known as «pop ups» had worked for Democrat Christine Pellegrino's successful state Assembly election, which Schaffer sat out, and planned fundraisers for Democratic county legislative candidates.

People close to Bharara describe him as a «Chuck Schumer Democrat,» which would put him somewhere on the center - left in a Democratic primary — not a good place to be in a state party in which the organizing energy is among unions and activist groups like the Working Families Party.