Sentences with phrase «people against hate crimes»

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Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

What we do is we start sending people like you to jail for hate crimes against these people, that will stop the bigotry from spreading on the streets.

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

«At the same time, over the last year, there's been a 40 percent increase in hate crimes against transgender people and a record 25 transgender people killed because of violence nationwide, including here in New York.

The bill would ban discrimination based on one's gender identity or expression and also expand hate - crime laws that would explicitly outlaw crimes committed against people due to their identity or expression.

The bill would make it a felony instead of a misdemeanor to commit a hate crime against a group of people.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to ban defenses in New York that are used to justify hate crimes against gay and transgender people, inserting the provisions into 30 - day amendments due to be released on Thursday.

One particularly unpleasant aspect of prejudice against disabled people is «disability hate crime».

MIDTOWN — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer spoke out Tuesday against a recent string of swastikas scrawled across Midtown storefront windows, calling it «a crime against humanity» and urging New Yorkers to help track down the people «spewing this hate.»

At the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, legislators and constituents discussed the best strategy to use to pass a pro-LGBT marriage bill in 2011, partly in response to the recent suicides by teenagers who were gay or perceived to be gay and the recent hate crimes against gay people in the city: an assault of a bartender at Julius Bar in Manhattan Oct. 11 and an attack on three gay men in the Bronx by nine attackers Oct. 3.

Hate crimes, mass murders against a certain section of a society, terrorism, Jehad and even everyday discrimination against people who are less fortunate makes no sense to me honestly.

Being transgender I also just generally don't feel safe in public often due to my short life expectancy and the high rate of hate crimes against trans people.

Since 2006 Dmitri has been representing Moscow Gay Russia Project in a number of cases concerning freedom of assembly, hate crimes against lgbt people in Russia, and discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to memorializing those who have been killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice, and to raising public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people.

Just about any crime committed against a person can be classified as a hate crime if it was committed with some bias.