Sentences with phrase «on social movements»

His report on the social movements behind Bolivian president Evo Morales was cited when Newsnight was awarded the Orwell Prize (2007)... Mason was «father of the chapel» for the National Union of Journalists on Newsnight... Politics A former member of the Trotskyist Workers» Power group, he responded to an interviewer from the London Evening Standard in 2011: «It's on Wikipedia that I was, so it must be true.

Dispatches on social movements in the United States and around the globe, edited by In These Times Assistant Editor Rebecca Burns.

So Jean Anyon tells us to «document and describe oppression,» «study the powerful,» and concentrate on social movements, all worthy subjects of research.

While Cameron's suggestion underscored the explosive influence of new media on social movements from London to Cairo, it was also a jolting reminder of another pronounced trend in 2011: governments» push for greater control of the Internet.

In the rich literature that has emerged on social movements in post-apartheid South Africa, there have been many analyses that explore the degree to which particular social movements cooperate with the state or adopt a more antagonistic stance.

Nasima Pfaffl, President and Interim Secretary West Melbourne, FL [email protected] Nasima Pfaffl, MA is medical sociologist with a focus on social movements and women's health.

It was a historical day for the church, but a working day for me, as I had several people to see in connection with my project on social movements among the lower classes.

I had been doing research in the Punjab on the social movements of the oppressed untouchables, many of whom had joined the Christian church during the great missionary era; so it was an event of sociological interest to me and to the lower - caste community of converts.

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

Another valuable step the March on Blair Mountain brings to the movement is to focus our perspective on social movement history.

Such changes might depend on a social movement for climate stabilization that supports long - term changes in social norms (e.g. about family size), greater availability of mass transit, climate - friendly urban design, or other actions that are impractical on the short term but on a longer time scale increase the plasticity of potentially high - impact behaviors.

He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught courses on social movement studies.

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I offer over six years of expertise in this demographic, as well as being the catalyst of what is now known on social media as the black / urban travel movement that now has many communities feeding it.

On Sunday the «me too» movement, intended to expose sexual harassment and assault, was reignited on social media after a tweet from actress Alyssa MilanOn Sunday the «me too» movement, intended to expose sexual harassment and assault, was reignited on social media after a tweet from actress Alyssa Milanon social media after a tweet from actress Alyssa Milano.

But new was the artist's social justice embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital strife.

Because of this movement, live streaming video, especially on social channels like Facebook, will continue to grow in importance.

But the shortcomings of one game don't mean that augmented reality itself is a flop — if anything, Pokémon Go has whetted audience hunger for a more developed take on gaming that integrates real - world movement and social interaction.

In particular, she was impressed with how social media advanced the conversation around Black Lives Matter, a movement to end violence against African Americans that started as a hashtag on Twitter.

Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

This eBooklet provides a guide to understanding the challenges that marketers in today's always connected, social and mobile first environment face and provides a perspective on why engaging with authentic brand advocates and igniting a movement can provide high - performing, sustainable results and business impact.

See, the movement of dialogue in short order from development economics on the post-modern social marxian critique, bound up in decades of thought from well before the vertical rise in its popularity in the 1960's to today.

A #DeleteFacebook movement also gained some traction on social media.

We invite social movements, civil society and the public to join us on Friday, September 22 to discuss: Does NAFTA Serve the Public Interest?

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee kicked off the 2018 Women in the World Summit in New York on Thursday evening with an all - encompassing worldview on how to effect social change, bringing the wisdom she gained from helping to topple a dictator and end a civil war in Liberia to the social movements sweeping the United States today.

Judd was one of the first women in October 2017 to make an on - the - record allegation of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, which soon afterward evolved into the social media #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

Baxter is on most questions a theological conservative, but on matters social and political he is pretty much an unexpurgated lefty, as was the case with his heroine, Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement.

So, too, the conservative movement should continue to stand on principle with respect to social issues.

Marsh's research on the religious roots and inspiration of the civil rights movement enlivens his account of Bonhoeffer's turn «from the phraseological to the real,» an awakening in social conscience that occurred during his year as a post-doctoral resident at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1930 — 1931.

America needs a massive social movement to get people to think for themselves and stop relying on their pretend friends in the sky to save them.

Social reform movements that turn to lawsuits devote time and money that could be spent on grass - roots activity that might establish their goals more firmly among the people.

• «The road from Stonewall, June 1969, to Stonewall, June 2011, was a trajectory of greater social acceptance of difference and nonconformity,» writes National Review's deputy managing editor on the magazine's website, describing the scene the night New York approved homosexual «marriage» at the famous gay bar where the riot that started the homosexual rights movement began.

As it turned out, my point of departure from the «emerging ministry movement» took me more into the missional wing of things, where I've been continuing to work with several virtual, international teams on social transformation projects.

The Indian National Congress has also been formed as the political expression of the awakening of the people under the leadership of the class with western - oriented education; and linked to the politics of nationalism was also movements of social reform of family relations and caste structures on the basis of personal liberty and social equality.

On the contrary, I believe that in the same wait that we have seen a delay in the social movement with regard to the construction of Europe, the liberal construction of Europe, the social movement is way behind schedule regarding globalisation.

Greenleaf goes on to say that he sees a social movement developing in which only servant leaders will be followed.

But the movements, which have been built up on an international level are looking at social questions and we believe that it is important to use this as a starting point.

From the beginning, we have believed that the Spirit given on the day of Pentecost causes both «sons and daughters to prophesy»... We had no connections to liberal social movements, but were demonstrating racial equality in pockets all around the world years before the modern civil rights movement.

Many have got behind the movement on facebook, with support from New Zealand radio stations and plans to release social media videos on Tuesday.

Allyson Dylan Robinson is an entrepreneur and movement strategist who advises organizations on the vanguard of social change.

The pervasiveness of this emphasis can now be seen even in Christian social ethics, the field born out of the Social Gospel movement and one which in the name of prophetic spirit and social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal social ethics, the field born out of the Social Gospel movement and one which in the name of prophetic spirit and social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal Social Gospel movement and one which in the name of prophetic spirit and social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal piety.

So often Jews either focus exclusively on Jewish issues or ignore their own Jewishness as they lead social movements on behalf of other people.

On a deeper level, the sudden and dizzying changes taking place in the American economy, combined with the even more bewildering changes brought by the end of the cold war, foster radical social movements of every description.

This focus on the social functions of language has drawn together literary and social criticism toward something of a convergence on what might be termed ideological criticism, an issue also central to the third methodological movement to be discussed, cultural hermeneutics.

Obama is a progressive Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African - American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th - century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal salvation while ignoring the conditions that led to pervasive poverty.

The other used insights from the emerging scholarship on the social world of early Christianity to delineate the role of women in the early Christian movement.

Unlike Catholics, his social movement is based on belligerence and antagonism and done on the golden toilet he calls a microphone.

Perhaps the most effective mobilization of church power for social change in recent decades has been on the part of black churches in the south in support of the civil rights movement.

It is a grievous misinterpretation to suppose that God's reality dawned on men, like the Old Testament prophets, in mystical aloofness from the social needs and social movements of their time.