Sentences with phrase «against economic inequality»

Demonstrators against economic inequality are taking over urban parks and plazas as law enforcement officials continue to devise increasingly hostile tactics to disband the camps.

During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister, inspired others to fight against the economic inequality of the time with the «Social Gospel.»

In theory, Occupy was a protest against economic inequality, a reaction not just to the gap between «the 1 %» and «the 99 %,» but to the widening of that gap in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

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To hit this point home further and to commemorate the nation's annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, who spoke fervently against racial and economic inequality, here's a sampling of his thoughts on the subject:

As federal Labor MP Andrew Leigh notes in his book on equality, unions in Australia remain fundamental in the struggle against growing economic inequality.

The main goal of the protestors is against Wall Street corruption and greed, but the group has rallied against a number of other issues, including unemployment, economic inequality, college tuition rates, police brutality, health care and even the execution of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis.

It was almost three years ago when protesters occupied Wall Street, spending weeks raging against a money machine they say has spawned economic inequality.

These were the Social and Institutional Gender Index or SIGI (which measures discrimination against women), the Gender Inequality Index or GII (which measures health economic and power inequities), and the Gender Gap Index or GGI (a measure of economic, education, health and political power).

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

Both are motivated by a genuine desire to make headway against racial and economic inequalities in learning and achievement, and to improve prospects for disadvantaged children.

Three photographs of Occupy protesters, the worldwide movement against economic and social inequality, by artist Alfredo Jaar pay homage to Golub's lifelong activism as both a citizen and an artist.

The current economic system against which the «occupation» protest across the industrialised world are directed, both creates and depends on unsustainable consumption, and has driven income and asset inequality within and between nations.

While it is generally viewed as the benchmark against which other African nations are measured, economic growth in South Africa has slowed and it still faces serious challenges, including poverty, unemployment and income inequality.