Sentences with phrase «well as social movements»

The demo in 2003 took a lot of organisation, by numerous individuals, activists, anti-war organizations, all connected through personal contacts as well as social movements such as the European Social Forum and World Social Forum, which were platforms for discussion and organisation.

Not exact matches

I offer over six years of expertise in this demographic, as well as being the catalyst of what is now known on social media as the black / urban travel movement that now has many communities feeding it.

All sorts of social action apps have already sprung up, including Berlin - based «Refugees Welcome,» which has helped dozens of German citizens invite refugees into their homes, as well as «Mobile Justice,» an app related to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and giving users the ability to zap video footage from a phone directly to the American Civil Liberties Union.

As a social movement scholar and someone who believes we should leverage all assets in a challenge, I know that much social good can come from mass involvement - and research shows that includes online activism.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

The articles tapped into the recognition and movement towards more science and less art in the spheres of marketing and sales as well as in overall social strategy.

Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, and their colleagues referred to the intellectual movement that led to this new conception of social well - being as the new science of politics.

And I don't think any of us can pretend Christianity doesn't matter - as a social movement it's been tremendously significant with many consequences, some good some bad.

We believe that His Gospel» as an essential foundation for any other social or political movement or philosophy» has the power to change us and change the world, so that we all may be the good, strong, capable, dignified, and faithful women that we aspire to be.

The argument is that the Chicago school arose in the context of the social gospel, a movement that had much in common with contemporary political theology and that, under the stimulus of political theology, this school can recover something of what it had lost as well as move forward in new ways.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

At the same time, it provides grounds for a sympathetic critique of the charismatic movement's foibles, as well as of the foibles of evangelicals and social activists.

Evidence that the drive for meaning is still alive and well in contemporary society is to be found in a number of current social movements (interestingly, some of these groups find it convenient to use church facilities as their meeting place).

This example suggests that Christian missions are better seen as a translation movement, with consequences for vernacular revitalization, religious change and social transformation.

Christian missions are better seen as a translation movement, with consequences for vernacular revitalization, religious change and social transformation.

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

communis — common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

As a new social movement rises up around the issue of global survival, it seems essential to explore the distinctive relationship between the Good News of a realm of redemption which is at once personal and cosmic, and the holistic work that is being done in fields as diverse as consciousness studies, physics and dieAs a new social movement rises up around the issue of global survival, it seems essential to explore the distinctive relationship between the Good News of a realm of redemption which is at once personal and cosmic, and the holistic work that is being done in fields as diverse as consciousness studies, physics and dieas diverse as consciousness studies, physics and dieas consciousness studies, physics and diet.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

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)

For Espinosa, food is a catalyst for regeneration and reconciliation in every sense; culinary, political and social — as well as a way to build a whole new cultural identity which both cultivates dignity and peace — a movement which she believes can benefit not only her country, but Latin America as a whole.

Therefore parents should pay attention to their child's social and language skills as well as their child's play skills and body movements.

While much of Afropolitanism plays out «virtually», the online movement has helped to mobilize people in physical places as well, and has served as a platform for a number of social, cultural and economic ventures.

Communism (from Latin communis - common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.

According to Elliott's slides, this movement includes the Taxpayers» Alliance and other officially non-partisan groups like MigrationWatch and the Countryside Alliance, centre - right charitable thinktanks including the Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange, activist groups like ConservativeHome, and Ukip as well as the Conservative party.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.

«The fact that such efforts continued to predict partisan allegiances decades later demonstrates how the impact of a social movement can endure long after the movement itself has declined, as well as providing a new explanation of political polarization in the U.S.»

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

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Another aspect I love about your blog and social media is your emphasis on movement as well as eating well.

As a prenatal yoga instructor and social worker, I appreciated Lindsay and Lauren's focus on mindful movement, alignment, as well as their inclusiveness of all the ways we give birtAs a prenatal yoga instructor and social worker, I appreciated Lindsay and Lauren's focus on mindful movement, alignment, as well as their inclusiveness of all the ways we give birtas well as their inclusiveness of all the ways we give birtas their inclusiveness of all the ways we give birth.

In a mere 90 minutes this horror film (pun intended) casts serious aspersions on the integrity and social responsibility of its Pittsburgh - based makers, the film industry as a whole and [exhibitors] who book [the picture], as well as raising doubts about the future of the regional cinema movement and about the moral health of filmgoers who cheerfully opt for this unrelieved orgy of sadism.»

Research from the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) movement identifies self - care as critical to stress reduction, classroom management, and overall teacher health and well - being.

What has become clear is that explicitly focusing on the educational concerns of poor and minority children regardless of where they live, and expanding that to the criminal justice reform and other the social issues that end up touching (and are touched by) American public education, is critical, both in helping all children succeed as well as rallying long - terms support for the movement from the parents and communities that care for them.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

«The charter movement shares the goals of diverse schools and communities as a social good and we are working to ensure that our schools have greater diversity.

«Mission» - driven programs construct their rhetoric around the overall «movement» of their organization, portraying each program as a social good.

Activities focus on small and large motor development, music and movement, language and literacy including pre-reading skills as well as ongoing improvement in self - help and social skills.

Like Nesbit, Olive Wellwood belongs to the Fabian Society, a group that advocated for democratic socialism and social reforms, and the novel concerns itself with progressive social and artistic movements as well as fairy tales and folklore.

In this hyperpartisan era, it is well to remember that a belief in an activist federal government that promoted both social and economic progress crossed party lines, as it did during the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century.

However, thanks in part to social - media movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #WeNeedDiverseBooks, the variety and quantity of books by and about black lives is expanding, and this is good news, since they highlight the distinct ways in which black lives are erased from mainstream American life, even as they remain integral to our nation's dreams of liberty and equality.

This project substantially overlaps with ACE's other research goals, such as our social justice movement research and animal welfare research projects, insofar as many of the library entries cover the field of social movement studies as well as the latest animal welfare science.

Ultimately, we plan to create a searchable and filterable database on the ACE website covering key studies, a resource for animal advocates as well as those who research animal advocacy as a field and social movement.

We also consider evidence directly connected to the intervention in question (for instance, studies of a particular implementation in an animal advocacy context) as well as evidence more distantly related (for instance, from general psychological studies or from sociological work done on other movements for social change).