Sentences with phrase «struggle against systems»

Inspired by a sense of global struggle against systems of oppression and the political rhetoric of Malcolm X, Chase - Riboud produced her first bronze and fabric sculpture in tribute to the slain human rights leader.

Instead, Fox profiles people struggling against a system that's wronged them, talking to people around the world whose stories are horrifying in the particulars but all too familiar in their general outlines.

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Friday marks World AIDS Day, an occasion for recognizing the myriad struggles, successes, and work left undone — societal, political, and medical alike — in the battle against HIV infection and the immune system - compromising disease it causes, AIDS.

They all struggle with how do you lean against the American healthcare system?

It was the spiritual guide, the moral and legal code, the political system, the sustenance of life, whether that meant endurance of hardship, the endless struggle against nature, battle with enemies, or the inevitable processes of life and death.

François Houtart: «I would like to remind you that the diversity of people participating in this press conference is very great, and that the unity of the group rests on the struggle against the world capitalist system and against the new strategies being discussed by the men present today at Davos.

After MAT (a campaign that will continue with the shift to the WTO where there is a project to coöpt, in the framework of the American lobbying system, a part of the opponents) concentration could be focussed on the tax on capital (Tobin tax etc.), the struggle against the plans of the IMF, the struggle against Third World debt.

The struggle is against a system of Corporate Power profiting from hunger to pharmaceuticals for disease and other forms of human wants.

g) In this sense, it is right to speak of a struggle against an economic system, if the latter is understood as a method of upholding the absolute predominance of capital, the possession of the means of production and of the land, in contrast to the free and personal nature of human work.

In the struggle against such a system, what is being proposed as an alternative is not the socialist system, which in fact turns out to be state capitalism, but rather a society of free work, of enterprise and of participation.

And class had to struggle hard against the stratification system of the ancien regime, which was based, not on money, but on descent and honor.

She speaks of a feminist critical hermeneutics deriving its truth «not only from biblical writings but also from contemporary struggle of women against racism, sexism and poverty as oppressive systems of patriarchy».21

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

We must not only alter our personal life style but also struggle against the polluting systems of corporate capitalism that proliferate warfare and waste.

The Danish international arrived at Hotspur Way from Ajax back in August for a sum believed to be around # 11m, hype was created around the player, but under Andre Villas - Boas he struggled with the rigid system, creating just one assist against Norwich City and found himself extremely unlucky with an injury in an international game for Denmark.

The British socialist and labour movements of the late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century chose to view Magna Carta as an important symbol to invoke in their own struggles against the current system and its abuses.

Miner opposed the governor's plan to bail out financially struggling cities by permitting them to borrow against their own public pension systems.

Before modern public health and food safety systems, our ancestors faced a lifelong struggle against these worms, as well as ticks and other parasitic animals.

Most of the time we are disconnected from the interdependent laws that rule the harmony of the planet, and adhere to comfortable systems of progress, not seeing that in many cases that so called progress goes against the harmonious original stream of life, destroying the lives of innumerable people, who with their breath and sweat, struggle against that man made stream for the survival of what is dear to them, their intimacy with the spirituality of Mother Earth.

The struggle between management and teachers unions therefore plays itself out politically by pitting the «system» against the «teachers.»

At both the school where I taught for 17 years and the Board of Education, I have built partnerships that address the education disadvantages that saddle so many black and Latino students struggling against our institutionally racist systems.

«We are struggling against belief systems such as «fix the kids, not the schools» and expectations that go along with poverty.

Three storylines weave together the experiences of a black family: In the 1940s, Evelyn, the wealthy, Creole daughter of a doctor, falls of a poor boy; in the»80s, Evelyn's daughter Jackie grapples with her marriage to a recovering crack addict; and in post-Katrina 2010, Jackie's son T.C. struggles against the prison system.

I commit myself to continue the struggle so that our forests are protected against logging and the shamba system.

The Wii U is struggling selling against current gen system.

In the end, as with the concerted anarchy of Brooklyn Open Studios, I leave torn between my admiration for the artists and dealers who struggle to survive within the system and those who struggle against it.

For some Muslims, Western secular culture and the conspicuous consumption that often goes along with it are seen as undermining their faith; others acknowledge the democratic systems of the West but struggle to balance that appreciation against a religion that they feel leaves little room for liberal values.

We remain attentive to the struggle for public universities and social struggles against the capitalist system while, also, accompanying social movements in Mexico.

However, it seems to me that controversy is just what many of these artists courted when they made these works, as they struggled against the accepted norms and received wisdoms of an authoritarian system.

These energy sources are struggling to compete against green energy subsidies — at the risk of a secure energy system.

As Clemence from France explains, the struggle is hugely symbolic within France, and the climate fight against nuclear and the system that produces it is as relevant today as it was 30 years ago.

A leader in the struggle against Bill 99, ONIWG continues to campaign for a just compensation system through law reform, for fairness in Board policy, dignity and respect in Board practice.