Sentences with phrase «movement of working people»

«The state legislature and Gov. Cuomo should join Mayor de Blasio and a growing movement of working people to enact this tax to fund these programs.»

And worst of all, Harriet has forgotten — if she ever understood it in the first place — that the party is an integral part of a movement of working people, its allies, and its support.

Not exact matches

«Sharing your passion helps people buy into your mission, whether it's helping employees understand the greater purpose, inviting customers to feel like they are part of a movement, or explaining why you are always working to your understanding family.

This month, Teen Vogue is dedicating its digital cover to rising voices in the gun control movement, young people who are working on the issue in different ways, all of them impacted by gun violence.

We're thrilled to be a part of this incredible movement, and to celebrate another incredible year of being a part of evolving the way people work.

So in many cases, it's not simply the case that a person is going to work; they're also part of a social movement.

He clearly has his finger on the pulse of a growing movement of people seeking more freedom and fulfillment in their work.

Specifically, with respect to racial equity — which is what Encompass focuses on — it's important for organizations to recognize that advocates of color face unique pressures in our movement in part because there are so few of us and because the people we work with often don't understand the nuances of the challenges we face.

Oxfam is a global movement of people working to end injustice and poverty.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

For the most part these movements work locally to bring about justice and sustainability for small groups of people many of whom are experiencing already profound threats to their lives and their livelihoods.

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.

I write and teach about racism out of my own anxiety as a white person, and out of my own experiences of learning about racism and trying to find a way to join a larger movement of people working for racial justice.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

The proposal outlined in this paper, asking for religiously affiliated people to work together to face the issues of terrorism, violence and injustice, in not meant to diminish the important role that all other human agencies, state sponsored or voluntary organizations, groups and movements, have to play.

It is important, therefore, that the crisis counselor take whatever time is necessary to gather the information he needs and to carefully evaluate the situation, working out an intervention plan with the person that seems to stress economy of movement and yet promises maximal results.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

To be a facilitator of liberation, a leader must work to change these prejudgments and be sensitive to the person - damaging social forces which the liberation movement is fighting.

This fact together with the revealing of many other frauds has caused a movement OPPT that is working for the goal of people awaking to create a world where it is possible to live a life in harmony and peace being what we really are: angelic beings.

Their deliberations showed the work of reason in a great repertoire of movements and a great range of mood and observations; and their decisions hewed closely to enduring truths about the human person.

In this context the large number of net - works of Social Action groups in India have a very important function in the discourse provided they have what Gramcie has called an «organic» relation to such peoples» movements.

He adopted it apparently to respond head - on to the critics who considered any movement in behalf of working people to be socialist.

«Operation Rescue left the impression that they wanted to impose the will of a minority of people on the majority, and a lot of pro-life leaders said that was not working,» said Olasky, who has chronicled the anti-abortion movement and was an informal adviser to President George W. Bush.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1989, Slow Food has evolved into a movement that now involves millions of people in more than 150 countries who are working to ensure everyone has access to «good, clean and fair food.»

As much as Campbell is committed to the natural wine movement, though, and as much as she thrives on the community («It's such an honor to roll up somewhere in the middle of Europe and just have people know you,» she says), she doesn't abide by dogma: «If I find a wine that's beautiful and resonates and needs to be seen and drank and it's not made from native yeast or the guy isn't working 100 percent organic, I just go with it, as long as I know what's going on.»

He was fighting the fight he and Rozier had planned for and it was working — Golovkin had to fall back to his jab, which was the most effective punch of the fight for him, but there were rounds Jacobs was in control of with his movement, defence and effective punching, which Golovkin came alive too late to take because he was getting outboxed or stymied for the longer portion, as painful as I'm sure that is for some people to even consider.

At home I could control the environment — low, soft lighting; a limited number of people present and people that I trusted intimately; the opportunity to drink and eat if I needed sustenance for the work at hand; labor strategies that supported a natural birth like movement, water and meditation.

Its not rocket science but the Fabian Society conveniently fail to do the tiniest bit of thinking as it has the potential to drive people off benefits and into work, something the Labour movement doesn't want as it likes to maintain a client state.

«The labor movement will utilize all resources at its disposal to ensure that our friend returns to Congress, where he can continue to lead the fight on behalf of the needs and concerns of working people.»

Olney though contends Goldsmith has overegged his role in the «apolitical» anti-Heathrow movement: «For him to say «the only way we can stop Heathrow is to appoint me as MP» is actually ignoring a great deal of work done by thousands of other people over the decades.

«It's about hope of decent working conditions across Europe, about hope and free movement of people, about hope on environmental protection across the whole continent - you can't protect the environment within national borders.»

At 10:15 a.m., leaders from New York's organized labor movement will hold a news conference as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the latest in a series of attacks by the wealthy and corporate interests against ordinary working people, outside the Senate lounge, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The aim of this political movement was to do a hit and run, go inside really quickly, open the windows and explain to people how things work inside the parliament, fight against Icesave being socialised and get the new constitution going and the injustice that people felt by losing their houses and mortgages would be rectified.

He suggested free movement of people within the EU needed to be restricted to its «original concept» of the «freedom to be able to work in another country».

The work uses strong nation - building references, such as referential movement depicting a group of people going towards their death, then becoming trees, ocean, and forming a strong collective out of a group of individuals; its language movement is very dramatic and places a strong emphasis on unison movement rather than individual dancers.

Jeremy Corbyn is set to join the trade union movement and tens of thousands of people in demanding a new deal for working people on Saturday 12 May.

Cuomo warned the Janus lawsuit was «the tip of the iceberg» in terms of the attack on working people and the labor movement by the «extreme conservative movement that is sweeping the country.»

«My focus and my strong inclination remains to stay the course in Washington, to continue to be part of the resistance movement as it relates to Donald Trump and to work with my colleagues in government to stop him from doing some of the terrible things he wants to visit on the American people,» Jeffries told POLITICO New York during a brief interview following an annual State of the District speech in his Brooklyn district Thursday night.

Mulgrew called the Janus case «part of a coordinated plan by right - wing organizations to disenfranchise workers and crush the labor movement, one of the few strong advocates for working people.»

Historically, of course, this meant that it held its ideological commitments lightly, recognising that doctrine and dogma — secular or religious — could blunt its effectiveness as a political movement dedicated to an improvement in the material conditions of working people.

(Note that the freedom of movement for persons includes several other components, with different rules for «economically non-active» persons but since you asked about your working life, I left that aspect out of the discussion).

Guide Dogs is working towards a society in which blind and partially sighted people enjoy the same freedom of movement as everyone else.

For those who keep such scores, the House of Lords has a higher proportion of women, a higher proportion of people from ethnic minorities, a broader range of ethnic minorities, and far more people from working - class backgrounds generally and the trade union movement in particular, than can be found down the corridor.

The task for the Scottish Labour Party going forward is to work together to rebuild our movement and regain the trust of the people of Scotland.»

As a lifelong supporter of the union movement and a candidate for president, I stand today with the working people of Indiana — union members and the unorganized, alike — who must now prepare to battle the harsh consequences of «Right - to - Work» (for less).

Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for the mayor, responded to Cuomo's comments here with this statement: «This mayor and administration have proven themselves ardent supporters of working people and of the labor movement — nobody can argue that isn't the case with a straight face.

Labour was uniquely placed, through the trade union link, to build a living, breathing movement at grassroots level, expanding to include working people, while the Tories were a shrinking party of the few.

Dell Smitherman spent years in the rank - and - file of the labor movement and has shown his talent for mobilizing the power of working people for real change, a welcome addition to Albany.»

Can a party whose rationale for existing is to grow progressive economic movements throughout the country «where politicians are held accountable to working people, instead of big - money backers» really work for, endorse, and host on its line one of the greatest threats to its agenda within the Democratic Party?