Sentences with phrase «justice advocates began»

You can expect similar statements from the police union in Milwaukee today after criminal justice advocates began protesting the decision of District Attorney John Chisholm to not indict former cop Christopher Manney for allegedly slaying Dontre Hamilton this past April.

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And so we begin with confession, certainly for particular sins of racism but even for the sin we were unwittingly born into, the sin we did not advocate for or promote but that benefited us nonetheless, the passive and active attitudes and actions of our ancestors who failed to advocate for full equality and justice for their fellow citizens.

It is certainly time that advocates for racial justice began to insist that schools take on the high mission of developing these qualities.

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice will soon begin advocating for environmental pollution to receive the same type of government response as that done for infectious diseases or mass cases of food contamination.

That's one of the reasons why a group of restorative justice advocates and educators met last summer to begin outlining plans for a national association, according to Evans.

Thus, for my project, I chose to advocate for more of a focus on environmental justice issues in the organization's programmatic materials and to provide them with a list of resources and action steps by which they can begin to more overtly give voice to the EJ perspective.

June 2, 1992 — Environment Justice Act and Rio Earth Summit Sen. Gore, member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, discussed the environment as a political issue, including legislation he advocates to protect the environment, and the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development which begins June 3 in Brazil.

High school students and parents of color began to document the increasing use of a get - tough approach to discipline in schools and coined the phrase «school - to - prison pipeline» to describe the cycle of harsh discipline and justice system involvement that they saw.8 These activists were soon joined by a small group of academics and civil rights advocates, who produced and disseminated research on the racially discriminatory impact of zero - tolerance school disciplinary policies on children.9