Sentences with phrase «community protest march»

At PS 34 Artist - Teacher Anne Polshenski and her students made signs for a community protest march on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

For the past four months the Guardian has joined English Defence League demonstrations, witnessing its growing popularity, from protests attracting just a few hundred hardcore activists at the end of last year to rallies and marches which are bringing thousands of people on to the street — and into direct conflict with the police and local Muslim communities.

At 6 p.m., the Justice for All Coalition hosts a community march and rally to protest development in western Queens, Jacob Riis Community Center, 10 - 25 41st Ave.community march and rally to protest development in western Queens, Jacob Riis Community Center, 10 - 25 41st Ave.Community Center, 10 - 25 41st Ave., Queens.

UPDATE: I've been asked to note that Community Voices Heard was also involved in the early March protest that led to arrests.

The protest, planned by NYC Shut it Down and Millions March NYC, kicked off in Washington Square Park with speeches by local activists urging unity and greater community engagement in the outer boroughs and calling for the firing of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.

At a press conference on the steps of City Hall on March 29, child care activists and community, union and political leaders protested the cut as unacceptable.

Jalna (Maha) The Maratha community today took out a huge silent protest march (Muk Morcha) at Jalna town in Marathwada region of Maharashtra..

Parents in Newark, New Orleans and Chicago have organized joint protests and marches to call attention to the destruction of their community institutions: their public schools.

Hundreds of high school students marched out of their classes and joined community members in front of Helix Charter High School in La Mesa, California, on Monday to protest the actions of a school resource officer who threw a female student to the ground last week.

The current struggle against gentrification and artwashing in Boyle Heights has intensified since November of 2015, when community residents along with Serve The People - Los Angeles protested after the performers of the Hopscotch opera forced the Roosevelt High School marching band from their usual rehearsal space.

Originally created from felt as protest expressions during the 2017 Women's March, and subsequently exhibited in Times Square (2017 — 2018), Word on the Street banners speak to the urgent, timeless concerns of the individual, community and the requirements of citizenry.

On a cold Saturday afternoon in March, around 50 local citizens of the West Grey community and visiting supporters of neighboring counties of Ontario walked down the main street of Durham in a protest rally to say «No» to Industrial Wind Turbines.

We're talking about the kind of march that comes with its own hour - long trailer, the kind of march that will include labor unions, social justice organizations and groups representing frontline communities, not to mention U.N. General Secretary Ban Ki - moon — even though, as the Guardian points out, «high - ranking officials do not normally attend mass public protests.»

28 April, 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Burnaby, BC)-- Religious leaders and more than 100 members of diverse faith communities joined the protest against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline in Burnaby on Saturday, joining more than 200 people who have been arrested blocking Kinder Morgan's Burnaby tank farm gates since March 10th.