Sentences with phrase «years as an activist»

BPM, which draws on filmmaker Robin Campillo's own years as an activist, is a sprawling drama centered by the emotionally wrenching performance of newcomer Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, playing an ACT UP organizer in Paris.

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

She spent the 15 years as an activist and movement leader working for progressive change, specialising in large - scale advocacy campaigns that disrupt politics, culture, and polluting industries.

Jim Turner will give a talk on insights he has gleaned from his years as an activist attorney.

Sheilah has spent over 30 years as an activist, working with organizations dedicated to developing and advocating for grassroots - developed solutions to social problems, ranging from environmental issues to sustainable agriculture to public school reform to improving school food.

Not exact matches

«We don't want to see property destruction or see people getting hurt,» said Elad Gross, a 29 - year - old St. Louis civil rights attorney, as activists gathered in a park before going to the mall.

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

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.

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

Spun off from DuPont (dd) in summer 2015 amid pressure from activist investor Nelson Peltz, specialty chemical company Chemours arrives to the Fortune 500 after its first full year as a standalone company.

Activist investor Bill Ackman, of the hedge fund Pershing Square, has famously been linked to Herbalife (HLF) for years as its most vocal critic: he has shorted the stock and accused the company of operating a pyramid scheme.

Jolie's film is based on the memoirs of human rights activist Loung Ung, who fled her childhood home in Cambodia during a deadly four - year Communist regime, known as the Khmer Rouge years.

So when some 15 years later — as a portfolio manager at one of the most influential activist hedge funds — Cohn launched a hostile bid to acquire Novell, he mentioned the accolade in his letter to the board.

And Elliott has lately sought to clone its winning strategy: It's on track to launch about 50 % more activist campaigns this year than in 2016 — nearly three times as many as any other major activist fund — including, in October, two in a single day.

As his hedge fund Pershing Square heads into its fourth straight year in the red, investing titan Bill Ackman is calling it quits on one of the most high - profile activist battles on Wall Street: Herbalife.

It rarely pushes out a CEO the way some other activists do, and it often sticks around, often for years, as transformations occur.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

He stepped down as CEO of CN Rail in 2009; a few years later, he became a major figure in Bill Ackman's activist campaign to oust CP's management.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Shel Horowitz has been both an environmental activist / organizer and a marketer since 1972 (as a 15 - year - old high school student).

Lynas's Malaysian plant is the largest one outside China, and while it could have started production as early as May of this year, safety concerns by local activist groups have set the launch back a number of times.

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.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

The Gannett battle over, Ferro faced two noisy dissident shareholders: Oaktree, dispatched today with high - priced hush money, and HG Vora, an activist shareholder that smelled profit last year as Tronc was in play and bought into the company speculatively.

Or will those churches now complete their sectarian withdrawal from the arena of public debate as their theologians and activists go on speaking to themselves as though they were living 350 years ago and economics were just a branch of biblical ethics?

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.

«In all my years as a campaigner,» said secular activist Claire Rayner, «I have never felt such animus against any individual as I do against this creature.

Animal welfare activists remind us that hundreds of millions of animals are used each year as idols for questionable research in science and as victims of inhumane treatment in industry, including food industries that rear and slaughter animals for meat.

Australian pastor and justice activist Jarrod McKenna was arrested four times last year, but has been described as «the sort of God botherer that you don't mind being bothered by».

The summit, which reached its midway point today, has been described as a «step in the right direction» by activists and boasts all the hallmarks of the notably progressive attitudes the Catholic Church has adopted since the ascension of Pope Francis last year.»

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

That a lot of secular progressives are fierce supporters of the abortion license because they're eugenicists at heart shouldn't come as a surprise; one current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a Gruberian moment some years ago when she admitted in an interview that legal activists promoting the abortion license prior to 1973 did so in part because they thought it would cut down the «growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.»

While some have suggested that the Court has reined in its activist tendencies over the years» and there have indeed been heartening signs, such as the elevation of William Rehnquist, a dissenter in Roe v. Wade (1973), to the position of Chief Justice the same year Scalia joined the bench» Scalia's recent opinions remind us that these tendencies often prevail.

The activist impulse does not beat as strongly as it did a few years ago.

If all goes as planned — and if the activists stop trying to block the project — the life - saving rice could be made available within as little as two years in the Philippines, and soon after in Bangladesh and Indonesia.

Animal rights activists see the Muslim and Jewish slaughter methods as unnecessary cruelty and calls to ban this kind of butchering have grown in Europe in recent years as halal meat has become increasingly available in shops and restaurants.

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.

After years of dedicated campaigning by Filipino activists, this summer the Philippines Department of Health decided to implement extremely strong laws on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes, known as the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Executive Order 51.

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.

The Man in the Cowboy Hat follows Carlos for the next ten years as his story evolves from grief - stricken father to activist.

Humanist of the Year award has been won in the past by Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Alice Roberts and Richard Dawkins, as well as human rights activists from around the world such as Gululai Ismail.

This announcement is timely, as next month 15 activists will go on trial for their role in grounding a deportation charter flight last year.

Fellow politicians, civic activists and various well - wishers crowded into the lounge at 20 - 30 Steinway St. to hear the nine - year Council veteran play the guitar, as well as the musical stylings of his father, former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr.; his brother, lawyer and former City Council candidate Paul Vallone; his daughters; his nieces; and his mother Teena Vallone, who played saxophone.

Tobin, who ran for California Secretary of State in 2010 — garnering more than 214,000 votes as the Libertarian nominee — had served as Ralph Nader's national ballot access coordinator during the 2008 presidential campaign, a year when the feisty consumer activist, seeking the brass ring for the final time, appeared on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

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 as chair.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

His four years as party president obliged him to tour the country, cheering up the coalition - beleaguered activists.

I don't want to denigrate email advocacy as a tool, since I definitely think it has some good uses, but mass unedited messages are just about the least effective way for your activists to let their views be known to a Congress that already gets 300 million emails per year.

As ugly as the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to comAs ugly as the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to comas the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to come.