Sentences with phrase «civil liberties movement»

The history of CCLA is the history of the Canadian civil liberties movement itself.

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We can debate the «were a Christian nation» thing back and forth without getting anywhere, but to imply that the freedoms we have now came only from Christian roots ignores the rest of world history as well as the fact that its often been the Church impeding civil liberties and progressive movements.

In «Our First, Most Cherished Liberty» there is talk of religious liberty as the «first freedom» and a tip of the cap to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

A country that was founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all will remember how justice was too long denied to African - Americans, how the civil rights movement made clear that separate is not equal, and how King's dream of all people living together in peace was «deeply rooted in the American dream.»

Lords reform, tax reform, and some movement on civil liberties (the National ID card scheme, or the Digital Economy Act) would give visible evidence of their policy impact.

The Department for Transport has suggested replacing VED outright with a road user charge for all vehicles, but this is widely criticised on civil liberties grounds for the constant tracking of private vehicle movements it would require.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

I don't think that the aesthetics of the environmentalism movement should be the main driver of people's decisions with regard to the environment, any more than the aesthetics of libertarianism should decide what people do about their civil liberties.

It is a victory for grassroots civil liberties organisations and citizen movements: the preliminary references stemmed from actions taken by Digital Rights Ireland — an NGO — and just under 12,000 Austrian residents.

Danielle Citron, chairwoman the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a group that focuses on emerging data privacy and civil liberties issues, says the food movement could provide a roadmap for how to create better data privacy laws.

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