Sentences with phrase «demonstration against the government»

When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff asked to speak to the leaders of the mass demonstrations against the government in 2014 organised entirely on social media with an explicit rejection of party politics, she was told «there are no leaders».

Talking of reduction or complete removal of taxes, as Akufo - Addo is promising Ghanaians, I remember how when in 1995 Jerry Rawlings wanted to introduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods and services into our taxation system to increase the tax net and by that the tax revenue, Nana Akufo - Addo led massive «KUM PR3KOO» demonstrations against government in which some unfortunate demonstrators died, compelling government to withdraw the VAT, barely four months after its introduction.

He was arrested in dramatic fashion Tuesday afternoon at the International Press Centre where the party in collaboration with other individuals was planning a mammoth demonstration against government for ratifying the controversial Ghana - US Military Cooperation agreement.

They have threatened a massive demonstration against the government.

The move came a day after thousands of Ghanaians staged a demonstration against the government for ratifying the Ghana - US defence cooperation agreement.

In 2011, Chilean students staged massive demonstrations against the government's higher education policies.

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Tuesday's meeting at the Elysee Palace, the official presidential residence, was held days before a planned demonstration against a draft law unveiled in November by France's Socialist government that would allow gay marriage.

On Monday, Nicaragua's private business sector organised a march calling social peace and an end to repression that drew tens of thousands of participants, marking the largest demonstration seen against Ortega's Sandinista government.

As citizens we must begin to gear up for a massive demonstration of our anger against this government and this should be without hesitation.

Following the cancellation of the planned protest scheduled to hold on Monday, February 6, by Innocent Idibia, the initiators of the protest against President Muhammadu Buhari's government have notified that demonstrations will begin in Lagos, Abuja and Kano as planned.

In China, there are regularly massive demonstrations against big business and regional governments that go largely unreported.

Staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, in all eight district offices in the Tema Region yesterday turned away clients who visited their offices as they embarked on a three - hour demonstration from 8 to 11 am against the government's planned privatisation of the Company.

Post-election violence in Gabon has killed between 50 and 100 people, the opposition presidential candidate said Tuesday, a toll much higher than the government's count of three in days of violent demonstrations against the president's re-election.

Some residents in the Volta region on Friday staged the first demonstration against the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.

Chris Pincher Conservative MP and member of the energy and climate change select committee Policing policy Westminster recently witnessed a huge demonstration when thousands of police officers protested against the arbitrary changes the government is bulldozing through on their working conditions.

The NDC loose - talker in an interview with Accra - based Happy FM was emphatic that a nationwide demonstration under the sole sponsorship of his party and being led by the Ghana First Patriotic Front (GFPF) is the beginning of activities to stage a coup d'etat against the NPP government which was democratically elected in 2016.

Organisers of today's There is a Better Way demonstration claimed 20,000 people took to the streets of Edinburgh in a march against government spending cuts.

Protesters, one dressed as a scientist (right), posed during a 2013 demonstration against the muzzling of Canadian government employees in Ottawa.

79, Ed.D.» 84, his first experience in prison was in 1989, when he was arrested during a demonstration against the apartheid government in South Africa.

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.178 While these activities make up a small proportion of L214's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.179 Investigations make up a larger part of L214's work and have sometimes led to a slightly different type of backlash in which industry and government respond by attempting to pass laws that target advocates, such as ag - gag legislation in the United States.180 While L214 tries to maintain good relationships with media and the government, and France does not have ag - gag laws, they have sometimes been the target of lawsuits by industry because their footage is taken without permission.181 L214 has sometimes suffered negative consequences as a result of these lawsuits, such as fines or the requirement to take footage down from their website.182, 183

«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.

The South Asian country has been facing political turmoil over the past weeks ever since opposition politicians Imran Khan and Tahir - ul Qadri led mass demonstrations against the democratically elected government of PM Nawaz Sharif, whom they [continue reading...]

After decades of demonstrations and protests against the building of an enormous hydroelectric dam at Belo Monte in the lush Brazilian rainforest, the government has finally given approval to begin construction.

The defendant had been conducting a permanent demonstration in Parliament Square against the government's policy on Iraq since June 2001.