Sentences with phrase «as citizens action»

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

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DACA recipients» fears are not unfounded — the same fear surfaced several years ago after the Obama administration in 2014 attempted to expand DACA and implement a program known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which sought to shield from deportation the parents of American citizens or lawful permanent residents.

At the same time - assuming that Donald Trump can be trusted to act as rationally as Kim Jong - Un - the north can rest assured that until US citizens or their allied counterparts are actually killed with North Korean weapons, the US is highly unlikely to risk military action on the Korean Peninsula.

So far the battle has entailed more words than action, with the tax's supporters trading charged public comments with representatives of the tech companies such as Weinberg's Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, which represents Salesforce, Google, Pinterest, Twilio, and others.

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

All sorts of social action apps have already sprung up, including Berlin - based «Refugees Welcome,» which has helped dozens of German citizens invite refugees into their homes, as well as «Mobile Justice,» an app related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and giving users the ability to zap video footage from a phone directly to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Among his most high - profile actions was allowing Syrian - born Canadian citizen Maher Arar to be deported to Syria, where he was tortured, after being falsely named as a terrorist.

«Brand trust can only come if you are consistent as a great product - maker and if your actions as a local and global citizen are trusted and admired,» Jay says.

«The utter lack of a credible climate policy plan on the part of the Harper government has gone a long way towards undermining Canada's standing in the world, even as a clear majority of Canadian citizens seek action and leadership on climate change.»

That is, there is an inherent link between these two sides of the «responsibility coin» — between acceptance among blacks of personal responsibility for our actions, and acceptance among all Americans of their social responsibilities as citizens.

In general, when a Christian church uses the political arena to impose actions on women without corresponding actions on men, do you feel feminists need to respond as Christians, or as citizens?

Hence, the principle of religious freedom also implies that constitutional stipulations should do nothing more than institutionalize the formative principle of communicative respect; they can not properly require of any citizen as a political participant explicit adherence to any substantive prescription for social action.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

Thus «the economy» is presented as a force working on its own, beyond comprehension by the average person or action by the average citizen.

The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of humans as fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.

«While state policies and the actions of extremist groups often mask the high levels of tolerance in the minds of ordinary Arabs, the typical citizen in this region expresses a great deal of support for tolerant policies,» said Michael Hoffman, who studied religious minorities as part of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Support by citizens of such action as will lift the living standards and the human dignity of the millions of underprivileged, nonwhite peoples of the earth is imperative.

People must be taught to understand that their actions as citizens and members of other organized groups — for instance, trade unions — must be judged from a moral point of view.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

Finally, we will consider some «middle axioms» as the basis for action and ask, What specific action can citizens take to deal with the situation?

The use of arms by citizens to defend themselves against the actions of Federal Government — ended in their deaths and as far as I can tell has done so, pretty much every time.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

The Citizens are back in action on Sunday as they face a tough trip to Merseyside for a clash with Everton at Goodison Park and will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the result in the corresponding fixture last season as the 1 - 1 draw saw them lose valuable ground in the title race.

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After Bush v. Gore and Citizens United many Court observers have become jaded, viewing the Court's actions simply as extensions of politics.

He said during Mahama's tenure as president, he had called on citizens to rally behind government actions... «He kept consistently complaining that people have a habit of pouring water on anything he was trying to do without any specifics»

Despite trite knowledge that these NPP thugs are loyal to him and served as his personal security guards, the President has taken no action against them to end the unprovoked violence against citizens of this country.

When one race of citizens feels as though their lives don't matter; when refugees successfully escape the horrors of war only to be further brutalized on foreign soil; when the already - traumatized victims of conflict are violated by international peacekeepers who were sent to ensure their safety and wellbeing, then we as leaders, we as a world community must stop being silent and start taking action.

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

Secondly, with the power to tax and the ability to collect, has to go hand in hand with transparency of how those taxes are spent, and with the ability of those taxed to demand accountability from the government, whether individually as citizens or elected politicians or through the dissemination of think tank research or actions of other civil society organisationsor through the law.

The individual's character as a citizen depended on interventions in the popular assembly or even military action to defend the city - state in its hour of danger.

We are currently seeking cosigners for this petition among fellow our Waterkeeper Alliance members as well as any other environmental and citizen action groups whose constituencies have been affected by CKD pollution.

The group Citizens Action says there's still «plenty of time» before the Monday night budget deadline for Cuomo and lawmakers to agree to expand public financing to include the governor's race as sell as Senate and Assembly contests.

«Whether it's intentional or not, when it appears that an organization is attempting to limit citizen action and mute the voices of opposition, it raises questions as to what may be hiding beneath the surface,» Flanagan - Priore wrote in her letter.

The party said INEC must reassure the Kogi state citizens of it readiness to conduct a free, fair and credible poll in 2019, as the governor's action is making it to lose confidence.

Polling by American Solutions, a citizen action network I founded in 2007, shows that on issues such as producing more American energy, cutting taxes to create jobs, balancing the budget by cutting spending, English as the language of government, and more, Americans oppose the views of academic elites by 75 to 85 percent.

The John Mahama surrogates or faction in the NDC continue their attacks on my person and character any - time I assert my birth - right as a citizen of Ghana to challenge the Mills, and Mahama Governments on what I perceive to be actions and conduct undermining or that have undermined the 1992 Constitution, for being inconsistent with or in contravention of the Constitution.

More than 220,000 immigrant New Yorkers will remain unable to benefit from Obama's immigration executive order, which would have protected millions of parents of U.S. citizens across the country from deportation and granted them work permits under a program known as as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA.

The nation's highest court left in place a lower court ruling halting President Obama's executive action, which would have affected as many as 4 million illegal immigrants, many of whom are parents of legal citizens, granting them work permits and deferred deportation.

Rumore said if Paladino is defending himself against actions taken as a private citizen, he should not be able to use district money to do so.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

«Addressing the negative impact that the Citizens United decision has had on our democracy is important,» Stewart - Cousins said in a statement to Gotham Gazette, «but also we must take action to fix our own glaring campaign finance and ethics issues in New York State such as closing the LLC Loophole which also allows special interests to contribute endless amounts of money.

The budget also allocates $ 100,000 for the Statewide Action Council Patients» Rights Hotline, $ 86,000 for the Foundation for Senior Citizens Home Sharing and Respite Program and $ 250,000 for the Older Adult Technology Center, which helps seniors better understand today's technology to remain in contact with younger loved ones, such as grandchildren.

«Free speech is the cornerstone to our democracy and the defendants» actions in this instance are a flagrant violation of my client's protected rights as a citizen of this nation,» Vacco said.