Sentences with phrase «demonstrations against the war»

The film also shows the extraordinary way in which Egyptian anti-war activists were heartened and inspired by the global demonstrations against the war, and went on to mount a protest on the outbreak of war that would prove to be a turning point in the Egyptian democracy movement in the long march towards their revolution in 2011.

On 18 November 2001, Marsden was one of the leaders of the Stop the War demonstration against the war in Afghanistan in London.

Major demonstrations against the war in Vietnam?

Matters come to a head when Marissa Clayborn, who plays Lysistrata, begins a personal demonstration against the war in Afghanistan.

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The vote again against war in Syria, was a demonstration of that, as Cameron himself acknowledged in the House of Commons, when he said that parliament, reflecting the will of the people, does not want to see a war.

The documentary «We Are Many» looks at the Feb. 15, 2003, worldwide demonstrations against the impending Iraq war that drew an estimated 15 million protesters in about 800 cities.

In many interviews Maathai claimed that her years in the United States had a profound effect on her, especially since she was exposed to the many demonstrations against the Vietnam War (1954 — 75; a controversial war in which the United States aided South Vietnam in its fight against a takeover by Communist North VietnaWar (1954 — 75; a controversial war in which the United States aided South Vietnam in its fight against a takeover by Communist North Vietnawar in which the United States aided South Vietnam in its fight against a takeover by Communist North Vietnam).

Garry Winogrand's Peace Demonstration, Central Park, New York (1970) documents one of the many protests held against the Vietnam War.

«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.

In 1982, at the documenta 7 exhibition, Haacke exhibited a very large work that included oil portraits of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in 19th - century style, facing on the opposite wall a gigantic photograph of the demonstration against nuclear arms held earlier that year — the largest demonstration in Germany since the end of the Second World War.

(News) The Birmingham Post (England); May 9, 2007; 250 words A replica of a demonstration against the Iraq war was among the artworks shortlisted for the Turner Prize yesterday.

(News) The Birmingham Post (England); May 9, 2007; 250 words... replica of a demonstration against the Iraq war was among the artworks shortlisted for the Turner Prize yesterday.

I happened to represent myself in a trial in which I, along with six other defendants, were tried for disturbing the peace arising from a melee during a demonstration against the Vietnam War, so my introduction to my legal career was largely inadvertent.