Sentences with phrase «justice movements by»

The Terminal City Legal Collective supports political activists while helping advance the goals of social justice movements by conducting legal trainings and operating a hotline for arrested protesters.

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But new was the artist's social justice embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital strife.

The classic civil - rights movement was determined to reshape America through moral reason; distorted into a twisted parody of itself through the victim culture, it was followed by a moralism self - consciously detached from reason that would prove incapable of calling anyone, black or white, to the great cause of equal justice for all.

Social Justice Warrior (SJW) A term for a person involved in the new movement, though it is often used pejoratively by critics.

No government established by violence has given the people either liberty or justice — only a show of liberty (for those who supported the movement) and a show of justice (which consists in plundering the erstwhile «haves»).

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

If by «liberation» people mean that Christian thought and life are to be socially engaged, committed to those forms of systemic change necessary for the greater actualization of social justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theology.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

King and others in the movement found themselves turning to judges appointed by Eisenhower for justice and to liberal Republicans (remember them?)

But if the need for meeting space has declined, the claims placed on church members by movements for social, political and economic justice have not diminished.

He saw that in a country where 20 per cent of the population owns 80 per cent of the wealth and where, when times turn hard, the middle class is tempted to vent its frustrations by blaming and punishing the poor, a civil rights movement must also become a movement for economic justice.

Conferences during the early days of the environmental movement were often punctuated by sharp exchanges between environmentalists and the advocates of justice for the poor.

I knew my friends were as rocked by the tragedy as everyone else, so I was dumbfounded when I saw no movement on their parts to join efforts to bring justice for Sean Bell.

By contrast, many people in «peace and justice» movements often see only the latter types of wrongdoing, not the more private type.

We had been released by our supporting religious denominations from the encumbrances of liturgical and institutional forms to go with the «movement» for racial justice and for peace.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

Speaking at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opened up about the #MeToo movement on a panel hosted by NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

A creative and a constructive approach is initiated by groups and movements within the Church which are committed to social justice.

It is the emergence of this left, beginning with the black power activists led by Stokely Carmichael, that derailed the integration process and the authentic civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King — a movement which had fought for the idea of a single standard: one justice, indivisible, for all.

An exception to the general neglect by the churches of a justice that includes concern for the whole creation is the eco-justice movement in the United States.

Passion is a worship collective that serves as the musical arm of the wildly popular Passion movement, a series of global conferences led by Atlanta's Passion City Church pastor Louie Giglio that brings together 20 - somethings and college students, united with the mission of «worship, prayer and justice for spiritual awakening in this generation.»

This confession, rooted in the ancient piety and worship of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and nourished in the ecumenical movement, underlies an ethic of profound involvement in the struggle for social justice, profound realism about the powers of this world including those which possess the righteous, and a profound hope which is never satisfied by the achievements of this world.

Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

The prophetic movements, led by major and minor prophets, were movements to communicate the message of God's justice, judgement and promise of shalom among the people, who had become subservient to the ideology and religion of the despotic kingdoms and dominant empires.

The Marxist movement, as we know, represents a way of realising peace by the struggle of the workers for justice.

The churches keep on raising questions, sometimes legitimate, about the style and structure of action groups and people's movements, without showing any readiness to face the challenge posed by the vision and strategy (justice and collective action) for the Church's ministry and mission.

Survivor Beth McCabe said she hopes the awareness created by the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment of women will help spur senators on the fence to realize that childhood sexual abuse victims need justice, too.

Survivor Beth McCabe says she hopes the awareness created by the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment of women will help spur senators on the fence to realize that childhood sexual abuse victims need justice, too.

I am inspired by the young people of today who are following in Dr. King's footsteps by launching their own movements for equality and justice.

Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is scheduled to give the keynote address at an upcoming social justice conference at the Brooklyn Museum, funded by and featuring high profile supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.

In 2014, the shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, set off a wave of protests and sparked a movement targeting racial disparities in criminal justice.

While the Sanders campaign in recent months has emphasized criminal justice issues that have been raised by the Black Lives Matter movement — as well as the candidate's own record during the civil rights movement of the 1960s — Rangel said being a representative of Vermont doesn't help the resume.

The SlutWalk movement began in 2011 to demand justice for rape victims, after a Canadian police officer said women can avoid rape by not dressing like sluts.

Later that same day, delegates will participate in a program focused on the future of the labor movement by well - known labor and social justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. in the Hart Theatre of The Egg, at 2 p.m. Fletcher is currently the director of Field Services and Education for the American Federation of Government Employees.

«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

He challenged those who don't believe in government seeking social justice by pointing out that the very building they were in, Hawkstone Hall, had hosted launches of Wilberforce's anti-slavery drive, the ragged school movement of Shaftyesbury (pictured) and that the spire was donated by the family of Abraham Lincoln who had drawn his inspiration from the conservative moments that had started there.

By getting involved in your local Green chapter and online, we will elect more officials, run more ballot initiatives, be visibly in solidarity with justice movements, achieve ballot access quickly, and be a network of communities resisting two - party electoral oppression.

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

Gregg Gonsalves, an audience member who had been part of the ACT UP movement in the 1980s and 1990s and is now co-director of Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, earned a round of applause when he argued that the safety of medical products was a public policy issue that should not be dominated by lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry.

The movement is fueled by new technologies such as mapping apps and GPS - enabled smart phones, other handheld GPS devices, Google maps and OpenStreetMap, an open - source online map with a history of involvement in social justice.

Sing Your Song (A film by Susanne Rostock)-- Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer; this film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

Actors such as Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, and Emma Watson further expressed their support for the victims of abuse by choosing to bring various gender and racial justice activists as their dates, including Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, and Ai - jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

Stars, including Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep and Emma Watson, will be accompanied by key activists from a range of fields, including the founder of the #MeToo movement and a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers.

It's true he landed in Alcatrez at a young age, but the older the more dangerous he becomes; a kingpin of the South Boston criminal underworld who escaped justice by informing authorities of all movements of the rival gang, the Italian Mafia, as suggested by his most useful contact and friend John Connolly.

Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.

Conservatives think it's a problem to include social justice issues in the reform movement, because it threatens to splinter coalitions by introducing divisive racial and social issues.

While it's not a social justice movement buoyed by brilliant songwriters, there's a shift happening in Learning and Development, too.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.