Sentences with phrase «social protest in»

Freedman's sustained pictorial effort is one of the lasting achievements of photography as social protest in America.

To understand the aspects of social protest in Pulaya conversions it may be helpful to draw a fine distinction between dalit consciousness and caste consciousness.

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Reid was one of the first NFL players to join Kaepernick in kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice.

In January, the #deleteUber hashtag trended on social media after customers perceived the company as having undermined New York taxi drivers» strike in protest of the Trump administration's immigration baIn January, the #deleteUber hashtag trended on social media after customers perceived the company as having undermined New York taxi drivers» strike in protest of the Trump administration's immigration bain protest of the Trump administration's immigration ban.

For example, when President Donald Trump issued a travel ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations early in 2017, many companies took to social media to protest.

Especially on the impact of these protests and the social climate that everybody has to live in.

The company is no stranger to social - media protests, but in the past these have been related mostly to environmental concerns.

The protest, which gained traction on social media, seeks to show the nation the impact immigrants have in the country on a daily basis.

A recent social media meme, #DeleteUber, had erupted online after some thought the car - sharing service had tried to make bank over the weekend in San Francisco related to protests taking place at San Francisco International Airport.

For example, more than a million people used social media to «check in» at the Standing Rock Reservation, center of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

This week's revelations about a British political consultancy's use of data from 50 million Facebook users for potentially shady purposes has prompted many people to declare they will quit the social network in protest.

«This Is Your Brain on Race»: The arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia has prompted protests and social - media backlash.

Uber later insisted that their elimination of surge pricing was not intended to break the strike, but many users people began deleting their Uber apps from their phone in protest and sharing screenshots on social media prove that they had done it.

Although it was intended only as a statement on the company's position on the trade deal, and «nothing beyond that issue,» a company spokeswoman said in an email, it became kindling for protests from Trump opponents, some of whom posted videos to social media of their sneakers being set on fire in response.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

In particular, NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic nuns that speaks out on social justice issues, went on a bus tour around the country to protest the Ryan budget.

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

In part because although liberation rhetoric has increased in the form of statements, resolutions, protests, pickets and boycotts, church - people are not effectively engaged with social ills or with the pooIn part because although liberation rhetoric has increased in the form of statements, resolutions, protests, pickets and boycotts, church - people are not effectively engaged with social ills or with the pooin the form of statements, resolutions, protests, pickets and boycotts, church - people are not effectively engaged with social ills or with the poor.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

Martin Luther King and his followers engaged in open protest against clear instances of social injustice, and they did not share Booker T. Washington's aversion to civil rights agitation; quite the contrary.

Despite the publication of numerous Schweitzer biographies, there still remains to be written a critical study that will locate him within the turbulent currents of social protest and religious innovation in Europe at the turn of the century.

After a year of campus protests, none of us in the seminar — except perhaps the international students — could avoid guilt when someone quoted François's statement that «it may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.»

Meanwhile, in the early 1970s, social observers began protesting the nature of Herberg's «melting pot» analysis.

Standing in front of the United Methodist Building near the U.S. Capitol, the «Nuns on the Bus,» as they have billed themselves, rallied an excited crowd with stories from the road and a call to action for future protests to protect social programs.

In the face of this «orgy of speculation,» editors argued, religion must «protest a social or industrial order in which men wallow in sudden wealth which they have not created while their fellows by the million face want» (March 22, 1928In the face of this «orgy of speculation,» editors argued, religion must «protest a social or industrial order in which men wallow in sudden wealth which they have not created while their fellows by the million face want» (March 22, 1928in which men wallow in sudden wealth which they have not created while their fellows by the million face want» (March 22, 1928in sudden wealth which they have not created while their fellows by the million face want» (March 22, 1928).

As a powerful voice for protest that appeals to disenfranchised people, Islam thrives in an environment of social injustice.

From a sociological perspective, Campos asserts that Latin American Pentecostalism offers symbolic mediation for what he calls the «the affirmation of popular hope,» because it is both a spiritual movement which transforms the individual and a movement of symbolic protest in a society which denies the dispossessed the chance to achieve or to participate in social organization.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

Seeking to live solely by the values and priorities of Jesus Christ: and his kingdom, desiring, that is, to be Christ's community of called - out people, the Sojourners staff and community have sought (a) to become post-American in their social critique, visibly protesting the systems of death in the world.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

Through social media, a website and public protests, the group has gathered steam — and put Kelly in hot water.

Cockburn combines social protest and faith while confronting issues of poverty and violence in developing nations and celebrating the world's diversity.

that all these issues — overcrowded cities, unusual and disturbing new weather patterns, the growth of global poverty, the lowering of wages while stock prices soar, the elimination of social services, the destruction of wildlife and wilderness, the protests of Maya Indians in Mexico — are products of the same global policies.

There is in Revelation 18 (again following the lead of Mottu»») an implicit social critique which can be analyzed under the Marxist categories of religion as distress and protest.34 Latent in the liturgical form of this passage there is a primitive or «savage» political analysis of the Roman Empire.

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined a march for «Peace and Justice» called by the Catholic Church, the second massive demonstration in less than a week following a wave of deadly protests against social security reforms.

Buddhist monks, for example, are now engaging in protests against social injustice.

Like many of their contemporaries, they became wildly optimistic about secularization in the early 1960s, and then in the early 1970s deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.

Assuming that agape requires justice in human affairs, the author explores the implication of biblical love for social justice in its historical foundations, in the terms of justice, group loyalty, humanitarianism, protest, nonviolence and nurturance.

We are implicated in these historical crimes, says the liberal, and deserve to be penalized for them, by virtue of the fact (a) that we are the beneficiaries of social arrangements built on the foundations laid by this past exploitation; and (b) that despite our protests, we continue to treat and regard the historically victimized in discriminatory and injurious ways, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unconsciously.

Those two worlds will collide on May 16 when the nation's largest atheist group holds a rally on the steps of the Texas state capitol in Austin to protest proposed changes in the state's social studies curriculum.

The social unrest and economic privation that spilled out in protests in February 2014 were met by Venezuela's leaders with redoubled proclamations of Chavista messianism.

Because the being of woman has traditionally been so closely identified with her biological role in reproduction, many aspects of feminist protest are linked to sexuality and marriage and the limitations which religious dogma and social custom have placed on women in these areas.

The Travancore Pulaya mass conversion movement to Anglicanism in the latter half of 19th century was an expression of social protest.

And how did they feel about the student - protest movement, and what role ought the church to play in social and political affairs?

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

In the eighth century BC., a young dresser of sycamores named Amos from the southern kingdom of Judah experienced a calling to journey to the northern kingdom of Israel in order to protest the social injustice, especially the widening gap between the rich and the poor, that had become prevalent therIn the eighth century BC., a young dresser of sycamores named Amos from the southern kingdom of Judah experienced a calling to journey to the northern kingdom of Israel in order to protest the social injustice, especially the widening gap between the rich and the poor, that had become prevalent therin order to protest the social injustice, especially the widening gap between the rich and the poor, that had become prevalent there.

Winner does a masterful job of providing images and stories with which to understand «the middle» — a face jug lost in the divorce, a pie social at church, a protest at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, an elderly couple sharing communion, a Purim celebration, a prayer, a poem, a bookstore in Machester - by - the - Sea.

Pro-lifers protest rightly that the social value of the individual enshrined in our centuries old legal tradition is being eroded by various anti-life measures, but unfortunately less importance has been placed on defending the value of human nature per se by arguments from natural reason.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

In Latin America, where religious belief continues to be so deeply rooted and where secularization has been relegated to the realm of social protest, [5] the Pentecostal movement has had great social impact and now threatens the religious hegemony of Roman Catholicism.