Sentences with phrase «climate justice work»

Help connect UUs together working on the front lines of environmental and climate justice work, thus building movement capacity and collaboration for effective action

To learn more about climate justice work in Alaska please visit: Facebook: Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition or FairbanksClimateAction.org Twitter: @FBXClimate

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I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

Our office has spent the last eight years hosting the Climate Justice Project, a research and public engagement network that has produced a large volume of work about how to transition off fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner — an alliance that brings together a wide range of NGOs and academics.

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US CoClimate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Coclimate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

«We should treat every person who works here with respect and dignity, and that means creating a climate where there is accountability, fairness, respect, and access to justice if sexual harassment takes place.

Democrats are by no means the only ones who can contribute to that end but it would greatly benefit working families to have a DNC leadership committed to progressive political change; social, climate and economic justice; and the expansion of our democracy.»

«Brian Kavanagh has worked hard in the Assembly on issues of critical importance to Brooklyn — affordable housing, reforming our criminal justice system, creating an equitable transportation system and combatting the effects of climate change.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

We work with social movements to promote true democracy, economic, energy and climate justice, and challenge concentrated wealth and corporate influence.

«These community groups, which represent tens of thousands of working families, have been at the forefront of the Fight for $ 15, worker and immigrant rights, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, climate justice and more.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

Other moderates appointed without a contest were Emma Reynolds (health), John Woodcock (defence), Barry Sheerman (environment), Tristram Hunt (communities and local government), Gavin Shuker (transport), Stephen Timms (work and pensions), Ivan Lewis (international development), Shabana Mahmood (justice), Caroline Flint (energy and climate change) and Peter Kyle (business).

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

«For years, Senate Republicans have been one of the main obstacles to progress on some of the issues working families care most about, like fair elections, the DREAM Act, reforming our broken criminal justice system, and fighting climate change,» the email states.

The Governor also renewed his call for all Californians to conserve water, laid out the key elements of the state's long - term water plan and noted the work ahead to fight climate change and build on historic reforms to the state's school funding and criminal justice systems.

Amy has worked on local and national election campaigns and organized for health care reform, climate justice, and other progressive issues.

Ralph Nader will rally the campaign supporters and volunteers to get out the vote for Howie Hawkins and will highlight the Green Party's agenda including: acting on climate change and clean energy, banning fracking, raising the minimum wage to $ 15, creating public sector jobs, creating and protecting affordable housing for the working and middle classes, legalizing marijuana, fighting for economic justice and criminal justice reform.

The Cabinet appointees are: • Nick Clegg (Lib Dem): deputy prime minister • George Osborne (Cons): chancellor of the exchequer • William Hague (Cons): foreign secretary • Theresa May (Cons): home secretary, minister for women • Liam Fox (Cons): defence secretary • Kenneth Clarke (Cons): lord chancellor, justice secretary • Andrew Lansley (Cons): health secretary • Vince Cable (Lib Dem): business secretary • Chris Huhne (Lib Dem): energy and climate change • Michael Gove (Cons): schools secretary • Patrick McLoughlin (Cons): chief whip • David Laws (Lib Dem): chief secretary to the Treasury • Michael Gove (Cons): education secretary • Philip Hammond (Cons): transport secretary • Danny Alexander (Lib Dem): Scottish secretary • Eric Pickles (Cons): communities secretary • Owen Paterson (Cons): Northern Ireland secretary • Iain Duncan Smith (Cons): work and pensions secretary • Jeremy Hunt (Cons): culture, Olympics, media and sport • Cheryl Gillan (Cons): Welsh secretary • International Development Secretary (Cons): Andrew Mitchell • Leader of the House of Lords (Cons): Lord Strathclyde • Minister without Portfolio (Cons): Baroness Warsi

Some believe their work's most important goal is advancing knowledge for its own sake, while others prioritize societal concerns such as contributing to social justice, helping fight climate change, seeking to cure disease, or educating the next generation.

The organization is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and is trying to help promote more volunteer programs to deal with climate justice.

And, at the federal level, President Trump is actively working to dismantle the EPA's climate science and environmental justice programs.

Over the past twenty years, educators have developed a wide variety of approaches and programs that come under the umbrella of SEL including: character education, conflict resolution and peer mediation, restorative justice and other alternatives to punitive discipline / suspension, bullying prevention, school climate work and more.

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

The other method is restorative justice that works to lower rates of suspension and expulsion and to foster positive school climates with the goal of eliminating racially disproportionate discipline practices and the resulting push - out of students into the prison pipeline.

«I know there is much work to be done to ensure that positive school climates, classroom management and restorative justice are deeply imparted to candidates in the programs of professional preparation,» Strong said.

Such training may include instruction in bias - free policing, including instruction on implicit bias and cultural competence; child and adolescent development and age appropriate responses; practices demonstrated to improve school climate; restorative justice techniques; mentoring; classroom presentation skills; conflict resolution; privacy issues; and working collaboratively with school administrators.

In both her clinical work and in her writing, Pia addresses topics ranging from the loss of a personal companion animal to the climate of animal welfare as it relates to social justice on a broader scale.

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.

This fall, Badlands Unlimited published Brown's first work in fiction, My Wet Hot Drone Summer, a sci - fi erotic novella that takes on sex, surveillance, and social justice in the age of climate change.

«Social justice and equity are fundamental to the Institute's mission, and Nsombi is the ideal person to ensure that our campus climate embodies a culture where everyone feels included and inspired to learn and create compelling work.»

She has worked in the Occupy, LGBTQ, Climate Justice, and Immigrant Rights movements.

The works tangle with America's political climate — raising social justices issues and giving a voice to marginalized populations.

She has worked to form discussion groups on college campuses, via Heifer International, the Clinton Foundation, Wild Oats, the Architecture Institute of America, and has collaborated with Arkansas Interfaith Alliance and the Climate Justice Campaign, amongst many others.

Even with people coming together in what is possibly the largest demonstration ever in the U.S. to advocate for change in women's rights, human rights, health care, civil rights, climate change and social justice, we still have difficult and important work to do.

This was a part of her collaborative project called Women of the World for Climate Justice where we worked with many wonderful and strong women.

We are working to build and strengthen a movement for climate justice and to promote genuine solutions to the climate crisis.

Against this backdrop, new and ongoing work to help the greater Cleveland area become more resilient in the face of climate change can also address ongoing social justice problems, according to advocates, planners and local leaders.

She works with various coalitions, national and international including the Mobilization for Climate Justice, Climate Justice Now and others opposing market - based solutions to climate change and other «false solutions&Climate Justice, Climate Justice Now and others opposing market - based solutions to climate change and other «false solutions&Climate Justice Now and others opposing market - based solutions to climate change and other «false solutions&climate change and other «false solutions».

We will work together to ensure working class communities and communities of color lead the fight for climate justice by working on relationship building and training on structural racism and creating a definition for climate justice.

The School is renowned for its work on climate change, behavioural and experimental economics, environmental justice, social protection and wellbeing.

The organisation works around climate and social justice.

Ongoing work to help the greater Cleveland area become more resilient in the face of climate change can also address ongoing social justice problems, according to advocates, planners, and local leaders.

And now we move to the next level, which is a multiracial, people of color alliance that is hosted by the Movement for Black Lives action table, but has immigrant justice folks, climate justice folks, Black feminists, education workers, folks who're doing anti - war / anti-militarism work, folks who are veterans.

These cases were united by the game - changing work of youth and elders, alongside their attorneys, and the foremost climate experts of the world seeking intergenerational justice and a liveable planet for future generations.

Jessie Smith Noyes Fdn grant for «General support for an organization working to ensure that low income communities, indigenous groups, and communities of color participate in policy debates on climate change and food justice issues in Minnesota and the Midwest to achieve solutions»

She has worked in the field of Environmental and Climate Justice since 2006 in various capacities including community organizing, policy analysis, advocacy and research.

Since then, she has focused her academic and movement - building work on climate justice and food

She is working on a manuscript on environmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustainajustice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustainaJustice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustainajustice and sustainability.

saki leads Cooperation Jackson's Communications team and supports its Climate Justice and Just Transition work along with supporting the financial planning and development of three Worker - Owner Cooperatives.