Sentences with phrase «on equal justice»

You can watch his description of the event and subsequent comments on the equal justice initiative Facebook page.

For more information on the Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellows Program, Fellows, and project, please visit our AmeriCorps page.

Putting a Price on Equal Justice: How Law Students Can Help Save Funding for the Legal Services Corporation

Based on Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps guidelines, the term of service will begin in September 2017 for one year (with a possible renewal contingent upon continued AmeriCorps funding).

The research also underscores the importance that people place on equal justice under law, considering it a right and not a privilege.

More information is available on the Equal Justice Works web site and from the Department of Education.

There is also a difference between social stability based on social status sustained by a double standard legal system and and social stability based on equal justice for all.

Not exact matches

Jeff Sessions is reviving a losing war on marijuana that is devastating low - income Americans & our communities of color and dashing our ideals of equal justice.

On the other hand, if the Justices embrace the substantive approach of Reinhardt and Company, they could put themselves in the middle of a passionate political and moral controversy every bit the equal to the one they generated with Roe v. Wade.

On what grounds do we decide that we have to give everyone something so that we «have an equal field» This is social justice baloney and the start of a slippery slope conndoms don't cost much.

The Constitution says nothing about relating the democratic process to the distribution of wealth and income, and for a good reason: The social and economic prerequisites for equal standing in the democratic process depend on one's vision of social justice.

A country that was founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all will remember how justice was too long denied to African - Americans, how the civil rights movement made clear that separate is not equal, and how King's dream of all people living together in peace was «deeply rooted in the American dream.»

And there is nothing controversial in the documents commitment to freedom and democracy throughout the world, to peaceful cooperation in international relations, and to «the nonnegotiable demands of human dignity; the rule of law; limits on the absolute power of the state; free speech; freedom of worship; equal justice; respect for women; religious and ethnic tolerance; and respect for private property.»

That same month, the Equal Justice Initiative will open a new museum of African - American history dedicated to educating people on the history and legacy of lynching in the U.S.

Some faith groups, like the United Methodist Committee on Relief, are using Halloween as an opportunity to promote justice and fair - trade by joining Equal Exchange, a cooperative that sells fairly...

• Rainbow Families of Chicago c / o Margie Brickley 4025 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60613 Phone: [phone] x3313 Email: [email protected] Indiana • www.LikeOurFamily.com, contact Michele O'Mara at [email protected] • The Diversity Center 701 N. Delaware Street Indianapolis, IN 46204 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] • Indiana Equality PO Box 20621 Indianapolis, IN 46220 - 0621 Toll - free: 888-567-0750 Email: [email protected] Website: www.indianaequality.org / • Indiana Equal Justice Fund Inc 1300 S Clinton St Fort Wayne, IN 46802 - 3506 Phone: [phone] • Northeast Indiana Diversity Library 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46805 Phone: [phone] NIDL is located in room B41 on the basement level of the Helmke Library on IPFW's campus http://www.utscc.org/joomla/ Iowa

Emma serves on the Executive Committee of the 49 - community organization membered Equal Start Community Coalition, Seattle King County Race & Justice Committee, is a member of the Race and Equity Core Group at the National Network of Grantmakers.

I am fighting for true equality for all; for equal pay and fair treatment at work, expanded voting rights, educational equity, criminal justice reform, freedom from gun violence in our schools and on our streets, and health care for all Americans.

The Ohaneze Ndigbo says secessionist agitations will be addressed through a well restructured federal system, anchored on justice, equity, rule of law and equal...

«Eric's public support for good, well - paying jobs with a living wage, equal rights and social justice reform, plus his innovative approaches to reducing our city's reliance on incarceration, make him the right choice to continue moving Brooklyn forward,» Gresham said.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The founders of Ghana, President Akufo - Addo stressed, chose the words Freedom and Justice as the country's motto, «because they envisaged us as a shining example to the black peoples of the world of what a free, dedicated, enterprising, Ghanaian people can do to build a society the equal of any, any where on the face of the planet.

«The federal Defense of Marriage Act clearly violates the principle of equal justice under law as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and improperly intrudes on the traditional role of states in defining marriage,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

On the [criminal] side, I think it's the same principle, equal justice; everyone gets their day in court.

Sara is a cofounder of the New Latino Movement, a civic engagement group focused on developing young leaders to promote equal opportunity and justice for Latinos, and a former member and Vice President the Board of Directors of GNYCFC.

It is not the only vote Malliotakis must now account for to a broader electorate, as she has weighed in on dozens of high - profile bills of importance to New York City residents, like those regarding women's reproductive rights, criminal justice reform, equal pay, college affordability, rent regulations, and the minimum wage.

With the release of The Atom and the latest patch for Injustice 2 on PC, the PC version is now up - to - date and equal with the console version of the game - with the exception of the Justice League movie event.

Directed by Destin Cretton, the film is an adaptation of Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson's 2014 memoir on his first case, Walter McMillian, a young black man sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit.

On stage was: Alice Brown Otter (Standing Rock Youth Council); Bana Alabed (author and Syrian refugee); Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative); Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood Action Fund); Dolores Huerta (Dolores Huerta Foundation, United Farm Workers of America); Janet Mock (#GirlsLikeUs), José Andrés (ThinkFoodGroup); Nicole Hockley (Sandy Hook Promise); Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter); and Tarana Burke (Me Too).

Though educators and the public will never agree on precisely what «citizen competence» demands of schooling, the best strategies for teaching reading, or the most appropriate curriculum for cultivating critical thinking or a sense of justice, most will agree that schools that teach or practice racism, deny boys and girls equal opportunities, or neglect mathematics do not merit public support.

Human Rights Activist, and Founder of the Equal Justice Initiative BRYAN STEVENSON to Discuss Memoir Just Mercy At Free Community Conversation Event Presented by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation, and Arts Emerson and the City of Boston on Wednesday, December 9

We represent our clients in both state and federal courts and before state and federal administrative agencies such as the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Education, Texas Attorney General, Texas State Auditor, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Texas Department of Agriculture, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas Commission on Human Rights, the Department of Education / Office of Civil Rights, Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Health & Human Services, Department of Justice and various other federal agencies.

He serves on the board of directors of Equal Justice Works, a nonprofit organization that helps advance public interest law, and the ClimateWorks Foundation.

Next month, Equal Justice Initiative Founder Bryan Stevenson will speak on issues of injustice and their legacy today at two free Facing History Community Conversations held in partnership with The Allstate Foundation, one in Chicago on March 18 and one in Cleveland on March 19.

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107; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; 29 C.F.R. Part 1614; Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directives.

The visit made such an impression on Stevenson that he started the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama.

Office of Federal Student Aid Repayment Calculator Office of Federal Student Aid Glossary of Terms Understanding Repayment Plans from the Office of Federal Student Aid Understanding Income - Driven Plans from the Office of Federal Student Aid Income - Based Repayment Loan fact sheet from FinAid Partial Financial Hardship information from Equal Justice Works 2014 Poverty Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Federal Government fact sheet on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Understanding Income - Sensitive Plans from of the Office of Federal Student Aid Understanding Deferment and Forbearance from the Office of Federal Student Aid Article: «A closer look at the trillion» by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Photo: geckoam

According to Equal Justice Works, a partial financial hardship «exists when the annual amount due on all of a borrower's eligible loans, as calculated under a standard 10 year repayment plan, exceeds 15 percent of discretionary income.»

Born in the Bronx on July 24, 1920, Bella (Savitzky) Abzug was a tireless and indomitable fighter for justice and peace, equal rights, human dignity, environmental integrity and sustainable development.

A preview of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a memorial to lynching that the Equal Justice Initiative is building on six acres it purchased overlooking the city of Montgomery, Ala. Video by EJI

«Physical Evidence,» Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, April 12 — May 28, 1994 «Duchamp's Leg,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; brochure «The Magic Magic Book,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1994; catalogue «New Paintings,» Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, 1994 «Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1994; traveled to the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; catalogue «Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia,» Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY; traveled to Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; catalogue «Dark o'Clock,» Museu de Arte Moderna de Sâo Paulo, Sâo Paulo, Brazil, 1994; traveled to Plug In, Inc, Video Pool, Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; catalogue «Stories,» Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, 1994 «Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum of Art,» Atlanta, GA, 1994; traveled to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; catalogue «Drama,» Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY 1994 «Oliver Herring, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon,» Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris, France, 1994 «The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum,» Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994; brochure «Don't Look Now,» Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, 1994; catalogue

While Valenzuela's projects center on ideas of social justice and equity, his approach is always oblique and metaphorical, with equal attention given to formal concerns.

Although Valenzuela's projects center on ideas of social justice and equity, his approach is always oblique and metaphorical, with equal attention given to formal concerns.

Situated on a site in Montgomery, Alabama where enslaved people were once warehoused, the museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice are part of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Distributive justice holds that all people should be treated as equals in any allocation of public goods unless some other distribution can be justified on morally supportable grounds.

Given this consensus, all groups and individuals have a burden of demonstrating what justice would require of them in terms of emissions levels mindful that, as a starting point, all human beings should be entitled to equal per capita shares of safe emissions unless some higher level can be justified on moral grounds.

Because principles of distributive justice require that differences in allocations from equal per capita shares to use the atmosphere be justified on the basis of morally relevant criteria, at a minimum, sub-national governments and groups should be required to explain how their emissions levels are just if they assert that they are already below what justice requires of them.

Yet, distributive justice does not require that all shares of public goods be equal but put puts the burden on those who want to move away from equal shares to demonstrate that their justification for their requested entitlement to non-equal shares is based upon morally relevant grounds.

As Justice Newbury points out, lawyer and client are not typical contracting parties and are not equal; among other things, the lawyer owes a fiduciary duty to the client, owes professional duties to the court, takes on most or all of the financial risk, and possesses expertise that the client lacks (para. 92).