Sentences with phrase «civil protests against»

One Million Years was first made in 1969, the year of the Woodstock music festival, major civil protests against the Vietnam War, and man's first landing on the moon.

Rather, what made De Gioia's response so admirable was that he pulled no punches, but wrote honest, civil protest against an unprofessional rant.

Not exact matches

Demonstrators planned to gather again on Saturday in U.S. cities nationwide to protest against Trump, whose election they say poses a threat to their civil and human rights, a day after a protester was shot in Portland, Oregon.

A protest against violence attacking black communities, the parade was one of the first public marches for civil rights.

Martin Luther King and his followers engaged in open protest against clear instances of social injustice, and they did not share Booker T. Washington's aversion to civil rights agitation; quite the contrary.

One issue was the church's visible participation in the dominant political issues of the day notably the struggle for civil rights for minorities and the protests against the Vietnam war.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

You may believe the Bible tells you gays should be able to marry or maybe even that blacks should not be able to marry whites (another thing people have used the Bible to protest against); however, that does not mean that US civil equal rights laws should be based on your personal religious beliefs.

Brooks defended the group's peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness against war and for a more peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»

The «new breed» of clergyman is often seen in the streets and elsewhere protesting the war in Vietnam, demonstrating for civil rights for blacks, and leading the fight against poverty.

There were those among them who had been arrested because of civil disobedience in protest against nuclear research or U. S. involvement in Nicaragua.

Martin Luther King advocated Ghandi's non-violent protest, but in 1963 he was jailed for leading mass demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, which led to the city being dubbed «Bombingham» as attacks against civil rights protesters increased.

The civil society has been at the forefront of protests, which emerged against a backdrop of rising tensions with the Burundian Government.

Although leaders of the civil society campaign against the third mandate publically condemned the coup, they called for protests to continue.

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.

There is also clearly an overwhelmingly strong case for forms of direct action protest in the case of disenfranchisement (campaigns for the vote, for US civil rights, against apartheid South Africa; for independence from Empire, etc).

Williams said he was aligning himself with civil rights leader and second - string quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protesting state violence against black people.

About 280,000 civil servants will be balloted on strike action today as the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union protests against job losses and outsourcing.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

The civil - disobedience protests against the Amadou Diallo shooting hit a new high yesterday as NAACP chief Kweisi Mfume and 58 other demonstrators got themselves arrested.

«I've known him since the 1980's, and we both did civil rights work,» said Luna, recalling their protests against apartheid together.

This freedom of association has proven to be a crucial civil liberty over the past several decades, and organizing or attending a protest or march can be a useful way to show solidarity as an effective ally against forms of oppression.

In a well - considered exercise in civil disobedience, Rosa Parks recreates her historic December 1, 1955, protest against segregated busing in Montgomery, Alabama - this, on the day, December 21, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that her 1955 arrest was illegal.

Protests against the flag and during the playing of the US national anthem have had many causes, including civil rights, anti-conscription and anti-war, anti-nationalism, and religious reservations.

If the Bull Connors of the time weren't using laws to engage in suppression of freedom and equality, the civil rights protests wouldn't be called civil disobedience; they would have just been the rightful (and peaceful) protests against government actions protected by the Bill of Rights.

Yesterday, we had a civil disobedience action, which ended in police brutality against all the teachers that were protesting and been pepper sprayed.

«At certain critical junctures in American history, artists have come together to protest injustice and craft counter-narratives to the prevailing voices in government,» wrote Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's artistic director and chief curator, characterizing the artists» posters as the latest in a long line of protest art, stretching back through the AIDS Crisis, demonstrations against the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement.

Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movement and explains how historical events, such as the all - male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions.

ALEX GARTENFELD — In the past we've talked about the protest against the Vietnam War and your linking cartoons to the protection of American civil liberties.

These protests — which involved 1,253 people arrested in civil disobedience acts against the pipeline in August and 12,000 people surrounding the White House in November — were also little - mentioned in U.S. media.

In their view, our war against Bashar Assad did not begin with the peaceful civil protests of the Arab Spring in 2011.

The protest against Kinder Morgan's pipeline spilled over into civil disobedience this week.

The transnational also launched a $ 5.6 million civil suit against five defendants for alleged damages caused by the protests.

Protests against the government's civil legal aid changes are being planned by the Access to Justice Alliance.

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.