"Our issues are being ignored because the candidates are not focused on our communities as voters," Karen K. Narasaki, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium in Washington, said.
"Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic reasons," the Tokyo-based Citizens Nuclear Information Centerr protested on its English Web site.
It's the same problem facing politics, in that young peoples' issues are being ignored because, based on several elections in the recent past, they simply don't vote.
For months, unions, environmental groups, rights activists and others had been planning to grind the meeting to a halt, to make the point that their issues were being ignored.
One marketeer at Kraft in Beijing is concerned that the issue is being ignored: "there is a huge and dramatic change in the demographics in China.
So the film may not have made it onto the political agenda, but the very fact it wasn't showed how much the issue is being ignored.
After reading "Plan Calls for Using Oceans to Soak up CO2 " (Nov. 20), I found myself wondering again why the real issue is being ignored.
But while this lack of awareness is something to overcome, a somewhat larger problem is that the issue is being ignored or buried by the industry for fear of self-incrimination.
Although the move was overshadowed by news from Iraq, the announcement by the so-called Quartet (America, Russia, the European Union and the UN) of a three-phase plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, seemed aimed at soothing Arab fears that this issue is being ignored.
If people want to find things to be offended about, try the rise in gun violence, homelessness, mental health issues that are being ignored, domestic violence, Donald Trump running for president, or the disgusting state of race relations in the United States.
He is, in fact, an activist and coordinator for Resistencia Hábitat III, an "opposition" of more than 40 community groups from Quito and around Ecuador – an eclectic mix of indigenous and barrio (neighbourhood) groups, women's organisations, cycling and climate-change activists – come together to highlight the local issues they say are being ignored by the global convention on their doorstep.
