Sentences with phrase «citizen protests against»

The report attributes 55 % of the lost revenue, or $ 17 billion, to the diverse citizen protests against pipelines and the tar sands.

On January 28, a freezing day in Bucharest, hundreds of Romanian citizens protested against a government - approved gold mining project in Rosia Montana by a Canadian corporation, Gabriel Resources Ltd..

Images from the sea of citizens protesting against their Prime Minister in front of the Icelandic parliament went viral and became a sign of Iceland's invested civil society and its dissatisfaction with members of the political elite.

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 2, Episode 5: John Heilemann visits Atlanta, Georgia to speak with Georgia State Senator David Perdue, as well as the citizens protesting against him.

Not exact matches

Turkey warned its citizens about travel to the U.S. in response to what the foreign ministry called increasingly violent protests against the President - elect.

Turkey warned its citizens about travel to the United States on Saturday in response to what the foreign ministry called increasingly violent protests against President - elect Donald Trump.

Even as a Tennessee resident, I was completely taken aback that over 600 citizens would pack out a county commission to protest against their neighbors worshipping freely.

Worley's sermon was posted on YouTube by a group called Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate, which is organizing a protest at the Providence Road Baptist Church on Sunday.

As protests by citizens» groups, environmental groups and other NGOs against the treaty mount, some help has come from an unexpected quarter.

It appears the West Londoners are now staging a form of protest against these decision by English football's governing body by refusing to hold a press conference ahead of their Premier League clash with the Citizens on Saturday.

#OccupyNigeria # was formed in 2012 by a group of middle class citizens in Nigeria to protest against removal of fuel subsidy by the Jonathan's administration.

The February protests were the largest that Bulgaria has seen since the fall of communism, with more than 100,000 Bulgarian citizens mobilizing themselves against poverty, high energy bills and widespread political and social corruption.

He's argued that there's no basis for the kind of brute force used by the police against unarmed citizens in the protest organized by pro-opposition pressure group Let My Vote Count Alliance, and others.

The NDC youth wing has served notice to embark on a protest against what they call lawless attacks by New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters on former government officials, and some citizens working in government institutions.

So, these same generals who have decided that Mubarak must be tried for his crimes are also prosecuting the perpetrators of the revolt against Mubarak: they are sending to goal those ordinary Egyptian citizens who have taken peacefully to the streets to register their protest against malign dictatorship.

On January 12, over 1,000 Romanian citizens came out on the streets of Bucharest to protest against the resignation of Raed Arafat, the Minister of Health.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

While reacting to a purported protest carried out by members of the association, the State Government said though it was not against peaceful protest by aggrieved citizens but it would not be stampeded into taking any action without strictly following due process and rule of law.

«While government is not against peaceful protest by aggrieved citizens, we would like to urge Lagosians to go about their businesses peacefully.

The target, naturally, is Canadian culture, which sees a nationalist protest against the changing border resolved by some citizens hurling hockey pucks at the highway patrolmen.

Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino) takes the protest song form to new heights in this impressive music video that exquisitely captures America's crisis as a Police State busy escalating its 150 - year long system of genocide by degree against Black citizens.

Union leaders invite «all concerned Chicago citizens to unite in a day of action by: withholding your labor; withholding your dollars; boycotting the Magnificent Mile... engaging in nonviolent direct action protests...» against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov. Bruce Rauner and Illinois» school funding formula.

They should take a careful look at the charter school plans they approved this spring (against overwhelming citizen protests, whatever SBE members like Theresa Hopkins - Staten would like to argue [please see her participation in forums about state charters].

American citizens of all ages have protested against the increase, and petitioned for change, but nothing has been approved yet.

In 1956, the citizens of Budapest held a large, peaceful demonstration to demand democratic changes and protest against the economic hardships they were suffering.

15 May: The Calders, Marcel Breuer, and others who worked on the UNESCO building in Paris protest UNESCO's expulsion of Israel in a New York Times ad: We artists who are citizens of the world urge the General Conference to reverse itself and end all sanctions against Israel, and let the building we created be saved as a vision of hope, not as a symbol of tragedy.

That, ofcourse, is not to say we should not continue to strongly protest against actions that are abhorrent to the majority of our planets citizens.

MEIC board member Zack Winestine was detained with thousands of other citizens during the protests against the Keystone XL project.

In a time when civil protest and disobedience is ever increasing, it is critical that our democracy protect the privacy and civil liberties of its citizens against government overreach as technology advances.