• The protest calling attention to climate change stopped traffic as attendees were headed to the Black Rock Desert north of the reservation for opening day of Burning Man. (yahoo.com)
  • A news release from the tribe's chairman, James J. Phoenix, described the incident as a ranger using his patrol vehicle to clear "debris" out of the roadway after climate activists refused to leave. (yahoo.com)
  • But the climate activists involved in the protest, who were from a coalition of groups known as the Seven Circles, say that their entire point was to draw attention to the climate crisis and the role that even Burning Man attendees play in that. (sfist.com)
  • Freaking climate and anti-capitalism activists creating insane traffic in both directions for people heading to Burning Man on Nevada State Route 447, because this is how you save the planet friends. (sfist.com)
  • As one of the protesters, Mun Chong, tells the Guardian , "If you treated the climate crisis like an emergency, Burning Man wouldn't be a priority. (sfist.com)
  • Nevada rangers drove directly into a blockade set up by climate protestors on the road to Burning Man. (sfist.com)
  • Climate activists protested at Burning Man. (wmra.org)
  • The first tangle of gridlock was caused by a coalition of activists protesting the alleged complacency among festivalgoers, known as "burners," over the global climate crisis that they argue must be addressed by systemic change beyond the boundaries of the Black Rock desert where the festival is held. (wmra.org)
  • Climate activists are coming to rain on tech bros' favorite parade. (yahoo.com)
  • Instead, they found climate activists forming a human blockade and chaining themselves to a trailer in front of the festival, urging the festival's organizers to ban private jets and single-use plastics, according to videos posted to X. (yahoo.com)
  • Seven Circles, a coalition of anti-capitalist and climate activist organizations, claimed responsibility for organizing the protest in a news release . (yahoo.com)
  • World leaders are meeting there in the hopes of creating a legally binding and universal agreement on how to fight climate change, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C. And, since no world summit would be complete without artistic demonstrations, activists around the globe have created art protesting climate change and corporate sponsorship of COP21, from live tattooing performances to parody advertisements installed on Paris streets. (hyperallergic.com)
  • In the booming economic climate of the 1990's, Born battled other regulators in the Clinton Administration, skeptical members of Congress and lobbyists over the regulation of derivatives, warning that unregulated financial contracts such as credit default swaps could pose grave dangers to the economy. (jfklibrary.org)
  • The first one I did was at CATAPA vzw, an organisation from Ghent that focuses on the ecological and social impacts of mining, mainly in South America, and is filled with climate activists. (belmundo.gent)
  • As the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP is set to convene later this month in Dubai, activists are urging policymakers to respond to climate change's disproportionate impact on women and girls, especially where poverty makes them more vulnerable. (wowktv.com)
  • Also honored as profiles in courage at today's ceremony were Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and the many women who worked with her in pushing for peace and paving the way for democracy after years of violent conflict in their country. (jfklibrary.org)
  • In the ensuing backlash, LGBT activists threatened violence against the pastor and his wife, and called for the church to be burned down. (christianpost.com)
  • i-D's latest documentary series, Out Of This World, follows American rapper, performance artist and activist Mykki Blanco on a journey to South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg to explore queer culture at a time when LGBT voices are continually being silenced. (vice.com)
  • During my time at Bilitis, I had the opportunity to attend the yearly ILGA-Europe conference where I met LGBT+activists from all over Europe and Central Asia. (belmundo.gent)
  • Widespread use of social media has made it easier to mobilize collective action, yet citizen activists struggle to navigate these digital tools and increasingly report feeling burned out. (ucalgary.ca)
  • As appointed officials and citizen activists, they have inspired all those who wish to bring about meaningful change to their political systems. (jfklibrary.org)
  • I completed both of my internships at activist organizations. (belmundo.gent)
  • NEW DELHI (AP) - Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh independence advocate whose killing two months ago is at the center of a widening breach between India and Canada, was called a human rights activist by Sikh organizations and a criminal by India's government. (wwlp.com)
  • It is unacceptable for activist organizations to instruct their members to jeopardize themselves by engaging in unlawful activities such as gaining entry to closed university buildings, disrupting learning environments, and filming students in a restroom," Sinema said in a Monday press release. (foxnews.com)
  • For example, as these platforms prioritize popular and recent content, activist messages have to be constantly updated and liked or shared in order to remain visible to wider audiences. (ucalgary.ca)
  • When you have to make the choice between self-care and fighting for human rights, a lot of activists prioritize the fight. (belmundo.gent)
  • Hour-long screening and discussion with activist filmmaker Judy Hoffman. (mediaburn.org)
  • Even sending an email to your local representative can help alleviate anxiety which can contribute to activist burnout. (alive.com)
  • Activist burnout is not a new concept, activists from all over the world are very aware of this issue, but no one really has time to deal with it. (belmundo.gent)
  • This is what motivated me to write this article about the issue of activist burnout. (belmundo.gent)
  • I had conversations about what activism means to them, what drives them to be an activist, if they struggled with burnout, and how this affects them and their work. (belmundo.gent)
  • After this, I started looking for sources that could tell me more about the causes of activist burnout and what the consequences might be. (belmundo.gent)
  • Suspected Hindu activists set ablaze two empty train coaches to protest their leader's arrest following Hindu-Muslim violence in a northern Indian city, officials said Friday. (jpost.com)
  • Collins and her partner, Tom Diacono, traveled from Italy to participate in the protest, opting to skip Burning Man this year after attending the festival for many years. (yahoo.com)
  • The four, two men and two women, entered the area carrying protest placards during a performance which featured a horse galloping with a burning blanket on its back. (dutchnews.nl)
  • A small group of activists representing the groups Extinction Rebellion, Rave Revolution, and Scientist Rebellion decided to stage a protest that caused an hourlong backup of traffic on the two-lane highway leading to the Black Rock Desert, and drew the wrath of frustrated Burners and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Rangers alike. (sfist.com)
  • The blockade is also in protest against the popularization of Burning Man among affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event,' Seven Circles said. (yahoo.com)
  • In response, the activist network Avaaz created a public protest art installation at the Place de la République in Paris. (hyperallergic.com)
  • Norwegian authorities cancelled a Qur'an burning protest that was set to take place on Friday after Turkish officials summoned the Norwegian ambassador in Ankara. (breitbart.com)
  • Turkey responded with outrage after anti-Islamisation campaigner Rasmus Paludan went ahead with his planned Qur'an burning protest in Sweden. (breitbart.com)
  • Palash Chandra Roy, a Hindu rights activist and leader, went to the bathroom, had petrol thrown on him and was set on fire. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • According to the World Hindu Struggle Committee, Hindu human rights activist and leader Palash Chandra Roy was murdered while being imprisoned in Panchagargh. (foreignpolicyblogs.com)
  • Violent protests met a Qur'an burning demonstration in Sweden's multicultural border city of Malmo on Sunday, leading to a night of riots. (breitbart.com)
  • Burning Man's carbon footprint reached about 100,000 tons of CO2 per year as of 2019, according to its sustainability roadmap , which also lays out plans to be carbon negative by 2030. (yahoo.com)
  • Penny was encouraged to include Orkney in the Burnt Out touring dates by Move Orkney and whilst here Penny held a community movement workshop. (theorkneynews.scot)
  • Whilst both of these were activist organisations, they focussed on very different topics. (belmundo.gent)
  • State Government, the local administrative authority and local community leaders and activists to assure the services sustainability and the study outcome execution. (who.int)
  • Who was Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Sikh activist whose killing has divided Canada and India? (wwlp.com)
  • In India, the Home Based Postnatal Newborn Care programme by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) under the National Rural Health Mission was initiated in 2011 to reduce neonatal mortality rates (NMRs). (who.int)
  • 7,8 Based on evidence from these trials, and WHO and UNICEF recommendations, the Government of India introduced home-based newborn care involving community-based workers, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), under the National Rural Health Mission in June 2011. (who.int)
  • Protesters blocked the entrance to Burning Man, demanding restrictions on private jets and single-use plastics at the festival. (yahoo.com)
  • Burning Man began on Sunday - and some of the attendees were met with protests. (yahoo.com)
  • Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro demanded that European countries outlaw Quran-burning protests on his television show Con Maduro Más on Monday, claiming governments who respect free speech are "indirect accomplices" in blasphemy. (breitbart.com)
  • Sweden closed its embassy in Turkey after protests spread across Muslim countries in the wake of a Qur'an burning in Stockholm last weekend. (breitbart.com)
  • AP) - A tribal ranger's conduct is under review after he pointed a weapon Sunday at environmental activists and plowed his patrol vehicle through their blockade on the road leading to the annual Burning Man counter-culture festival in the Nevada desert. (yahoo.com)
  • Each performance will be followed by a post-show discussion with a local environmental activist. (theorkneynews.scot)
  • A heated debate has erupted online about the fires, with some activists criticizing the environment ministry, while the ministry says the blame is shared by NGOs that manage most of the country's protected areas. (mongabay.com)
  • The fires burnt an estimated 24.3 million hectares (243,000 square kilometres), destroyed over 3,000 buildings (including 2,779 homes) and killed at least 34 people. (theorkneynews.scot)
  • He was a Black lawyer, Civil Rights activist, and educator. (aaregistry.org)
  • Cu Huy Ha Vu and Q (born in 1974, lives in Ward 11, District 6, a lawyer and a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association, without a marriage certificate). (hrw.org)
  • This article is written by Mariia Klius, a human rights defender, activist, and lawyer. (lu.se)
  • Will Livernois, a scientist with Scientist Rebellion, said in a statement to the Guardian, "We have to shift away from Burning Man's green capitalism and focus on degrowth. (sfist.com)
  • They also had a sign protesting the fact that Burning Man allows private jets to land on the playa. (sfist.com)
  • For now, Donnelly said the Black Rock Playa - the dry lake bed where Burning Man takes place every year - "is going to be just fine. (wmra.org)
  • Two performers will read transcripts of a taped interview with civil rights activist Eddie Brooks, who Terry Buffington, artistic director and Black cultural anthropologist, interviewed on Nov. 18, 2010. (dailyevergreen.com)
  • In its release, Seven Circles demanded that the festival 'be radically honest,' 'mobilize our community,' and 'lead by example' by banning private jets, unnecessary propane burning, and unlimited generator use. (yahoo.com)
  • Vivian Silver, a Canadian-born Israeli activist who devoted her life to seeking peace with the Palestinians, was confirmed killed in Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel. (ktla.com)
  • This 64-acre lake is near the town of Concord, Massachusetts, close to where Thoreau was born and lived most of his life. (cdc.gov)
  • Globally, over 130 million babies are born every year, and almost 4 million die in the first four weeks of life. (who.int)
  • The digital activists in our research spoke to the necessity of adapting to platform-specific practices, as well as the learning curve of understanding these practices in the first place. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Turkish President Erdogan has stated that unless Sweden bans the burning of the Qur'an, he will not agree to the country's NATO bid. (breitbart.com)
  • A Sweden Democrats MP commented on the burning of a copy of the Qur'an, stating the reaction from the Islamic world has been unreasonable. (breitbart.com)
  • As a Jewish woman of the third generation, born and raised in Sweden, and whose parents emigrated from Ukraine, explorations of Jewish authorships and the way in which Jewish authors construct, portray, and communicate Jewish identity in literature are dually important. (lu.se)
  • Four animal rights activists who disrupted a show at the Efteling at the weekend have each been given 100 hours community service for slander. (dutchnews.nl)
  • The Gladish Community and Cultural Center hosting stage reading "Born Under Jim Crow: The Eddie Brooks Tapes. (dailyevergreen.com)
  • The Gladish Community and Cultural Center is hosting a stage reading of Terry Buffington Productions' "Born Under Jim Crow: The Eddie Brooks Tapes" from Feb. 17-19. (dailyevergreen.com)
  • Virtual Talks with Video Activists is an ongoing series of screenings and discussions with artists, journalists, and community organizers who use video to break boundaries. (mediaburn.org)
  • The data were collected by well-trained teams of medical officers, house officers, medical students, health care providers and community activists using digital pre-designed validated closed-ended questionnaires in smart tablets. (who.int)
  • A Community Work Group comprised of 17 members representing local activist groups and residents participated in the study design and implementation. (cdc.gov)
  • Videos on social media, however, showed the ranger had slammed his vehicle into the blockade - a metal travel trailer frame that some of the protesters had chained themselves to - then drove back toward the activists while announcing on a bullhorn, "I'm going to take you all out! (yahoo.com)
  • We have no weapons," yells Emily Collins, one of the activists who had chained herself to the blockade. (yahoo.com)
  • In London, 35 members of the activist group Liberate Tate took over part of Tate Britain, where they demonstrated against BP's sponsorship of the museum by permanently tattooing willing visitors with the numbers of the CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere in the year they were born. (hyperallergic.com)
  • Activists play a crucial role when it comes to politicizing the daily struggles of specific members of society and they empower people to fight for their rights. (belmundo.gent)
  • Attendees look at a double rainbow over flooding on a desert plain on Sept. 1, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock Desert into a mud pit. (wmra.org)
  • Burning Man - the event favored by billionaire party boys and Victoria's Secret models , alike - is officially underway in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, and attendees were met by more than the usual festivalgoers in space-age unitards, glow-in-the-dark headpieces, or no clothes at all when they arrived at the gate on Sunday. (yahoo.com)
  • But over the past 37 years, it has attracted attendees like Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and disgraced biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes , who burned a Theranos effigy at the festival in 2018. (yahoo.com)
  • Chong, who was wearing a top that said "No Burn on a Dead Planet," added, "What is being late to Burning Man in comparison to having your entire planet on fire? (sfist.com)
  • As fire burns, activists sneak into Point Reyes to bring water to parched elk. (malt.org)
  • The fire has burned more than 1,775 acres so far and is 0% contained. (kron4.com)
  • Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson came under fire, including from a top ally, for critisising a Qur'an being burned outside the Turkish embassy. (breitbart.com)
  • Dr. Sophia Marjovic, one of the immigration activists who confronted Sinema at Arizona State University over "a pathway to citizenship" for illegal immigrants this weekend, defended filming the senator while following her into the bathroom. (foxnews.com)
  • Sinema was confronted by immigration activists who followed the senator from the classroom where she teaches to the bathroom while demanding the Arizona Democrat take action on a "pathway to citizenship. (foxnews.com)
  • The daughter of two anti-regime activists who was born in a Syrian jail 26 years ago has been arrested on her return from a brief trip abroad. (alarabiya.net)
  • Over the last couple of years, I've gotten close to some activists and have had a lot of conversations about this topic.This is something that's very close to my heart and something that is not talked about enough yet in my opinion. (belmundo.gent)
  • Jazz, age 15 years, is a transgender teen, activist, book author, reality-TV show star, and so far the youngest national transgender spokesperson in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • Upon the request of local social activists, the PUCL team in association with Shri Shankar Pani, Advocate, visited Kamagarh on 18th June. (countercurrents.org)
  • The team met victim families, the incumbent Sarpanch, the IIC of Aska police station, local reporters of Aska and political and social activists of Ganjam. (countercurrents.org)
  • Syria is notorious for its imprisonment of peaceful political activists, and human rights groups allege they have been systematically abused and tortured. (alarabiya.net)
  • And for Burners familiar with the Sunday drive into Burning on the first day the festival gates open, anything that adds to what is already a long traffic slog is beyond infuriating. (sfist.com)
  • Burning Man should aim to have the same type of political impact that Woodstock had on counterculture. (sfist.com)
  • Boston, MA, May 18, 2009 - Sheila Bair, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Brooksley Born, former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), were presented the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™ today by Caroline Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in recognition of the political courage each demonstrated in sounding early warnings about conditions that contributed to the current global financial crisis. (jfklibrary.org)
  • The case pits an unusually powerful and well-connected legal activist against the highest political figures in the country, and involves a wide range of human rights issues including police misconduct, arbitrary detention, violation of privacy, land grabbing, neglect of due process, and repression of freedom of expression. (hrw.org)
  • But they were dragged by their hair and were thrown around, and had to watch their houses being burnt and decimated. (countercurrents.org)
  • that would 'house her feelings' she transferred into creative expression, eventually evolving into Burnt Out. (theorkneynews.scot)
  • None of these conversations were formal or professional, they mostly happened during our short lunch break, or when we just completed a task and needed a five-minute break, but they allowed me to form a connection with the activists and really get to know them, their feelings and opinions. (belmundo.gent)
  • Activists boarded the ship East Ambition this morning and chained themselves to the vessel, protesting over the import of palm kernel animal feed. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Today animal activists go one step further and fight for our closest relatives, the great apes, or other intelligent animals such as dolphins, to be considered as people with their own rights. (lu.se)
  • Burning Man Project, the group behind the festival, promotes leaving no trace on the environment, gifting and collaborating instead of buying, and decommodification in its 10 principles . (yahoo.com)
  • Sinema unloaded on the group of activists in a Monday press release, saying they "filmed and publicly posted videos" of her students "without their permission" as well as "footage taken of both my students and I using a restroom. (foxnews.com)
  • But identification of some of the most badly burned remains has gone slowly, and her family was notified of her death on Monday. (ktla.com)
  • Tanner was born in Pittsburgh but raised in Philadelphia, the oldest child in a large activist family. (cdc.gov)
  • Flash forward to Wednesday night in New York where Bale was brought to tears when he finally got to meet activist Chen Guangcheng and give him a Human Rights First award. (yahoo.com)
  • The Burning Man Project did not immediately respond back to a request for comment from Insider. (yahoo.com)
  • When people are not happy, they burn the forest. (mongabay.com)
  • During the dinner, Buffington and her son showed "Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker," a film about Ella Baker, a civil rights activist and advisor of Martin Luther King Jr. Buffington served a Southern meal with catfish and cornbread, Lincoln said, and about 70-80 people attended. (dailyevergreen.com)
  • Filter bubbles of like-minded people make it difficult for digital activists to get their messages outside of individual networks. (ucalgary.ca)
  • She was a Black politician and activist. (aaregistry.org)
  • The black marks on the visitors' skin are meant to represent the "taint of BP on Tate," as one activist put it . (hyperallergic.com)
  • This week, Oliver Dowden, the Digital and Culture Secretary, will ask social media companies to crack down on misinformation fuelling "criminal behaviour" as the NHS warned that activists were targeting the infrastructure being used by emergency services combating the coronavirus. (republicbroadcasting.org)
  • People's use of social media for activist purposes clashes with the commercial goals of these platforms. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Social media can enhance activist communication at the cost of loss of control over the message. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Connie Burns, sanitation director for Georgia's Effingham County and a prominent member of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), died Aug. 12 at the age of 43. (waste360.com)
  • However, around 200 anti-racist activists gathered early on Saturday afternoon in Hyde Park and began walking towards Trafalgar Square. (yahoo.com)
  • This year's Burning Man bacchanal started and ended with a traffic jam in the Nevada desert. (wmra.org)
  • Activists need to constantly monitor how algorithms push content to the top of other users' newsfeed. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Read up on how to keep your activist mind, and mentality, in top form. (alive.com)
  • Karyotype patterns, clinical features, and parental ages of three predominant live born autosomal trisomies of Northeast Malaysia. (cdc.gov)
  • A chat and demonstration with archivists from Media Burn and Visual Studies Workshop about how to preserve videotapes. (mediaburn.org)
  • Isabel was born just a few days ago, but her parents worry that what a nurse at the hospital did may have a lasting impact. (kfor.com)
  • it's a question a lot of activists worry about, and don't always know the answer to. (belmundo.gent)
  • The man was Dr. Cu Huy Ha Vu, one of Vietnam's most outspoken legal activists. (hrw.org)
  • The UK barred Danish anti-Islamism activist Rasmus Paludan from entering the country to stage a Qur'an burning demonstration this month. (breitbart.com)
  • Finnish police shut down the burning of the Islamic Qur'an in a demonstration against the country joining NATO. (breitbart.com)