Sentences with phrase «own social justice agenda»

* As Tavis Smiley reports in his new book on Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader faced a major decline in popularity during his last few years, as many thought his social justice agenda too radical.

And although they dominate the Premier's time, and of course matter in the grand scheme of governing, we must not overlook his social justice agenda.

He was a great encourager to me personally in the early stages of the social justice agenda.

I think David Cameron was smart enough to realise that Iain Duncan Smith was onto something with his Social Justice agenda.

He doesn't appear to understand the social justice agenda.

It's no surprise that he has just been named the successor to Iain Duncan Smith: his back story is perfect, and is driven by the same social justice agenda.

«He understood the mood of the meeting and appears to fully understand the social justice agenda,» said one MP.

I like George and will always be grateful for the support he gave me in the early days of the social justice agenda.

Iain Duncan Smith's social justice agenda on the right has reopened the arguments over which Beatrice Webb and Helen Bosanquet fell out on the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1909.

While one segment has coalesced around a broad social justice agenda, including education, housing, economics, and criminal justice advocacy, a contrasting group of center - right leaders say the presence of «social justice warriors» will marginalize their voices.

Pondiscio wrote that a social justice agenda prevailed at the annual NewSchools Venture Fund meeting in San Francisco.

Rick Hess fingers the reformers» social justice agenda, which is at odds with the interests of middle class suburban parents.

«The government needs to co-ordinate the social justice agenda from the centre and should give a Minister in the Cabinet Office specific responsibility to lead on this work and to ensure that the policies deliver in improving opportunities for all.»

The social justice agenda — equitable, equivalent and easy knowledge for all, is easier to implement and is widespread through eLearning.

In the spirit of revolution, the group was generally involved in radical change, not just in the way that the show was received but also in what it could stand for — the company had (and continue to have) a social justice agenda, often including protests for the rights of women or Aboriginals.

Even the Green Party has chosen to emphasise its social justice agenda rather than the environment.

Not exact matches

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

«37 Here then is the motivation for Smedes's social agenda — a corporate, familial sense of human justice governmentally based.

At MTS they encounter in the faculty a radical liberation / justice agenda — one that is propounded precisely in opposition to the liberal social agenda the students know and trust.

On the social - action agenda of mainline denominations today are sexual - justice issues regarding gender and sexual orientation.

My point was, and my point remains, that the very structure of the conference reinforces the stereotype that the Catholic social - justice agenda and the Catholic pro-life agenda need to be reconciled, when, in fact, there is no more urgent question of social justice and moral progress than the protection of innocent human life at every point of development and dependency.

The Hard Road to Power (with Giles Radice, 2015); The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz, 2015); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister (2013); After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme, 2012); Beyond New Labour (with Roger Liddle, 2009); Social Justice in the Global Age (with Olaf Cramme, 2009); and Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens, 2006).

But how can a union that led marches against stop - and - frisk and hosted a dialogue between Justice League NYC, a leading civil rights group, and City Hall also bankroll a political party so hostile to its social - justice Justice League NYC, a leading civil rights group, and City Hall also bankroll a political party so hostile to its social - justice justice agenda?

But when graduation rates are still stuck at 61 percent and the city itself is in a state of decline, the association should broaden its agenda past social justice to actual service.

If minority representation is a proxy for a leftish, social justice style agenda, then surely the Council is already «progressive» enough, no?

But there are also huge areas of overlap - the most noticeable, perhaps, being on social justice, and the agenda for change formed during the last Parliament by Iain Duncan - Smith and promoted in this one especially by Liam Fox.

«Brown did not suffer defeat because he wasn't good enough at selling himself or his vision for the country — insufficiently «touchy, feely», as he suggests in the book — but because he never seemed able to reconcile a robust and renewed modernisation agenda, which combined reform as well as investment, with his commitment to social justice.»

Modernisation is too often caricatured as privatisation in this book, and fails to grasp that New Labour's reform agenda was not in opposition to social justice, but the only way in a changing world to achieve it.»

IDS, through his work at the Centre for Social Justice, would be the ideal champion of the compassion agenda across government but clear anti-poverty policies are certain to be in the Tory manifesto.

«Gov. Cuomo has set forth a game - changing agenda when it comes to social, economic, racial, and criminal justice,» King said.

As for his agenda, Schneiderman offers broad plans, with a thrust on social justice.

Launch the «New York Promise» Agenda to Advance Social Justice and Affirm New York's Progressive Values - Reforms of the Criminal Justice System including «overhauling New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, raising the age of criminal responsibility, improving witness identification procedures, recording police interrogations for serious offenses, and extending the Hurrell - Harring settlement reforms statewide.»

It is made up of Eurosceptics, supporters of Iain Duncan Smith's «social justice» agenda and Right - wing Christian MPs.

Danny has been a leading supporter of Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice and is also supportive of the leader's green agenda.

When it comes to developing a policy agenda that delivers fairness and social justice, the Conservative party is leading the political world away from the target - driven, top down, statist approach that Miliband pioneered when he ran the Downing Street policy unit.

Her research agenda explores the politics of race and gender in the academy, issues of social justice, and activist research methodologies as tools for social change.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

Is this a bold call for real social justice or a case of successful, bipartisan reform being overrun by identity politics and left - wing political agendas?

Perhaps leaders of the NAEA push an activist agenda not because they want arts teachers to become activists themselves, but because they believe that high - sounding epithets such as «social justice» and noble visions of «equity» will advance the cause of arts education.

In any case, their concern for social justice has led them to question whether the bureaucracy's agenda is consistent with the needs of students.

Hence, NEA's myopic drive to advance its own brand of social justice has led it to a very bizarre and contradictory place — a coalition with an organization that promotes a product and behavior that runs counter NEA's own agenda.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure, laid out an ambitious social agenda on Wednesday that focuses on problems not so easily solved with cash: the erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system, public schools and teachers that he said were failing students, and a creeping sense that economic mobility is not what it once was.

Well, Malthusianism is a specifically biological kind of reductionism, one that buttresses right - wing pessimism and policy conclusions, and one that not at all incidentally pushes social justice off the political agenda.

Think about climate change as it applies to many decisions, and link climate policy to a larger agenda of advancing social justice and economic development.

With respect to the last comment, it is extremely dangerous to equate so - called social justice law (really just activist lawyers with ideological agendas and patron funding) with justice system reform or access to justice.

These positive developments align with the steps I set out in my Social Justice Report 2008 as being necessary for government to re-set the agenda for Indigenous affairs.

The Ministerial Taskforce Charter outlines the government's long term agenda for Indigenous policy while at the same time focusing on the strategies to be put in place urgently to improve outcomes.23 As the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, stated «every dollar spent on Indigenous projects and services must contribute to improved outcomes».24 The Ministerial Taskforce Charter stresses the urgency of improving social and economic well being for Indigenous Australians focusing on housing, health, education, employment, family violence, increasing economic development, improving community safety, and law and justice.

I have prepared two Social Justice Reports and Native Title Reports in this period, which set out a comprehensive agenda for how I will perform my functions and provide a substantial overview of the new arrangements.

It seems like only yesterday that I was speaking here, setting out my agenda as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.

Mr Gooda, who is also the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, said achieving the closing the gap targets within a generation would require a long term reform agenda.