There are many different entry points to approach a social
justice issue at every grade level, and the variety of these experiences can be rich and thought provoking.
I became increasingly involved in policing and
justice issues at national level, and in 2003, I was approached to become a Labour working peer, taking my seat in mid-June, 2004.
By Josh Kurtz New Jersey Sen. Cory A. Booker (D), who has already endorsed former NAACP president Benjamin T. Jealous in the Maryland gubernatorial election, will be joining Jealous Wednesday evening for a rally on criminal
justice issues at 7 p.m. at Busboys & Poets in Hyattsville.
I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social
justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.
Through his personal work he continues to use graphic design as a tool to call attention to various political, economic, and social
justice issues at home and abroad.
When Shivam Desai, a junior studying physics at Santa Clara University, first heard about GRID Alternatives from his professor, he was intrigued by its multifaceted strategy to address social justice and environmental
justice issues at the same time.
Ethical and
Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - Issue 3, Financing Adaptation and Climate Change Responses in Vulnerable Developing Counties and Issue 4, Ethical Responsibilities for Loss and Damages.
The Ethical and
Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - Issue 2, Equity and National GHG Emissions Commitments in the Medium - and Long Term
There is a need to establish an international data base on how nations have considered equity and distributive
justice issues at the national level and specific excuses that nations have relied upon for their failure to support an ethically justifiable international climate regime.
The CBA - BC has been on a recent push to put
justice issues at the heart of the province's spring election, scheduled for May 14.
Not exact matches
Back in November 2016, John Hudak, a senior fellow
at the Brookings Institution, said that if Sessions became attorney general, he would have the power to rescind the Department of
Justice memos
issued under the Obama administration that have allowed marijuana companies to exist without fear of DEA raids.
«That's hardly the type of
justice the American people deserve given the sheer magnitude of misconduct
at issue, and I accordingly dissent in part.»
«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project
at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social -
justice issues.
The pricing
issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of
Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board
at its annual meeting on Thursday.
«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal
justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European
issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.
The FBI's Monday raid of Cohen's offices indicates that the
Justice Department is looking
at issues beyond special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
But
Justice Minister Peter MacKay's statement Wednesday signalled the
issue is still on the government's radar —
at a time when the opposition parties are pushing decriminalization or full legalization.
Premiers concluded their meeting in Edmonton by looking
at ways to advance shared objectives on critically important
justice and social
issues.
Yesterday my friend Rick Garnett, who teaches law
at Notre Dame and blogs
at Mirror of
Justice, took
issue with my article (and White's).
When the
issue at hand is the promotion of some good, the first thing they say is, «This is good; it's a requirement of
justice that the law acknowledge it; and here is why it's both good and just.»
At almost the same time that he wrote the opinion sustaining the «bubble law,»
Justice Stevens
issued another opinion for the Court, this one invalidating a high school policy that permitted student - led prayer before football games.
Subsequently, both the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the president of the Pontifical Council for
Justice and Peace
at the Vatican
issued....
Amnesty International is up to no good, and they don't want you to know about it.My friend Richard Stith, professor of law
at Valparaiso University, first drew my attention to the
issue on the Mirror of
Justice blog about a year ago.
They will require a concerted effort by theologians who take both ecology and
justice seriously, and who are prompted by a sense of urgency that will allow them to struggle creatively and resolutely with the deeper
issues — if not in perfect harmony,
at least with a sense of solidarity.
Standing under the word in prayer while waiting for the clarification of the Spirit will satisfy neither those who argue for «
justice now» nor those for whom the faith itself is
at stake in this
issue — and those people will necessarily continue their professions and protestations.
Process theology has failed to deal extensively with the
issue of
justice,
at least under that rubric.
That's why we cover life
issues and culture next to social
justice and spiritual growth — to look
at the things relevant to our lives and world, and give voice to what God is doing in and through our generation.
I give to you what I give to no one else, and that is my seed, my procreative power, which, united to your seed, can incarnate our love, take on flesh that will be the living fruit of our love, the proof also that we want our love to be a gift to God and to the future.1 I have expanded on this
at length elsewhere.2 Holding to our present topic, let us look a bit more closely
at those
issues of
justice involved in this divine plan of the union of man and woman in marriage.
At the heart of the
issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of
justice and injustice, of good and evil.
But of course if you're only looking for
issuing popular readable material without getting the bottom of the more important
issues at hand which is truth,
justice, honour, integrity and the like, never mind.
Those people who are obsessed with the so - called «social
issues» seem to overlook the fact that both Jesus and the prophets hammered away primarily and consistently
at Social
Justice, again and again and again.
A Challenge for Process Theology,» George Pixley has put decisively before all process thinkers a host of
issues arising from the struggle for
justice and humanization which are
at the heart of the conflict within the world today.
On purely moral
issues, judges are no more competent or trustworthy, as
Justice Scalia observed in Cruzan, the Missouri «right to die» case, than «nine people picked
at random from the Kansas City telephone directory.»
This post looks
at the two sides of the social
justice debate, and then suggests a third middle way on social
justice issues.
Some may balk
at the taking of these liberties; but the
issue is one both of accuracy and of
justice, and «we must obey God rather than any human authority» (RSV: «men» — Acts 5:29)
Look
at what happened to so - and - so, who tried seriously to bring
justice issues into his church.
This month, First Presbyterian asked the Sooner State's top court to take a third look
at the case, arguing that the
justices mixed up two separate
issues of law: the ecclesiastical extension / church autonomy doctrine and the ministerial exception.
On the other side of the social
justice debate are those who argue that social
justice issues are
at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look
at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social
justice actions
at every turn.
Sexual
issues, often difficult to resolve in congregations and denominational systems, can find both healing and appropriate
justice at many retreat centers, where anonymity and freedom offer space to seek both.
Every year healing retreats for women
at Kirkridge focus on such
issues as finding one's own voice, vocation and
justice.
At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more with theoretical questions of belief and truth than with practical
issues of action and
justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.
I have already noted that Black theology deals
at once with cultural and
justice issues in a thoroughly unified way.
The keepers of those myths that you probably have the most
issue with, somewhat successfully changed the meaning of the word myth to the word lie... to make their own myths (which they called parables and which were presented more in allegorical than historical form), to in their minds be perceived more as truth... and in God's own poetic
justice, now have their cherished tales of perceived morality thrown into the same category by those who make the same efforts
at understnding the meanings.
At the very least, as Amy Black points out in «For the Sake of the Children» (a 1995 contribution to the Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy), there are public -
justice issues involved.
Even a glance
at the
issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social
Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.
At the same time, others are strongly committed to the wider
issues of peace,
justice, and - the environment.
They were strongly committed to global
issues of
justice, to specific ministries with those
at the margin of our own society, to peacemaking, and to environmental concerns.
Chapin says, «I've been thinking about food
justice issues for as long as I can remember, but it was only when I became a mother (and a mother of an exhaustingly picky eater in my 2nd son Van,
at that) that my ideas coalesced into a song.
She is also an award - winning blogger, an editor
at A Deeper Story, a contributor for SheLoves Magazine, and a passionate advocate for global women's
justice issues.
The boy was one of 73 children
at the Bridgeview public pool from the Village of
Justice Park District summer camp, which included 10 adult chaperones, according to a press release
issued today.