Sentences with phrase «justice groups around»

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.

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Jennifer Lopez may have built a career around her famous backside, but that booty may have landed her in some serious legal trouble after a televised concert in Morocco drew the ire of Islamist members of the ruling Justice and Development Party and at least one educational group.

In particular, NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic nuns that speaks out on social justice issues, went on a bus tour around the country to protest the Ryan budget.

The answers varied enormously and reflected the wonderful diversity that is the fair food movement, but they can all be distilled into three basic groups that revolve around environmental, social and economic justice.

And speaking of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, look around to see if there is a local group — a food policy council, a chapter of Slow Food, a food bank, a public health department, Kiwanis, Rotary, the Junior League, maybe a social justice organization — that can provide you with a home and some support.

«The settlement provides an important example for other correctional systems around the country,» Manhattan federal court judge Laura Taylor Swain said, calling the settlement between the city, the U.S. Justice Department and a group of inmates «groundbreaking.»

Singh said around 500 people had assembled for a candle - lit vigil in Noida to demand justice for the teenager, and became violent after spotting a group of Nigerians.

A group of Republican and Democratic sheriffs from around the state on Friday urged state leaders to adopt a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system.

By seeking constantly to divide people up into smaller and smaller groups, identity politics forestalls the creation of a sense of unity around issues of economic justice.

In the past few years, for example, I have talked with many students across the United States from historically marginalized groups who feel personally affected by the growing discussions around social justice.

«This is the strongest message from inside the organization illustrating the troubles, in particular irregularities around the money,» says Joseph Kraus of EG Justice, a human rights group focusing on Equatorial Guinea.

Deadline reports that Peele and his company, Monkeypaw Productions, are shopping around a series titled The Hunt, about a group of diverse hunters who want to track and kill the reformed Nazis who «escaped justice and embedded themselves in American society» after World War II.

While one segment has coalesced around a broad social justice agenda, including education, housing, economics, and criminal justice advocacy, a contrasting group of center - right leaders say the presence of «social justice warriors» will marginalize their voices.

Restorative justice empowers students to resolve conflicts on their own and in small groups, and it's a growing practice at schools around the country.

Coalitions of community - based organizations, student groups and teachers unions have developed in a number of cities across the country to rally around educational justice.

We are thrilled to present US IS THEM, a powerful exhibition of art by a group of international artists whose work reflects issues of current affairs and social justice from the US and around the globe.

Activist Scott Parking wrote, «Midwest Rising was a convergence for climate and economic justice that brought together a diverse coalition of groups fighting home foreclosures in cities like Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, communications workers on strike against Verizon Wireless, local labor organizers, Appalachian activists fighting mountaintop removal and climate justice activists from around the world.»

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

Beth HaTephila's social justice committee formed working groups that began planning around what developed into the four foci of the initiative: Energy, Recycling, Transportation, and Agriculture.

The «Justice For Tina Fontaine» rally was joined this year by the International Women's Day Toronto March, which is made up of a coalition of groups that organize around women's issues.

Before Christmas the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, an independent group with Labour party backing, documented the destruction wrought by LASPO and so, for example, noted that collapse in the number of legal advice centres from around 3,226 in 2005 to 1,462 by 2015.

Given that the Mountain States Legal Foundation is exactly the sort of right - wing advocacy group that Justice Scalia bases his jurisprudence around, you'd think he'd take it easy on this guy — and he basically did after getting this first dig out of his system.

And then too, we have a Hackathon that will be happening all during TECHSHOW and for that we have gotten in touch with the Tech For Justice Group, who regularly organize legal Hackathons around the country and they helped us organize.

The year 2016 saw different sets of advocacy groups and foundations coalesce around two national policy agendas related to juvenile justice.