Sentences with phrase «as the protests spread»

Television also came into play as the protests spread, though not the heavily - censored domestic channels.

Second, as protests spread to the more affluent parts of the country, people poured into the streets of cities like Sfax and Tunis and began to organize themselves with cell phones and Facebook.

Not exact matches

The hashtag #WhiteWednesdays quickly spread across social media, with women posting pictures of themselves wearing white as a symbol of protest.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick originated the gesture as a protest against racial injustice; as #TakeAKnee has spread that message has been somewhat lost amidst the resulting recrimination.

The protests spread as far as Germany, where students at Kaiserslautern High School observed a moment of silence.

As news of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and then Egypt spread to Yemen at the beginning of 2011, Hameed seized his opportunity, doing all he could to promote street protest in Sana'a.

The controversial «kettling» tactic deployed by the Metropolitan police to contain protests and prevent them spreading could be used far more in future protests as a result.

Their efforts began to spread, as thousands of labor supporters turned out for a hearing in Columbus, Ohio, to protest a measure from Gov. John Kasich (R) that would cut collective - bargaining rights.

We heard with horror that a Tunisian man burnt himself alive in protest, and then with bated breath as the uprisings spread from one man's flames to cover much of the Middle East and North Africa.

«The Protest the Pope campaign is calling on the British government to disassociate itself from the Pope's intolerant teachings on issues such as women's rights, gay equality and the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV.

Shalla Bal is wonderfully imposing on that opening double - page spread, giving the Surfer's defiant pose on the next page an added punch as he raises his fist in protest.

In January, the world watched in shock as a 26 - year - old Tunisian fruit vendor lit himself on fire to protest the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a revolution that spread across the Middle East like wildfire — today even threatening governments thought to be untouchable, like the Baathist Assad Regime in Syria.

Whitten: It started as a campus protest among students, and then it spread out, involving all the local clergies, and was nationally televised.

The street protests that spread from Istanbul to some 60 cities around Turkey in recent days have focused on a broad range of grievances, particularly what some see as the unresponsive nature of the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

As a student at Middlebury College, May Boeve had already left her mark — she was part of the group that convinced the campus to go carbon neutral and had protested the neighborhood's burning of tires — but before graduating in 2007, she and nine other students teamed up with author and professor Bill McKibben for one final environmental project: Step It Up, a day of local climate change rallies that spread to 1,400 locations in 50 states.

The research stated within its key findings that governments in 30 countries manipulated social media to undermine democracy and control online conversation, as well as governments restricting live videos on platforms like Facebook and Snapchat in order to restrict the spread of anti-government protests.

The protests spread from school to school as students shared plans for their demonstrations over social media.