Sentences with phrase «do political protests»

Do political protests make a difference?

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But I think we are beginning to get into that kind of turning process where there are those broader issues, those that have tended to have assets, be they salaried pension holders or those that own property or other real assets, have tended to do better than the millennial generation and I think that we are seeing that in some elements of political protest.

Likewise, if one is silent about political prisoners in Vietnam while protesting such prisoners in South Korea, one does not really care about human rights.

I think in a lot of ways people who are doing protests, they get the media attention, they drive the political will, but then it also takes people who are going to come up with policy ideas.

Though clergy and ecclesiastical officers must refrain from partisan political activity, as I have cautioned elsewhere, condemning the taking of innocent lives is not partisan, whether through protesting abortion clinics or (as the British clergy did in World War II) denouncing a government for bombing civilian targets.

Albert Schweitzer consistently refused political involvements and judgments, though he did join in protest against the use of nuclear weapons.

Political theologies and theologies of social activism, coinciding as they did with the protest movements of the past decade, sought to secure a transcendent reference point for a minority cadre confronting the status quo.

Radicals should protest (as Jim Wallis does in Sojourners [January 1986, pp. 4 - 5]-RRB- when Nicaragua restricts political and religious liberty.

They had reacted fearfully or even gleefully to the news of Martin Luther King's assassination, they are unsympathetic with student protests, and they do not want the church to become involved with the social or political issues of our society.

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

The members do not always protest specific political actions.

The folks filing these lawsuits in protest of federal health reform — are they willing to go to prison for their beliefs like pacifists have done in the past - or are these lawsuits just «suit & tie» political foot - dragging?

He didn't want his team to be part of a political discussion, or there to be division in the locker room as a result of players protesting or not protesting.

Perhaps a new «third way» that avoids the over-simplistic definitions of right - wing capitalism and left - wing socialism is needed, because even though the aims of the protest movement would seem to be leaning towards a social - democratic, «leftist» welfare state, a significant number of protesters clearly do not wish to detach themselves from the political right, and are very much opposed to being associated with the left.

Check out the full article for more, and watch this space: we're not done with student gun protests OR with new forms of political organizing.

«Democrats, just like Republicans, will be held accountable in the ballot box in 2018 if they do not back the Dream Act,» said Yesenia Mata, political director of the Dream Action Coalition, which sponsored the protest.

But from an entirely impartial perspective, as a journalist for a prominent political website which rarely goes down to street level, there does seem to be something terribly unhealthy about the way protest policing is conducted in Britain today.

This effort, of course, did not prevent political opponents from organizing pockets of protests and coopting willing reporters into false reports, even when nearly 30 states were in a similar dilemma.

UKIP now has two MPs and has been rising in the polls, but do people see the party as a serious political force or just a protest vote?

At times, it was difficult to ignore the political upheavals on campus — as a black person, if you did not take part in political protests, you were often intimidated and labelled a sellout.

This provides grist for the kind of think pieces that spar with one another — «Infinity War» is liberal; no, it's conservative; but don't you see that it's a protest against Trump; actually, it's an attack on the tyranny of political correctness — until they catalyze the inevitable anti-intellectual backlash.

If this brash film is part of a political protest to bring Oscar's killer to justice, it actually might have done more to muddy the fine details of the case.

In affluent and high - performing schools, PTA parents — with booster club money, political clout and enough free time — will march into the principal's office, file petitions with the district and protest until someone does something about a poorly performing teacher.

Jesus was not directly opposed to the political rule of Caesar; indeed, the early church did nothing to protest the rule of Caesar, even as they were persecuted by the Roman Empire.

A couple days ago I reported about the Japanese Minister of Science and Technology Ichita Yamamoto paying an official institutional visit to the Japanese servers of Dragon Quest X, and chalked it as something definitely cool, but apparently many Japanese players don't agree with me, and are protesting on the net because the visit might have violated the game's own terms of service, articles 10 and 12 of which explicitly prohibit any political activity or any form or electoral campaign within the game.

Only if those «blogospheric auditors» and «extended peer community» rare genuinely interested in advancing the science, actually have the ability and experience to constructively critique what the subject at hand, do not have an axe to grind with the scientists and do not have any political affiliations or affiliations with think tanks or have not participated in any protests or signed any petitions.

Sarah van Gelder: In a lot of movements, there's some combination of putting pressure on the political process, through lobbying and so forth; protests out on the street; and building the new society — not asking for permission, just going ahead and doing it.

Riots, strikes, and protests in feudal times did not succeed, because lacking a material force means being political impotent.

First, why is it called extremism when you try to «intimidate» companies into making policy decisions you prefer, when that intimidation is done through protest, campaigning and civil disobedience, when the grand old tradition of political lobbying and corporate campaign contributions essential does the same thing?

And while I still believe that to be the case, he does seem to be relinquishing some pressure — after seeing the protests his cap generated, perhaps he's gotten a taste of the political fight he faces in getting climate legislation passed in the midst of a recession, and has backed off.

Political or social protest does not constitute a valid legal justification for failure to file a tax return containing sufficient information as required by law from which the tax can be computed.

An hysterical chorus of rightwing commentators claimed that the walkouts and protests and angry rebukes of NRA - flunkie politicians by Florida high school students had been orchestrated by leftie political operatives, «Everything they're doing is right out of the Democrat Party's various playbooks,» said Rush Limbaugh, as if a teenager couldn't possibly make the connection between NRA largess and pro-gun politicians without adult guidance.

The bill also appears recognize Bitcoin as a freedom of speech issue as the analysis explains that Community Currencies have ``... become a form of political protest as some communities that use such currency do so in protest of United States monetary policies, or large financial institutions.»