Sentences with phrase «many social justice groups»

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.

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.

«I really sensed that this is a high priority for him,» Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, a Christian social justice group, told CNN.

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.

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.

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.

De Blasio attended an out - of - town reunion for a left - leaning social justice group that helps families sympathetic to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua — a spokesman for de Blasio said: «The mayor remains committed to the highest ideals of the Sandinistas.»

Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

Anti-violence and social justice groups in Syracuse are focusing on what's called conflict transformation or getting to the root of what is causing violence in the community.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was back to being just another comrade Friday night at an out - of - town reunion for a left - leaning social justice group that helps families sympathetic to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

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.

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.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it corporate welfare and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs,» Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

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.

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.

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

Among the beneficiaries of the union's largesse: Progressive Majority, which was given $ 50,284 in 2011 - 2012, another $ 20,000 to Campaign for America's Future, which bills itself as a social justice group (which is quite in line with what the NEA is trying to do as part of a new strategy to preserve its declining influence), and $ 135,000 to the old - school People for the American Way (which given both group's opposition to expanding school choice through school vouchers, makes quite a lot of sense).

These individuals include former California Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pete Wilson, education chiefs from across the country, national education policy and social justice groups, along with California educators, parents and students.

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

For 7 years, she served on the board of Working Films, an organization that builds partnerships between nonfiction media - makers and social justice groups.

Mainstream scientists are sceptical and environmental and social justice groups are crying foul.

Endorsers of the letter include National Organization for Women, NETWORK (which spoke at the Democratic National Convention), National Nurses United, Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Main Street Alliance, Greenpeace USA, Oxfam America, and many other environment, public health, faith - based, labor, development, and social justice groups.

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

The march was organized by the 900 - group - strong People's Climate Movement, which included non-profit environmental and social justice groups, as well as labor unions and companies committed to taking action on climate change.

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

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.

A collection of more than 60 low - income, community - of - color, indigenous, and social justice groups formed an umbrella climate justice organization, Front and Centered, in 2014, behind a set of «principles for climate justice.»

There were some groups that we tried to talk to and were blocked by some folks who are now criticizing us for not talking to social justice groups.»

... environmentalists pulled together a huge coalition of businesses, religious groups, military groups, unions, and social justice groups.

A new coalition of leading UK environmental and social justice groups, convened by Oxfam and NEF (the new economics foundation) and including Friends of the Earth and the Royal College of Nursing, says the government can not choose between tackling poverty and climate change; it must begin to tackle these related issues together and it must take action now.

It's essentially a kind of Wikipedia of green and social justice groups

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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.»

The survey of 1,002 Canadians was commissioned by Trade Justice Network (TJN), a coalition of social, labour, environmental, student and other groups concerned about the secrecy and anti-democratic provisions of international trade negotiations.

The pan-Canadian coalition, which emerged from the North American civil society gathering on NAFTA in Mexico City in May 2017, is made up of labour, environmental, farmer, social justice and other civil society groups across English - speaking Canada and Quebec.

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.

Last night Yale's campus pro-life group — after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped raise money for the organization — became the first group in living memory to be denied membership in the Social Justice Network of Dwight Hall.

Because this book indeed has been placed here to recruit you to join and serve a specific religious group, and because religious absolutism in all of its forms has been a significant impediment to rational thought, to advances in science and medicine, to social justice, and to world peace.

Apparently it does not occur to him that the means of revolution are the exact opposite of forgiveness, justice, etc., and that revolutions generally propose the elimination of social groups by violence.

The survey «shows that religious progressives are a more significant group than is usually assumed, and there is a strong social justice constituency among religious Americans that cuts across labels,» according to E.J. Dionne, a Brookings Senior Fellow.

Communalism was stopping the movement towards social reforms aimed at justice for women and the depressed groups.

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.

In the book, Tickle describes four groups — liturgicals, social justice Christians, renewalists, and conservatives.

Simultaneously, denominational offices and social - justice groups have worked to raise churches» awareness of children's issues.

There are small groups, prayer cells, ecclesiolae in ecclesia; but real passion to make the streams of social justice roll?

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.

Christian Aid is on the search for a group of creative young Christians that have a passion for social justice.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

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.