Sentences with phrase «for social protest»

His carnivalesque oeuvre bridges a gap between the existential and the absurd and presents a unique postmodern variant of history — painting as platform for social protest.

People from Albany called King Jr. to join with them for a social protest.

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Celebrities including rights activist Bianca Jagger, singer Charlotte Church and actor Ian McKellen expressed their support for the protest on social media.

For example, when President Donald Trump issued a travel ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations early in 2017, many companies took to social media to protest.

He tweeted about the protests several times, calling out the government for blocking social media and messaging apps like Instagram and Telegram this week.

For example, more than a million people used social media to «check in» at the Standing Rock Reservation, center of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

A representative clarified the rumor, telling us that police do sift through social media for «incriminating material» (not whether or not they were at the site, however) and to generally monitor the protests.

If the owners are worried about angering Trump, it would be logical for them to exile the two players — Kaepernick and Reid — who've been the most visible instigators of the league's social justice protests.

This week's revelations about a British political consultancy's use of data from 50 million Facebook users for potentially shady purposes has prompted many people to declare they will quit the social network in protest.

Amid a downbeat week for Tesla thatâ $ ™ s been fraught with mass firings, lawsuits, a Fremont factory protest, and criticism over Muskâ $ ™ s wild optimism and penchant to overpromise and underdeliver, Muskâ $ ™ s latest social media posts seemingly point to a more positive light thatâ $ ™ s about to shine.

Although it was intended only as a statement on the company's position on the trade deal, and «nothing beyond that issue,» a company spokeswoman said in an email, it became kindling for protests from Trump opponents, some of whom posted videos to social media of their sneakers being set on fire in response.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Protests and posts on social media are wonderful, but they are not going to get the job done for the long haul.

After a year of campus protests, none of us in the seminar — except perhaps the international students — could avoid guilt when someone quoted François's statement that «it may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.»

Standing in front of the United Methodist Building near the U.S. Capitol, the «Nuns on the Bus,» as they have billed themselves, rallied an excited crowd with stories from the road and a call to action for future protests to protect social programs.

They call for societal as well as individual piety, applauding social action and protest.

As a powerful voice for protest that appeals to disenfranchised people, Islam thrives in an environment of social injustice.

Meanwhile, liberation theologians have protested that postliberal theology is more concerned with Christian catechesis, formation and liturgy than with the struggle for social justice.

From a sociological perspective, Campos asserts that Latin American Pentecostalism offers symbolic mediation for what he calls the «the affirmation of popular hope,» because it is both a spiritual movement which transforms the individual and a movement of symbolic protest in a society which denies the dispossessed the chance to achieve or to participate in social organization.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined a march for «Peace and Justice» called by the Catholic Church, the second massive demonstration in less than a week following a wave of deadly protests against social security reforms.

Buddhist monks, for example, are now engaging in protests against social injustice.

Like many of their contemporaries, they became wildly optimistic about secularization in the early 1960s, and then in the early 1970s deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.

Assuming that agape requires justice in human affairs, the author explores the implication of biblical love for social justice in its historical foundations, in the terms of justice, group loyalty, humanitarianism, protest, nonviolence and nurturance.

We are implicated in these historical crimes, says the liberal, and deserve to be penalized for them, by virtue of the fact (a) that we are the beneficiaries of social arrangements built on the foundations laid by this past exploitation; and (b) that despite our protests, we continue to treat and regard the historically victimized in discriminatory and injurious ways, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unconsciously.

Political theologies and theologies of social activism, coinciding as they did with the protest movements of the past decade, sought to secure a transcendent reference point for a minority cadre confronting the status quo.

For thousands, conversion was an act of social protest heralding exit from the inhumanity of the caste system.

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

For example, the wiping out of the European family farmers, the only people who have thus far protested effectively against the proposed agreement, is surely a social change of such a scope that it should not be treated as a minor loss.

The Exodus story of Yahweh's redemption of an oppressed people, the prophetic protest against neglect of the poor, Jesus» proclaiming the good news to social outcasts — this theme of divine concern for those who lack power and possessions is too dominant for us to ignore when we ask what God is like.

It was a protest against God in the name of divine justice; a protest atheism in search of a God who is for us, for humanity, for social justice.

For relevance to JT Brown's protest against social injustice: There's too much social injustice, but you can't blame everything on social injustice.

Many people wondered why Kaepernick, who in the 2016 NFL season began to kneel for the national anthem in protest of social injustice and police brutality, had since not continued to strongly voice his opinions.

I also do not have any stats in regards to how Arsenal fans feel about Wenger, but what swings it for me is lots of empty seats at games, protests, and the fact that most fans views on Wenger are very negative whether it be from social media, or Youtube.

There is no other way for them to vent their anger than through protests at games and social media.

The kids tell me the food sucks now lol but they do nt see the bigger picture either... while it was a different era for us when us parents were in school; the fundamental rights shouldve remained the same... which is give the kids their choices... the Federal Gov can INCLUDE nutritious items on the free lunch menus while including more choices for them instead of reducing them to avoid social stigmas within the student body of the schools... Kids can be so cruel... Ive lived that first hand... I'm wondering who to contact to protest these changes.

The mayor adopted what has become a rallying cry for demonstrators in protests and on social media following the deaths of unarmed black teens Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown — «black lives matter.»

Although his doctrine of non-violent protest to achieve political and social progress has been hugely influential, Gandhi was imprisoned both in South Africa and India for his political actions.

For the purposes of this article, I will argue that «internet protesting» refers to the use of social media, in particular social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to organize and continuously fuel a public manifestation as well as provide a direct and relatively unbiased source of information on its progress and outcomes.

Social media activists effectively had a longer attention span for the protests than the mainstream media, a great example of the internet's ability to let individual communicators spread the word about what they care about and keep attention on an issue that the wider world is ignoring.

I think that the protests represent a wake - up call for Israeli social and economic policy - makers, underlining a popular demand for distributive justice enhanced by stronger state intervention in the economy.

As Or Rosenboim argues, these protests were characterised by the claim to «go beyond the political», to ask for social justice, referring to the colloquial distinction between issues relating to security and defence, and particularly, the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, regarded as «the political», and «the social».

In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.

Just a few years ago, a similar protest for social housing led by working - class families ended without any tangible achievements.

Organizing Committee (standing) develops and implements the club's organizing strategy for all social action (e.g., rallies, protests, social campaigns), electoral campaigns, and county committee reform.

The protesting organizations dispute those accomplishments, arguing that the Governor dragged his heels on spending for supportive housing to help the previously homeless with additional social service, and moreover the money will only create six thousand units, less than a third of the total need.

Rather than focus on the «hubbub» surrounding NFL protests, President Trump should use his social media platform to ask for help and volunteer aid for storm ravaged parts of the United States, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday told reporters.

ALBANY, NY (03/02/2011)(readMedia)-- Sixteen New Yorkers were arrested today in the first major act of civil disobedience since Governor Cuomo took office during a protest of his corporate - backed agenda of tax cuts for millionaires and deep spending cuts to healthcare, education and social services.

Questions - youth unemployment, system of appointing president of supreme court, fair retrial for doctors and nurses detained in protests in Bahrain Legislation - health and social care bill

«I want to give people hope with my vision for where this city can go,» Ellis told The Alt shortly after Mayor Kathy Sheehan's State of the City address (which was delayed and disrupted by protests by social justice activists and union members).