Sentences with phrase «work against justice»

Can investments be withdrawn from companies that work against justice and sustainability?

Not exact matches

We appreciate the FBI's diligent investigative work and the DOJ's decisive action to bring to justice those responsible for the crimes against Yahoo and its users.

Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

• Capital punishment: I currently lean against capital punishment as an institutionalized practice or as a matter of justice, but am working through this one at the moment.

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

Against these kinds of inactivity, H. Richard contrasts the useful inactivity of Christians who believe that, even when they can not act meaningfully in history, God is nonetheless working to being about justice and peace.

If we are to understand the peculiar links between religious commitment and economic justice in American society, therefore, we must also locate the cultural pressures that work against taking responsibility for the poor — some of which are also reinforced by religious commitments.

There's groups like Equal Justice USA and the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty and these groups, almost every state has a grassroots death penalty group that's working to abolish the death penalty.

The judge, Mrs Justice Lang, accepted that the case was unusual and said Birk was: «required, against his wishes, to remain a serving police officer for an indeterminate period of time — which I accept could be as long as two to three years if the IPCC finds there is a case to answer — during which time he will not be able to work, either as a police officer or in any other capacity».

A Christian community has the responsibility to work for peace in freedom and justice in human society, against hatred and violence.

Instead he wrote, in 1946 in «Why I Write» that «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it», which was the argument for justice and liberty.

«He has continually fought for economic and racial justice for all working people in New York, and used his prosecutorial powers to resist against the Trump Administration's cruel policies, something which benefits all New Yorkers and many people beyond our state.»

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

She serves as a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and has served as a member of the Elder Justice Working Group, NYS Senator Sue Serino's Aging Services Advisory Board, Dutchess County Coalition of Non-Profits, the Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse, and the NYS Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediation Ethics Advisory Committee, among others.

But that's not the only instance of the Ministry of Justice running against the grain of what works.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

The FBI is reportedly working to release to the public several documents at the heart of its decision not to recommend charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state and the Justice Department's ultimate decision to follow the FBI's recommendation.

He said that Justice Hassan, who worked as a prosecutor at the Federal Ministry of Justice and later seconded to the EFCC, signed the charges against him when he was previously tried for money laundering.

«Not only should we close Rikers, but we need to take steps to ensure that the city's criminal justice system does not work against our young people and cause even greater pain and suffering.

The work has many motivations, but as with most science, at the core lies a hunger for truth: By accumulating physical evidence, Haglund and colleagues aim to document crimes against humanity for the benefit of grieving families, humanity, international justice, and history.

In both the crotch - kicking and the firebombing, Mildred's lust for justice is targeted against innocent parties — only one of those kids could have thrown the soda (and it may have been neither of them), and we later learn that the man who burned down her billboards doesn't work in the police station.

Among them were Tarana Burke (founder of the resurgent #MeToo movement), Saru Jayaraman (a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers), Billie Jean King (tennis champion and founder of the Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority women).

Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice - taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice — taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

Also, it's important to point out we work very hard to press back against the inclination that is shared by leaders in philanthropy, government, and education, that the best metric for measuring the success of our students and alumni is recidivism rates because it frames our work overwhelmingly in the context of criminal justice in a way that reduces our students to simply the people that have been incarcerated for a criminal offense.

SEL in Practice: Resolving Conflicts through Restorative Justice Sometimes, good intentions can work against you.

We work together in POWER - PAC, and built our «Elementary Justice Campaign: Stopping the School - to - Prison Pipeline» because we've felt at times that school discipline works against — not with — our children and families.

When the lawyer for the state of Illinois tried to argue that the state had an interest in working with «a stable, responsible, independent counterpart that's well - resourced enough that it can partner in the process of not only contract negotiation,» Justice Kennedy broke in and devastatingly finished his thought by saying, «It can partner with you in advocating for a greater size workforce, against privatization, against merit promotion, for teacher tenure, for higher wages, for massive government, for increasing bonded indebtedness, for increasing taxes.»

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It keeps you entertained the entire time and really gives you some great insight into the criminal justice system and the lives of detectives as they work the most important case of their careers prosecuting a burglary case against OJ Simpson.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

What the book reminded me of is the male - dominated way justice worked - how the Major brought murder charges against his wife and then how he «dropped» the charges and Placidia was released.

The Department of Justice, urged on by Amazon, filed suit against the major publishers claiming that they worked together to fix prices artificially high.

The trial against Apple comes a year after the Justice Department first accused Apple of working with five publishe...

The whole situation with Apple raking in the Sylvia Day money and the E.L. James money and rejecting my Olivia Outlaw work tells me that the folks at the Justice Department have been wise to push the e-book anti-trust action against Apple.

How does, for example, Cards Against Humanity do important work to affect social change even as the game itself is more about debauchery and poor taste than justice?

The inspiration for this work, which is part of an on - going series, came from the story of Mukhtar Mai in Pakistan who was raped by the order of her village tribal council as punishment for speaking out against their codes of justice.

Against this backdrop, new and ongoing work to help the greater Cleveland area become more resilient in the face of climate change can also address ongoing social justice problems, according to advocates, planners and local leaders.

We worked with over 100 partner organizations to plan the 2017 People's Climate March, a massive mobilization to stand up for climate, jobs, and justice and push back against the Trump Administration's retrograde agenda in cities across the US.

Jasmine Thomas, a youth organizer for the Yinka Dene Alliance and a community leader in the fight against the Tar Sands Northern Gateway Pipeline, challenged conference participants to do environmental justice work in a decolonial context.

It is also practically important because the first four IPCC reports, although not completely ignoring all ethical and justice problems with economic arguments about climate change policies, failed to examine the vast majority of ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change policies while making economic analyses of climate change policies the primary focus of Working Group III's work thereby leaving the strong impression that economic analyses, including but not limited to cost - benefit analyses, is the preferred way to evaluate the sufficiency of proposed climate change policies.

Presented at two national religious ethics conferences regarding environmental justice work with the Lummi Nation against coal export; spoke at two denominational conferences

Andrea Marietti and Nicola Tarantini expand on this, by saying: «The new system of opposition against trademark applications is working extremely well, and it should be seen as an essential and vital remedy to the long - standing backlog of the local Court of Justice and Tribunals.

The necessary remedy is for the courts to use the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Part I of The Constitutional Act, 1982), much more aggressively against governments and law societies because they control the resources necessary to make the justice system work adequately.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

Instead of relying on the Canadian criminal justice system to punish serious offenders in accordance with the law, to rehabilitate offenders, and working to reintegrate them into society, the federal government will deport potentially dangerous individuals to countries where they could pursue further violence against Canada and others.

And when those laws are violated, The Law Office of Ralph A. Somma will work hard to ensure that you receive the justice you deserve including compensation for lost wages and emotional harm as well as punitive damages against those who violate the law.

Law enforcement, including police, prosecutors, investigators and others involved in the Connecticut Criminal Justice system have been working to build a case against you long before you were charged with Battery, Assault, Aggravated Battery, or Aggravated Assault.