Sentences with phrase «social justice center»

In addition to Citizen Action, a variety of other groups hosted the event including Albany Democratic Socialists, Albany Jewish Voices for Peace, Albany Social Justice Center, Alliance for Quality Education, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, the Capital District Coalition Against Islamophobia, Center for Law and Justice, the New York State Labor Religion Coalition and the New York State Council of Churches.

Victorio Reyes, executive director of the Social Justice Center, talks about his involvement with the protests at the Occupy Albany encampment at Academy Park on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 in Albany.

Occupy Albany is considering spending some of the money it has collected — around $ 1,000 so far — on better equipment, said Victorio Reyes, executive director of the Social Justice Center on Central Avenue.

For many years, the black church was the hub for teaching, training, employment opportunities as well as acting as a community and social justice center.

His book also cites architecture projects around the world that have leverage design positive social impact, from a primary school in Guangdong, China to a social justice center at Kalamazoo College.

Not exact matches

For over two years, I have seen that FBB centers the values of social responsibility and justice, and that is why #WeNeedFBB.

As part of its new international outreach, the cathedral has opened the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, which describes itself as focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around theJustice and Reconciliation, which describes itself as focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around thejustice and peacemaking initiatives around the globe.

In Part 3 of the book, she describes this shift in terms of a «gathering center» in which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely new.

Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).

First, there is the fact that the Christian message centers so largely in faith and love that justice in social relations tends to be overshadowed.

On the other side of the social justice debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.

«A freedom open to new creation is in fact less centered on subjectivity, on personal authenticity, than on social and political justice; it calls for a reconciliation which itself demands to be inscribed in the recapitulation of all things.

The concept of the common good is at the center of its definition, and the idea of a social body, of a social universal, really existing by itself, contrary to all nominalist or individualist theory, is implicit in the descriptions which the popes give of social justice.

But most of all it would have affirmed the conviction of CLAY members that the cause they served, whether by marching in DC or volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center, was a legitimate component of social justice.

Class war in this country is taking us in an analogous direction, and that term, social justice, is at the center.

Launched in 2010, the Brown Boi Project works to build leadership, economic self sufficiency, and health of young masculine of center womyn, trans men, and queer / straight men of color — pipelining them into the social justice movement.

At 10 a.m., NYC Council members Ritchie Torres and Vanessa Gibson join NYCHA residents, the mayor's office of Criminal Justice, and social and legal service providers for an oversight hearing on violent crime in public housing, Johnson Houses Community Center, 1833 Lexington Ave., Manhattan.

At 6 p.m., NYC Councilman Rory Lancman, elected officials, social justice advocates and local artists celebrate the grand opening of the Social Justice Art Show, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161 - 04 Jamaica Ave., Qsocial justice advocates and local artists celebrate the grand opening of the Social Justice Art Show, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161 - 04 Jamaica Ave., justice advocates and local artists celebrate the grand opening of the Social Justice Art Show, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161 - 04 Jamaica Ave., QSocial Justice Art Show, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161 - 04 Jamaica Ave., Justice Art Show, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161 - 04 Jamaica Ave., Queens.

The center is the first of its kind on Staten Island, following the lead of every other borough in the city, each of which already has such a center dedicated to providing comprehensive civil legal, criminal justice, and social services free of charge to victims of domestic abuse, sex trafficking, and elderly abuse.

A former high school teacher and college professor, Tejada is the founder of the Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center, a non-profit organization in Harlem devoted to social justice issues and assisting low - income and immigrant families.

Center for Popular Democracy's staff includes leading thinkers in policy, civil rights, social justice, and organizing.

As part of the first - of - its - kind county / school collaboration, local leaders opened the Center for Safe and Healthy Youth, a one - stop location for needs assessment, as well as school support, mental health and social services and juvenile justice - related services for struggling youngsters in Rockland County, ages 10 to 18.

Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., a professor of criminology and criminal justice within FAU's College for Design and Social Inquiry and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, and Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., a professor of criminal justice at UW - EC and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, spearheaded this latest study.

«The idea that someone would cyberbully themselves first gained public attention with the tragic suicide of 14 - year - old Hannah Smith in 2013 after she anonymously sent herself hurtful messages on a social media platform just weeks before she took her own life,» said Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., study author, a professor in FAU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the College for Design and Social Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Csocial media platform just weeks before she took her own life,» said Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., study author, a professor in FAU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the College for Design and Social Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research CSocial Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., study author, a professor in FAU's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the College for Design and Social Inquiry, and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

Beaver collaborated on the study with Joseph A. Schwartz from the University of Nebraska at Omaha's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Mohammed Said Al - Ghamdi and Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy from the Center for Social and Humanities Research and King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia; Curtis S. Dunkel from Western Illinois University's Department of Psychology; and Dimitri van der Linden from Erasmus University's Institute of Psychology in The Netherlands.

Southwest Research and Information Center is a multi-cultural organization working to promote the health of people and communities, protect natural resources, ensure citizen participation, and secure environmental and social justice now and for future generations.

Laalitha Surapaneni, M.B.B.S., M.D., M.P.H., an instructor of medicine and a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, was recently added to the board of Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, which advocates on environmental and social justice issues in Maryland and VirSocial Responsibility, which advocates on environmental and social justice issues in Maryland and Virsocial justice issues in Maryland and Virginia.

As a maternal health advocate and therapist Ginger is also a regularly invited blogger for international groups that advocate for social justice and policy, including Caring Economy and Center for Partnership Studies, National Association for Mothers Centers (now MOM - Mentum), and American Mothers.

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

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.

Valor's SEL work is based on ideas that Daren Dickson developed throughout his career as a social worker, clinical and program director, and social justice advocate, including work he did at the nonprofit Seneca Center in the San Francisco Bay Area with vulnerable young people and communities.

«Through her example and collaborative leadership, Melissa has demonstrated how to center social justice at the heart of learning and teaching.

For instance, Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center («the Met») in Providence, and the Oakland School for Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic students.

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.

In September, YSS will extend its outreach at the School of Social Justice, one of four learning centers within the new Little Village High School, in the gang - laden Greater Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago's Southwest Side.

Bringing deep learning and social justice front and center of education requires radical redefinitions of how we think and act on learning, teaching, and the management of schools and education systems.

Coded as «left - leaning» were course weeks that advocated concepts like social justice and multiculturalism, focused on inequality and race - based discrimination, emphasized notions of silenced voices and child - centered instruction, or were critical of testing and choice - based reform.

She developed Real Talk: Hip Hop Education for Social Justice, a Common Core — aligned after - school program for elementary students that «positions the culture, social context, learning styles and students» experiences at the center» of the curriSocial Justice, a Common Core — aligned after - school program for elementary students that «positions the culture, social context, learning styles and students» experiences at the center» of the currisocial context, learning styles and students» experiences at the center» of the curriculum.

Former president of the NAACP and senior fellow of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, Cornell William Brooks argues that charter schools perpetuate social stratification in the U.S. education system and exacerbate inequalities throughout America.

Other popular choices are so - called screened schools like Bard High School and the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, which rank applicants on various criteria, and innovative charters such as the Charter High School for Law and Social Justice.

Social Justice Humanitas launched in 2011 as a «teacher - led» community school in partnership with the Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP), a Los Angeles education nonprofit that, with the Youth Policy Institute (YPI), Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, and the UCLA Center for Community Schooling, collectively account for 60 of the community schools currently operating in LAUSD.

Amnesty Int» l Human Rights Education EdChange Education for Liberation Network Equity Alliance at ASU The Freire Project Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network Institute for Critical Animal Studies Institute for Humane Education International Assn. for Intercultural Education The Matrix Center National Assn. for Multicultural Education New York Collective of Radical Educators Radical Math Rethinking Schools Online SoJust: Document History of Social Justice Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago) Teachers 4 Social Justice (San Francisco) Teaching Economics as if People Mattered Teaching for Change Teaching Tolerance White Privilege Conference

Cover directs the Urban Revitalization Program at Seton Hall University's Center for Social Justice, teaching law students how to alleviate poverty through the legal system.

The goal is to connect early career teacher leaders to union leadership, centered specifically around professional unionism and social justice unionism.

Currently the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at Duquesne University, Dr. Generett is also the Co-director of the University Council for Educational Administration Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice.

Teacher Librarian Katie J. McNamara (the founder of #CALibChat) is organizing a virtual book club centered on social justice issues.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance has a bounty of social justice curriculum, as well as a magazine and professional development tools, available free of charge.

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These skills were invaluable when she moved to DC and became a Program Director for the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, and Service, where she directed the DC Reads program; a literacy tutoring program.