Sentences with phrase «of activism which»

The TANs bring together a wide array of nongovernmental organizations, citizens associations, trade unions, communities and alternative media in forms of activism which target global level institutions and issues, while also attempting to use global level visibility to level changes at the national level.

«Our protests and our work have sparked a new wave of activism which will grow stronger by the day,» he pledged.

Not exact matches

Historically, there's always been a problem of lawyers thinking they know everything, which is in fact a problem in life with lawyers... There's been a culture of activism of making it clear to lawyers that the support is necessary and appreciated, but they weren't necessarily the leaders of the movement.

This growing activism is partly a result of the recession, which left many companies beat up and undervalued, yet reluctant to act.

The key to understanding the promise of what I prefer to call «flash activism» is considering the bigger picture, which includes all those people who care but are at risk of doing nothing.

There are many pleasures in this story about investment banks pitching activism preparedness so I guess we might as well start with the cheapest of them, 1 which is that people who work at investment banks sometimes use words funny:

The ISS study — which looked at directors nominated by dissidents and by the boards themselves in response to activism — found that women made up 8.4 percent of this group, compared with 25 percent of new directors at all S&P 1500 companies in 2015.

Marilyn Burns has continued the firm's proud tradition of political activism, finishing second in the 2005 Alberta Alliance leadership race and co-founding the Wildrose Society (which became the Wildrose Party) with Link Byfield and others in 2007.

When we talk about consumer or employee activism, we tend to focus on firms like United Airlines, which quickly apologized and changed its policies after a video emerged of a passenger being dragged off a plane.

That's what makes movements like the March for Our Lives — and much of the activism that's followed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 — so important.

If the Texas Act is adopted, it could have a chilling effect on shareholder activism and proxy advisory work with respect to public companies that have a specified presence in Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.

In an alert to clients, attorneys from the law firm Olshan describe the scope of the legislation as «unduly burdensome, excessive and inequitable,» and warn that «it could have a chilling effect on shareholder activism and proxy advisory work that have a specified presence in Texas, which, in turn, would help entrench management and the Boards of underperforming Texas - based companies.»

In some circles, witness and proclamation are still seen as the two main modes of communicating the Gospel in which the former tends towards activism and the latter verbal communication.

But he was more interested in the fact that each religion was presumed to possess the same «spiritual values» of «the American Way of Life,» by which he meant a soft - hearted faith in democracy (political, economic, and religious) combined with a more robust faith in idealism, activism, and moral conviction.

When you subscribe to Humanism, Naturalism, Materialism, Realism, Activism, what have you, which all are doctrines, you are already an «active» believer of some sort, which defies the very concept of Atheism, which is «passive.»

The late 80s and 90s saw an intensification of the rock identification with leftist activism that had always been there, but which had suffered through some hesitant and confused years when punk and new wave crashed onto the scene with their anti-hippie and sometimes even anti-Labor ire in the late 70s and early 80s, a confusion heightened by the Thatcher / Reagan victories and the mainstream «morning again» mood they brought.

For all of his declared sympathy towards Dewey's approach, Rorty's neo-pragmatism can be said to contain «neither the creative ambition nor the engaged activism of Dewey's historical theory of inquiry and reflective intelligence which is in part, a theory of social reform and amelioration» (PAP 271).

This is part of the issue of «judicial activism,» on which Alexander Bickel, in The Least Dangerous Branch, was so eloquent a spokesman on behalf of the Court's «passive virtues.»

He's also the author of the book Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World in which he made his case for «firebrand» activism.

We can all pat each other on the back for our tolerance, and love motivated response, as witness the death of many a church which tried to take a stand against gay activism.

Activism is not only an escape from deeper realities but an attitude which puts more faith in the endeavours of men than in the movement of the Spirit.

Corruption inevitably kicks in so that, in the long run, only the faces at the top have changed and the power of love has not replaced the love of power which is the ultimate transformational solution to the ills of human society that sacred activism always sought.

But she does not deal with the fact that the drag queens make manifest a major purpose of mainstream gay activism, although she quotes approvingly anthropologist Esther Newton: «The effect of the drag system is to wrench the sex roles loose from that which supposedly determines them, genital sex.»

So I embraced atheism and gay human rights activism, becoming part of a group which successfully lobbied for a clause banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in South Africa's postapartheid constitution.

He has been a free agent since 2016, which some believe to be the result of his activism.

But among the people themselves, and especially in the strictly legalistic group, the Pharisees, there grew out of the Messianic hope a flaming activism, which itself undertook to end the rule of the heathen.

Balmer wrote his book, however, as an evangelical who wanted to recover what he considered to be the heart of the movement, which was its late - nineteenth - century coalition of conservative theology and progressive social activism around the poor, women, and ethnic minorities.

He contrasts the «pure and simple teachings of Jesus», with the developments which Christianity has undergone in the West.17 In his analysis of the role of intellectualism, scholasticism, social solidarity, and activism, and of their historic causes, there is much truth.

For if liberty is deprived of its moral soul, if it is detached from the past and from its venerable tradition, if the continuous creation of new forms that it demands is deprived of the objective value of this creation, if the struggles that it accepts and the wars and the sacrifice and the heroism are deprived of the purity of the end, if the internal discipline to which it spontaneously submits is replaced by external direction and commands — then nothing remains but action for action's sake, innovation for the sake of innovation, and fighting for fighting's sake; war and slaughter and death - dealing and suffering death are things to be sought for and desired for themselves, and obedience too, but the obedience that is customary in war; and the upshot is activism.

Though the letter, which seems to acknowledge the powerful impact of the Malala's activism, is somewhat unheard of from a Taliban commander, U.N. officials say the group still poses a threat to girls seeking education in the country.

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.

But he cites and agrees with hosts of surveys which have found gaps between laity and clergy in respect to activism.

McIntyre's superpatriotic political activism, which intensified in the 1950s and 1960s, must also be seen in the light of such an apocalyptic hermeneutic.

The more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.

Back then, sharing your SCOBYS — the colony of yeast and bacteria from which kombucha grows — was a form of health activism.

One could argue that the latter is inextricably linked to his «social activism» which began in 2002 with the establishment of Jamie's Kitchen (a chef apprenticeship program for disadvantaged youths which later transformed into the Fifteen Apprentice Program).

McKesson is best known for his activism in support of Black Lives Matter, a movement which began in part as reaction to the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in the summer of 2014.

Michelle's passion for breastfeeding advocacy began with her nursing in public incident at Target in 2011 which led to the largest nurse - in to date with over 6,000 moms who participated in nursing their children at Target stores all over the U.S. Michelle currently sits on the advocacy board for the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC), and is the Director of Activism for Best For Babes Foundation.

The outpouring of citizen activism «led to the Lakefront Protection Ordinance, which is the great tool we have today,» Bachrach said.

Cultural factors need to be addressed, which is where the power of the brelfie and social media campaigns can — and do — have a really positive effect in shifting attitudes and encouraging activism on the issue.

MSF criticises government decisions which cause suffering and participates in political activism, casting doubt on the apparent simplicity of its «politically neutral» image.

I've been asked more than once by political veterans skeptical of the role of blogs and other forms of online citizen activism to point a specific instance in which the Internet made a real difference in a political issue.

Completing the email activism trifecta of the last couple of days, Julia Rosen writes in with a brutal critique of a recent series of advocacy / fundraising messages sent to the old Phil Angelides list, which his campaign built while being crushed by Ah - nold in California this past Fall.

Most activism - related CRM systems will allow list members to be sorted by their behavior — the number of actions they take, the amount and frequency with which they donate, etc..

Today, however, marks the official launch of Flynn's bid, which he marked with a video that focuses on the tragic death of his older brother, JP, who was killed in the 1988 terrorist attack on Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and how that spurred the younger Flynn to a life of service, activism and action.

(And there's a much broader, less direct 3rd issue which is environmentalism activism against any facilitation of increased oil production)

She has a history of Democratic Party and progressive activism, which led her to spend a couple of weeks in Florida in a group including future Assemblywoman Friedman and Marvin Wasserman to help the Kerry campaign in the 2004 election.

There are other advantages to activism being thrown up by Twitter, Watch the way in which UK Uncut has blossomed, in a tiny number of weeks, from a few people in a pub to a mass programme of loosely coordinated direct action events across the country.

Mandelson fears his own carefully crafted legacy of «industrial activism» built up during his two years as business secretary is under threat, and that Miliband's party conference speech in which he made the energy price pledge was driven by politics as much as economics.

At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the Brooklyn Historical Society will hold «The Changing Face of Activism,» which will explore the historical progression of activism from the 1960s desegregation movement to the present day Black Lives Matter mActivism,» which will explore the historical progression of activism from the 1960s desegregation movement to the present day Black Lives Matter mactivism from the 1960s desegregation movement to the present day Black Lives Matter movement.