Sentences with phrase «against austerity measures»

The Cooper Union Student Occupation is an inspiration for students and educators across the greater New York City region who are struggling on their respective campuses against austerity measures, against the privatization and corporatization of the University, and against the commodification of learning.

On May Day, thousands of Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students launched strikes and boycotts to push back against austerity measures that would close nearly 300 schools, lay off 7,000 teachers, convert public schools into privatized charters, and cut public sector pensions.

He admitted to delegates that the general public had not yet turned against the austerity measures, but he was confident they could be convinced.

The coalition government faces the first industrial uprising against its austerity measures today as up to 750,000 public servants strike over planned changes to their pensions.

Social unrest has reached fever point in Athens as anti-government protesters take their struggle against austerity measures to the streets.

The strikes are the most serious action in a continent - wide day of protest against austerity measures, which will touch London with a rally in Westminster tonight.

After weeks of protesting against austerity measures being forced upon the Greek people it seemed only a matter of time before such action spilt over into the world of football.

Huge protests against austerity measures engulfed Madrid recently as angry voters displayed their discontent in the streets.

People protest in New York City on Dec. 2, 2015 against austerity measures forced onto the severely indebted island of Puerto Rico.

Both Grillo and Berlusconi campaigned against the austerity measures implemented by technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti at the urging of Germany's conservative chancellor Merkel.

Not exact matches

Ms. Caro Diaz is part of the Organizing and Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.

After recalling Tsipras coming to power as an unrepentant demagogue whose high - wire negotiations in 2015 cost Greece «100 billion euros» (in extra austerity measures), the opposition accuses him of «belatedly discovering investments» that he fought against.

Commenting ahead of tomorrow's TUC march in London against the Government's cuts and austerity programme, Christine Blower General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This march will send a clear message to Government that their programme of austerity measures is not working.

When George Osborne stood up to deliver his «emergency» budget in June 2010, he proudly announced that despite the drastic austerity measures the Treasury was taking to tackle the deficit, he would keep up the battle against child poverty.

At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.

Even though United Nations (UN) independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina had warned that the introduction of a second austerity package could constitute a serious violation against the Greeks» human rights, this did not stop the government from going forward (OHCHR, 2011) A massive wave of protests and riots full of anger and desperation erupted within the country condemning Papandreou's policies and the austerity measures.

It substitutes critical and active engagement with fighting against the unnecessary austerity measures for a mere electronic signature.

Tobias Zielony, Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk, Hito Steyerl, and Olaf Nicolai — the artists exhibited in the Venice Biennale's German pavilion this year — have taken a strong stance in protest against the German government's decision to impose austerity measures on Greece, according to Artnet's Brian Boucher.

Download Ontario's injured worker community stands in solidarity with the movement against «austerity» measures proposed by KPMG