Sentences with phrase «environmental justice leaders»

Not only do I feel like I have the guts to speak truth, as many environmental justice leaders demand, but I feel like I can do it in a way where people will listen.

Elizabeth C. Yeampierre is a nationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry born and raised in New York City.

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Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

We develop young leaders who are committed to social and environmental justice and are equipped with a sense of awe for natural and human beauty, tools for non-violent multicultural community building, as well as the confidence to make positive change in our families, communities and world.

Both in opposition and then in government Oliver's principal aim had been to help a succession of leaders to move the Conservative Party towards a particular ideological position — social and economic liberalism, tempered by a commitment to social justice and environmental stewardship, both globally and nationally.

From activists for social and environmental justice, to advocates for affordable housing and alternative transportation, to leaders in the struggle for immigrants» rights and civil rights, NKD is building a progressive Brooklyn alliance.

Also at noon, a coalition of groups opposed to Trump's agenda, including Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club, 350 NYC, 350 Brooklyn, WE ACT for Environmental Justice urge Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to join their effort, 780 Third Ave., (Schumer's NYC office), Manhattan.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

In 2003, an academic - community collaboration called the Environmental Justice Partnership (EJP) was launched, bringing together faculty and staff from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with a community board that includes East Baltimore residents, leaders and members from local organizations.

Underscoring these problems, the advocacy group behind the initiative, Carbon Washington, did not seriously seek out and incorporate input from environmental and social - justice advocates and community leaders.

While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD +, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so - called innovative solutions by releasing the «Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.»

We look forward to working with civic, environmental, business, and social justice leaders to get a winning measure on the 2018 ballot.

Over the past year, legislation to expand Maryland's RPS law gained support from a broad base of faith, labor, health, social justice, and environmental constituencies — including the NAACP, Maryland Working Families, SEIU, seven Maryland bishops and top ecumenical leaders.

Please join the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and the Center for American Progress, along with New Jersey mayors and state officials, environmental justice community residents and advocates, and progressive policy leaders to discuss just policy options to reduce carbon pollution and associated cEnvironmental Justice Alliance and the Center for American Progress, along with New Jersey mayors and state officials, environmental justice community residents and advocates, and progressive policy leaders to discuss just policy options to reduce carbon pollution and associated co-pollJustice Alliance and the Center for American Progress, along with New Jersey mayors and state officials, environmental justice community residents and advocates, and progressive policy leaders to discuss just policy options to reduce carbon pollution and associated cenvironmental justice community residents and advocates, and progressive policy leaders to discuss just policy options to reduce carbon pollution and associated co-polljustice community residents and advocates, and progressive policy leaders to discuss just policy options to reduce carbon pollution and associated co-pollutants.

Outraged and angered local front - line communities and environmental justice groups get little media attention, and Gov. Jerry Brown continues his posture as a global climate leader.

Jasmine Thomas, a youth organizer for the Yinka Dene Alliance and a community leader in the fight against the Tar Sands Northern Gateway Pipeline, challenged conference participants to do environmental justice work in a decolonial context.

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disruption.

The goals of the organizer will be to recruit new volunteers, develop leaders, and collaborate with allies on behalf of Friends of the Earth, and focusing that organizing on the urgent issue of stopping Trump, his friends in congress, and the fossil fuel industry from dismantling our environmental and social justice laws.

On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the movement to end mountaintop removal mining and the environmental justice movement at large lost one of its most dedicated and inspired leaders, Larry Gibson.

Thank you, Becky, for your diligent and tireless work to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, prevent climate change, and for being a leader in the struggle to secure environmental / ecological justice for Mother Earth and all her children.

She has dedicated herself to environmental justice, serving as a Sierra Club Student Coalition Youth Leader and as a volunteer with the Caribbean Youth Environmeenvironmental justice, serving as a Sierra Club Student Coalition Youth Leader and as a volunteer with the Caribbean Youth EnvironmentalEnvironmental Network.

The jewelry industry «leaders» named by the No Dirty Gold campaign have endorsed human rights, environmental, and social justice principles that call for responsible practices in producing gold and precious metals.

SPNI's Tel Aviv Center for Environmental Action is the leader of the many green organizations in the city fighting for sustainability and environmeEnvironmental Action is the leader of the many green organizations in the city fighting for sustainability and environmentalenvironmental justice.

Environmental justice and labor leaders Manuel Pastor, Maria Elena Durazo and Rev. Alexia Salvatierra show us that in a truly sustainable economy, everybody is an environmentalist — and a healthy environment depends on economic justice.

He is on the Leaders Forum of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and belongs to the Products, Professional Negligence, Motor Vehicle, and Toxic, Environmental — Pharmaceutical Sections of AAJ, and to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group, the Medical Negligence Information Exchange Group, and the Brain Injury Association.

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