Sentences with phrase «other justice movement»

Unlike almost every other justice movement, it is strongly multiethnic, injecting moral passion and religious tradition into public debate, but in a way that respects the nation's cultural diversity.

Not exact matches

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

At the end of our lives, some of us might finish far away from Point Z perhaps but it took a tremendous amount of courage and faith to end up at Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfect.

King and others in the movement found themselves turning to judges appointed by Eisenhower for justice and to liberal Republicans (remember them?)

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

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.

These activists come from the environmental movement, the rank and file of the unions, the movement for criminal justice reform and many other disparate progressive causes.

According to Elliott's slides, this movement includes the Taxpayers» Alliance and other officially non-partisan groups like MigrationWatch and the Countryside Alliance, centre - right charitable thinktanks including the Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange, activist groups like ConservativeHome, and Ukip as well as the Conservative party.

Despite having had an African - American majority on the city council since 1988, ethnic communities had little voice in local politics, according to Corburn and others who follow the environmental justice movement in Richmond.

We have been talking to the administrator and her office for the past year about the long - term implication of the growth in ports and goods movement, and what that means not just for those [coastal] environmental justice communities... but how it's likely to impact other [inland] communities that could become environmental justice communities.

The movement is fueled by new technologies such as mapping apps and GPS - enabled smart phones, other handheld GPS devices, Google maps and OpenStreetMap, an open - source online map with a history of involvement in social justice.

Existing literature on infectious disease policy, ethics, and law, outside the context of genomics, describes the potential for stigmatization of individuals or subpopulations, the challenge of balancing individual interests and protections (for example, privacy, autonomy, freedom of movement) against risks of harm to others and to public health, issues of justice, and employer or health professional obligations [27], [28].

Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.

Do young college graduates entering Teach For America or other community service opportunities indicate the beginnings of a new movement for racial justice in America?

What has become clear is that explicitly focusing on the educational concerns of poor and minority children regardless of where they live, and expanding that to the criminal justice reform and other the social issues that end up touching (and are touched by) American public education, is critical, both in helping all children succeed as well as rallying long - terms support for the movement from the parents and communities that care for them.

Critical pedagogy draws on radical democracy, anarchism, feminism, and other movements that strive for what they describe as social justice.

This Saturday, thousands of New York City teachers will be in Washington, D.C., with the parents, community groups and clergy with whom we work so closely, our friends in the civil rights movement, elected leaders from the City Council and state Legislature and tens of thousands of others from across the nation for a historic march for jobs and justice on the eve of the unveiling of the new Martin Luther King Jr..

Others call it «social justice unionism» or «social movement unionism.»

Federal education policy will continue to follow the whims of the richest people in the world — people who did not attend public schools and would never dream of sending their children to one — until the opt out movement joins with other social justice struggles to fundamentally shift the balance of power away from the executive board room and towards the classroom.

The trends in other industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has, with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for price fixing (iBookstore prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting ebook prices in the long run.

Supporters say that the movement has splintered off to create subgroups that continue the fight in the fields of healthcare and environmental justice among others.

But it was her job as religion editor that remained constant during her tenure at the paper, which coincided with the rise of feminism, gay rights, the Evangelical Right, the social justice movement, the spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and New Age groups, and other issues that had a significant impact on religion in America.

It insists on the important historical role of black liberation movements for other pursuits of social justice and requires that attention be paid to the diverse experiences of blackness and American citizenship within our country.

This project substantially overlaps with ACE's other research goals, such as our social justice movement research and animal welfare research projects, insofar as many of the library entries cover the field of social movement studies as well as the latest animal welfare science.

Other exhibitions such as «It Takes a Nation: Art for Social Justice: With Emory Douglas, and the Black Panther Party, Africobra, and Contemporary Washington Artists» at American University in Washington, D.C., and «Ruddy Roye: When Living is a Protest» at Steven Kasher, make the connection between earlier black rights movements and today's Black Lives Matters activism.

In Baltimore, and in other small cities where the art community is closely joined to the social justice movement, Bradford's work and message should resonate.

I was born at a time when youth were concerned with other fundamental rights, like access to sustainable resources and environmental justice, led a legislative and Earth Day movement that reconstructed our government's role over natural resources.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

Our delegation has been working to coordinate with other activist groups like YOUNGO (a coalition of Youth NGOs) and DCJ (Demand Climate Justice) to create an even stronger, united climate movement in the coming week.

This internship is an opportunity to come to us with your wildest dreams to further racial, gender, and other forms of social justice within the zero waste movement.

But the DOE paper itself, as well as subsequent debates about it, left out many important parts of the environmental movement and their contributions to keeping environmentalism alive: environmental - health advocates, the environmental - justice movement, the international «sustainability» movement, and the dozens of other grassroots efforts related to the environment.

This year, we're particularly interested in finding and honoring films (we'll only give one award, but may give «shout - outs» of some kind to other worthies) that inspire and empower everyday individuals, especially people not traditionally thought of as part of the environmental movement, as well as those that eschew the clichà © s of the genre: talking heads, doom - «n - gloom, and what I call the «Care Bear Ending»: if we all just felt right about environmental problem X, and joined hands, and were kind to each other, and recited inspirational quotes, and signed petitions, green justice and mercy would surely follow.

In the spirit of resolute movement forward, I offer two ideas imported from the old world — one relatively challenging and the other relatively mundane — for balancing the scales of justice for Canadian civil and family litigants:

And the Court of Justice of the European Union could build on this clear trend, by ruling that all 28 EU countries now must recognize same - sex marriages from other member states — at least in the context of free movement and immigration.»

The data set, available at this website, includes information on, among others, date, the target Member State, the legal domain or subject matter (e.g., competition, environmental protection, free movement of goods), and the official docket number given to the case by the European Court of Justice.

He has previously acted in other high profile and social justice cases, including the Occupy movement and a suit against Mike Tyson for sexual harassment.

Specifically, the access - to - justice movement is going to focus less on making lawyers» services more affordable, and more on making people aware that they have choices other than lawyers for their legal needs.

Apologies aside, there have been other initiatives that represent movement towards restorative justice.