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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 co-pollutants.
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A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.
The Green Party candidates also said they stood with community residents in calling for justice for Eric Garner, whose death was ruled a homicide by the coroner.
Before we parted the residents of Westchester pledged to win and be a part of their community from this day forward as we seek for Liberty and Justice for all.
The Leadership Council as follows: Adrienne Adams (Queens Community Board 12); Rhonda Binda (Jamaica Center BID); Brian Browne (St. John's University); Ricardi Calixte (Queens Economic Development Corporation); Tonya Cantlo - Cockfield (Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning); Clive Dawkins (Property Owner); Kevin J. Forrestal (Queens Community Board 8); Deepmalya Gosh (The Child Center of New York); Glenn Greenidge (Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District); Michael Griffith (New York City Department of Transportation) Tyrel Hankerson (Resident); Ian Harris (Community Board 12); Howard Hecht (Community Member); Cathy Hung (Jamaica Center for Arts ad Learning / Jamaica Performing Arts Center); Derek Irby (165th Street Mall Improvement Association); Bilal Karriem (Queens Community Board 12); Malikka Karteron (Resident); Philippa Karteron (Resident); Michele Keller (Queens Community Board 12); Tameka Pierre - Louis (Civic Leader); Justin Rogers (Greater Jamaica Development Corporation); Pierina Ana Sanchez (Regional Plan Association); Aaron Schwartz (Commercial Property Owner); Earl Simons (York College); Nakita Vanstory (LaGuardia Community College - Justice Community Program); Bernard Warren (Jamaica YMCA); Richard Werber (King Manor Museum); Jonathan White (Community Member); Montgomery Wilkinson (Resident); Nadezhda Williams (Community Based Organization) and Tajuana Hamm (Designee for NYS Senator James Sanders, Jr.).
«First as a chair of the Legislature's Public Safety Committee, then as an administrator in the Sheriff's Office, and as Spring Valley Justice, David Fried has shown his commitment to ensuring a safe community for every resident, family, and business in Rockland.
At 10 a.m., NYC Council members Ritchie Torres and Vanessa Gibson join NYCHA residents, the mayor's office of Criminal Justice, and social and legal service providers for an oversight hearing on violent crime in public housing, Johnson Houses Community Center, 1833 Lexington Ave., Manhattan.
Fishers Island Justice Louisa Evans said residents are asking for someone who can gather information to give to the Island Community Board, which would then find a consensus on what issues are most important.
The mission of the Erie County Probation Department is to ensure the safety of the residents of Erie County by providing community - based supervision and rehabilitation services through a multi-disciplinary approach to individuals and families involved with the justice system.
Movement for Justice in El Barrio held a series of community meetings and workshops starting this past spring that its members say involved thousands of Harlem residents.
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.
Listen to J4J's commentary: «To justify this radical transformation... the proponents of these policies have taken to talking about them as matters of racial and social justice... As the residents of the communities most affected by school closures and charter school expansion, we must take issue with this rhetorical description.
At the center of this vision is the desire to build a deep educational and cultural knowledge base in our teacher residents so they can advocate for social justice effectively and stimulate community transformation.
This story highlights the challenges faced by rural environmental justice communities as they try to ensure that ongoing waste disposal and pollution do not pose public health and environmental threats to local residents.
Residents reported feeling safer in their community and had a renewed connection to the justice system attributed to the fact that they felt respected, engaged and heard.
Unfortunately, many East St. Louis residents are underrepresented in the civil justice system, making experienced legal representation an essential need in the community.
She has held «listening sessions» at various community locations, allowing residents to share their experiences and concerns about the justice system.
There is no doubt that residents of rural communities in Canada face greater access to justice limitations than their urban dwelling counterparts.
The MBF, through its grant programs and charitable activities, represents the commitment of the Massachusetts legal community to improve the administration of justice and to ensure equal access to the legal system for all residents.
(2) A community liaison committee consists of judges, lawyers, persons employed in court administration and other residents of the community, appointed by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice or by a person he or she designates for the purpose.
The local community was horrified to learn that elderly residents were forced to suffer for so long before the abusers were ultimately brought to justice.
«The new Waterloo Region courthouse has great significance for not only the justice community but local businesses, community agencies, and residents,» said John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre.
Court staff and magistrates in the community justice courts in Methyr Tydfill and the London boroughs of Newham and Haringey will work with local residents and community groups to identify issues of concern, tackle the root causes of crime and anti-social behaviour, and help reduce re-offending.
The impact of these services on access to justice is significant for residents of rural Canada and will likely become even more important as providers of legal information and legal services seek new ways to serve rural communities that are increasingly losing lawyers in their communities to retirement.
[172] In the Native Title Report 2009, the previous Social Justice Commissioner expressed concern that community residents were only being asked for comment on the proposed amendments, as the Australian Government had already formed the view that the five - year leases had operated for the benefit of Aboriginal residents and proposed to continue them.
Through capacity building trainings, community mediation services, collaborative partnerships and restorative justice, NCRC is supporting residents in finding grass - roots solutions to public safety issues.