Sentences with phrase «national justice movements»

Oakland continues to play a significant role in national justice movements related to civil rights, feminism, LGBT rights, wealth inequality — and education.

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Last year UPROSE marched with the It Takes Roots contingent along with our sisters and brothers in the national climate justice movement.

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

Pérez worked in the reproductive justice movement for eight years, both online and off, including more than six years working with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.

As the national association and accrediting body for CACs, NCA serves as a voice for the movement before lawmakers, funders, and other decision - makers, leads initiatives that advance and support the CAC mission to provide healing and justice for child victims of abuse, and ensures quality care for the children and families our members serve.

That has begun to change with the Council's work on criminal justice, which Ms. Mark - Viverito calls the leading edge of a national movement.

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.

The practice is an offshoot of a national movement away from punitive school policies and punishments to a practice and philosophy termed restorative justice.

In addition, Robert capitalized on his ties to such national figures in the voucher movement as Wal - Mart heir John Walton and his American Education Reform Council; Howard Fuller, the former Milwaukee superintendent who now heads the Black Alliance for Educational Options; and the Institute for Justice, the voucher movement's legal brain trust.

We see it in important initiatives such as iCivics, where Supreme Court Justice Emeritus Sandra Day O'Connor has led a national movement to use gaming to teach civics, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, where simulations are demonstrating how role - playing games can bring the legislative process to life for kids.

«Chicago activists, educators, students, academics and parents are coming together June 2 to talk about how we can use Free Minds, Free People, the powerful national gathering on education justice, to support the development of a national education movement.

-- Jonathan Stith, national coordinator of the Alliance for Education Justice, helped draft the education plank of the movement's platform.

The jerseys serve to bring awareness to the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel and will hopefully be the driving force to bring a more profound understanding of the history of the social justice movement that characterized Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..

As protests and discussions about race relations and police brutality continue to play out on a national scale, photography has played an important role in the social justice movement.

She also helped carry out CBE's movement building work with the California EJ Alliance and with the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance at the state and national levels.

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Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

The next attempt to develop ambitious, national climate legislation — if such an opportunity arises again — is sure to be shaped by the movement's increasingly powerful commitment to climate justice.

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)

By empowering youth to take action within a frame of justice and optimism, we are growing and strengthening the climate movement, and shifting the national discourse on climate in ways that are proven to affect public opinion and policy.

Shortly before Christmas, the Court of Justice delivered its highly anticipated judgment in case C - 104 / 16 P Council v Front Polisario, on appeal against the General Court (GC) judgment in case T - 512 / 12 Front Polisario v Council, an action for annulment brought by Front Polisario, the national liberation movement fighting for the independence of Western Sahara.

All proceeds will go toward advancing the mission of the VRLC: to provide free, comprehensive legal services for survivors of sexual violence to help them rebuild their lives, and promote a national movement committed to seeking justice for each and every rape and sexual assault victim.

The VRLC's mission is to provide legal representation to survivors of sexual violence to help rebuild their lives, and to promote a national movement committed to seeking justice for every rape and sexual assault victim.

The country's justice minister recently stated in Orwellian terms that, «stopping the movement of money to criminals and terrorists is a vital part of our national security defences and we expect regulated businesses in Australia to comply with our comprehensive regime.»

San Francisco and San Jose, California, USA About Blog The Women's March is a national movement to unify and empower everyone who stands for human rights, civil liberties, and social justice for all.

The National Institute's partnerships support state - and local - based initiatives that advance the goals of the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements.