Sentences with phrase «organizing social movements»

The nearly 7,000 charter schools that have been formed from scratch over the last two decades represent one of the great self - organizing social movements of our age.

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But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

Yet, for the past decade; the organized ecumenical movement has been viewed with indifference, if not suspicion, by Christians who have preferred to cultivate their personal spiritual gardens, to pursue various sorts of denominational consolidation and reorganization, or to wrestle with the relation of faith to social issues in abstraction from the struggle for the integrity of the social reality of the church.

But one of the great divisions in liberalism was that between organized labor and the churches that were the heirs of the social gospel movement.

For Teilhard, the Christian church as (ideally) a universal community of human / divine love and shared idealism is the prototype of the movement of humanity as a whole toward a superhuman social reality organized around Christ / Omega as the ultimate attracting and unifying principle.

But the other elements of community organizing would come together again and again: the foot - slogging, one - on - one recruitment effort to form an organization of organizations, the struggle to get past ethnic differences, the taking of the public stage, the sequence of conflict - organization - power as the route to negotiation, and the critical relationship to other social movements — which became a guarded relation to the civil rights movement.

He wrote, «there is involved here the... profound choice between religion as a form of social behavior rationalized and directed by intelligence and religion as a philosophy in which the historical and social elements of an organized movement are to be ignored».

The success of the party, says Oregon WFP director Hughes, will ultimately depend on the degree to which it is seen as «a legitimate and effective expression of social - movement organizing.»

Sanders, a veteran US legislator who energized a nationwide movement of media - savvy young voters in his presidential race, and Teachout, whose political experience includes serving as the internet organizing guru for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid — arguably the dawn of the current trend for social media to play a significant grassroots role in national political campaigns — operate largely from the same playbook.

With over 14 + years experience in community organizing, advocacy, and strategic outreach in underrepresented communities, she has utilized communications and legal theory to examine new tactics for digital mobilization and movement building, using social media platforms and narrative power analysis as it relates to the Latino outreach strategies.

The so - called New Social Movements around ethnic, gender, and sexual liberation, community organizing, peace, and the environment, were largely absorbed by the Democratic Party and the non-profit industrial complex around it.

Hochul talked about brave women who spoke up about being sexually harassed and helped organize the #MeToo movement on social media.

They discuss the limits to embedding human rights in law and argue that a more effective strategy might be to organize public health social movements.

And also looking at the mechanisms that determine the success and failure of social planning and organized movements.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

And when you think about it, that is about the weakest organizing principle for a social movement you can imagine.

She was an activist on campus, organizing several movements for social justice in the College Park and greater communities.

This report examines the emergence of an organized abolitionist movement in Britain by 1787 and assesses how important this social movement was in achieving the passage of abolitionist legislation in 1807.

Feminism as a larger movement was destroyed because these people weren't working together and organizing around a larger principle of social change.

This exhibition and event series invited contemporary artists to respond to archival materials and poetry relating to the history of white southerners who migrated to northern cities in the 1960s and 70s and organized cross-racial social movements, while addressing historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

It houses the documentation of their public performance work organized under Adriadne: A Social Art Network, which occurred between 1977 - 82 during a seminal moment in the international feminist movement.

Looking back, we can see all that social movements have accomplished and that organizing has brought us things like the right for women to vote and the dismantling of Jim Crow laws.

In my own case over the last decade, that's meant helping to organize several large - scale campaigns or social movements.

To use the word «campaign» is not meant to connote an organized conspiracy led by one or a few entities who coordinate all actors, but rather a social movement that creates widespread, predictable, and strong opposition to climate change policy and that consistently uses scientific uncertainty arguments as the basis of its opposition.

I've also been inspired by working with communities and organizations that are addressing the sustainability movement through various approaches, including community organizing, education, social justice, public health, the legal system, and ecopsychology.

Social movements and marches have been organized, including just in the last couple of weeks.

While the movement has inspired students at schools around the nation to perform walkouts in support of gun control, the history of 21st century activism has shown that there are upsides and downsides to organizing over social media.

B. 05-20-1872, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, U.S. social activist who began by organizing and taking part in grassroots movements in her native Kentucky battling for educational and health facilities.

Bringing complete information on the IGDIs together in one convenient, expertly organized volume, this book gives early childhood professionals specific, in - depth guidance on understanding and using all five of the IGDI tools: communication, cognitive problem solving, early movement, social development, and parent - child interaction.