Sentences with phrase «state justice communities»

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When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.

«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

The Oxford Conference on Church, Community, and State redeemed the classical definition of justice somewhat from ambiguity when it stated that justice is the «ideal of a harmonious relation of life to life.

It is not enough, in the present age, to promote justice in the local community and in state and nation.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

«After spending time with police officers on ride - alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grassroots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.»

Quinn says Schneiderman's election will «ensure progressive justice in our state» and says she's supporting him because «his commitment to the issues of importance to me, as a woman, as a member of the LGBT community, and as a New Yorker, has never wavered.»

At 6 p.m., the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative of Erie County and the state Office of Children and Family Services convenes a community conversation on juvenile justice, Delavan - Grider Community Center, 877 E. Delavan Ave.,community conversation on juvenile justice, Delavan - Grider Community Center, 877 E. Delavan Ave.,Community Center, 877 E. Delavan Ave., Buffalo.

Also at 11 a.m., state Sen. Martin Golden and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis unveil criminal justice reform legislation intended to address criminals being released back into communities, Room 120, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

«Ultimately artist Anthony Goicolea's design was recommended by the Commission and selected as a result of the circular layout and permanency of the bronze stones that expressed the uncompromised strength of LGBT community, marries well within the sites natural environment, invites sitting and contemplation and stands for equality, fairness, justice, and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens,» the state parks department said in its statement.

Committed to ecology, social justice grassroots democracy and non-violence, Greens are renewing democracy in the United States through community - based organizing without the support of corporate donors.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

We stand for the Monarchy; traditional marriage; family and community duties; proper pride in our nation's distinctive qualities; quality of life over soulless utility; social responsibility over personal selfishness; social justice as civic duty, not state dependency; compassion for those in need; reducing government waste; lower taxation and deregulation; our ancient liberties against politically correct censorship and a commitment to our democratically elected parliament.»

He brings with him extensive knowledge of the local juvenile justice system, and good working relationships with community organizations and state oversight agencies,» said Poloncarz.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

She maintained legalization is «smart» for racial justice, for communities and for the economy, given the state's $ 4.4 billion budget deficit.

And he added that the city is spending $ 31 million on Close to Home, a juvenile justice program that places city youth whom family courts determine need a period of out - of - home placement in residential programs closer to their families and communities — a program that used to be funded by the state.

He cited criminal justice reforms under Cuomo, including the closure of 24 state prisons, the raising of the age at which youths can be charged with a crime, prioritizing community reentry programs, and helping pass laws allowing identification photo arrays at trial and videotaping of police interrogations.

The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWAS Court) presided over by Justice Wilkins Wright has ordered the Federal Government...

The DCJTC will be an efficient, modern facility that provides the necessary space to expand the County's innovative restorative justice programs to better transition inmates back into the community and decrease future recidivism as well as provide the housing space required by the New York State Commission on Corrections.

Federal and state environmental justice rules state that low - income, minority communities can not bear a disproportionate amount of health and environmental impacts from any project.

«These drug traffickers threatened our communities and wreaked havoc on families across the state for too long, and now they will be brought to justice,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

Benjamin, Lancman Propose Strategy to Close Rikers in Three Years Standing with community leaders and criminal justice reform advocates, Democratic nominee for State Senate Benjamin and Council Member Lancman outline three - point strategy to close Rikers Island in three years; proposal -LSB-...]

«For the judge to suggest that a student at Erie Community College does not have standing in the matter, from an economic justice standpoint, that would effect him, and many other students in this community is just wrong,» statedCommunity College does not have standing in the matter, from an economic justice standpoint, that would effect him, and many other students in this community is just wrong,» statedcommunity is just wrong,» stated Giambra.

«From fighting to achieve social and economic justice, to creating stronger communities in every corner of this state, our administration has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of all New Yorkers,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Recall that the Economic Community Of West African State, ECOWAS, Court of Justice had in December 2012 ordered the government to hold oil companies and other perpetrators of the environmental damage accountable, ensure reparation for the collective harm done to the communities; restore within the shortest possible time the environment of the Niger Delta; and prevent the occurrence of damage to the environment.

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the vice president for administration and finance of CUNY's Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, Mary Coleman, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone President and CEO Kenneth Knuckles, Food Bank For New York President and CEO Margarette Purvis and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Executive Director David Shuffler, will be honored by Rep. Jose Serrano and state Sen. Jose M. Serrano a Black History Month event; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

Veteran LGBT advocates are furious over the Empire State Pride Agenda's surprise announcement that it will cease operations next year, with one of the organization's original founders calling the move «a miscarriage of justice for the LGBT community.»

«Creation of the Justice Center and other provisions of the new statute will ensure new safeguards for over a million New Yorkers with special needs who are in the care of the state or community - based organizations, preventing neglect and abuse and appropriately addressing neglect and abuse when they do occur,» said John Coppola, with the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers, in a statement.

«Well it is a very sad day for our community when a jurist, an elected Supreme Court Justice, who was, by all accounts respected by both the attorneys of our community and his peers, demonstrates that he has betrayed the trust given to him by us,» stated Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael Flaherty.

The Oct. 26 email promoted a «Sip & Chat» fundraiser with Judge Verna Saunders, who is currently the presiding judge at the Harlem Community Justice Center and is running for a position in the State Supreme Court.

Among the proposals in her «Rent Justice for All» program are ending the preferential rent loophole, by which landlords can offer an apartment for less than the legal regulated rent but can revoke this privilege whenever the lease is renewed; expanding rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal agency.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

Gordon Brown (prime minister) Jack Straw (justice secretary) Alistair Darling (chancellor) Hilary Benn (environment secretary) Harriet Harman (leader of the Commons) David Miliband (foreign secretary) Douglas Alexander (transport secretary) Lord Mandelson (business secretary and first secretary of state) Alan Johnson (home secretary) John Denham (communities secretary) Shaun Woodward (Northern Ireland secretary) Baroness Royall (leader of the Lords) Jim Murphy (Scotland secretary) Peter Hain (Wales secretary) Michael Wills (justice minister) Nick Brown (Commons chief whip) Lord Bassam (Lords chief whip)

«The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which Nigeria is a key member, has accountability, economic and social justice and popular participation in development as part of the fundamental principles in the Revised Treaty ECOWAS.

This coming Mon., Apr. 13th, community activists and leaders will embark on a 250 - mile walk through five states to deliver to Congress what they call «Justice Package» — a set of criminal justice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community inveJustice Package» — a set of criminal justice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community invejustice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community investment.

Mark - Viverito said her commission to «explore a community - based justice model» would be led by retired state court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, a champion of bail and juvenile justice reform.

The issues raised in the Department of Justice report go well beyond the confines of state operations — they involve the enormous challenges faced in our inner city schools, communities and families.

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

The Let NY Vote coalition is made up of over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citzen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

NEW YORK, NY (12/18/2017)(readMedia)-- Last week, over thirty organizations, nonprofits, labor unions, including the New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, and civil rights organizations, including Statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American and LGBTQ community groups sent a letter demanding that Governor Cuomo and the legislative leaders prioritize Early Voting in the 2018 - 19 budget.

Elvin Garcia has worked for Friends of Brook Park, an environmental justice organization, as a community representative for New York State Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo, as a field organizer for Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and then as a Community Affairs Representative for State Senator Gustavcommunity representative for New York State Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo, as a field organizer for Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and then as a Community Affairs Representative for State Senator GustavCommunity Affairs Representative for State Senator Gustavo Rivera.

Standing with community leaders and criminal justice reform advocates, Democratic nominee for State Senate Benjamin and Council Member Lancman outline three - point strategy to close Rikers Island in three years; proposal would expedite Lippman Commission recommendations through aggressive Rikers population reduction objectives, improved pre-trial and casework handling

ALBANY, NY (05/04/2012)(readMedia)-- Leaders of the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) will speak at public hearings on a new juvenile justice initiative being billed as «reform,» but which, in reality, will put youths and the community at risk.

Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.

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.

BY ANDY HUMM Justice Doris Ling - Cohan, a distinguished 20 - year veteran of the State Supreme Court bench and a hero to the LGBT community for her historic 2005 ruling in favor of same - sex marriage, was put through the ringer in recent weeks by a deeply flawed process of the New York County Democratic Party for nominating -LSB-...]