Sentences with phrase «against racism in»

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.

He has done extensive work against racism in a variety of positions, including as the National Director of the Canadian Anti-Racism Education and Research Society and as a member of the Government of B.C. Advisory Council on Multiculturalism and was a delegate to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban South Africa and the European Union preparatory conference in Strasbourg, France.

In order to establish November 8th as Viola Desmond Day in Nova Scotia in order to honour her struggle against racism in Nova Scotia.

The fracas eventually culminated in the creation of the ad - hoc organization Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of color.

A soundtrack of reggae, ska and post-punk refers to the role of music and movements like Rock Against Racism in efforts to mobilise against the far - right.

Each of these pillars is extensively documented to equip students of color with knowledge, skills, and mindsets that can help them push against racism in the United States.

Volume 2; Number 3 — Voices from the World Conference Against Racism In this issue: Desert Voices; Letter from the Board; Indigenous Peoples and the State; Indigenous Perspective on Colonialism; The Trail to Durban; Voices: Three More Perspectives; Book Reviews; Senator Domenici is Misleading the Navajo People

«He was a tireless combatant against racism in any form, and if he was guilty of the kind of unconscious bias in science that he warned against, at least his bias was on the side of the angels.»

«Fighting against racism in our highly segregated city is a long, drawn out job.

All the more important, then, to keep up the fight against racism in football.

Early on Wednesday, French Minister for Sport Laura Flessel had called for «unified» action to stamp out racism in football following reports that Paul Pogba and Ousmane Dembele were abused during the match in St. Petersburg, while Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) had asked for a FIFA investigation, which the governing body confirmed later in the day.

Through them, I found my theological voice to articulate the black rage against racism in the society, the churches, and in theology.

The purpose of this badge was to protest against racism in sport and racial segregation in the US.

Not exact matches

In November, the digital ad platform AppNexus said that it was banning Breitbart from using its ad tools because the site promoted racism and content that might incite violence, which was against the firm's rules.

Together, with more than 200 other CEOs with nearly 15 million employees, we stand united against racism and in support of unity and healing.

General Motors is about unity and inclusion and so am I. Recent events, particularly those in Charlottesville, Virginia, and its aftermath, require that we come together as a country and reinforce values and ideals that unite us - tolerance, inclusion and diversity — and speak against those which divide us — racism, bigotry and any politics based on ethnicity.

He's spoken in favor of electing more female politicians, spoken out against racism, and even found time to stay connected with world leaders.

«Although we do not aim to make any political endorsements with this letter, we do express our unequivocal stance against the xenophobia, sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry that you have actively and implicitly endorsed in your campaign.»

Black and Latino children are woefully overrepresented in this data, so we aren't winning on the front against racism either.

Racism against Brown people here in the US.

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

Believing he has been blackballed for his controversial on - the - field protests against police violence and systemic racism, Kaepernick's legal team has filed a grievance against the NFL, accusing league owners of colluding to prevent him from working in football anymore.

The President has faced criticism in recent months for acknowledging that American history, and indeed Christian history, includes racism, violence, injustice, and oppression — particularly against minority and indigenous people — a reality some would rather sweep under the rug.

And we in the modern West are against slavery and the racism that supported it, right?

King's murderers only succeeded in strengthening opinion against racism and apartheid.

Many Christians find Bonhoeffer's witness helpful in their own struggles against racism and poverty, or in efforts to engage in Jewish - Christian dialogue, especially about the Holocaust.

The issue is to see how shalom is tied into the fight against drug addiction, carnage on our highways due to alcoholism, ecology, commercial sex, oppression of women, racism and the whole range of evils that fills our news on the airwaves and in print.

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 creatioIn 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 creatioin 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 creatioin Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

Bearden is important because it happened to be the geographical context in which the ugliness of racism was clearly revealed to me, and I knew that I had to struggle against it.

The assessment of the «radicalism» of black religion has led to a concern for operational unity in order to provide a united front against racism.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

This weakened the church's ability to resist the quasi-fascist genocidal racism that emerged in a sector of Hutu society in the late 1980s and early 1990s and eventually led to genocide against their Tutsi compatriots.

On other fronts throughout the 1920s, the editors attacked racism and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, preached peace, opposed U.S. intervention in Central America, urged the diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union, supported Protestant ecumenism, and waged a battle against the fundamentalists.

One of the results of unemployment in industrial countries is the growth of racism against immigrants.

He could have added also that some radical Christians, such as those who supported the World Council of Churches» Anti-Racism program have been vocal in campaigning against structural oppression and racism.

You've recently spoken out against institutional racism in the Church of England.

Lemert said Niebuhr had established a long record of speaking out against racism, beginning when he became a pastor in Detroit.

Many of them have been raised in a church culture that often perpetuates, ignores or argues against the existence of racism.

A stigma on racism, for instance, would hopefully exist even in a libertarian paradise, but it draws a great deal of its potency from the fact the American government has spent the last 40 years actively campaigning against racist conduct and racist thought, using every means at its disposal short of banning speech outright.

They can be challenged to work in projects to improve their community through political and social action, to help eradicate sexism, racism, ageism (discrimination against aging persons), and poverty, all of which damage marriages and families.

To me, it's just a messy mix of between racism and hypocrisy — they just don't like the guy because he's less than 100 % white and they're all still bitter about it, and they're fighting against many of the principles that is taught in their own New Testament.

The sin of racism has proved especially pernicious in American evangelicalism on both sides of the border, but there have also been evangelicals throughout history who have found themselves on the front lines of the fight against racism.

Islam does not come to the shores of the west with the intention of blending in and getting on with their lives — they come and use our laws against us to set themselves apart and watch as our rights are restricted to avoid the appearance of racism while their rights are enhanced in their separateness.

''... they -LSB-, Muslims,] come and use our laws against us to set themselves apart and watch as our rights are restricted to avoid the appearance of racism while their rights are enhanced in their separateness.»

Casting the discussion in these terms allows liberals to deplore black crime with a clear conscience; the focus on black victims establishes a connection between their new stand against crime and the older excoriation of the effects of white racism.

Thus, in the political calculus that flowed from portraying racism as the central fact of American life, no white effort to redress the transgressions against the blacks was ever adequate, and no black challenge to the privileges or sensibilities of whites was ever excessive.

Rev Burton urged people to support one another in speaking out against anything that resembles racism, xenophobia or intolerance for others based on ethnicity, skin colour or country of origin.

Thus, in the early seventies, Angela Davis formed a Communist Party front called the Alliance Against Racism whose main target was the Ku Klux Klan, at the time a thoroughly discredited, closely monitored, and generally moribund institution.

The standard polemics against capitalism, imperialism, racism, militarism, and whatever are now marginally recast in terms of the supposed threat such evils pose to Our Planet» or, as it is now said, «The Earth Community.»

Yet racism is enshrined in their legal system, however many decent people try to circumvent it; just as racism is against our law, however many Americans practice it.