Sentences with phrase «years as a community activist»

«I've worked with Carlina Rivera on countless local issues over the years as a community activist, Democratic District Leader and most recently, in government,» said State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh.

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Bill Gates» private foundation announced that it will spend $ 158 million to fight systemic poverty in the U.S.. On Thursday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that it will spend the money on initiatives such as funding for community activists during the next four years.

Corey Johnson has also been a community activist during his 13 years in New York and has served for eight years on Community Board 4, encompassing Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, including two terms community activist during his 13 years in New York and has served for eight years on Community Board 4, encompassing Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, including two terms Community Board 4, encompassing Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, including two terms as chair.

Assembly 52nd District: Assemblywoman Joan Millman has been a reliable supporter of our issues over the period of many years and is popular among disability activists in her community, as a result of her leadership in establishing the B - 51 bus route, which connects downtown Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan over the Manhattan Bridge.

As part of the agreement, the Yankees also created a Community Benefits Fund, controlled by a volunteer board, that would give out $ 800,000 a year in grants to local community groups, $ 100,000 a year in equipment and merchandise, and 15,000 free game tickets.While some of these grants, merchandise and tickets have been distributed, activists at the rally said much of it remains unaccouCommunity Benefits Fund, controlled by a volunteer board, that would give out $ 800,000 a year in grants to local community groups, $ 100,000 a year in equipment and merchandise, and 15,000 free game tickets.While some of these grants, merchandise and tickets have been distributed, activists at the rally said much of it remains unaccoucommunity groups, $ 100,000 a year in equipment and merchandise, and 15,000 free game tickets.While some of these grants, merchandise and tickets have been distributed, activists at the rally said much of it remains unaccounted for.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER When the 25 - year - old Empire State Pride Agenda, in late 2015, abruptly announced it was closing up shop — with only a vague pledge, that it never fulfilled, to keep its political action committee functioning — activists, advocates, and service providers in the LGBTQ community across New York were at a stunned loss as to what would come next.

Stella has been working for Labour alongside local activists and community campaign groups for many years as an active member of our Walthamstow constituency, whether as a branch secretary, GC delegate, LGC delegate or a campaign organiser.

In my work as a community organizer, and my years of work as a «community activist,» I have been in and out of many.

Angry about what they perceived as years of turmoil and indifference to the needs of poor and minority children, the parents and community activists had little faith that new leadership would make a difference.

As a result, Olney YUC student activists «have spent the last year building a power base in the community,» says Rowe.

I've been involved in those issues as a local community activist for years and 2011 is going to be the year to engage the world!

This is as outrageous an act as I have ever witnessed imposed upon our community in 25 years as an activist.

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

To be eligible, artists need 20 or more years investment in their practice, live in Houston or an adjacent county, and meet specific criteria such as contributing to the community as an educator and / or social activist, having maintained long term affiliations with an arts organization, and more.

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.»

Ms. Trawick has served as a community activist for more than 25 years in downtown Bethesda.

Ecologists and activists have been vocal about the problem of plastic pollution for years: plastic pollution invades our communities as «litter,» harms wildlife, and 8.8 million tons of it end up in our waterways and oceans every year.

Just a few minute's walk from downtown Carrboro, North Carolina, there's a quiet, wooded 10 acre plot of land that has been used by green activists for the past year and is home to gardening projects, an outdoor movie theatre located inside an abandoned historic community pool and an innovative bike maintenance and repair project known as the ReCYCLEry (more on the ReCYCLEry to follow in a separate post).

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.