Sentences with phrase «more social justice issues»

I'd like to see more social justice issues covered: we need to be having conversations about modern day slavery and sex trafficking.

Not exact matches

And in truth prudent privatization could address more effectively «social justice» issues than single - payer schemes given our demographic and debt challenges.

«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»

Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice.»

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

Polls showed the swaying of young Christian voters toward the Democratic party, typically the party considered more friendly to social justice issues and helping «the least of these.»

Moreover, more than 40 percent of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt with social - justice - related issues like child poverty.

Though in recent years he's become more and more vocal about social justice issues, for much of his career, Brand has been known for his uniquely raunchy brand of shock comedy (This is the guy who once brought his drug dealer to work with him when he was an MTV VJ.).

More importantly, issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism.

I was glad to join, because I suspected that the convergence of new ecological issues and old issues of social justice called for fresh ideas, more radical than those of the traditional left or right.

Until recently, the Century has paid a lot more attention to justice and sexuality than to marriage and family, while Christianity Today has spilled much more ink on family, marriage and sexuality than on issues dealing with social justice.

And more and more secular Americans are discovering common ground with believers on the great issues of social justice, peace, and the environment.»

«As I started to pay more attention to the social justice issues, the human rights issues, the good - government issues, I thought something needs to be done here,» Moss said.

«being proactive about women's rights» and even more broadly, «stand on social justice and human rights issues ranging from race, ethnicity, gender, religion, immigration and healthcare».

Attendees will discuss a range of social issues including healthcare, education, juvenile justice, and more.

Criticism of Quinn over the sick leave issue sparked spirited applause at the March 20 LGBT forum, but the tableau presented at City Hall on March 29 ---- with the speaker surrounded by more than a dozen Council members, major labor leaders, and fired up members of both 32BJ and Make the Road New York, a social justice organization ---- provided a striking contrast with the week before.

Last year, a separate group found that holding a heavy clipboard makes us perceive social - justice issues as more important: In a theoretical scenario, volunteers holding a heavy clipboard were more likely to support a student grievance with a university committee than were those holding a light clipboard.

Not only that, but now more agree than just six months ago that climate change is an issue of morality and social justice.

Body image coach Rachel Cole shares why we lose touch with our bodies in times of distress, how to start coming back into embodiment, why the 2016 election has caused so much pain for people struggling with food and body issues, how she recovered from eating disorders and embraced body positivity, why feminism and social justice are so integral to making peace with food and your body, and lots more!

For our founding teachers, this was an issue of social justice - being able to provide multiple opportunities for students to achieve mastery of skills over time was simply more equitable.

At the time, I also was earning my Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Social Justice in Urban Education that raised my awareness of equity issues and made me want to be even more of an advocate for others whose voices may not always be heard.

We also surveyed more than 460 E4E - Chicago member and non-member teachers to gather more information on the issues educators identified as most vital to improving school climate and culture: social - emotional learning, trauma - informed schools, and restorative justice.

I do, however, agree with Core Knowledge blogger Lisa Hansel that many programs could be improved by focusing less on issues of social justice and more on preparing new teachers to teach specific content to their students.

Issues include: High Stakes Testing, the charterization of public schools, lack of union democracy, weakening of tenure and teachers rights, demoralization of the teaching profession, importance of Social Justice Unionism, and so much MORE!

Sarah Darer Littman goes on to explain more about Malloy's «two - faced» approach when it comes to the issue of «education reform» and «social justice reform.»

Do you feel more equipped to talk about or promote awareness of issues surrounding social justice?

For more than twenty years, Gary Kaskel has had a strong interest in animal protection and other social justice issues.

This includes the new dome that was just completed in the Sandy - damaged Rockaway Peninsula in Queens; several education programs, including some online and more performative programs staged by the magazine Triple Canopy; two Francis Alÿs videos; and support for EXPO 1: New York, a «festival - as - institution» that tackles issues like environmental protection, social justice, shortages of resources, and population growth.

This «augmented reality» is part of a major survey (more than 70 works) of the career of Mr. Chin, a conceptual artist whose work comments on environmental issues and social justice.

Nonetheless, their stance is activist, questioning issues such as accessibility, community, social justice, authorship and much more.

As Galindo has become more internationally regarded for her art, she has remained committed to addressing social justice issues.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

Some of the more novel additions included The 13th Juror (devoted to social justice issues such as poverty and homelessness), Florida Animal Law, and a Cyber Crime Lawyer Blog.

Anyone who's interested in learning more about these issues should get some resources from a social justice perspective, of course, and begin to take that content in in an integrated way.

I find it predictable that women are more inclined to career paths that engage access to justice, as women have reason to be more attuned to social justice issues on a personal level... and have reason to find the traditional practice of law unwelcoming and not amenable to supporting their lifestyle needs and interests / goals, which would explain a greater interest in opportunities in access to justice related work and organizations.

A social lab / developmental evaluation approach may be the most effective way to pilot new ideas and new procedures, but I suggest that it may not be suitable to addressing the more fundamental systemic issues that underpin family justice processes, assuming of course that those issues need to be addressed at all.

Somewhere in the vitriol and passion that emerges around social justice issues, people forget that their «enemy» is another human being with drives, passions, and motivations that make them more similar than different to us.

In drafting this section of the Native Title Report 2011 and the Social Justice Report 2011, I have been concerned about achieving a balance between what may be seen as the promotion of yet more negative views about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the need to address an issue that has serious implications for us as peoples.

However, the range of issues raised in this Chapter indicates that governments must do more than simply tinker at the edges of the native title system to achieve social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

There are a number of factors which make managing A1C particularly difficult for teens including: Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief etc.).

The Social Justice Report looks at the key human rights issues facing Indigenous Australians and makes recommendations about changes to government policies, programs and laws that will help Indigenous Australians more fully enjoy their rights.