Sentences with phrase «mutual aid society»

Baltimore Life was established in 1882 under the name The Baltimore Mutual Aid Society of Baltimore City.

But, in keeping with Raqs's ethos, there was also a local aspect — «Theory Opera» events put together by Liu Tian and Yao Mangxi, and «51 Personae,» an ongoing series of happenings coordinated by Chen Yun and the Dinghaiqiao Mutual Aid Society — that engaged Shanghai's society, cityscape, and history.

It's sort of like a mutual aid society,» Mr. Cohen said.

The Italian Socialist party gradually began to build up not only a network of institutions — labor unions, mutual aid societies, and cultural organizations — but a distinct subculture, what according to Arturo Carlo Jemolo might almost be called «a new religion.»

For example, immediately after Emancipation mutual aid societies pooled the resources of black folk to help pay for funerals and other daily expenses.

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constitutes the largest and most enduring mutual aid - society of recovered alcoholics in human history....

Our legal system, and especially our constitutional law, tends to overlook informal communities of memory and mutual aid even though our society counts heavily on them to perform indispensable social functions.

Mr. Speaker, I have every confidence that with all of us working together under the President's leadership, we can march forward to a Ghana beyond aid in a new, more matured, and mutually beneficial relationship with our external partners, and advance towards our national vision of building: «An optimistic self - confident and prosperous nation, through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources, and operating with a democratic, open and fair society, in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all».

It is at this radical end of the republican spectrum that its ideas come to resemble more and more the kind of decentralized society and economy based on mutual aid that anarchists have historically proposed.

The proposals within the collection echo the sentiment of David Cameron's «big society» agenda and pushes for the government to encourage workers in the private and public sectors to form mutuals in order to aid what its authors described as a «broken» economy.

The Japan's Teachers» Mutual Aid Co-operative Society has about 600 billion yen ($ 7.6 billion) to invest.

Some were able to self - insure through mutual - aid cooperative societies or unions; the less fortunate had to fall back on welfare, grudgingly given by those who blamed the victim.

A fraternal benefit society, Foresters originally existed as a group of mutual members who solely brought themselves together for protection, aid, and advancement.

This carrier is known as a fraternal benefit society, which means that, unlike a traditional stock life insurance company, Foresters is a not - for - profit company that provides mutual aid or benefit to its members.

In 1887, a group of Milwaukee, Lutheran churchmen decided to manage a society of mutual aid in order to compensate for the high insurance rates from various firms following the Great Chicago Fire and to further protect their properties and churches from possible conflagrations in the future.