Sentences with phrase «challenged by protestors»

As has been widely reported, Dana Schutz's painting Open Casket (2016) was immediately challenged by protestors who stood in front of it to block viewers» access along with a call to remove and destroy it.2 At issue is the appropriation by this white painter of the photo of the lynched - body of the black boy, Emmett Till, taken at his open - casket funeral held in Mississippi in 1955.

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Occupy Wall Street, kicked off by Adbusters in July and coming to Toronto this weekend, has already spread to 70 American cities and is going global as protestors challenge society -LSB-...]

When faced with countless illegal blockades by protestors and legal challenges from the British Columbia NDP coalition government, Kinder Morgan has suspended the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion spending on all non-essential activities and related spending related to the project.

A strategy memo circulated by Tea Party Patriots urged protestors to «pack the hall... Yell out and challenge the Rep's statement early.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

Bronx Veteran's React to Eric Sheppard Challenge by Gonzalo Duran A few weeks ago student protestors at Valdosta State University (VSU) were videotaped stomping on the United States Flag while chanting derogatory remarks.

Over the last few years, TMT has experienced several unforeseen challenges, starting with the halting of its official groundbreaking ceremony by protestors in October 2014.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.