Sentences with phrase «as activism in»

Heather Howard, «Women's Class Strategies as Activism in Native Community Building in Toronto, 1950 — 1975.»

Not exact matches

While «The Daily Show» skewered nightly television news and «The Colbert Report» directly parodied the «O'Reilly Factor» in the same medium and format as the show, the universe of the media on the far right online isn't as coherent or visible, and the mediums for activism are ever - changing.

A huge part of Ben & Jerry's brand strength has come from its status as an innovator in the field of corporate social responsibility, combining philanthropy, environmentalism and social activism.

But it's been that kind of year for the 58 - year - old Schultz — out in the realm of political and social activism, as well as inside the caffeinated corporate suite.

Now that we're in an era of activism, perhaps the role of social media is to mobilize action, as opposed to persuade engagement.

As a social movement scholar and someone who believes we should leverage all assets in a challenge, I know that much social good can come from mass involvement - and research shows that includes online activism.

«Flash activism,» the label I prefer for online protest forms such as online petition, can be effective at influencing targets in specific circumstances.

Get Specific About Foreign Subsidies: Though government activism isn't widely seen as effective in Republican circles, there's plenty of evidence that trade policy has at the very least boosted employment in countries like China and Korea.

The Quebec demonstrations can't be dismissed as simply an example of the province's strong tradition of social activism, and neither are they the actions of selfish youths who aren't satisfied with the lowest post-secondary tuitions in North America.

Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

There are many pleasures in this story about investment banks pitching activism preparedness so I guess we might as well start with the cheapest of them, 1 which is that people who work at investment banks sometimes use words funny:

As I've said a number of times before, my goal with The Cannabist — distilled into one sentence — was to create something that avoided the blind activism of High Times and completely ditched the prohibitionist Drug War narratives that had been reported so many times before in mainstream media outlets.

Most simply this means that they want to be able to buy in secret, so that they can capture as much of the benefit of their activism as possible.

Legal and regulatory impediments to hostile takeovers have prevented corporate activism from serving as a safeguard to discipline in capital allocation.

The firm is a case study in the limits of what consumer and employee activism, as well as government oversight, can achieve.

As I've written before, the difference in reactions «opens up a complicated discussion about who gets empathy in America, what issues are deemed important, and the types of activism and activists that the public responds to.»

It offered, in its official programming, a series of set pieces: moments serving not only as political activism, but also as tailor - made sound bites for CNN, as snippets of video perfect for sharing online.

In part as a result of their activism, Taylor resigned and was later convicted of war crimes; he is now serving a 50 - year prison sentence.

In an alert to clients, attorneys from the law firm Olshan describe the scope of the legislation as «unduly burdensome, excessive and inequitable,» and warn that «it could have a chilling effect on shareholder activism and proxy advisory work that have a specified presence in Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.&raquIn an alert to clients, attorneys from the law firm Olshan describe the scope of the legislation as «unduly burdensome, excessive and inequitable,» and warn that «it could have a chilling effect on shareholder activism and proxy advisory work that have a specified presence in Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.&raquin Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.&raquin turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.»

Even as they mourned the deaths of 17 of their schoolmates and faculty, the survivors of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., channeled their grief and rage into activism as leaders of the newly...

In the USCC offices, in programs such as the Campaign for Human Development, and in the widespread networks of social activism, questions such as those we have raised meet with predictable resistancIn the USCC offices, in programs such as the Campaign for Human Development, and in the widespread networks of social activism, questions such as those we have raised meet with predictable resistancin programs such as the Campaign for Human Development, and in the widespread networks of social activism, questions such as those we have raised meet with predictable resistancin the widespread networks of social activism, questions such as those we have raised meet with predictable resistance.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centurAs mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centuras the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

It is precisely in the midst of violence that he must witness to another resort and another hope, just as serious, as efficacious, as dependable as activism.

It is not impossible that in the not too distant future gay activism as we have known it will have taken its place in the history of popular culture along with wife - swapping and «open marriages.»

During the «60s, when many denominations were moving toward social activism (at a high cost in terms of membership and contributions, as it turned out), the UUs were adding (almost prematurely) an emphasis on «personal development to their activism.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

Over at No Left Turns, Peter Lawler reminds us that part of the problem with an unrestrained judicial activism is precisely its championing of the ever expanding rights of the Lockean individual — the essential premise of Texas v. Lawrence is that the word «liberty» as used in the Fourteenth Amendment is an indeterminate concept meant to be expanded indefinitely by the Supreme Court.

In some circles, witness and proclamation are still seen as the two main modes of communicating the Gospel in which the former tends towards activism and the latter verbal communicatioIn some circles, witness and proclamation are still seen as the two main modes of communicating the Gospel in which the former tends towards activism and the latter verbal communicatioin which the former tends towards activism and the latter verbal communication.

Martel points to this growing interest in religion, coupled with a rejection of materialism and a new concern for the environment as the source for youth activism.

There is a dubious link between genuine scholarship and such fashionable courses as peace studies, feminist literature, seminars in social activism, consciousness raising, semiotics, and a host of other current preoccupations.

Niebuhr, the author of classics such as «The Irony of American History,» died in 1971 after a lifetime of political activism.

In the «60s he was almost a vox clamantis in deserto as he argued against a mindless activism cut off from the deep roots of prayer and reflectioIn the «60s he was almost a vox clamantis in deserto as he argued against a mindless activism cut off from the deep roots of prayer and reflectioin deserto as he argued against a mindless activism cut off from the deep roots of prayer and reflection.

As an «out» lesbian Johnson's own activism has included national leadership roles in the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights.

Many Soviet parents thought of their children, without irony, as «children of the revolution»; in the West, Communists lived with one foot in society and the other in an incomparably more important world of activism and organization and doctrinal study.

In other words, who I become as a mother can filter into other arenas of life, including activism on behalf of other mothers and their children.

Perhaps the most characteristic mark of the American church as distinguished from the church elsewhere in the world has been activism.

The return of conservative Christians to political activism in the «70s and «80s informs Harding's work, but the author is less concerned with history as such than with the language comprising and creating that history.

There is indeed a quality of geeky isolation from reality, common sense, and the fullness of life that I see as a motif in atheist and Darwin activism alike.

The achievements in the area of social justice, initiated by the socio - political activism of people such as Nelson Mandella, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, attest to the fact that God is present and when political activism, in the area of social justice is being carried out by Believers.

Herb, I did not mean to imply that all political power is equal or that political activism was ineffective; but it needs to be FOR something and not simply AGAINST something as it has become in our DYSFUNCTIONAL political process.

As my friend Chris Heuertz says, «Through activism we confront toxicity in our world, but through contemplation we confront it in ourselves.»

It is almost as if the social activism of the 1920s and 1930s, summed up in the 1925 Life and Work slogan «Doctrine divides but service unites,» were once again ecumenically triumphant.

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).

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.

The more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.

Lincoln, in contrast, viewed judicial activism as illegitimate, judicial precedent as problematic, and judicial supremacy as despotic.

As my colleagues Tom Ziller and Mike Prada point out, having a voice in social activism is nothing new in the WNBA.

McKesson is best known for his activism in support of Black Lives Matter, a movement which began in part as reaction to the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in the summer of 2014.

Colin has a professional background in finance and marketing as well as years of experience in grass - roots fundraising and social activism.

I have spent some time writing about school lunch topics on my blog as well, but have recently been focusing on wider subjects in the sustainable food system as they pertain to government policy and activism.