Sentences with phrase «against community groups»

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«Such a divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing crime.»

This month, two housing groups filed a complaint asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate complaints that OneWest engaged in discriminatory «redlining» practices against black and Latino communities.

The terror group carried out its slogan, «We will break your crosses and enslave your women,» with literal precision against the ancient Christian community of several Middle Eastern countries.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

Police also held a meeting with religious figures and local community groups to discuss the incident and caution against rumours circulating on social media.

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

By design, terrorism is an unpredictable use of violence against an individual, group, community, or nation to attain the goal of the perpetrators.

First, in reporting widespread child abuse in Brooklyn's community of Orthodox Jews, there was not the «selective outrage» which animates the paper against criminous Catholic clerics, whose numbers are in fact proportionally much smaller than other religious and professional groups.

This working together in preventive education not only lightens the burdens for both groups, it establishes that close sense of community that is a powerful resource for health and against illness.

The UM Book of Discipline's homophobia is highly offensive, and other slurs against people with disabilities, or of racial and ethnic groups (all of these communities overlap and intersect / contain LGBT persons) wouldn't be allowed, so why is this?

The only one posting garbage is you from the well known hate groups using false reports against the gay community.

Connecting the dots between historical bigotry against other groups and the atudes of some people today toward hosexuality is one of the most effective ways to educate people about the denial of equal rights to the LGBT community.

The online video is an effort to fight back against «the rising tide of fear - mongering» resulting from plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan in New York, the group behind it said.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

The United Church of Christ has continually played an active part in media advocacy, devoting much of the time of their Office of Communication to media criticism, lobbying, and organizing community and legal - action groups against the television industry on behalf of disenfranchised groups.

At some point, when feuding threatens to dissolve a community, spontaneous and irrational mob violence erupts against some distinctive person or minority in the group.

The prescription is that divisions in the community must be reduced to but one division, the division of all against one common victim or one minority group.

This task force was called enthusiasm from the international community in the fight against tobacco, and, encouragingly, from members of the target group in India.

This weekend a group of Chelsea fans are walking from Stamford Bridge to Wembley before the Community Shield game against.

Protecting a nine - game unbeaten run that stretches back to their Community Shield triumph over Manchester City is one massive incentive for the players who do turn out on Tuesday, while there's also the small matter of surging to the top of Group C. Only a two - goal margin will suffice if United wish to take command of an incredibly weak group, and they may well achieve that goal against a team more renowned for their goalscoring exploits back home than for their staunch defenGroup C. Only a two - goal margin will suffice if United wish to take command of an incredibly weak group, and they may well achieve that goal against a team more renowned for their goalscoring exploits back home than for their staunch defengroup, and they may well achieve that goal against a team more renowned for their goalscoring exploits back home than for their staunch defending.

Chicago Park District officials defended themselves against criticisms from community groups Monday that they have moved too slowly to institute the reforms they promised when the previous park administration was toppled last summer.

Therefore, BWI does not condone silencing, tone policing, or otherwise oppressing marginalized groups, nor does BWI discriminate or permit discrimination by any member of its community against any individual on the basis of age, citizenship status, class, color, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, parental status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

As a nursing mom and a member of multiple breastfeeding support groups, I used to feel confused that while the public health community and many parent groups proudly proclaim that «breast is best» for babies, so many breastfeeding moms would report being shamed, harassed, and even discriminated against for actually choosing to nurse their kids.

Also at 1:30 p.m., community groups announce legal action against the NYPD body cameras program, City Hall, Manhattan.

Besides showing scheduled meetings with political over-tones, such as attending protests against President Donald Trump (R) on Jan. 19 and against the now - defunct Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, on Feb. 16, Councilmember Dromm's 2017 calendar also showed scheduled meetings with officials with special interest groups Queens Community House, on Jan. 27; the United Federation of Teachers on several occasions; and NY - CLASS, on Nov. 28.

Citing the close race against Avella, the former head of public interest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the district.

And that kind of selective carving out of boundaries is what groups like the The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy spoke out against at a Nov. 16 news conference.

East Side members also voted Sunday to team up with Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of community groups that recently launched a campaign against the East 91st Street project — and has vowed to keep any pro-MTS politician out of office.

Adams came out against the Rabsky Group's plan to redevelop 200 Harrison Ave. — open land once owned by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer — contrary the community board's recommendation, and instead aligned himself with community groups who've protested the project since last fall, arguing it perpetuates segregation in the neighborhood.

«It is difficult to understand why Borough President Adams, who prides himself on being someone who respects the law and enforces order, is in this case, putting those values aside to go against the most local representatives of the community and follow the lead of people who deploy some of the most thuggish, vitriolic behavior,» said Lee Silberstein, a spokesman for the Rabsky Group.

Jazz Hayden, founder of AllThingsHarlem.com, a group that fights against police brutality and films police misconduct, said Mark - Viverito's request for 1,000 more police officers when she first became speaker was a poor decision given the problems communities of color face with the police.

Community activist Josmar Trujillo, who heads the group New Yorkers Against Bratton, denounced the plan.

From Molinaro's view, groups of people were leveraged against each other, whether it was county leaders seeking certainty for their finances, the New York City school system and how it's leadership structure is formed or the communities affected by flooding that are in need of aid.

A State Supreme Court judge ruled against the city in the controversial Broadway Triangle rezoning case in which a coalition of community groups allege...

In an event anticipated among local wonks, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner (a liberal Democrat) teamed with Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci (a Conservative Republican) to argue against the metropolitan government plan proposed by the community group Consensus.

Nearly two dozen members of the Saugerties chapter of the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline, a bi-state group that has spearheaded opposition to the project in communities along the proposed route in New York and New Jersey, showed up at the meeting.

Peers spoke out against the continuing power of «faith» schools to discriminate in admissions, the appointment of governors and the employment of staff, about homophobic bullying, about extremist (including creationist) groups setting up Free Schools with unbalanced curricula, about the need to repeal laws on collective worship and about the need to maintain community cohesion.

At noon, unions, community and religious groups protest against the GOP tax plan, corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan.

Indiana Congresswoman Susan Brooks says communities need to stand together and speak out against white supremacists and other hate groups.

Brooklyn Sen. Martin Golden, a former city cop, plans to introduce legislation stiffening penalties against people who plant so - called community guns — weapons hidden in key locations for use by groups of gang members and other criminals.

A group of parents and teachers from P.S. 116 in Kips Bay have gained the support of local elected officials and community boards in their fight against overcrowding.

Radford, whose council also supported several of their own candidates, said the election was one of the most highly politicized in years, with unions aligned against the business community as well as the parent group — a competition that's still playing out.

We as a community need to stand united against such extremist groups and convey to the nation that this is not Islam.

A group of uptown politicians agrees, and plans to kick start the Clean Streets Initiative, a community campaign against street filth which aims to involve «every member of the community in cleaning trash off their blocks» beginning Saturday, July 16.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Student, labor and community groups were to hold a «State Of Emergency Protest: Day Of Rage Against The Cuts» rally Thursday afternoon outside City Hall.