Sentences with phrase «justice groups»

Either way, state social justice groups did not feel consulted.

Environmental justice groups argue that their communities have a lot at stake if cap and trade fails to curb climate change.

For many environmental organizations, especially climate justice groups, biofuels were a bad idea since its first conception in the early 2000s.

This dimension of American poverty has historically been overlooked, with policymakers — and many social justice groups, including Catholic ones — instead focusing solely on financial issues.

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

They viewed his hopes for Republican cooperation as naive and his characterization of social justice groups as insulting.

However, in November 2009 the Victorian Traditional Owner Land Justice Group expressed concerned that the Victorian Settlement Framework was «in jeopardy as a result of disagreement over funding between the State and Commonwealth Governments».

Various social justice groups from across the state are protesting the conference which they say contributes to the militarization of police departments.

May has been an area activist for years and is a member of the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a social justice group formed after the election of President Donald Trump.

It's what elected officials, criminal justice groups and immigrant advocates are calling on New York State's Chief Judge Janet DiFiore...

Have you talked to environmental justice groups like the Indigenous Environmental Network?

Alper Initiative at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Presents Art for Social Justice Group Exhibition

Today Rainforest Action Network, Rising Tide Boston along with a number of community environmental and economic justice groups took direct action against Citi and Bank of America on Harvard Square in Cambridge, Ma.

In a Wall Street Journal story on the litigation finance industry today, Allison Chock, the Chief Investment Officer for third - party litigation giant IMF Bentham, said she understands perfectly well why her industry faces criticism from civil justice groups.

The march was organized into six broad contingencies with indigenous and environmental justice groups leading the way.

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.

As we call upon political leaders to make stronger climate action commitments, we must also support and reinforce the efforts of migrant justice groups that have been organizing for years to improve Canada's refugee inclusion policies.

This is why, alongside Mazaska Talks and Last Real Indians, we are now calling on 350 groups and climate justice groups around the country to join together for a national day of action targeting the banks most enabling the climate crisis.

TJN is an extensive and multi-sectoral network uniting environmental, civil society, student, Indigenous, cultural, farming, labour and social justice groups whose aim is to challenge the scope and secretive nature of most free trade agreements.

At that time, Benedict was an activist with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the interfaith peace and justice group headquartered across the river in Nyack.

Not only did he donate $ 1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and other social justice groups last year, but he's become an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform.

The social justice group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good organized a vigil by the White House last weekend, in anticipation of the new DHS directive.

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 lawyer.

Environmental justice group Sustainable South Bronx scored a public health award from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Bianey Garcia, a transgender activist with Make the Road, a social justice group out of neighboring Jackson Heights, said while this is the 13th known attack on trans women in Queens this year, «so many are not reported for fear of going to the police,» partly due to transphobia in official ranks and also to fear of exposure for those who are undocumented immigrants.

More than 100 feminist leaders and social justice groups called for passage of the Right to Know Act at a press conference at City Hall.

EAST HARLEM — An environmental justice group charges Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has abandoned asthmatic New Yorkers failing to support more stringent regulation against landlords.

Cori is currently the Art Director of the Climate Justice Group Peaceful Uprising.

Unfortunately, I thought the book skimmed over this last question by invoking collaboration (between justice groups, environmental groups, corporations and communities), but giving only a few examples on how this might look.

In one press conference climate justice groups compared the difference between Clinton and Trump as being the difference between jumping in a frying pan or jumping into the fire.

The state opted to use a cap - and - trade program to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from refineries, factories, power plants and other facilities, an approach CBE and other environmental justice groups strongly oppose.

We hosted a series of events in the San Francisco Bay Area, together with allies from Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador; the Indigenous Environmental Network; the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Against REDD and for Life; as well as California environmental justice groups who found common cause with these communities.

Outraged and angered local front - line communities and environmental justice groups get little media attention, and Gov. Jerry Brown continues his posture as a global climate leader.

«Rather than engaging with these communities,» wrote Rich Stolz and De'Sean Quinn of environmental justice group OneAmerica, «I - 732 organizers patronized and ignored concerns raised by these stakeholders.»

Climate, energy and social justice groups commend the IPCC for clearly acknowledging the link between economic growth and increased greenhouse gas emissions but warn that the report falls far short on translating this insight into pathways to mitigation.

The year before in Doha, climate justice groups held actions in solidarity with the Philippines after another Typhoon had struck.

Fred Hiestand, the general counsel for the ironically - named, fiercely anti-civil justice group, Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC) and an enthusiastic backer of consumer rights crusher, Proposition 64, has joined the ThePopTort's Hypocrite Hall of Shame!

Migrant worker justice groups have long advocated for an overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

As well, a paper prepared for the Family Justice Group, «Family Justice Reform: A Review of Reports and Initiatives,» has also been placed online.

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The Community Justice Group project was started in Kowanyama, Hopevale and Palm Island in 1993 as a pilot project of the Queensland Corrective Services Commission.

Additionally, the Land Justice Group specifically asked the Victorian Government in 2006 to amend their Aboriginal Heritage Act to include the protection «folklore» as defined in Part IIA of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984.

Some of these processes, such as Law and Justice Committees in the Northern Territory and Community Justice Groups in Queensland incorporate an holistic response to family violence into strategies for addressing offending in communities.