Sentences with phrase «social justice groups»

This dimension of American poverty has historically been overlooked, with policymakers — and many social justice groups, including Catholic ones — instead focusing solely on financial issues.

Either way, state social justice groups did not feel consulted.

They viewed his hopes for Republican cooperation as naive and his characterization of social justice groups as insulting.

I am often amused at the efforts of social justice groups to help out poor farmers who are portrayed as helpless, struggling dimwits.

De Blasio attended an out - of - town reunion for a left - leaning social justice group that helps families sympathetic to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua — a spokesman for de Blasio said: «The mayor remains committed to the highest ideals of the Sandinistas.»

A collection of more than 60 low - income, community - of - color, indigenous, and social justice groups formed an umbrella climate justice organization, Front and Centered, in 2014, behind a set of «principles for climate justice.»

Alper Initiative at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Presents Art for Social Justice Group Exhibition

Various social justice groups from across the state are protesting the conference which they say contributes to the militarization of police departments.

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TJN is an extensive and multi-sectoral network uniting environmental, civil society, student, Indigenous, cultural, farming, labour and social justice groups whose aim is to challenge the scope and secretive nature of most free trade agreements.

Not only did he donate $ 1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and other social justice groups last year, but he's become an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform.

«I really sensed that this is a high priority for him,» Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, a Christian social justice group, told CNN.

Gangi, who has spent decades leading social justice groups like the Police Reform Organizing Project and the Correctional Association, matched de Blasio's plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex — then raised his bet by saying he would do it without the mayor's corollary proposal to build new, smaller holding facilities around the boroughs, arguing that the elimination of quality - of - life policing would massively deflate the inmate population.

More than 100 feminist leaders and social justice groups called for passage of the Right to Know Act at a press conference at City Hall.

Climate, energy and social justice groups commend the IPCC for clearly acknowledging the link between economic growth and increased greenhouse gas emissions but warn that the report falls far short on translating this insight into pathways to mitigation.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio was back to being just another comrade Friday night at an out - of - town reunion for a left - leaning social justice group that helps families sympathetic to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

The «keep it in the ground» trend in climate activism crucially involves the participation and influence of social justice groups.

Along with grassroots climate and social justice groups from around the world, we will be making our voices heard across the city, making sure world leaders from the global north hear the call to face up to their historical responsibility for driving the climate crisis and putting justice at the heart of the talks.

The social justice group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good organized a vigil by the White House last weekend, in anticipation of the new DHS directive.

The Interfaith Leadership Council, working hand - in - hand with the social justice group United Power for Action and Justice, puts Chicago - area families facing deportation in touch with a lawyer.

The raw material is a mix of newspaper articles, pamphlets (most notably Lord Ashcroft's Smell the Coffee) and the output of Conservative policy groups, especially Iain Duncan Smith's Social Justice Group.

Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

Anti-violence and social justice groups in Syracuse are focusing on what's called conflict transformation or getting to the root of what is causing violence in the community.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was back to being just another comrade Friday night at an out - of - town reunion for a left - leaning social justice group that helps families sympathetic to the Sandinistas...

May has been an area activist for years and is a member of the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a social justice group formed after the election of President Donald Trump.

Bianey Garcia, a transgender activist with Make the Road, a social justice group out of neighboring Jackson Heights, said while this is the 13th known attack on trans women in Queens this year, «so many are not reported for fear of going to the police,» partly due to transphobia in official ranks and also to fear of exposure for those who are undocumented immigrants.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it corporate welfare and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs,» Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

The governor made the announcement Wednesday while addressing the annual convention of the National Action Network, a social justice group founded by Al Sharpton, in New York City.

You might get involved in a political cause or take a leadership role in a social justice group.

These individuals include former California Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pete Wilson, education chiefs from across the country, national education policy and social justice groups, along with California educators, parents and students.

For 7 years, she served on the board of Working Films, an organization that builds partnerships between nonfiction media - makers and social justice groups.

Yet environmentalists pulled together a huge coalition of businesses, religious groups, military groups, unions, and social justice groups.

The march was organized by the 900 - group - strong People's Climate Movement, which included non-profit environmental and social justice groups, as well as labor unions and companies committed to taking action on climate change.

«Do they count as a social justice group?

There were some groups that we tried to talk to and were blocked by some folks who are now criticizing us for not talking to social justice groups.»

... environmentalists pulled together a huge coalition of businesses, religious groups, military groups, unions, and social justice groups.

A new coalition of leading UK environmental and social justice groups, convened by Oxfam and NEF (the new economics foundation) and including Friends of the Earth and the Royal College of Nursing, says the government can not choose between tackling poverty and climate change; it must begin to tackle these related issues together and it must take action now.

It's essentially a kind of Wikipedia of green and social justice groups

London About Blog The Campaign to End Child Poverty is made up of more than 100 organisations from civic society including children's charities, child welfare organisations, social justice groups, faith groups, trade unions and others, united in a vision of a UK free of child poverty.