Sentences with phrase «racial justice as»

We can only build a coalition with the power to curb climate disruption if environmentalists are fighting for economic and racial justice as hard as they are against fossil fuels, and if unions are fighting as hard for an immediate transition to a worker - friendly clean energy economy as they are to protect their members.

If we want competency education to have different results than our existing sort and rank system, we need to pay attention to racial justice as a key element of equity.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, framed the issue as one of racial justice as well as common sense, saying that the police in New York City were wasting time, resources and good will making tens of thousands of unnecessary arrests.

It is one thing to think of Martin King as a civil rights activist who transformed America's race relations and quite another to regard racial justice as having theological significance.

My hope was that the church would become a leading voice for economic and racial justice as well as for disarmament.

On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.

Not exact matches

That was insufficient for Color of Change, a nonprofit racial - justice group that is demanding she resign as a Trump adviser with the #quitthecouncil campaign.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

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.

New resolutions can act as a rallying cry for further work on racial justice and racial unity, allowing SBC entities, churches and organizations to point to this resolution as a reason for continuing to preach, teach and speak out.

I found myself almost paralyzed by fear one Sunday as I told the congregation as lovingly as I could that seeking racial justice was a part of the Christian calling.

«All of us who came up as good liberals knew that liberalism was measured, above all, by our commitment to racial justice.

Instead of simply taking the windows down and going on with business as usual, the cathedral recognizes that, for now, they provide an opportunity for us to begin to write a new narrative on race and racial justice at the cathedral and perhaps for our nation.

We meet a similar, and similarly contradictory, construal of justice in some feminist literature, as well as in the claim that the society should be both color - blind and have preferential quotas for racial minorities.

I write and teach about racism out of my own anxiety as a white person, and out of my own experiences of learning about racism and trying to find a way to join a larger movement of people working for racial justice.

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

Readers may remember an item in these pages some while back that described the sorry plight of the racial justice office of the NCC, which lost its director because there was no money for basics such as travel expenses.

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

White Northern liberals represented themselves as the friends of the Negro and deceived King and many other blacks into believing that they really wanted to achieve racial justice in America.

Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he is «optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day... be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»

What is God challenging us to do as agents of racial justice and reconciliation?

The movement as a whole seeks to bring the segregated South to «the promised land of racial justice.»

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

The same political and populist activists form a kind of «protection racket,» seeking to brand as «liberal» those Christian voices that wish to speak about matters such as racial justice.

Debriefing revealed that many of the participants had become aware of race - related feelings — shock, fear, expectation of rejection, vulnerability, confusion, inferiority as a Black, relief at being White again, and guilt about these responses.5 This group was relatively free of conscious prejudices and was dedicated to racial justice.

Though she was promptly arrested, her action attracted media attention, and many hailed it as a victory for racial justice.

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.

From defending our environment, to fighting for racial and economic justice, Eric Schneiderman has taken bold action to make New York more fair and just, distinguishing himself as a leader in the resistance.

In recent years, there have been several examples of what I would call racial injustice with regards to the criminal justice system in the United States, and how certain legal policies, such as Arizona's immigration law SB1070, have specifically targeted non-whites.

Speaking to about 1,000 people Nixon cast her support as primarily driven by racial disparity in marijuana arrests, declaring that «I want to do it first and foremost because it's a racial justice issue.»

«The NASUWT has invited the Government to work with us to root out racism and discrimination, as part of our continued work to Act for Racial Justice.

His research focuses on understanding distressed urban neighborhoods, the redevelopment of shrinking cities, as well as issues of social isolation, racial justice and class facing people of color.

Wiley, who will take over as chair next month, calls herself a racial and gender justice advocate and says those roots make her move from legal adviser inside City Hall to head of the outside agency — as well as professor at the New School — a kind of homecoming.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

Mr Justice Treacy said Gary Dobson and David Norris would have received a life sentence of 30 years at least if they had committed the crimes as adults now, because changes in the law in 2003 introduced racial aggravation to sentencing.

Queers for Racial Justice members stormed the lawn in front of Assemblyman David DiPietro's office Thursday afternoon to dance as a form of protest.

The event was organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and attendees included civil rights activist Linda Sarsour; Fatoumata Waggeh of African Communities Together; City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and José Rolando Matalón, who serves as the Senior Rabbi at Manhattan's B'nai Jeshurun synagogue.

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Conservatives frame privatization as a civil rights issue, but Trump's extreme agenda is energizing racial justice and public education advocates.

EAST AURORA, N.Y. — Queers for Racial Justice members stormed the lawn in front of Assemblyman David DiPietro's office Thursday afternoon to dance as a form of protest.

More than 200 community members took to the streets on April 5, as 31 different religious institutions held an interfaith rally and march to promote racial justice and religious tolerance.

«My amendment would ensure that no federal funds are flowing to any law - enforcement entity that the [Justice] Department has identified as engaging in racial, ethnic, and religious profiling,» he said in introducing the measure.

Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.

Out of the traditions and organizational culture established during the late 1940s and 1950s came AAAS's activism of subsequent decades on social issues such as racial justice, the environment, and the war in Vietnam.

The researchers found that young men who fell into the «high victim - perpetrator» group were also the young men who felt the most disenfranchised - they had experienced the most racial discrimination, were most aware of institutional discrimination, had the most experiences with the criminal justice system as both victims and suspects, and were the most cynical about politics.

Grace, whom Timothy characterizes as «a society lady who spends her time rescuing wretched niggers,» seems a stand - in for upper middle - class whites who have «good intentions» with regard to racial justice.

His concern with social justice, which manifested itself in The Sun Shines Bright also became more evident during the early»60s, in films such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), all of which sought to address problems of racial prejudice.