Sentences with phrase «progressive social actions»

Burn's commitment to gender equality ensures cutting carbon and improving lives go hand in hand with progressive social actions.

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During the 1960s, however, professed progressives concluded that the principal threat to individual freedom was not the state, big business, or economic privation, but traditional customs and social mores that claimed authority over people's lives and actions.

For example, Action Network is an online platform that combines petitions, online actions, event signups, bulk email and social media to help activists rally their friends and family, and it's free for local progressive organizers.

The parties were the Better Nigeria Progressive Party, African Liberation Party, United Democratic Party, Peoples Redemption Party, Citizens Popular Party, Republican Party of Nigeria, Change Advocacy Party, National Unity Party, Action Alliance, Peoples Democratic Congress and Social Democratic Mega Party, among others.

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The most aggressive resistance to the Common Core isn't taking the form of direct action against the process but is coming from «social justice» liberals and progressives, who may be union members but are not by and large in charge of state or local affiliates.

NYC offers an embarrassment of riches when it comes to private school options, including K - 5, K - 8, and K - 12 schools, traditional and progressive schools, single sex and coed schools, religious and secular schools, as well as schools with a special focus on the arts, sciences, social action, etc..

ActionAid USA African Services Committee AIDS Foundation of Chicago AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland Alliance for a Just Society BAART Programs California NOW Center for Biological Diversity Center for Economic and Social Rights Center of Concern Chicago Political Economy Group Conference of Major Superiors of Men Corporate Accountability International DYNS Services EcoEquity EG Justice Food & Water Watch Foundation Earth Franciscan Action Network Friends of the Earth U.S. Gender Action Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Grassroots International Greenpeace USA Health Global Access Project (GAP) HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) HIV / AIDS Law Project Holy Cross International Justice Office Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy International HIV / AIDS Alliance USA International Rivers Jobs with Justice Jubilee Oregon Jubilee USA Network Labor Campaign for Single Payer Labor Network for Sustainability Lifelong AIDS Alliance Main Street Alliance Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas, USA Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns National Nurses United National Organization for Women (NOW) NETWORK New Rules for Global Finance Nicaragua Center for Community Action Oxfam America PeterCares House PR CoNCRA Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Raging Grannies Rainforest Action Network RESULTS Right to the City Alliance Sustainable Energy and Economy Network / Institute for Policy Studies Sisters of the Holy Cross — Congregation Justice Committee START at Westminster SustainUS Tax Justice Network USA Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL - NY) Wealth for the Common Good Women Together for Change, Inc. 350.

This may in part be due to the fact that action on climate change is widely seen as a progressive goal, says Hulme, and being a generally progressive sort of bunch, social scientists might be reticent to impede proceedings, or to be seen to give succour to right - wing «denialists».

Today's petition is signed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Food & Water Watch, Greenpeace U.S.A., Friends of the Earth U.S.,, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Public Citizen, SustainUS, WildEarth Guardians, Progressive Democrats of America, Rainforest Action Network, Amazon Watch, Corporate Accountability International, Waterkeeper Alliance, Environment America, and hundreds of other national, regional and local groups.