Sentences with phrase «social justice activist»

I am a long time community and social justice activist.

Michelle Johnson is a yoga teacher, social justice activist, licensed clinical social worker, and...

Sean Krausert (@thatpovertyguy), a social justice activist in Canmore, Alta.: Less $ re social services + less judge discretion + mandatory min.

A renowned social justice activist, Rao has raised her voice for the rights of blacks and colored people.

«I was just so pissed off,» Avvy Yao - Yao Go, a well - known social justice activist and lawyer, wrote in the Toronto Star after Justice Minister Peter MacKay made comments at a recent Ontario Bar Association meeting that women and visible minorities aren't applying for judge jobs and that's why they're under - represented on the bench.

Having witnessed the growing inequality between the rich and poor, Samantara pursued studies in economics and law and built a lifelong career as a social justice activist.

In organizer speak, we're on the cusp of something that Saul Alinsky, the venerable social justice activist and author of Rules of Radicals, dubbed «a moment of the whirlwind».

Tina is a social justice activist who has worked to empower people to develop their individual and community power through education reform, food justice, environmental and economic justice and political justice.

Some of the chatter concerns her biography: Casteel was born and raised in Denver and is the daughter of a social justice activist mom, herself the daughter of civil rights hero Whitney Moore Young, Jr..

Jose Lara, a prominent leader of the LA teachers union, UTLA, was recently named the 2015 Social Justice Activist of the Year by the National Education Association (NEA).

That theme emerged over and over in Ed Trust President and CEO John B. King Jr.'s wide - ranging interview with organizer and social justice activist DeRay Mckesson this week.

On Thursday, June 29, NEA will announce the 2017 Social Justice Activist of the Year during the closing luncheon of the Conference on Racial and Social Justice.

2012: Nanette Lee Reynolds Ed.D.»78 Educator and Social Justice Activist; Former Director, Michigan Department of Civil Rights Atlanta, GA

Proceeds benefit OU Women's & Gender Studies» student internships, scholarships, instructional program support and its Center for Social Justice Activist - in - Residence Program.

The social justice activist fought to bring aid to Hurricane Katrina victims, then later worked with the FBI to imprison protesters planning to disrupt the Republican National Convention.

«No matter which continent Gaga happens to be in today,» the Manhattan borough president, mayoral hopeful, and Germanotta family friend tells the Daily News, «she remains an Upper West Sider at heart» as well as a «social justice activist and a real leader for marriage equality in this country.»

Gaga «remains an Upper West Sider at heart» and «social justice activist and a real leader for marriage equality in this country,» Stringer said, grabbing a few headlines that won't hurt with name recognition while being chivalrous in the process.

It was to clean up the river,» said Bertha Lewis, a social justice activist and longtime ally of Mr. de Blasio's.

Later that same day, delegates will participate in a program focused on the future of the labor movement by well - known labor and social justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. in the Hart Theatre of The Egg, at 2 p.m. Fletcher is currently the director of Field Services and Education for the American Federation of Government Employees.

Also on the panel were Linda Sarsour, co-founder of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, and social justice activist, originally from Brooklyn, and Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and activist.

I always loved having a birthday around Earth Day because I have been an environmental and social justice activist.

In addition to her artistic pursuits, she is a social justice activist and a real leader for marriage equality in this country,» Mr. Stringer told Politicker.

Kevin has a long and distinguished career as an educator, a social justice activist, a teacher, and an author.

Shel Horowitz combines four decades as a socially conscious marketer and environmental / social justice activist.

For PSAC members who are already social justice activists, there's no place you'd rather be!

There's often an assumption today that young African Americans involved in that «other» realm, as social justice activists, are not orthodox in their Christianity.

This is a month - long online seminar program hosted by authors, speakers, and social justice activists Patti Digh and Victor Lee Lewis, who was featured in the documentary film, The Color of Fear, with help from a community of people who want and are willing to help us understand the reality of racism by telling their stories and sharing their resources.

The event, called Candles for Clemency, was attended by various social justice activists and family and friends of prisoners.

«I want to give people hope with my vision for where this city can go,» Ellis told The Alt shortly after Mayor Kathy Sheehan's State of the City address (which was delayed and disrupted by protests by social justice activists and union members).

Social justice activists, gathered for a weekly Moral Monday protest outside the governor's office.

The professions of my participants were also diverse and included a surgeon, career educators, social justice activists, a FEMA rep (perfectly timed with Hurricane Irma a mere 400 miles away), an international finance expert, a former department of justice employee, lawyers, an actor / film - maker and producer, an occupational therapist, and of course a an actor and yoga teacher.

Education was fundamental to the Black Panther Party, and it remains true for social justice activists today.

We wanted to provide an opportunity for social justice activists who had dissociated from their investment portfolio to invest their money and their trust in communities most impacted by racial, climate and economic crises.

If Environment Minister Hendriks» does announce a stringent, comprehensive limitation on overseas coal financing, in line with the international community, it would be exactly the kind of action that 100,000 environmental, labor, faith, and social justice activists will be marching for this Sunday in New York City at the People's Climate March, and its affiliated events worldwide.

The wider community embraces family and colleagues, labour unions, community legal clinics and worker representatives, disability groups, occupational health and safety groups, doctors and other health care workers, progressive politicians, researchers and social justice activists.

Opinions range from applauding the hackers, who call themselves the «Impact Team», as moral or social justice activists or vigilantes, to decrying the hackers as criminal and exploitative, blackmailers, or having a «puritanical» mission.

The jury is still out whether these environmental and social justice activists will be heard and supported by our new administration or not?

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And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

They have compromised the DOJ, encouraged activism in the courts, appointed progressive activist to commissions to promote its religion, sought to ingrain the progressive's religious version of «Social Justice» and «Spread the Wealth».

For Dear, a peace activist, any genuine spiritual ascent must be accompanied by a commitment to contemplative nonviolence, social justice and radical Christian discipleship.

Fithian is a grassroots activist in the global peace - oriented movement for social justice.

The more prophetic forms of Christianity that press toward human rights and social justice are precisely those most under attack by non-Christian militants at local levels, and many activists want to bring judgment against these religions.

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

But the activists, such as the biblical prophets, claim that the life of social concern is thoroughly religious, and they make «doing justice» the very heart of any authentic religious relation to the sacred mystery of God.

Today, that is largely forgotten, as all three recognize his greatness: progressives, as an activist for peace and social justice; conservatives, as a defender of the Natural Law and Biblical truth; and the U.S. government, as a symbol of national unity and American principles.

My doula practice is an extension of my political beliefs and work as an organizer and activist around issues of social justice.

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

From activists for social and environmental justice, to advocates for affordable housing and alternative transportation, to leaders in the struggle for immigrants» rights and civil rights, NKD is building a progressive Brooklyn alliance.

Also RIP comedian Dick Gregory, whose death proved a tough loss for Hollywood, who remembered the legendary funnyman and civil rights activist with a flood of social media posts commending his fight for justice and his stellar sense of humor.

Earlier today, Bratton's opposition to Cuomo's plan was criticized by Russell Simmons, the hip - hop mogul and social activist who is a longtime friend and supporter of Cuomo, and by the Justice League NYC, a coalition group that led some of the protests following the Eric Garner decision, and met with Mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss police reform issues.