Sentences with phrase «beginning of a political movement»

Participants in the March for Our Lives rally thronged the presidential inaugural route on Pennsylvania Avenue, at times chanting «vote them out» as speakers from a stage at the foot of Capitol Hill proclaimed the beginning of a political movement.

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Catalonia has talked of separation from Spain since the founding of Estat Català — a political movement which began in 1922 - and throughout the 36 - year dictatorship of Franco, however, the resurgence of the pro-secession movement over the past few years is due primarily to Spain's economic woes, a 2010 constitutional court decision to lessen Catalonia's sovereignty, and a distrust of Madrid or the centralized Spanish government.

Political pressure on the White House is quickly intensifying as the activism of Florida students begins to morph into a nationwide «never again» movement.

There were many different «versions» of the movement in the beginning, and the one we know know only became the official one through political decision.

Jim, «There were many different «versions» of the movement in the beginning, and the one we know know only became the official one through political decision.»

A movement that began by viewing the acquisition of political and military power as a satanic temptation now viewed it as a divine blessing.

The decade 1962 - 1971 — the era covered by this final article in the Century's centennial series — began with Barth's arrival and ended with the last gasp of the McGovern movement's political attempt to impose idealism on an increasingly conservative public.

In the assessment of Rector Soedjatmoko of the United Nations University, virtually all the significant social and political movements in the last two decades have begun from below.

The Exodus movement was the historical beginning of opposition to any despotic and imperial rule over the people of God; and the covenant community is the first political and socio - economic expression of the Sovereignty of Yahweh, who liberated the Hebrew slaves from the land of Egypt.

However it is only now, more than four weeks after the beginning of the protests, that the leaders of this protest movement are starting to formulate a clear list of aims to counter those of the government's team of 40 ministers and political professionals.

He's slammed the government for its decision to celebrate the birth of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), a political movement that begun the struggle for Ghana's independence from British rule, at a time the country has run out of stock of vaccines against the six killer diseases.

To begin, the premise of this question is somewhat descriptive of the left wing political movements of Western Europe and North America (maybe even Eastern Europe too), but is not true of the left globally.

One individual involved with the campaign explained, «Until the charter movement began to develop its own political operation and build a counterweight to the teachers» union, it could never be successful in Albany, regardless of the results the schools produced.»

Considered by many nationally as a symbol of reform and innovation, California's charter schools nonetheless face today perhaps their greatest political challenge since the movement began two decades ago.

His expansion of martial law and crackdown on political activities led to the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, an anti-authoritarian movement that began with student demonstrations and ended with the killing by government troops of hundreds of citizens, many of them in their teens.

Modernism is defined in Latin America by painters Joaquín Torres García from Uruguay and Rufino Tamayo from Mexico, while the muralist movement with Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Pedro Nel Gómez and Santiago Martinez Delgado, and Symbolist paintings by Frida Kahlo, began a renaissance of the arts for the region, characterized by a freer use of color and an emphasis on political messages.

Houston - based Jamal Cyrus's body of work began from revisionist approaches within American history, particularly studies dealing with the African Diaspora and the formulation of Black political movements.

Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges, Untitled (Elysium Publications) and ULTRA jet black, for example, gather together a cross section of the design, handcraft, literature, magazines, album covers and artworks into atmospheric pictures of the 1960s and 1970s that incorporate the contrasts of intellectual enlightenment, political protest movement, sexual liberation, interest in foreign cultures and artistic new beginnings that were of importance at that time.

Arguably the first of the many Chicano artists whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano Art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with political works for the farm workers» Causa and co-founded the important artist collective Los Four.

Rupert allowed me to begin the process of a long - term curatorial project with the four original core members of New York - based collective Fierce Pussy (Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka), focusing on the movement towards abstraction in their individual practices in photography, video, drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation and the necessity of abstraction vis à vis their political collective work.

Pink Woman Torso was painted during a prolific period in the artist's career as the previous year he had begun a new series of his Women paintings centered, in part, on the image of the modern American women that was being forged by the social and political movements of the 1960s.

In the 1980s, artists belonging to the Minjung Misul (People's Art) movement began to explore social themes and were linked to the political protests of that decade.

Arguably the first of the many Chicano artists whose artistic, cultural, and political motivations catalyzed the Chicano art movement in the 1970s, Almaraz began his career with political works for the farm workers» causa and co-founded the important artist collective Los Four.

Carla Lowe: We organized CALM four years ago as a political action committee, we're all volunteers, when we realized that the legalization issue was going to make the California ballot, and we needed to be able to speak out differently than we have done for 37 years as 501c3 groups, going way back to the late 70s when we founded the very beginning of the basic parent movement that saw what marijuana was about and what it was doing to our kids.

The movement began with the revelation that Cambridge Analytica - a political marketing firm that worked with Donald Trump's presidential campaign - improperly harvested the data of 50 million Facebook users, raising new questions about the network's ability to protect user data.

People began looking into the records because of the #DeleteFacebook movement, which followed the revelation that the Facebook data of 50 million users was abused by political data firm Cambridge...