Sentences with phrase «in civil protests»

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Police in Barcelona estimated that 350,000 people had attended the march while Societat Civil Catalana, an anti-independence group that organized the protest, put the number of demonstrators at 930,000.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

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.

YEREVAN, May 2 - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.

Nearly two - thirds of respondents also said they'd support calling up the National Guard or reserves to address civil unrest like that seen in Charlottesville in August, when white supremacists clashed with counterprotestors, one of whom was killed by a car driven by a man who had protested with a white - supremacist group.

According to the story, major white supremacy groups used Discord to organize protests and rallies, including one carried out in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a 32 - year - old civil rights activist.

In Japan a few stores had recently hosted civil - disobedience and nonviolence training before a protest at a nearby dam.

Planned removal of a statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee sparked protests by white supremacists, which in turn inspired counter protests.

One would think that protests and, in some cases widespread civil unrest, in Brazil, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, China, India, and other countries would highlight that inflation is increasingly cramping emerging market consumers» purchasing power.

During that same year, he provided significant news coverage of the anti-government protests and civil unrest in Egypt and Libya.

But apparently his way of nonviolent love was not at all incompatible with protesting police brutality or engaging in civil disobedience in a nonviolent fashion.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

Civil Rights activist flooded this state under the leadership of Robert Moses in order to protest voting injustice in the state of Mississippi.

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 more and more people become frustrated with their governments and life in general they tend to look for more «civil» ways to protest and as we all can see just from this one article and its comments, Islam is a very heated subject and the militant are looooooooving it.

Both have been arrested and served six - month jail sentences for acts of civil disobedience in protesting the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)-- a military school in Fort Benning, Georgia, that has trained Latin Americans in tactics of war, terrorism and torture.

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.

(Pictured: Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian mother of six who won the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which mobilized both Christian and Muslim women to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, protests, sit - ins, diplomacy, and sex strikes.

Oxnam later published his testimony and described his experience in the book I Protest; a Century advertisement for the book hailed Oxnam for turning «the hearing into a forum on elementary justice and civil rights.»

American feminism of the 19th century was born of the abolitionist movement, and of equal significance with Friedan's book as impetus for the current women's movement was the experience of women in the civil rights and antiwar protests of the «60s.

So in 2002 she organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, a movement which sought to end Liberia's long and bloody civil war through prayer, silent protests, and (perhaps most effectively) a sex strike.

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

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Rosa Parks» bus protest in 1955 made her the mother of a Civil Rights Movement that lasted past Martin Luther King Jr.'s death in 1968.

On Monday and Tuesday, games between the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox at Camden Yards were cancelled due to safety concerns related to protests and civil unrest in Baltimore.

And in fact, the whole point of the peaceful protests during the Civil Rights Era was to PROVOKE a negative response so that everyone could see what douches the opposition were.

Tragedy struck in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital today (Friday) as some men of the Nigeria Police and the Nigerian Security Civil Defence Corps opened fire on some of the protesting workers of the state who gathered over non-payment of their salaries.

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.

«Peaceful protest and civil disobedience have a long and proud history in this country, and are a perfectly legitimate response to plans that no - one voted for and no - one wants,» Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), said.

In Syria and Bahrain, dictators used violence to thwart protests, leading to a prolonged civil war in SyriIn Syria and Bahrain, dictators used violence to thwart protests, leading to a prolonged civil war in Syriin Syria.

However it is important to note that only a small proportion of civil society groups are involved in the protests; namely those groups that are based in Bujumbura who are focused on governance and human rights issues and regard themselves as watchdog responsible for holding the government to account.

At the same time, protests organized by the extra-parliamentary opposition and civil society discontent have spread in the country.

Because of the kinds of things you talked about under the name of Fabianism, instead of democratic practices and accountability like popular participation and protests and other forms of civic or popular review, we've gone the route of professionalisation in the civil service and accountability via targets and standardisations and numbers, which enable what is often merely an appearance of accountability, and actually operate in a very different way from other more politicised forms of accountability.

Hidden away in the coalition's Programme for Government two years ago was the pledge to «restore rights to non-violent protest» — an agenda which was always the poor relation to the civil liberties big hitters, like establishing a commission on a British Bill of Rights.

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).

In the past decade or so, the Labour government has been at least complicit in a lamentable erosion of civil liberties, including freedoms to demonstrate and protesIn the past decade or so, the Labour government has been at least complicit in a lamentable erosion of civil liberties, including freedoms to demonstrate and protesin a lamentable erosion of civil liberties, including freedoms to demonstrate and protest.

Even Mayor de Blasio praised the councilmembers» feckless manifestation, citing proudly his own «civil disobedience» arrest in 2013 when he protested the closing of Long Island College Hospital — which wound up closing anyway, after he was Mayor.

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.

The US Justice Department has cleared a Ferguson, Mo., police officer of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose death set off racially charged and sometimes violent protests last year.

«There is definitely more protest and civil disobedience on the way, both in Albany and in New York City.»

Rangel was found guilty of 11 counts of ethics violations on Tuesday and, in response, the leaders rallied in support of the Democrat Senator in front of the «Civil Rights Church,» breaking spontaneously into a somber rendition of the protest song «We Shall Overcome.»

One of the most visible protest leaders, University of St. Thomas law professor and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy - Pounds, said government leaders are trying to exploit a generational and leadership divide in the black community — and she faulted Ellison for being part of it.

De Blasio has made hospital closures a big part of his mayoral campaign of late, built around his arrest last month, in a show of civil disobedience to protest the possible closure of Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.

In an act of Civil Disobedience, the group refused to stop protesting beyond police barricades during a major demonstration by thousands at Foley Square.

New York State Senator Tom Duane was arrested yesterday in an act of civil disobedience in protest of the veto of an HIV / AIDS funding bill vetoed by Governor David Paterson earlier this year, WNYC reports:

New York State Senator Tom Duane was arrested yesterday in an act of civil disobedience in protest of the veto of an HIV / AIDS funding bill vetoed by Governor David Paterson earlier this year, WNYC reports: «The bill would insure that poor people... Read

Senator Jeff Klein, the head of the Independent Democratic Coalition, says he respects Sharpton and has even joined him in past civil rights protests.

Hundreds of union members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF), the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and United University Professions (UUP) will rally in Brooklyn Thursday, March 8, to protest plans to close Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, and beds at SUNY Downstate University Hospital, and shift Downstate's inpatient operations to the Long Island College Hospital campus.