Sentences with phrase «about social protest»

Todd Gitlin, a sociologist and Columbia University journalism professor who has written extensively about social protest movements, said the «odds are strong» that the groups would persist through the midterm elections, but «after that God only knows.»

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He tweeted about the protests several times, calling out the government for blocking social media and messaging apps like Instagram and Telegram this week.

If the owners are worried about angering Trump, it would be logical for them to exile the two players — Kaepernick and Reid — who've been the most visible instigators of the league's social justice protests.

This week's revelations about a British political consultancy's use of data from 50 million Facebook users for potentially shady purposes has prompted many people to declare they will quit the social network in protest.

Amid a downbeat week for Tesla thatâ $ ™ s been fraught with mass firings, lawsuits, a Fremont factory protest, and criticism over Muskâ $ ™ s wild optimism and penchant to overpromise and underdeliver, Muskâ $ ™ s latest social media posts seemingly point to a more positive light thatâ $ ™ s about to shine.

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

Like many of their contemporaries, they became wildly optimistic about secularization in the early 1960s, and then in the early 1970s deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.

Only when the minister gets very «radical» about either doctrine or social issues does serious protest arise, and even then there is a tendency to let the minister think his own peculiar ideas so long as not many people are influenced by him.

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

I also do not have any stats in regards to how Arsenal fans feel about Wenger, but what swings it for me is lots of empty seats at games, protests, and the fact that most fans views on Wenger are very negative whether it be from social media, or Youtube.

After the game, players on both teams only spoke to the media about the fines and the social issues behind the protests.

Social media activists effectively had a longer attention span for the protests than the mainstream media, a great example of the internet's ability to let individual communicators spread the word about what they care about and keep attention on an issue that the wider world is ignoring.

So how did somebody protesting about social housing get caught in the Nexus net?

Whether it's the young mothers who formed the Focus E15 campaign in Newham to protest against local families being shipped out of the area, or the residents of Cressingham Gardens in Lambeth who have fought tirelessly to stop the demolition of their much loved homes, social housing tenants across the capital have been speaking out about the desperate situations they've found themselves in.

Victorio Reyes, executive director of the Social Justice Center, talks about his involvement with the protests at the Occupy Albany encampment at Academy Park on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 in Albany.

In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power.

The findings give hope to social scientists trying to understand broader phenomena, like how rumors about a candidate spread during a campaign or how information about street protests flows out of a country with state - controlled media.

Children fighting on the playground, teachers struggling to control a difficult class, parents arguing about the time their teenager should be home, neighbour disputes over land boundaries or anti social behaviours, protests against tyrannical leaders — conflict happens.

That is when I decided to put the cryptanalysis plot into the context of what was happening in my country of birth, Bolivia, when I started to write the novel five years ago: the social unrest brought about by the crisis of neoliberalism and the protests against globalization.

From forums in protest, to fans of King K Rool and Shovel Knight hating the Fire Emblem fan base on social media and sites like this one writing articles about how the choices were terrible, the response was pretty bad to say the least.

About An Incomplete History Through the lens of the Whitney's collection, An Incomplete History of Protest looks at how artists from the 1940s to the present have confronted the political and social issues of their day.

Yet there is a somewhat political tone running through the work as well, with Sam Durant's pop - ish coloured light boxes, like protest placards calling for Basel fair - goers to think a little deeper about their social context, and work by legendary second - wave feminist artist Judy Chicago on show at Jessica Silverman Gallery.

United by the common use of Pop's rich visual strategies, the artists made bold contributions to conceptualism, performance and new media art, as well as social protest, justice movements and debates about freedom.

As protests and discussions about race relations and police brutality continue to play out on a national scale, photography has played an important role in the social justice movement.

Protest about the price of education was reserved for those countries still clinging to a naïve social democratic tradition.

Feminist sentiment permeates the actions of Orozco and Marcelaygina, in which expectations about the social performance of gender are purposefully undermined, and this coincides with the channeling of the 1970s protest spirit of los grupos that many of the artists assembled here embody.

It is about the objects that have played a part in social change, and continue to do so — from a Suffragette teacup to the masked Trini dolls made by the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, to anti-apartheid badges to the gorilla masks worn by the art - activist group Guerrilla Girls as part of their protests against the shockingly low number of female artists represented in major galleries in the US.

The conversation begins with my post expanding on Tom Friedman's column about the Wall Street protests and broader social turbulence and moves in a few related directions.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline has raised a storm of protest about its predicted impacts on the orcas, climate change, First Nations» rights, as well as concerns about the project's «flawed» approval process and lack of «social licence».

We're talking about the kind of march that comes with its own hour - long trailer, the kind of march that will include labor unions, social justice organizations and groups representing frontline communities, not to mention U.N. General Secretary Ban Ki - moon — even though, as the Guardian points out, «high - ranking officials do not normally attend mass public protests.»

The CCLA is deeply concerned about the Montreal police force's use of a controversial municipal bylaw to cut off social protests before they begin, detain individuals en masse, and issue costly tickets to individuals seeking to exercise their constitutionally protected rights.

Melbourne About Blog John Englart write on the effects of human induced climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, environmental and social impacts of global warming, and climate protests.

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As tens of thousands of people today join #InvasionDay and #SurvivalDay protests, marches and events around the country (see this list compiled by The Guardian), there is no shortage of articulate and powerful commentary to inform reflections about the significance of 26 January — including for the health and social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.