A decade ago, a similar wave of advocacy failed to significantly alter the status quo, despite some initially encouraging words from Hu Jintao, the newly designated president at the time.
Indeed, this street is a wave of advocacy and streaming window peonies and tulips, a fierce glimpse of history, an echoing of nightly gunshots, a flag of black pigeons flowing east toward the end of a continent, a hunger for immortality, a tiny brusque city, a bickering idea, a useless boutique, a fertile song widening into a love for all that lives.
Indeed,this street is a wave of advocacy and streaming window peonies and tulips, a fierce glimpse of history, an echoing of nightly gunshots, a flag of black pigeons flowing east toward the end of a continent, a hunger for immortality, a tiny brusque city, a bickering idea, a useless boutique, a fertile song widening into a love for all that lives.
Obama's speech likely will kick off a new wave of advocacy, as students are expected to march on Capitol Hill to make their case next week.
The early 90s were, in retrospect, a watershed moment in the history of the gun control movement or the point at which a wave of advocacy crested, broke, and receded.
For a Pepsi launch, we gave our curated influencers the first taste of our new product and the opportunity to send a "love" package, complete with product to two friends -- igniting a wave of advocacy across the country.
The social media giant released a statement to that effect Tuesday afternoon, following a wave of online advocacy spearheaded by the groups Women, Action and the Media (WAM!) and the Everyday Sexism project.
Although this case is more clearly understood in the literature as a case of a social movement [ 3, 100], it inaugurated a wave of patient advocacy and demands for greater inclusion [ 70, 71, 101] that has continued into the present day.
The effort here reflects a new wave of gun control advocacy and helps explain why enthusiasts like President Clinton are pushing the issue anew and onlookers like Gov. George E. Pataki now favor more controls.
The Edison Electric Institute, the trade group that represents U.S. investor-owned electric utilities, launched the current wave of anti-solar advocacy with a 2012 conference warning utilities of the challenges solar energy posed to their traditional profit centers.
"Providing support to these young women who are forging the next wave of anti-FGM advocacy is key," says Archi Pyati, the Deputy Director of Sanctuary for Families' Immigration Intervention Project who offers legal services to hundreds of women and girls from countries where FGM is practiced.
