Sentences with phrase «from systems of oppression»

Through WMOAP, Garner and (Robinson) collaboratively re-enact and hold a funeral for oppression, while revealing the difficulties of making this work within an institutional setting that too often benefits from systems of oppression.

Pledging allegiance to the myth of meritocracy, we benefit from a system of oppression, and yet we insist that our privilege is not a privilege but a right.

It was always the folks who benefited from the system of oppression who really didn't want to hear it.

Not exact matches

Jesus condemned the oppression and marginalization of his impoverished people by the Romans and other ruling elites who sought through their unjust system of taxation to extract as much wealth as possible from the majority of people to benefit the rich, powerful, ruling elites.

I assume, from my limited understanding, Empire is not the nation state, but it is the essence of triumphalism and systems of oppression that create power structures for the said empire over an OTHER / S.

Yeah, just democratic capitalism, which has freed more people from slavery, oppression and poverty than any other system of civilized society in the history of mankind.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

Jordan explained his motivation for the Killmonger character in an interview with Rolling Stone: «This young black man from Oakland, growing up in systemic oppression, not having his mom and dad around, going to foster care, being a part of this system... I understood his rage, and how he could get to the point where he had to do what he had to do, by any means necessary.»

Outwardly, the two men are on different sides of a great racial divide that stems not only from personal animus (though there is plenty of that to go around), but also from an entrenched system of social, psychological and economic oppression.

Drawing from four decades of the artist's career, this solo exhibition showcases a series of oil paintings and drawings that explore the concepts of race, representation, white supremacy, and systems of oppression in vivid color, and with dark humor.

We would be remiss to allow Goldsmith's highly public failure to dissuade us from using systems - based art and theory as tools to dismantle structures of oppression.

Women from Indigenous and Atlantic - African communities drew an explicit link between environmental degradation and the larger systems of racism and oppression they face every day.

Now it is important that we learn from their mistakes and build on their successes without replicating systems of oppression.

Now it is important that we learn from their mistakes and build on their successes as well as strive to not replicate these systems of oppression in our very own spaces where we fight for climate justice.

This is also where conspiracy theories come from: people go to people they know and trust to find information to make sense of a system that they understand as oppression.

California Attorney, and Certified mediator committed to the jury system and to representing and obtaining justice for individuals; the poor, the injured, the forgotten, the voiceless, the defenseless and to protecting the rights of such people from corporate and government oppression.

Professor Harry Blagg from the University of WA presented on Colonial Dispossession: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System, tracing how incarceration can be seen as extending colonial oppression, including through lack of action to rectify inequity.