Sentences with phrase «for social activists»

The first thing to acknowledge is that when it comes to equal pay for equal work — the rallying cry for social activists — we're already a lot closer than you might think.

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And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

Celebrities including rights activist Bianca Jagger, singer Charlotte Church and actor Ian McKellen expressed their support for the protest on social media.

Governments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their actions.

The union and anti-poverty activists who spoke to The Tyee for this article were unanimous in echoing calls from the CLC and the CCPA's Lee for increased infrastructure and social spending in Canada.

It also has been a sometime tool of activist hedge and pension funds for legitimate corporate governance changes, but left - leaning state and local pension funds and union pension funds have often used it to achieve political or social ends not shared by other investors.

These costs include bankers» and lawyers» fees, the risk of class - action litigation, the need to reveal commercially sensitive information that could benefit rivals, and the prospect of fights with corporate raiders who want juicier returns for shareholders and social activists who want executives to pay heed to their values.

Shel has been a passionate activist for social change and environmental sustainability his entire life.

For PSAC members who are already social justice activists, there's no place you'd rather be!

2011 — Laure Waridel, social and environmental activist and co-founder of Equiterre, a not - for - profit that advocates for fair trade, sustainable transportation, ecological agriculture and energy efficiency.

A social activist for over 30 years and a former teacher, Seth holds a BA in international relations, a BEd from the University of Toronto and an MA in political science from Simon Fraser University.

If the point of your article is to criticize the AIDS lobby for ignoring the ethical dimensions of this social malady, or to criticize the moral philosophy that compels AIDS activists to hand out condoms in public high schools instead of emphasizing the importance of chastity and self - discipline, then you should be commended.

Finally, there remains one pressing objection: Is not an appeal for an activist movement of direct, albeit nonviolent, confrontation with evil social structures fundamentally incompatible with Jesus» call for nonresistance?

From writers who are creatively exhausted from managing a constant stream of online feedback, to readers who can't seem to pull themselves away from their smartphones, to activists who are burned out from responding to yet another crisis with a social media campaign, to foodies who can't enjoy a meal without snapping a photo for Instagram, our writing, reading, and sharing habits consume more of our time and mental energy than ever.

It offers such metaphors of the Christian life as «ambassador for Christ» — a favorite of evangelicals — and «citizen of God's commonwealth,» a favorite of social activists.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

The mountaintop experience, in the lives of great social activists such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., motivates them to descend from the mountain and work for the transformation of the world.

For Dear, a peace activist, any genuine spiritual ascent must be accompanied by a commitment to contemplative nonviolence, social justice and radical Christian discipleship.

Reconciliation as transformation calls for ministerial leadership with a vision that transcends the conflict between evangelicals and social activists.

At the same time, it provides grounds for a sympathetic critique of the charismatic movement's foibles, as well as of the foibles of evangelicals and social activists.

Fithian is a grassroots activist in the global peace - oriented movement for social justice.

Address to the Get - together of Social Activists of the a Programme for Social Action at Chilika 1993 expanded from notes taken at the time and published in the PSA Report: Strike a New Note: Student Power.

Since these activists believe the most crucially needed transformation is individual, they have argued for religious transformation as a legitimate means of doing government - funded social work.

For example, if sacramentalism is uninformed by the mystical tendency to relativize the things of the world, or by the apophatic suspicion of symbols, or by the activist need to change the social world, it will inevitably degenerate into idolatry and empty ritualism.

The activist may criticize the priest, contemplative, or ascetic for not caring enough about the process of political and economic renewal of the social world.

For example, Editor Harold Fey disliked Chicago social activist Saul Alinsky's confrontational methods of neighborhood organizing.

Today, that is largely forgotten, as all three recognize his greatness: progressives, as an activist for peace and social justice; conservatives, as a defender of the Natural Law and Biblical truth; and the U.S. government, as a symbol of national unity and American principles.

The coalition is drawing attention because it has the potential of providing the infrastructure for a grassroots conservative movement that now includes tea party activists and social conservatives.

As study after study began to report that religious nones in America were growing, many atheist, agnostic and humanist activists began to stress the need for these relative non-believers to come together and turn their numbers into political and social influence.

We should commend the electronic church for its venturesome outreach to parched multitudes thirsting for what activists readily overlook in their assault on social structures — namely, a personal faith.

Because of this, some may regard this as a book on «prophetic preaching» designed for «social activists.»

Talk to the gathering of social activists in the Annual Get - together of the Programme for Social Action at Pithorasocial activists in the Annual Get - together of the Programme for Social Action at PithoraSocial Action at Pithora 1992.

It not only revealed that formula companies were out for the bottom line and apparently had no concern for the infants they were claiming to nourish, but also led morally driven scientists and social activists to question the formula - accepting status quo.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

* Tech - savvy farmers using social media * Agribusiness, food safety activists pour money into campaigns * Whistleblowers see new laws aimed at them By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein April 16 (Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared for battle.

Erin Endress doesn't have the kind of history you might expect for a budding social activist.

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They must have been aware that there's been a history of having these blogger junkets blow up in a very ugly way (especially this year, I think there's some social unrest behind a lot of the rage about these junkets), and, given that they've been boycotted for over 30 years, they must have known that, you know, activists use the Internet.

One evening, while chastising myself for slacking off on this important parenting / birth activist / blogger task, I got to wondering about birth stories as a social phenomenon: Why do (some) women write their birth stories?

Many individual activists find that blogs and social network profiles are more than enough, while a straightforward CMS can make a campaign or organization site into a live and editable communications tool for non-technical staff.

It helps to connect aggressively with potential «friends,» perhaps starting with the candidate's own social connections and moving on to party activists, local officials, bloggers and the members of your own supporter list (include a link to your profile pages in mass emails and people will do some of the work for you).

For example, Action Network is an online platform that combines petitions, online actions, event signups, bulk email and social media to help activists rally their friends and family, and it's free for local progressive organizeFor example, Action Network is an online platform that combines petitions, online actions, event signups, bulk email and social media to help activists rally their friends and family, and it's free for local progressive organizefor local progressive organizers.

Check out this great use of Google Maps for advocacy, sent in by anti-political-robocall activist and social media enthusiast Shaun Dakin — it takes the contents of his organization's robocall database and displays them visually through a Maps interface, making them easy to browse through and to take in at a glance.

Social media activists effectively had a longer attention span for the protests than the mainstream media, a great example of the internet's ability to let individual communicators spread the word about what they care about and keep attention on an issue that the wider world is ignoring.

If it limits other activities which might, for example, plug them into social networks of activists, then they need to think what is in their best interests.

But as it becomes normal rather than exceptional for campaigns to have a presence on Facebook and other social media channels, politicians will have to endure many more attempts by activists to take over their pages to get attention for their issues or their demands.

This session will discuss the advances in using social media for advocacy seen during the presidential and other campaigns (Kony 2012, SOPA / PIPA etc) during 2012 and techniques and tools that can be used for activists in 2013.

In the first two days alone, activists filled his council page and campaign page with over 150 messages, in a very public display of their desire to keep adequate funding for social programs for the District's poor.