Sentences with phrase «justice groups as»

There is also a steep learning curve for the justice groups as they are often comprised of older people with lower educational levels.

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

Not exact matches

That was insufficient for Color of Change, a nonprofit racial - justice group that is demanding she resign as a Trump adviser with the #quitthecouncil campaign.

That group is back, spending more than $ 160,000 to air a new ad criticizing Justice Courtney Goodson as she seeks re-election to the state's highest court on May 22.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

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.

A group of congressional Republicans have criticized the Justice Department for not providing an array of documents as promptly and completely as they requested.

Emerson Collective is Powell Jobs» recent enterprise, founded in the early 2000s, which has invested capital in a number of education - related ventures, as well as in social justice projects in keeping with the group's goal of «opening doors to opportunity.»

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

In an open letter to Trump on Friday, a group of Democrats said an effort to use the Nunes memo as a pretext to dismiss Rosenstein or Mueller — or both — would be viewed as an attempt to obstruct justice in the Russia probe.

It doesn't seem like this is being driven by an ancient justice system as much as typical group dynamics amplified by religion.

So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

It refers to groups as well as to individuals, and demands continuous efforts toward justice, which is basic in it.11

Since there is no indigenous image of the ministry as reconciling, and since reconciliation suggests a process rather than a conclusion, contemporary models from group dynamics and marriage counseling are helpful in initiating and managing the process, particularly when reconciliation is not possible if both love and justice are to be served.

Now as social justice director for the Salvation Army's Southern Territory in Australia she advocates and sets up provision for marginalised and exploited groups.

Two groups we support are Children's Hope Chest in Colorado Springs, and The International Justice Mission in Washington D.C. I see that Jamie (the very worst missionary) recommends a few resources as well.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

Yet, it is highly important to do justice to the nature of the religious group as such.

Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

I. M. Swindler, who receives $ 15 million per year as chairman of Lawyers for Social Justice, says his group strongly backs the proposed measures as «an eminently fair arrangement for all the parties who matter.»

A clear example of this dependence of justice upon social power is the achievement of voting rights for such minority groups as Negroes.

With religious organizations focusing their efforts on individual spirituality, on meaningful worship experiences, on music, youth pro grams and small groups, is it likely that reli gious commitment is going to challenge people to be con cerned about economic justice as well?

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

At first, justice had especially concerned the social group as a whole and Yahweh was held to be inflexibly fair in dealing with the clan or nation, thought of en masse.

No oppressed minority group is going to join with the majority in a common fight for justice while the latter insists on ignoring racism in its own group, or in exhorting the minority to regard the race problem as secondary to class analysis.

The first group tends to take the law, see justice as its core expression, apply it in the public sector (social justice), and then see that as kingdom work.

If religions thus eschew separate «communal power» and seek justice in society, there is no reason why for this purpose, they should not bring their specific faith - insights regarding public morality into dialogue and common action through secular multi-religious groups open for faith - interaction among themselves as well as with secular ideologies.

Equality of all persons is a central and inescapable component of justice, and it deserves special focus because of the world's history of exploitation and violence against women, children, minority groups, and anyone considered as «other.»

Debriefing revealed that many of the participants had become aware of race - related feelings — shock, fear, expectation of rejection, vulnerability, confusion, inferiority as a Black, relief at being White again, and guilt about these responses.5 This group was relatively free of conscious prejudices and was dedicated to racial justice.

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

The problems as to the legitimacy of moral education in the pubic schools disappear, however, if the proper content of moral education is recognized to be the values of justice which themselves prohibit the imposition of beliefs of one group upon another... [This] does not mean that the schools are not to be «value - oriented.»

Some faith groups, like the United Methodist Committee on Relief, are using Halloween as an opportunity to promote justice and fair - trade by joining Equal Exchange, a cooperative that sells fairly...

And it is SO FRUSTRATING to watch people who identify as Christian disregard gigantic chunks of the Bible that talk about welcoming the stranger, feeding the poor, doing justice, loving kindness, etc., etc., etc., to say nothing of ignoring the fact that Jesus was part of a marginalized group under empire and also a refugee from a batshit crazy tyrant (Matthew 2).

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.

From Monday, Justice John Mansfield, the president of the Australian Competition Tribunal, Novartis group general counsel Ray Steinwall and University of South Australia economics professor David Round — who were on Friday named as members of the tribunal reviewing the deal — will begin to digest Mr Helou's great big pitch: that the benefits of increasing scale by allowing the nation's biggest dairy processor to acquire smaller rival Warrnambool Cheese & Butter outweigh any destruction to local competition.

Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

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Both have served as chairperson of the American Association for Justice Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group.

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.

The Justice Department acknowledged Sessions as a U.S. senator met twice with the ambassador during the campaign, once in his office and in a group of several foreign diplomats at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

NOTE: This article has been changed to reflect that the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice is a 501 -(c)(4) group, not a 501 -(c)(3) group as the group's spokesman initially stated.

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.

I'm vice-chair of the APPG (All - Party Parliamentary Group) on mental health and I'm on the justice committee as well.

Ministry of Justice refuses to say how often the reform group is mentioned, as the personal animosity deepens

She has been backed by liberal groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Justice Democrats, and the Working Families Party.

Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Alliance for a Greater New York and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance have also fought against the bill but they too lobby elected officials on a variety of issues.

Aside youth groups daily and openly declaring their support for him to use the justice system to fight what they described as injustice meted out to him, a number of big shots of the party are reported pledging solidarity and allegiance to the business magnate's action at the Human Rights Court in Accra.