Sentences with phrase «justice action groups»

The BCTF's province - wide social justice network includes six social justice action groups.

Professional Associations and Memberships: Arapahoe County Bar Association, 2006 - Present Social Justice Action Group (S - JAG), 2005 - 2006 Managing Director Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, 2006 - Present

At the University of Denver College of Law, Mollie served as Managing Director of Social Justice Action Group (S - JAG), a volunteer organization that provides free legal research and writing assistance to public interest attorneys who are actively pursuing social justice.

At a private dinner during the MASS conference in Manchester, the Access to Justice Action Group (AJAG) was formed.

The Gippsland East Post AFJ 44 Round Table — Collaborative Impact Project is a partnership between the Chairpersons of Gippsland Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee (RAJAC) and Local Aboriginal Justice Action Group (LAJAC); Chairperson Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group (IFVRAG)-- Outer Gippsland; Chaiperson Local Aboriginal Network; and CEO's of the following Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO): Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association (LEAHA), Moogji Aboriginal Council East Gippsland, Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative (GEGAC), Lake Tyers Health and Children's Service, and Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust (LTAT) Ramahuck District Aboriginal Corporation and Department of Justice and Regulation (DRJ); Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); Department of Education (DET); Victoria Police (VicPol) and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)

Not exact matches

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

The day before the October 23, 1967, March on the Pentagon, Mr. Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and eight other activists met with an official in the Justice Department and turned in the draft cards of young war resisters — an action that was to result in the indictment of five of the group on conspiracy charges.

If religions thus eschew separate «communal power» and seek justice in society, there is no reason why for this purpose, they should not bring their specific faith - insights regarding public morality into dialogue and common action through secular multi-religious groups open for faith - interaction among themselves as well as with secular ideologies.

When Justice Kennedy asserts that there is no rational basis for the amendment, and that the «inevitable inference» is that the action is «born of animosity toward the class of persons affected,» he is saying, in judicial terms of art, that the amendment was adopted «because of» and not merely «in spite of» its adverse effects upon an identifiable group.

The churches keep on raising questions, sometimes legitimate, about the style and structure of action groups and people's movements, without showing any readiness to face the challenge posed by the vision and strategy (justice and collective action) for the Church's ministry and mission.

Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

The Interfaith Leadership Council, working hand - in - hand with the social justice group United Power for Action and Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a justice group United Power for Action and Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a lawyer.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Move Forward New York is a citizen action group committed to promoting social justice, preserving civil rights, and ensuring environmental conservation by encouraging participation in the political process on all levels through education, collaboration, and activism.

Aside youth groups daily and openly declaring their support for him to use the justice system to fight what they described as injustice meted out to him, a number of big shots of the party are reported pledging solidarity and allegiance to the business magnate's action at the Human Rights Court in Accra.

The #NoCuts Coalition is comprised of the following groups and individuals: Community Voices Heard, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Manhattan North District Council of Presidents, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), New York Communities for Change, The Black Institute, CASA - New Settlement, MFY Legal Service, Coalition for the Homeless, Pratt Center for Community Development, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, GOLES, FUREE, Legal Aid Society, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, CAAAV, Brooklyn For Peace, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Community Service Society, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, Transport Workers Union Local 100, National Action Network, Racial & Economic Justice, Red Hook Initiative, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), DC37, Picture The Homeless, Greater New York LECET, Unique People Service, United Neighborhood Houses and Supportive Housing Network of New York.

The Joint Action for Justice, a pressure group has lamented over the worsening security situation in the country under the watch of the President Nana Addo - Danquah Akufo - Addo and the New Patriotic Party.

At 9 a.m., actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, NYC Councilman Robert Corny and representatives of the groups Black Lives Matter and The Coalition for African Peace and Justice hold a news conference to call for federal officials to send humanitarian aid and take further action in response to attacks in Nigeria by supporters of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

The Brennan Center for Justice Citizen Action of New York Citizens Union Common Cause / NY League of Women Voters of New York State New York Public Interest Research Group

A pressure group called the Joint Action for Justice has referred to the Ghans - US defence deal as a total insult to the entire Ghanaian populace.

The social justice and social action group chaired by Iain Duncan Smith - an ideal choice only to lead a one - way march on the South Pole - is expected to demand a tougher line on family values.

Mr. Lipton added that the groups in question — Citizen Action, New York Communities for Change and Make the Road Action — had been critical to efforts to raise minimum wage and criminal justice reform, among others.

The Let NY Vote coalition is made up of over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citzen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

NEW YORK, NY (12/18/2017)(readMedia)-- Last week, over thirty organizations, nonprofits, labor unions, including the New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, and civil rights organizations, including Statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American and LGBTQ community groups sent a letter demanding that Governor Cuomo and the legislative leaders prioritize Early Voting in the 2018 - 19 budget.

«Unfortunately, we continue to see elected officials and police leadership twist this tragedy into an opportunity for them to silence the cries for justice from families who have lost their loved ones to police violence,» said the statement from Ferguson Action, which was signed by several other groups.

In addition to Citizen Action, a variety of other groups hosted the event including Albany Democratic Socialists, Albany Jewish Voices for Peace, Albany Social Justice Center, Alliance for Quality Education, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, the Capital District Coalition Against Islamophobia, Center for Law and Justice, the New York State Labor Religion Coalition and the New York State Council of Churches.

Mark Emanatian is the Capital District Organizer with Citizen Action of New York: «Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish groups are coming together to an interfaith call for justice to work on the issues of poverty, what causes poverty, how we can solve poverty.»

By enacting a flawed redistricting plan, Cuomo triggers Justice Department pre-clearance review and federal court action on the already filed lawsuits by Senate Democrats and advocacy groups.

Ulster People for Justice and Democracy, inspired by the Bernie Sanders campaign for President, is a grassroots group in Ulster County, NY, building an inclusive, responsive democracy through advocacy, education, and direct political action.

The governor made the announcement Wednesday while addressing the annual convention of the National Action Network, a social justice group founded by Al Sharpton, in New York City.

Those efforts got a boost last week when Citizen Action New York, a statewide grassroots group committed to racial, social and economic justice, endorsed his candidacy.

The latest edition of this edited volume includes an overview of social justice principles and public health; chapters on social injustice and its effects on the health of specific population groups; and the intersection of social justice and key aspects of public health, such as health care delivery; and a call to action that promotes human rights and social justice advocacy for improving public health.

When a group of famed scientists experience untimely «accidents,» a government task force follows the trail of clues to the Justice League into a high - stakes game of intrigue, mystery, and action that asks the question: How do you serve justice to those above tJustice League into a high - stakes game of intrigue, mystery, and action that asks the question: How do you serve justice to those above tjustice to those above the law?

When a group of famed scientists experience untimely «accidents,» a government task force follows the trail of clues to the Justice League — and into a high stakes game of intrigue, mystery and action that asks the question: How do you serve justice to those above tJustice League — and into a high stakes game of intrigue, mystery and action that asks the question: How do you serve justice to those above tjustice to those above the law?

UTLA President Alex Caputo - Pearl mentioned the day of action as part of his state of the union speech in July and said the event will be in coordination with the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, a national group of parent, youth and community organizations and labor groups whose stated goal is «fighting for educational justice and equity in access to school resources and opportunities.»

Coalition Members: PCAPS (Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools) includes: Action United, AFT Pennsylvania, AFL - CIO Central Labor Council, Fight for Philly, Boat People SOS, Jewish Labor Committee, Jobs With Justice, Juntos, Media Mobilizing Project, Neighborhood Networks, Occupy Philadelphia Labor Work Group, Pennsylvania Working Families Organization, Philadelphians Allied for Responsible Economy (PHARE), Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT Local 3), Philadelphia Home and School Council, Philadelphia Student Union, SEIU 32BJ Local 1201, UNITE HERE Local 634, Working America and Youth United for Change (YUC)

Each action group is composed of four members from the provincial Committee for Action on Social Justice (CASJ), and they are all classroom teaaction group is composed of four members from the provincial Committee for Action on Social Justice (CASJ), and they are all classroom teaAction on Social Justice (CASJ), and they are all classroom teachers.

The Status of Women action group is a component of the BCTF Social Justice Program.

Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs) are an opportunity to build community by learning together, developing as activists, and linking social justice issues with classroom practice.

In fact, a number of organizations join Children Now in calling for the further development and adoption of a Weighted Student Formula concept in 2013, including the ACLU, California School Boards Association, Californians for Justice, Campaign for Quality Education, The Education Trust — West, EdVoice, MALDEF, New Schools Venture Fund, Parent Leadership Action Network, Public Advocates, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, United Ways of California, Youth Together, and many others.

She was recently caught on camera by the Education Action Group at the Network for Public Education conference promoting teaching «social justice» — P.R. - speak for left - wing ideology — in math class.

When the Journey 4 Justice Alliance (which is little more than a union - funded front group) filed a series of specious civil rights complaints against the school systems in Newark, Chicago, and New Orleans back in 2014, I wrote that the actions seemed to herald «a cynical shift in strategy by reform opponents» to paint charters in a racially - divisive light.

Following directly on from Episode 2: A House Divided (which Alternative Magazine Online described as «the perfect mix of action, plot advancement and character development»), Episode 3 sees Clementine and her new group captured and put to work by Carver, a totalitarian psychopath who uses fear and violence to instil has own uniquely twisted brands of justice and new world order.

So far Liberate Tate's case has been propagated through a series of attention - grabbing, guerrilla - style actions, but in collaboration with Platform — a London - based arts organisation working towards social and ecological justice — Tate à Tête, 2012, an alternative Tate gallery audio guide, has moved both groups» activism into a kind of immaterial territory.

In «Father and Sons,» filmed at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, a group of African - American teenagers and a police officer stand at a microphone in a room of empty chairs.

Beyond Pesticides works regularly with the Center for Food Safety; Environmental Working Group; Pesticide Action Network North America; Xerces Society; EarthShare; Combined Federal Campaign; American Bird Conservancy, Beyond Toxics, the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, Institute for Fisheries Resources, the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Organic Farmers Marketing Association; Bio-Logical Pest Management; Roseland Farms; Kids for Saving Earth Worldwide; PEST Education Project; Pesticide Watch; Children's Health Environmental Coalition; Horizon Organic Dairy, Inc.; Donaldson - McMahon Family Farms; Lideres Campesinas en California; Kansas Chapter, Sierra Club; Farmworker Justice Fund; Maryland Pesticide Network and others.

Sara Morris, President of The Beecher's Foundation, will be speaking at the Inaugural Seattle Food Tank Summit, titled «Growing Food Policy,» which will be held in partnership with the Environmental Working Group, Food Action, Garden - Raised Bounty (GRuB), the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability on March 17, 2018.

Guest Post - Tina Johnson, Energy Action Coalition — A Call for Engagement by Environmental Justice Groups in the Geoengineering Conversation

She will be speaking at the Seattle Food Tank Summit, «Growing Food Policy,» which will be held in partnership with the Environmental Working Group, Food Action, Garden - Raised Bounty, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability on March 17, 2018.