Sentences with phrase «justice advocacy as»

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In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

Bailey - Chapman previously served as vice president for strategic alliances at the DCI Group and began her career in advocacy working for the Center for Individual Freedom, Americans for Tax Reform and the Institute for Justice.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

I consider my work «radical» because, although «radical» or «activist» work at large is perceived as protests and / or changing legislation, I believe that the emotional labor, relationship building, and advocacy are important (and overlooked) parts of justice work.

The IDC, however, insisted the one - house budget resolution of its own should not be read as a break with the Senate GOP as liberal advocacy groups press for juvenile justice reform and other long - sought issues this session.

A statement issued by the Judicial Secretary, Justice Alex B. Poku - Acheampong said the move is in furtherance of «the recent groundswell of public revulsion and media and civil society advocacy against the menace of illegal mining, commonly referred to as «galamsey».

Many of NYPIRG's proposals were endorsed by other good government or advocacy groups such as the League of Women Voters, Empire Justice Center, Common Cause, Consumers Union, Environmental Advocates of New York and the Brennan Center for Justice.

As a member of the Legal Aid Society's junior board of directors and recent recipient of their Outstanding Advocacy in Defense of the Accused award, Zellnor cares deeply for the reform of our criminal justice system.

As part of the Bronx Child Advocacy Center's multidisciplinary team of experts who investigate, respond to, and prosecute cases of child abuse, Lieutenant Michael Donovan explains the seamless way the team helps child victims of abuse get the protection and justice they deserve.

And yet, the WFP's top official says there are a lot of things to celebrate as the year ends, pointing to a growing progressive advocacy movement ranging from climate change to criminal justice reforms.

This was just as a human rights advocacy organisation, Access to Justice, also faulted the military over the declaration.

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.

Watkins and others like her see themselves as having moral commitments outside of academia; they want to do work that brings political engagement and the advocacy of social justice to the cannon of anthropological literature.

A New Orleans based cultural organizer, philanthropy strategist, and curator with 13 years experience at the forefront of the arts and culture sector, her organizing and advocacy is focused on building spaces for the most marginalized to create work, and redirecting resources to communities of color as a matter of justice.

Elizabeth Munro and Claire Bonduro round out the festival team as staff with academic backgrounds in justice services, victims advocacy, and criminology.

Members embrace the intrinsic value and right to exist of the other - than - human and of natural environments, and recognize that the pursuance and advocacy of a planetary ethic of environmental and social justice needs to be grounded in, as well as restorative and celebratory of, local and indigenous communities and cultures.

The judiciary's role in social policymaking expanded broadly with the rights revolution of the 1960s, as the public's thirst for «total justice» combined with the courts» willingness to embrace new legal doctrines, increasingly long and complicated federal statutes, and the emergence of well - funded advocacy organizations to generate a surge of litigation across policy areas.

Youth advocacy and civic engagement is especially powerful for vulnerable populations, such as youth who are homeless, in foster care, or justice - involved, who can draw upon their own experiences to impact change.

Taryn Ishida, executive director of Californians for Justice, a nonprofit advocacy organization, said that having teachers from similar racial or ethnic backgrounds as students «helps students engage in learning.

Charles uses his expertise as an educational justice organizer, strategist, advocate, and fundraiser to support Education Cities» member organizations with their approaches to community engagement and advocacy, with a special emphasis on lifting up the voices and influence of the parents and families most impacted by educational inequity.

The Institute for Justice has long been involved in litigation and advocacy efforts around the country that involve school privatization efforts as well as issues revolving around private property, economic liberty, and free speech.

She has taught at MLK High School for Law, Advocacy, and Community Justice as well as Essex Street Academy.

She serves on the AEA Social Justice Task Force, AZ ASCD Advocacy Committee, and as CTA Secretary.

As head of the Washington, D.C. office for over a decade, she directed the organization's federal advocacy around issues involving voting rights, education, employment discrimination, fair housing, and criminal justice.

As a photographer, film director, composer, and writer, Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) was a multi-disciplinary artist whose art and advocacy for social justice still resonates in contemporary culture.

The grants draw from the New York - based foundation's Art and Social Justice initiative, established in 2015 to with a mission to use «art as a tool for advocacy and creative change, inclusive community engagement, and the promotion of greater civic participation and public discourse.»

In the past two years, UUMFE has brought Earth justice education and action campaigns to their members and congregations (NWEI serving as a primary delivery model) and created an advocacy coalition for environmental justice issues in collaboration with other Unitarian Universalist (UU) partners.

«The Bar Council will continue to argue the Bar's case for proper funding of the criminal justice system in all respects (including the provision of legal aid), not least so as to ensure that we can develop and preserve the quality of advocacy in our justice system.»

We are not only members but also leaders of many trial - advocacy organizations, such as the American Association for Justice, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the Savannah Trial Lawyers Association.

In criticizing this evidence as «advocacy» Madam Justice Griffin provided the following reasons:

Most recently, she was a legal intern at the Montana Supreme Court where she worked for Justice Beth Baker on Access to Justice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy eJustice Beth Baker on Access to Justice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy eJustice Commission projects, including the Public Forum Series on access to justice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy ejustice issues as well as drafting a Forum Report summarizing the findings of that series to use in future advocacy efforts.

Mr. Placitella volunteers his time to numerous consumer advocacy groups to fight for the rights of people who suffered because of corporate misconduct, including serving as Counsel for Consumers for Civil Justice.

cautions that the institutionalizing of ADR without attempting to change underlying culture will likely lead to a corruption of ADR mechanisms and the wider civil justice system as there remains the possibility that good settlement process will be marred by over zealous advocacy or over zealous desire to close cases.

The graduates, who may come from any discipline, will learn advocacy and negotiation skills as well as the law relating to education, community care, youth justice, immigration and welfare benefits.

[2] The United States Department of Justice describes civil legal aid as a program that offers «free legal advocacy and legal information for low - and middle - income people to help address the civil legal problems they may face.»

Part of the challenge, as Justice Campbell explains, is cultural, and due to the belief that «zealous advocacy» requires the pursuit of all information related to a matter.

The coalition was created in 2003, originally by five different organizations that came together because they recognized there was a need to have more organization advocacy around the right to counsel that was happening across the nation, but not necessarily in an organized or centralized way, and the Public Justice Center agreed to staff the coalition, even back then, and currently is the operator of the coalition through my position as coordinator.

Some advocacy groups in the U.S. have promoted the idea of letting non-lawyers invest equity in law firms as a way to provide access to justice, enable innovation in the legal marketplace, and expand legal services.

A «perfect storm» is about to hit, the report claims, because public bodies and large corporate are seeking to reduce their advocacy spend; solicitor - advocates are increasing in number, and will soak up more advocacy work; 2,000 instructing law firms may close this year, and larger firms may seek to do more in - house; family law legal aid firms are closing shop following the introduction of new contracting rules, and the Ministry of Justice is seeking to cull criminal legal aid firms, perhaps to a level of 70 %, reducing the pool of referral law firms; and tenancies will continue to decrease as chambers merge to consolidate their business position.

These trends aren't limited to law schools or the profession as deep structural changes are occurring in wider society as well, but it's changing the profession slowly and eliminating what I consider some of its best parts: defence for the downtrodden, zealous advocacy on social justice issues, or the ability to contest (and stop) governmental action.

«On behalf of Pro Bono Law Ontario, Justice for Children and Youth and the Advocates» Society, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for your assistance and the time you have donated as a volunteer with the Child Advocacy Project.

In Justice Graesser's view, «JDR advocacy as well as mediation skills will overtake civil trial advocacy in importance, if it has not already done so.»

Joining a civil legal aid team using impact litigation and advocacy as its primary tools to pursue justice and equal rights through authentic and holistic service delivery to clients, CLSMF's Director of Litigation will support, refine, build, and maintain best in class approaches to support the expertise of our diverse and highly talented legal team, this Florida Attorney in good standing and experienced legal services litigator, will utilize the ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple complex cases in state and federal courts, while also monitoring and troubleshooting dozens of other significant cases handled by program staff.

Since 1995, Mr. Lawlor's trial advocacy and litigation skills, as well as his wide - ranging legal expertise, have provided plaintiffs and their families with a distinct advantage when seeking financial compensation and justice for injuries caused by the negligence of others.

Among other things Justice Taft is known to anyone involved in the advocacy programs at University of Houston Law Center as being very generous with his time in judging moot court competitions.

In a speech today at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention, Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas) attacked the Obama administration's record before the U.S. Supreme Court, characterizing the Justice Department's positions as «radical advocacy for unchecked federal authority.»

The keynote will be followed by workshop sessions on a wide variety of topics of interest to criminal, juvenile, child welfare and mental health practitioners, including but not limited to the wrongful conviction and exoneration of Frederick Clay, litigating nursing home admissions, appellate advocacy, criminal case law update, how to use social science research in your case, the new sentencing guidelines, restorative justice, ensuring language access, advanced issues in Superior Court litigation, representing emerging adults, how to contest preliminary drug test results, a practicum on mindfulness, as well as the latest from the immigration impact unit.

The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change includes individuals as well as Alliance for South Asian Aids Prevention, Asian Community Aids Services, Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support), Caregiver Connections Education and Support Organization, Caregivers Action Centre, Durham Region Migrant Solidarity Network, FCJ Refugee House, Fuerza Puwersa, GABRIELA Ontario, IAVGO Community Legal Clinic, Income Security Advocacy Centre, Justice for Migrant Workers, Migrante Ontario, No One Is Illegal — Toronto, Northumberland Community Legal Centre, OCASI — Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, OHIP For All, PCLS Community Legal Clinic, SALCO Community Legal Clinic, Students Against Migrant Exploitation, Social Planning Toronto, UFCW, UNIFOR, Workers Action Centre and Workers United.

This is even more important in the context of our strategic framework, which is examining the nature and extent of our role as a regulator, and in which the Society is committed to advocacy on the issue of access to justice for equity - seeking groups.

Thomson Reuters Proview has established itself as a key tool for advocacy, driving efficiency in the courtroom, improving the delivery of legal information and ultimately supporting the digital transformation of the justice system.