Sentences with phrase «young activists into»

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child porn, to use a popular boogeyman of censors and civil liberties activists complaining about censors alike), and then expand the apparatus over time until eventually it gets into the hands of some enterprising young hotshots that promptly decide they can make a few billion dollars through the cryptoeconomic equivalent of LIBOR manipulation.

When it comes to young boys, parents have the final say, not the gay rights activists who pressured the BSA to fall in line with their agenda and have turned Scouting into yet another cultural battleground.

That explanation didn't go very far with Sanders backers such as Nowak, who argue that Perez's election would dampen the enthusiasm of the young activists who Sanders brought into the party.

Feldman, a close friend of David Cameron, is facing questions over his handling of an investigation into election aide Mark Clarke, who was accused of bullying young activist Elliott Johnson before his apparent suicide.

The Conservative Party has agreed to a fully independent inquiry into allegations surrounding the death of young activist Elliott Johnson.

The father of a young Tory party activist who committed suicide after claims he had been subjected to bullying has said he welcomes news of an independent inquiry into the allegations.

Reverend Toller forms an unexpected bond with a young pregnant woman named Mary (Amanda Seyfried) when she seeks counseling for her husband Michael (Philip Ettinger), a radical environmental activist who does not believe they should be bringing any new life into this world.

The young man he tries to help at the beginning of the film is a dedicated activist who thinks it would be wrong and cruel for him and his pregnant wife Mary (Amanda Seyfried) to bring another person into a doomed world.

The suspicious death of adult movie star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) and the whereabouts of young Amelia Kuttner (Margaret Qualley) set plot wheels in motion, as March and Healy stumble into a labyrinthine web stretching from street - level anti-pollution activists to Kim Basinger's Department of Justice official Judith Kuttner (Amelia's mum) via catalytic converter conspiracies and giant talking bees.

One of the most rewarding aspects of the film is witnessing Dido's transformation from a shy, subservient, and downtrodden young woman into a confident and determined activist, which is in part due to actress Gugu Mbatha - Raw, who deserves universal recognition for her portrayal of the titular heroine.

Writer and activist Audre Lorde, he says, best describes his argument that other young people should have that same access as they try to tell their stories: «If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive,» and «You can not, you can not use someone else's fire.

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

I hoped to walk away with an understanding of how to nurture an activist stance in young citizens, tools for instilling empathic tendencies, and how to transform an organization into a learning network.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

Born in 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts into the New England tradition of Transcendentalism (he was related to journalist and women's rights activist Margaret Fuller), «Bucky» grew up playing architect and was intrigued by structural design from a very young age.

Livestream Public will be turned into a scene from one of Rashaad Newsome's visually baroque videos, young performers battle it out for trophies and cash prizes before a judges panel of vogue scene legends and prominent entertainers, contemporary artists, curators, fashion designers, writers and activists.

Amanda Charchian's photograph of model and activist India Menuez (India In Woodstock, 2013) shows her as a young sprite naked in a forest with her hair wrapped around the trunk of a tree, offering a glimpse into the feminine divine communing with nature.

We see naive young activists attracted into the area (What can I do to help save the planet — I know, become a climate scientist) and because the field is awash with funding, mediocre people can get in.

So begins the film How To Change The World, which tells the story of the young activists who set sail from Vancouver, Canada in 1971 in an old fishing boat to stop the atomic bomb tests, and who would quickly evolve into a passionate and courageous group devoted to saving the whales.

His father, John Tootoosis, was an activist for Aboriginal rights, which got the younger Tootoosis into trouble at school, including an expulsion when teachers caught him singing powwow with fellow students.

But today I'm going to blog about the 1980s, when AQW's most senior lawyers were budding young activists with shining ideals and great glasses - and AQW's most junior lawyer was a tot crammed somewhat unsafely into a single - kid stroller shared with her big sister, who was six years old and clearly capable of just walking.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people has created a wave of young anti-gun activists that has now reached cross-country into Oregon.