Sentences with phrase «with public protests»

The Task Force held its annual meeting last month in Chiapas, Mexico, where the meeting was met with public protests.

With public protests banned, people of all beliefs came to the Masses, including Jewish people and atheists.

The works of Halil Altındere, Osman Bozkurt, or Ahmet Öğüt deal with structural inequality, state oppression and arbitrariness, but also with public protest as a form of political participation.

Not exact matches

A week of protests over concerns for public safety preceded the spraying, with protesters marching outside city hall and circulating an online petition that gained thousands of signatures.

The email came after Kalanick failed to assuage public outrage over Uber's decision to turn off surge pricing at JFK International Airport at a time when taxis refused to stop there in solidarity with a protest against the order.

Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

All the public has is its vote and its ability to protest, which only becomes a force to be reckoned with when the masses start to aggregate in the streets in sufficient numbers.

CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

I promise to do all that I can to strengthen public opinion against the production of indecent and immoral films, and to unite with all who protest against them.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

(Citizens in a local community could use various levels of persuasion with the video store owner: consultation, letters to the local newspapers, appeals to the city council to make zoning changes, or stage actual public protests or a boycott.)

At the same time, throughout August, Luther was composing a formal and personal letter to the young Emperor and a public Offer and Protest — these were personal matters and both texts he discussed in detail with Spalatin in sharp distinction from his polemical works about which he seldom consulted anyone once he had settled the truth of the matter in his own mind, and the text began to flow like molten metal.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

That somehow this woman should have been able to stage her public protest and post photos to fb along with screeds about formula being poison but Dr. Amy shouldn't have blogged her personal opinion about it?

Baby Milk Action protested to the Fairtrade Organization that the awarding of a seal of ethical approval to a company with such a disgraceful ethical record could only be misleading to the public and would hardly contribute to the welfare of the impoverished people of the world.

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The Occupy Wall Street Movement began in September, 2011 with the goal of holding a 24/7 public protest at the nerve center of American finance.

Although — as Rosenboim notes — many of the goals and visions manifested in the protest refer to social issues, it was carried out by means well known to the Israeli public and strongly associated with the Israeli - Arab conflict.

Margaret Thatcher's funeral passed with a surprisingly low level of public protest or disorder.

Sliwa ended up with two tickets from a nearby NYPD officer who apparently was a fan of neither public displays of semi-impromptu displays of political protests nor Midwestern - style lasagna.

So to protest what Hoyt thinks is an illegal furlough of state employees he closes his office «in solidarity with my fellow public servants whose lives are being disrupted»?

The High Court also ruled that it is crude and improper for police officers to appear before courts with ex parte motions seeking to prohibit the holding of street protests and other public events.

Donohue has used some colorful language during the public employee unions» furlough fight with Paterson, memorably saying during a protest outside the Capitol Monday that it's an «insult to a rodent» to compare the governor to a rat.

Their manifesto committed them to restore the right to protest, with action on section five of the Public Order Act and on harassment injunctions.

With the growth in the commercialisation of public space, through sell - offs, a Peaceful Protest Act would also create a limited right of access to quasi-public land for the purposes of protest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted lasProtest Act would also create a limited right of access to quasi-public land for the purposes of protest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted lasprotest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted last year.

They are boycotting to protest the mayor's 18 - member panel charged with identifying monuments on public grounds deemed «oppressive and inconsistent with the values of New York City.»

Dozens of students gathered in a public park that fronts the campus for a protest, shedding their shirts and donning body paint, covering their breasts with colorful flowers, vines and slogans.

While members of the not - for - profit have been regular critics of Paladino and his role on the Buffalo Public School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable hoPublic School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable hopublic funds that could be used for affordable housing.

The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research «Baseera» on the extent to which Egyptians sympathise with protests staged in support of ousted President Mohamed Morsy showed that 71 percent do not sympathise with the protesters, while 20 percent sympathise with them.

Last month, Cuomo asked some of his New York commissioners to boycott the Port Authority's public board meeting in protest of the ongoing dispute with New Jersey over what to fund in the agency's 10 - year capital plan.

For months, the saga surrounding the hospital has continued with court - ordered public meetings, votes for closure, protests and restraining orders.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

According to Odewabi, doctors in the zone will carry out «systematic solidarity action» and public protests in the six states of the zone in solidarity with their colleagues.

With the cameras it uses to cover Congress shut off by the Republicans, C - SPAN turned to social media feeds to beam live coverage of the House Democrats» protest to the public.

The ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

The demonstrators who brought you the pro-millionaire's protest that blocked the Capitol's State Street entrance and ended with more than a dozen arrests planned another «action» today — this time a little public disturbance / theater featuring a mock NJ.

The report was compiled by Kevin Connor, co-director of the nonprofit Public Accountability Initiative, in collaboration with Community Voices Heard and VOCAL — two groups that have been protesting CSNY and Cuomo's proposed spending cuts for several weeks now.

Also at 10 a.m., the Asian American Federation will partner with the Biking Public Project, Transportation Alternatives, and other advocates to hold the E-Bike Rally to Protect Immigrant Food Delivery Workers to protest de Blasio and the NYPD's planned enforcement of electric bicycle regulations starting in January, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Green party MP Caroline Lucas is to be charged with a public order offence after taking part in a sit - down protest against fracking last month.

The protest might be viewed as a wake - up call for the governor regarding how some of the cuts in his budget proposal might go over with the general public.

Amid continued public protest, the New York Board of Regents has dropped the name Common Core and replaced it with Next Generation Learning Standards.

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ALBANY, NY (04/26/2012)(readMedia)-- Health care workers from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), and the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) will rally in Utica, Friday, April 27 to protest plans to eliminate long term adult inpatient services for the mentally ill in Oneida County as the state moves forward with the closure of the adult inpatient wards at Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center.

The decision to appoint someone with no education experience and with no apparent public search prompted weeks of protest by lawmakers and parents as well as a failed lawsuit to halt her takeover.

Last year's State Senate session ended with protests and arrests outside Klein's Capitol office, with demonstrators upset that he didn't use his alliance to win final votes on progressive bills they favored, including a system of public campaign finance and changes to the state's abortion laws.

Enck, in an interview with Karen DeWitt for public radio and television, explains why she took the unprecedented step of signing on to a letter, along with hundreds of former EPA staff, protesting Pruitt.

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With talk of concerted collective action between the unions in the air, Unite union members joined in a protest against public sector job cuts with the With talk of concerted collective action between the unions in the air, Unite union members joined in a protest against public sector job cuts with the with the TUC.