Those at the hearing in favor included the city's construction workers; environmentalists, politicians and lower-Manhattan residents were opposed.
On virtually every visit, Clinton made a point of reaching beyond the stilted, formal diplomatic encounters to meet women's groups, health workers, environmentalists, students, business leaders, and to spend time with US embassy staff.
Groups representing ethnic Chinese, women, workers, environmentalists and various schools of Islam intend to form parties.Just a month after Jakarta was convulsed in rioting, looting, arson and, it has now emerged, rape, such pluralism is seen by some as risky, especially when it takes on religious or ethnic forms.
Such a campaign may kick off with students, but it can become a unifying strategy bringing together workers, environmentalists, and local communities.
However, when government acted in the interest of corporations and was challenged for it in court by workers, environmentalists and consumers, Bork voted nearly 100percentt of the time for the government.
Union workers, environmentalists and others chanted "Say no to Koch" and "No Koch hate in LA" outside the office of Bruce Karsh, chairman of the Tribune Co. and president of Oaktree Capital Management, the largest Tribune shareholder.
As a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Bork in nearly every divided case sided not with corporations against government regulators but with government regulators against consumers, workers, environmentalists and victims of corporate misconduct.
For many — both workers and environmentalists — it was all still hard to believe.
Union workers and environmentalists have been allied on trade issues and overwhelmingly supported Vice President Al Gore's presidential candidacy last year.
He helped establish an organization of steel workers and environmentalists called the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment, based in Portland, Ore.
