Sentence examples for activist center from inspiring English sources

Envisioned as a hybrid of rock club and activist center by its idealistic founder, Larry Bloch, the club opened in 1989 in a former Chinese-food warehouse on Hudson Street.

The park has not totally lost its roots as an activist center: The Critical Mass bike ride, meant to promote oil-free transportation, departs from there monthly, and protesters coexist with skateboarders and vendors of antiwar T-shirts.

"I made it easy for Peter," said Mr. Bloch from his home in Brattleboro, Vt., where he owns an ecologically minded clothing store and activist center called Save the Corporations.

According to Rich, Phil wanted him to wear a wire into meetings of a local political group he belonged to called the Keene Activist Center, lie to them about his arrest, and encourage them to commit crimes.

Increasing use of social media among activists centered on plans for a nationwide protest on 25 January 2011.

The apartment building where Ms. Colvin died was targeted, Mr. Jaffar and other activists asserted, because it housed the activists' media center.

A conversation between the philosopher Judith Butler and the painter and activist Sunaura Taylor centered on the difference between impairment and disability (Taylor uses a wheelchair), on the concept of "going for a walk," and on access and acceptance.

The People's Food and Medicine Garden Project hopes to expand deliveries to camps opposing other pipelines such as the Keystone XL, slated to run from Canada to Nebraska or the Trans Pecos in Texas, and eventually to activist training centers. .

As for Ike, her main focus as a strategist and activist is centered around uplifting the black community by getting them better engaged with the political process both through and beyond voting.

It describes itself as "a coalition of fire professionals, educators, community activists, burn centers, doctors, fire departments and industry leaders".

A significant portion of the money went to support an organization called Citizens for Fire Safety, whose Web site describes itself as "a coalition of fire professionals, educators, community activists, burn centers, doctors, fire departments and industry leaders".