Sentences with phrase «against racism by»

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Others believe that the crusade against cannabis was fueled by racism and the desire to demonize Mexican immigrants.

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.

Again, the best scenario is when Christians (or decent people anywhere) are the driving force against racism and racist policies — by refusing to patron racists places.

So I write to all who follow Jesus Christ to say that our time has come to speak out against the bigotry and the shameless voices of racism that seem to grow louder by the day.

FIFA on Tuesday charged World Cup hosts Russia over fan racism during their friendly against France, while law enforcement agencies say they thwarted an alleged «extermist» plot by to derail the event this summer.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be joining other trade unionists, anti fascist, anti racist campaigners and the public tomorrow (21 June), in a national demonstration and carnival parade organised by Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

It makes no claim to stand against sexism or racism, other than when these are perpetrated by ethnic minorities or against men.

In relation to all types of racism, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, he fights against all views that any group of people, whether defined by cultural, religion or ethnic origin, is inferior to any other.

«I found it personally offensive,» Bill Thompson said in reference to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who criticized the former city comptroller's stand against the controversial 91st Street Marine Transfer Station by saying «The days of environmental racism have to come to an end.»

The «Columbia University Rally Against Anti-Muslim Racism,» hosted by International Students» Working Group of the GWC - UAW, will take place at the university's Low Steps at 5 pm.

Marches organized by those on the left against bigotry and racism were scheduled to continue across the region in the coming days.

Instead it drives more wedges between disenfranchised communities that are continually pitted against each other by the agents of racism and homophobia.»

He said the accusation of institutionalised racism levelled against the Metropolitan Police by the Macpherson Report into Stephen Lawrence's death was no longer appropriate.

During his sermon, «Abdur - Rashid said that the United States is not «becoming great again» but rather is «still developing into a perfection of its greatness» and remarked on the upcoming 50th memorial anniversary of the sermon delivered by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he spoke out against the Vietnam War and the «triple evils of militarism, racism and poverty.»

Join us in standing up against racism and supporting women's health by urging your City Council representative to support this important resolution.

A spokesman for Corbyn said the Labour leader attended a Stand Up to Racism event on Saturday co-convened by a senior member of the SWP as he «wanted to show his support for the campaign against racism and xenophobia, particularly given the rise in hate crime since the EU referendum in June&rRacism event on Saturday co-convened by a senior member of the SWP as he «wanted to show his support for the campaign against racism and xenophobia, particularly given the rise in hate crime since the EU referendum in June&rracism and xenophobia, particularly given the rise in hate crime since the EU referendum in June».

Denzel Washington stars in and directs this inspiring drama about a college professor who challenges the entrenched racism and prejudice of the 1930's by assembling and training a first - class African - American debate team, a talented group that makes its way to a national championship against Harvard University.

After all, you can't comment on the racism committed against black men without commenting on the fact that the white cops would be horrified by the fact that white women were at the motel having sex with black men.

The continuation, through Warren, of the retribution against white brutality exacted by Django is offered as cathartic, and Tarantino's sincere commitment to fighting racism is welcome given the current tensions provoked by police killings of black citizens in the United States.

Without such mechanisms, Hollywood may remain a world where people maintain the status quo by hiring folks they already know, a place without institutional guardrails protecting against sexism and racism.

The report points out that a school policy of zero tolerance against racism led by head teachers and school leaders can make a significant difference to the experience of BME teachers and students.

I was immediately struck by the use of color as a means of defining prejudice, in this case prejudice against those who commit crimes, much as its been a means of defining racism for centuries

Racism was controlled and even promoted by government and army (Indonesia: Discrimination against ethnic Chinese, 2000).

Accusations of racism have been cast against a group of Mayan villagers from Santa Cruz Village, Toledo after a creole man was handcuffed and tied up by the community police.

The Artist and the Model, a portfolio of twelve intaglio prints, is published by Sylvan Cole at Associated American Artists, New York; receives a Tamarind Artist Fellowship and travels to the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, where he produces thirty - four editions of primarily black - and - white lithographs that continue the Artist and the Model theme; begins using the airbrush, which he had learned from the artist Billy Al Bengston while at Tamarind; sees the exhibition Edgar Degas: Monotypes at the Fogg Art Museum and subsequently begins making monotypes; in Boston co-founds Artists against Racism and the War and collaborates with Fred Stone on The American Way Room (fig), an antiwar installation piece that is shown throughout the Boston area and subsequently travels to New York, Atlanta, Syracuse, and Philadelphia; solo exhibitions: Associated American Artists, New York (The Artist and the Model); Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles; group exhibitions: Contemporary American Graphic Artists, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (travels); New Expressions in Fine Printmaking, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (travels in Germany and Belgium); 16th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Graphics» 68: Recent American Prints, University of Lexington, Kentucky.

Zanele Muholi was influenced by Gordon Parks through his powerful use of the camera for social commentary as described by this quote from Parks» memoir: «I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs.

Jones» own work incorporates footballs used by NFL teams that he deconstructs and reassembles as a critical act against the racism he experienced playing college football.

Partly inspired by Gordon Parks» idea of using the camera as a «weapon» of choice against racism, intolerance and poverty, Frazier's pictures counter the continued omission of African - American life and histories in both Braddock and the United States.

The fierce desire to be noticed and heard was celebrated and carried on by the later 20th century painters and contemporary artists who were rising up against racism, the war in Vietnam and government policies.

Their visual vocabulary, techniques and, above all, their determination to be heard, were adopted by later 20th century painters and contemporary artists in their protest against the Vietnam War, racism, and government policies.

At its inception, If You Say So... was Abney's reaction to a New York Times Op - Ed «In Denial About Racism in Brazil» by Vanessa Barbara, discussing the unwavering and rampant trend of police brutality against young black and brown bodies in the favelas.

In the Feature sector, Jenkins Johnson Gallery is presenting a solo presentation of civil rights - era photographs by Gordon Parks, which he described as «a weapon against all the things I dislike about America — poverty, racism, discrimination.»

Howard Bashman on a very unusual Eighth Circuit opinion in which the en banc court defends itself against an implicit charge of racism made by the district judge.

The Council of the European Union undertook its first initiative against illegal content on the Internet in July 1996, by adopting the action plan for combating racism and xenophobia.

Take a stand against racism is a unit of work designed to equip young people to take a stand against racism in their schools and communities, by valuing diversity and encouraging others to do the same.