Sentences with phrase «street protest movement»

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Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

The Irish movement draws inspiration from protests in Poland, where women took to the streets in huge numbers to successfully prevent their government from passing harsh abortion laws last year.

Contrary to the movement for a just globalisation (also called the «alterglobalist» movement), the Occupy protests have concentrated less on ideas and counter-expertise and more on gathering people in the streets and tents in order to put pressure on political leaders and strike the media's attention.

A group of 19 Jewish clergy, seven men and twelve women, affiliated with T'ruah, an anti-Zionist Jewish movement, was arrested last night after blocking the street outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Manhattan while protesting the president's travel ban.

As CapCon and Spin Cycle have I think correctly pointed out, Gov. Andrew Cuomo attempt to insert himself into the Occupy Albany protest, a localized version of the Occupy Wall Street movement, seems to have elevated a demonstration that would have otherwise come and gone.

Still, more New Yorkers — 44 percent — find themselves agreeing with the Occupy Wall Street movement compared to the conservative Tea Party protests.

But his colleagues Jess Phillips and Wes Streeting were unimpressed, having taken to Twitter to slam the parliamentary protest movement.

The Hedge Clippers, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, spent their Tuesday morning outside billionaire investor John Paulson's Sixth Avenue office in Midtown, protesting against the EpiPen price - gouging and his ties to the company.

It was the sixth London - based protest following the fifth on Friday when Romanians took to the streets of London on pushbikes brandishing banners and chanting «together we save Rosia Montana», in a «non-negotiable» movement against further development of the mining project.

On Wednesday, he joined a student walkout protesting gun violence, including the «die - in» in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the original home of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The governor, speaking on 710 AM's The David Paterson Show, said the Occupy Albany protest is a «small - scale version» compared to previous protests at the Capitol and the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan that is the movement's genesis.

At the same time, however, there has been a rise in the number of protest movements around the world — a surge in the number of people voicing their opinions on the streets, in online petitions and via Facebook campaigns.

If this comes to pass, «we will have one giant and a lot of dwarfs,» says Alain Trautmann, the public face of Sauvons la Recherche, a protest movement that brought thousands of researchers onto the streets last year to protest cutbacks in research funding.

More recently, Occupy Museums evolved out of the Occupy Wall Street movement and has staged protests and interventions — and secured a spot in the highly political 2017 Whitney Biennial.

The city as canvas: How self - expression, politics, and protest reclaim the streets Made in collaboration with its featured artists, Trespass traces the rise and global reach of graffiti and urban art, not just as a fringe visual movement but as a social phenomenon and central expression of youth.

(NYT) Occupy Wall Street Library Limps On - The protest movement's library, a real - life political - art readymade of the sort that makes artists like Thomas Hirshhorn and Mark Wallinger drool, has been recovered after being seized by police, but only 1,000 of the 3,600 donated volumes survive.

A natural response to the lies and coercions we are fed on a daily basis, the détournement has been the reactive impulse of all those who question reality, from the Punks who adopted it in the 1970s through Culture Jammers, Adbusters, contemporary street artists and the winding legacy of protest movements from WTO to Occupy.

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.

This gaping disconnect between voter desires and DC action is exactly why we're seeing protests like the Occupy Wall Street movement spring up — politicians are increasingly catering their decision - making to please a wealthy elite (and that wealthy elite happens to own the power plants and factories that would have to clean up their acts), and the voice of the average citizen is rendered impotent.