Sentences with phrase «world of activism»

Many Soviet parents thought of their children, without irony, as «children of the revolution»; in the West, Communists lived with one foot in society and the other in an incomparably more important world of activism and organization and doctrinal study.

She and others are still trying to navigate the world of activism, even as they're sure of the message.

Not exact matches

Schultz has long championed corporate social impact, but his high - profile push on the issue of race has some from both the business world and the black community wondering whether there's a limit to the growing trend of what's known as «CEO activism.»

Through works of mercy on our streets and peacemaking in conflict zones around the world, our communities have been known for their activism.

He's also the author of the book Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World in which he made his case for «firebrand» activism.

Perhaps the most characteristic mark of the American church as distinguished from the church elsewhere in the world has been activism.

This week, we talk with Liz Forkin Bohannon, founder of Sseko Designs about how her unique approach to business, fashion and activism is changing the world, one life at a time.

This standardization was the product of many factors, including: (1) professional politics within the mental health community, (2) increased gov involvement in mental health research and policymaking, (3) mounting pressure on psysts from health insurers to demonstrate the effectiveness of their practices,,,, Alan Stone, president of the APA in 1976, concluded that social psy and social activism, «carrying psyc on a mission to change the world, had brought the profession to the edge of extinction» (Wilson, 1993, p. 402)

Their activism reflects the growing diversity among their denomination; a report released last month showed a majority of Southern Baptist church plants are predominantly non-Anglo, and LifeWay Christian Resources has become the world's largest commercial publisher of Spanish Bibles.

However, in the years before World War I activism was a largely elite movement appealing to the educated but bored sons of the bourgeoisie, eager for excitement and glory and disappointed in the Italietta, the «Little Italy» of the liberal politicians.

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.

-- Allyson Kramer, author of Great Gluten - Free Vegan Eats and Great Gluten - Free Vegan Eats from Around the World «Ricki Heller's desserts are proof that food is activism!

, an annual three - day free festival, brings together brass bands from around the world for a celebration of music, community, and activism (Somerville)

One aspect of Carr's piece that jumps out at me is that he seems to speak of online activism in the abstract, as something taking place out in the aether without much connection to the real world.

There is a great, vibrant world of online activism for Labour to tap into.

Hi folks, last week I had the pleasure of going on Digital Politics Radio, where host Karen Jagoda and talked about hashtag activism and the big changes in the digital politics world since 2010.

The MobileActive series of Strategy Guides is designed to equip organizations around the world with the know - how to deploy effective mobile campaigns for a variety of types of activism and advocacy.

By Jose Antonio Vargas In the world of online activism, a way to measure how unorganized a movement is by how many organizations claim credit for its actions.

They also found themselves increasingly drawn into the world of dolphin activism.

While critics point out the dangers of throwing money at your problems without careful thought, it's a good sign that the world's billionaires are starting an important conversation about philanthropy and activism.

'» This festival session will include a panel featuring Johnson as well as Carrington Jackson, the Yoga in Action coordinator for Off the Mat Into the World, a nonprofit that bridges yoga and activism through trainings and opportunities for activism; Kerri Kelly, founder of CTZNWELL, a movement to mobilize the wellness community into a powerful force for change; and Chelsea Jackson Roberts, who founded a community program for teen girls called Yoga, Literature, and Art Camp at Spelman College in Atlanta.

Whether it's her smile, her moxie, her activism, or a combination of all three, Adwoa Aboah is turning the modeling world upside down.

On April 15, the kidnapping of 218 Nigerian school girls captured the world's attention, and prompted viral activism as a form of pressure on the Nigerian government; the campaign started on the White House website, on Change.org, and on Facebook, demanding to Bring Back Our Girls.

As an added bonus, OneScene is a proud proponent in favor equality, spreading a message of acceptance across the world through education and activism.

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Winner of the Cadillac People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 «The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls» tells the story of the world's only comedic, singing, yodeling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand's social

For Jolie, her desire to save the entire third world, one orphan at a time, manifests itself in a picture that poses the big - lipped beauty carefully as a fashion plate and a sainted martyr; a debutante with an amazing wardrobe and a UN worker with a streak of activism; and a figure in its way as ridiculous as Gooding Jr.'s caricature of a severely mentally - disabled man (James Robert Kennedy) that reminds, of all things, of that acorn - crazed, pre-verbal prehistoric squirrel from Ice Age.

The film of 2012 that provided the most piercingly accurate gauge of our current ideologico - aesthetic situation was Kony 2012 with its canny manipulation of youth culture, the drive for a global community, child - like whimsy and Apple Inc. utopianism — all as part of a project that has less to do with real social activism and more to do with the self - interested exploitation of our common desire for a better world.

First Reformed marks a considerable turning point, a film à thèse about the struggle for grace and faith in our modern world of hyperreality and despair, especially when the various stopgaps offered by society — organized religion, political institutions, ecological activism — seem variously counterfeit.

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

On the sunny afternoon of the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, we meet at a West Hollywood vegetarian cafe to discuss «The Cove,» the former National Geographic photographer's first foray into the world of feature filmmaking, and a stand - out piece of activism that seems to galvanize most anyone who's seen it.

Or Machines, a narration-less tour of an Indian factory that forces you to rethink not just third - world labor but first - world cine - activism.

On the sunny afternoon of the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, we meet at a West Hollywood vegetarian cafe to discuss «The Cove,» the former National Geographic photographer's first foray into the world of feature filmmaking, and a stand - out piece of activism that seems to galvanize most anyone who's -LSB-...]

What makes Black Panther feel different from other Marvel movies is that the world it imagines, the fights it insists must be fought, are grounded in real questions with immediate analogues that harken back to an entire discourse of black activism and thought.

Finally, as for the opt - out movement, which was also a source of discussion throughout my visit given primarily New Mexico students» activism in this regard, a related post was recently featured on Gene Glass's «Education in Two Worlds» readers might also find of interest.

One drawing a lot of interest, for example, is Wednesday's «Translator as Activism: from Politics to Cultural Change, How Translators are Changing the World Through Their Work.»

How a little activism on my part gave me my first taste of the world of politics (this is a good topic for any scholarship essay!)

[And maybe the best Ben Graham - type market in the world, if you can't resist that sort of thing...] Of course, investor sentiment's improved accordingly — concern about the fate of the yen & Japan's debt burden has abated for now, and Shinzo Abe has generated new expectations of meaningful change and progress in terms of corporate regulation, shareholder value & governance, and investor activisof thing...] Of course, investor sentiment's improved accordingly — concern about the fate of the yen & Japan's debt burden has abated for now, and Shinzo Abe has generated new expectations of meaningful change and progress in terms of corporate regulation, shareholder value & governance, and investor activisOf course, investor sentiment's improved accordingly — concern about the fate of the yen & Japan's debt burden has abated for now, and Shinzo Abe has generated new expectations of meaningful change and progress in terms of corporate regulation, shareholder value & governance, and investor activisof the yen & Japan's debt burden has abated for now, and Shinzo Abe has generated new expectations of meaningful change and progress in terms of corporate regulation, shareholder value & governance, and investor activisof meaningful change and progress in terms of corporate regulation, shareholder value & governance, and investor activisof corporate regulation, shareholder value & governance, and investor activism.

We analyze the returns to these metrics, and apply them to two real world examples of activism.

We analyze the returns to these metrics, and apply them to two recent, real world examples of activism.

The Icahns and Loebs of the world are easy political targets, because they publicly rattle sabers and make billions by pushing the envelope of activism.

World Rabies Day is a day of activism and awareness.

From early February through to the first weekend of March, Sydney is home to the biggest celebration of queer pride and political activism in the world.

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.»

Notable traveling group exhibitions include Art, Activism and Civil Rights in the 1960s, traveling to the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2015); Hood Museum of Art, Hannover, New Hampshire (2015); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2014); For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, traveling to the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County (2010); the International Center of Photography, New York (2010); and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2011).

CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT Now in its eighth year, this summit, a sort of TED Talks for the contemporary art world, joins art with activism.

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.

Based on the premise that the cultures of role play, sexual play, and digital play have all flourished beyond the boundaries of art structures, this exhibition provides a gathering place and platform for the exploration of queer play created by individuals and groups from the worlds of game design and theory, performance, kink, and activism.

This year, Maura Reilly has published Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating, a handbook of new curatorial strategies, based on pioneering examples of innovative recent efforts to offset racial and gender disparities in the art world.

By considering how the roles of artists cross into the realm of activism and socially transformative endeavours, New Revolutions explores historical and contemporary tensions and movements that are unfolding in Africa and around the world, through the panorama of contemporary art.