15 Now to Starbucks's CEO: Pay Your Employees $15 an Hour! On Saturday, April 12, New York City workers and 15 Now (15now.org) activists gathered on the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn to participate in a national day of action against Starbucks Corporation.
ascent - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); the car couldn't make it up the rise. acclivity, climb, upgrade, raise, rise. incline, slope, side - an elevated geological formation; he climbed the steep slope; the house was built on the side of a mountain.
1. 1  a. To move upward, especially by using the hands and feet: We climbed until we reached the shelter. 2  b. To move in a specified direction by using the hands and feet: climbed down the ladder; climbed out the window. 3  c. To engage in the activity or sport of mountain climbing.