Sentences with phrase «about public justice»

Not exact matches

Some museums have pushed a mission to educate the public about the evolution of the penal system, but there has been criticism that, depending on the institution, the «history» is sanitized, leaving out abuse of prisoners and other unsavory aspects of the criminal justice system.

Larson said he was contacted a week ago by the Justice Department and local prosecutors about representing the victims, prior to the dispute becoming public.

His remarks were instead a mashup of his campaign stump speech greatest hits, talking about criminal justice reform, a «broken economy,» free tuition at public colleges, the minimum wage and campaign finance reform.

Hearings into the massive Trans - Pacific Partnership kicked off in Vancouver with a stark warning from the Trade Justice Network about the deal's many negative consequences, and an urgent call for a comprehensive, public and independent assessment of the pact.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor worried about the effect on local citizens who choose not to stand and bow their heads when asked during a public prayer.

Stone held his peace in public, but Justice Frank Murphy published a concurring opinion, emphasizing that religious freedom was what Barnette was truly all about.

Religion News Service: Catholic bishops fail to agree on statement on the economy A divided Catholic hierarchy on Tuesday (Nov. 13) failed to agree on a statement about the economy after a debate that revealed sharp differences over the kind of social justice issues that were once a hallmark of the bishops» public profile.

They dispute among themselves about whether this or that public policy is the violation of the value of justice, or whether a certain action is the breaking of a contract, or whether a certain decision constitutes infidelity to a promise.

It is now widely recognised that legislation, public opinion and other apparatuses of democratic machinery alone can not bring about the desired social justice for the weaker sections in India.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

So here it goes: In contemporary usage I hear «kingdom» used for two primary dimensions — for public sector social justice activism (I call this «skinny jeans» because a pastor told me a story about his social justice associates who wore skinny jeans) and for seeing kingdom as God's redemptive power unleashed wherever that power is unleashed (again, I call this pleated pants kingdom because of the same story).

Consequently, in July 2017 Hon Justice Hadiza Rabiu Shagari following a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC / CS / 964 / 2016 ordered the Nigerian government to widely disseminate including on a dedicated website information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered since May 2015 and to disclose the circumstances under which funds were returned.»

Concerns have also been raised about the powers under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, where the police can stop people without reasonable suspicion when a senior offi cer believes there is a real risk of serious violence in an area.

«The Board of Elections was just ensuring that everyone that spends money on our elections, whether it's a super PAC, a 501 (c) 4 or a wealthy individual, discloses information about its donors to public,» said David Earley of N.Y.U.'s Brennan Center for Justice.

Mr Justice Collins found the «virtual ban» was unlawful because it contradicted Grayling's public comments about the importance of books being useful for education and rehabilitation.

«The government has ignored the CJEU's [court of justice at the European Union] ruling and denied the public a proper parliamentary debate about a law that will violate our human rights,» executive director Jim Killock said.

«We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America,» she said during a speech Wednesday at the David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum.

«It is essential that those who care about social justice, fairness and equality, who value public services and care about the future of state education, do not allow this to happen.»

Javid, who appears never to have spoken in public about Lord Justice Leveson's report, will be aware that he has no power to compel Ipso to seek charter recognition.

Meg Hillier, the chair of the public accounts committee, said: «The Ministry of Justice is seeking to modernise our justice system but needs to be clear about which of the promised benefits it will actually be able to deliver.Justice is seeking to modernise our justice system but needs to be clear about which of the promised benefits it will actually be able to deliver.justice system but needs to be clear about which of the promised benefits it will actually be able to deliver.»

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.

But Justice Secretary Jack Straw said the scandal about MP expenses has increased the public's appetite for further constitutional change.

Last night, my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed revealed to me an information at his disposal that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice were ordered to be transferred to Abuja this morning.

In 2010, the Brennan Center for Justice interviewed him when he was the city's public advocate about the city's small - donor public - funding program.

«Over the past two and a half years, he has been a collaborative partner, open - minded and receptive to a broad range of ideas and perspectives about how to improve public safety and make the criminal justice system more fair,» he said.

The President can further subvert the cause of justice so that the people of Ghana do not hear the truth about the loot of the public purse he led until after the elections on 7th December 2016.

One of the latest twist of the story told on Wednesday was by Senate President Saraki who announced that his State governor and ally, Abdulfatai Ahmed had told him that a group of suspects who had been in police cells for several weeks for cultism and whose investigation had been concluded with prosecution about to commence under the State law based on the advice of the director of public prosecution (DPP) and the Ministry of Justice, were ordered to be transferred to Abuja on the directive of IGP) Idris Ibrahim.

The campaigners» hope is that, as public disenchantment sharpens, it will take in a scepticism about over-mighty criminal - justice policy as well as about economic oversight.»

In the meantime, he hopes that his book will educate the public about what he regards as «the flaws in the American justice system that mark felons for a lifetime of discrimination and the immigration laws that rip apart families.»

Bermudez, who speaks in America and abroad about the power of persistence and the need for justice reform, calls his story «a cautionary tale against this happening to others as a public safety problem that allows true perpetrators to escape punishment while families are ripped apart.»

Florida, USA About Blog Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist and networker among innovative Christian leaders.He has written dozen - plus books & assisted in the development of several new churches.His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including the gospel and global crises; theology & postmodernity; liturgy, preaching & spiritual formation; evangelism & inter-religious dialogue; faith & social justice.

The dramatic lynchpin of Hannah's script comes from a surprising coincidence described in Graham's 1997 Pulitzer Prize — winning autobiography Personal History — that the Washington Post Company was in the process of going public the week that the executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) got his hands on the Pentagon Papers and began working on a front - page story about them, disobeying instructions from Nixon's Justice Department.

Associate Professor Meira Levinson is working with teachers and principals in a number of Boston public schools to identify and help them reflect about dilemmas of justice that arise in school.

«There has never been more powerful evidence about the need for private school choice than the data that are coming out about public school choice,» says Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice, a conservative legal group.

Freedom is no longer about equality, social justice, or the public welfare, but about the trade in goods, financial capital, and commodities.

With its emphasis on perspective - taking, public speaking, and exploring difficult themes, theater is a valuable medium for teaching kids about social justice.

Author Explains Juvenile Justice System Television court dramas may draw a lot of young viewers, but they don't educate the public about the juvenile justice Justice System Television court dramas may draw a lot of young viewers, but they don't educate the public about the juvenile justice justice system.

To help educators explore the dynamics of student protest — and prepare to confront the inevitable complexities in their own communities — Levinson and a team of researchers with the Justice in Schools project created a case study about a large student walkout in the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools.

This is the space that I know the most about and the area that I've studied and worked on over my career, starting from a public interest law firm experience at the Institute for Justice, [then] the Heritage Foundation, the White House, and the U.S. Department of Education running the Office of Innovation and Improvement.

About Partnership for Educational Justice (PEJ) An affiliate of the national education nonprofit 50CAN, PEJ pursues educational equity through legal action that empowers families and communities to improve the quality of public schools.

Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.

For about 90 minutes Thursday morning, the three justices on the California Court of Appeals heard arguments in the historic Vergara v. California lawsuit which could have wide implications for the public school system.

Johnson also expressed concern about the «schools - to - prisons» pipeline, something Foxx addressed during a speech last week when she suggested authorities were far to quick to arrest and prosecute Chicago Public Schools students for fighting on school grounds — decisions that bring them into the criminal justice system.

«In the earliest public schools, teachers taught and students listened,» U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has written approvingly about that simpler era in American education.

The Department of Justice received 868 public comments about the settlement, nearly all of them opposing it, but refused to modify the settlement.

That's a crowd of about 1,000 writers, some of them huge household names, working to address other crowds — the public, New York Times readers, the board of Amazon, the US Department of Justice — on its collective opinions about Amazon's handling of its vendor relations.

Author Bio: Ann McGinnis writes about characters that let their egos and sense of justice rule their lives, while they protect the public from serial killers and unthinkable crimes.

A bit about Jamea Richmond - Edwards: Given her recent inclusion in the Katzen Museum's «Art and Social Justice» exhibition, as well as the fact that her works are in very important public collections (in the US and Dakar), it is not surprising to find Jamea Richmond - Edwards listed among the 10 Female Artists of Color on the Rise (The Root, 2016) and 40 Black Artists You Should Know (Huff Post, 2013).