Sentences with phrase «social movement members»

«For the remainder of this paper, I will use the term «denier» rather than skeptic to describe the active social movement members as it best describes a category of constituents who do not believe that climate change is happening, as opposed to just being doubtful.»

Not exact matches

Though many social organizations and unions give support to such movements, church members form an indispensable segment of their constituencies, as the recent financial crisis involving the NAACP in Mississippi made clear.

But if the need for meeting space has declined, the claims placed on church members by movements for social, political and economic justice have not diminished.

His willingness to speak against this movement has not endeared him to some members of the American theological community, who have become increasingly supportive of liberation theology and increasingly willing to use Marxist categories in criticizing social structures.

This is beginning to happen, but, paradoxically, the interfaith movement which draws together people of all faiths in the search for justice and peace at the same time often makes its members very critical of the compromises that many faith communities have made with the abuse of power and social injustice.

The theology of the new social gospel movement will be as diverse as its members.

Up to the time of the civil rights movement, becoming a church member was the preferred way to gain identification and social status and to forward political action.

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«While all of the individuals setting up Momentum are members or supporters of the Labour party, the group anticipates that many thousands of people who are not [Labour supporters] will be involved in the wider social movement».

Add to this the understandable dejection and bitterness many Labour members and supporters would feel, if Smith were to win the Labour Right would be greatly strengthened, to the detriment of Labour offering a real alternative to the Tories (not to mention the fatal harm done to Labour's prospects of becoming a social movement).

Out of nowhere, One Day Without Us has become not just a campaign, but an incipient social movement whose members come from many political and social backgrounds.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Moreover, the incentive seems to be intrinsic, as it allows members to define their identity as part of a larger social movement.

Family members» eye - movement capabilities were not strongly correlated with their scores on other cognitive or social - behavioral tests, a result that Mosconi calls «exciting.»

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformers.»

Community organizers create social change, and sometimes social movements, by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved.

«As a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unified.

Understand the importance of communication between team members prior to patient movements, and how to utilize the resources in your environment to minimize social stress caused by inter-patient contact

Learn more about becoming a member and joining a movement that's building a community of fun - loving nature enthusiasts through this series of «park socials!»

Langford has worked in various capacities in the social justice movement, a member of DIY artist collectives, teaching and working in public media.

During this extraordinarily productive period, Siskind evolved from pioneering social - documentary to being the only photographic founding member of the American Abstract - Expressionist movement.

Lyubov Popova (1889 - 1924), along with Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) considered one of the co-founders of the Russian style of Constructivism (a school concerned with space, new materials, 3 - D form, as well as science and social reform) was another important member of the Suprematist movement.

George Maciunas, considered the founder of Fluxus, met many of the early members of the movement while enrolled in an experimental music class taught by John Cage at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

For instance, it can not move «beyond social marketing», because, as has been discussed, it is not a popular campaign and its members — even those with advanced degrees in psychology — have no idea to communicate with those outside of the movement.

His report on the social movements behind Bolivian president Evo Morales was cited when Newsnight was awarded the Orwell Prize (2007)... Mason was «father of the chapel» for the National Union of Journalists on Newsnight... Politics A former member of the Trotskyist Workers» Power group, he responded to an interviewer from the London Evening Standard in 2011: «It's on Wikipedia that I was, so it must be true.

The most basic way that social movements change the social landscape is by framing grievances in ways that resonate with members of civil society (Caniglia, B., S., Brulle, R. and Szasz, S., 2015, p. 237).

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In a last roll of the die before the UN climate negotiations conclude in December 2015 in Paris, the Venezuelan Government has gone to considerable trouble to pull off Chavez's vision of shifting the debate around climate change by gathering several hundred members of social movements and civil society organisations here in Las Margaritas for the social preCOP.

A Member State must therefore have the possibility of refusing to grant social benefits to economically inactive Union citizens who do not have sufficient resources to claim a right of residence and who exercise their right to freedom of movement solely in order to obtain another Member State's social assistance.

In other words, how far does EU law permit Member States to integrate the protection of out - of - state environmental and social policy concerns into derogations to the Treaty rules on the free movement of goods?

It is probably not surprising, then, that a call for a new kind of pedagogy also emerged from members of this original legal realist group, some of whom began to push for a «lawyer school» that would train students in law as it was actually practiced on the ground.11 Interestingly, this very same movement toward practice was accompanied by increased attention to another tool for understanding law - in - action: social science.

(Freedom of movement for persons — Union Citizenship — Directive 2004 / 38 / EC — Right of residence for more than three months — Article 7 (1)(b)-- Person no longer having worker status — Person in possession of a retirement pension — Having sufficient resources not to become a burden on the «social assistance system» of the host Member State — Application for a special non-contributory cash benefit — Compensatory supplement intended to augment a retirement pension — Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 — Articles 3 (2) and 70 — Competence of the Member State of residence — Conditions for granting — Legal right to reside on the national territory — Compliance with European Union law)

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But over the long term, social media platforms can also pose a risk to activist movements by magnifying and publicizing disputes between members or creating bitterness among core supporters who play key roles but who attract less public attention.

We, members of the U.S. workforce, live in a new era; at least that's what social movements like Conscious Capitalism (based on Whole Foods» CEO John Mackey's eponymous book), websites like Imperative, and books like Aaron Hurst's The Purpose Economy tell us.

Others in the group include Julie Daniluk, host of The Healthy Gourmet; social entrepreneur Kelly Drennan, who is dedicated to greening the fashion industry; Rob Grand, owner of Canada's largest green lifestyle retailer, Grassroots Environmental Products; Ryan Wiseman, who has been active in the green / environment movement for 15 years; and Wayne Roberts, who manages the Toronto Food Policy and is a member of Toronto's Environmental Task Force.