Sentences with phrase «led several protests»
CHICAGO In recent weeks, Chicago students led several protests focused on the ongoing state budget fight and the dire need for more funding for the city's public schools.
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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.
Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.
In February, the Army Corps of Engineers granted the final easement needed to finish the controversial pipeline, which had been delayed for several months after protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and climate activists.
In addition to the employees who have criticized Eich's appointment and the three board members who have resigned in protest, several self - identified LGBTQ employees have spoken up to defend Eich, not because they agree with his views on marriage, but because they believe he is fit to lead with the sort of openness Mozilla has always known.
According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.
The ownership of the club by the American pair has drawn protests from Liverpool fans and news of Benitez's impending departure will also lead to question marks over the futures of several key players.
Several protests, led by the Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) which advocates for fair elections and a new voters registry, ended in violence when police shot rubber bullets and tear gas canisters into the crowd, beat protesters with horsewhips and batons, and arrested those who did not disperse.
In an era in which hashtag protests can quickly spread like wildfire on social media, the academy avoided a potentially thorny situation when James Franco — who has recently faced accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior from several women — failed to score a lead actor nod for his performance in «The Disaster Artist,» which earned him a Golden Globe award for best actor in a musical or comedy just weeks ago.
Efforts to limit teachers» collective - bargaining rights led to mass protests in several states.
In the state of Washington, parent protests against the adoption of several standard math curricula (like Connected Math) led a state representative to introduce a bill earlier this year to put Singapore Math in all the state's elementary schools.
Tate responded to the protest in a statement that read: «BP is one of the most important sponsors of the arts in the UK supporting Tate as well as several other leading cultural institutions.
The Brooklyn Conference will also offer workshops including: THE RESISTANCE REVIVAL: A Restoration of Force presented by organizers from the Women's March on Washington; Protest Poster Making hosted by Amplifier, during which attendees will create their own silkscreened posters; Mirror / Echo / Tilt, a performance workshop developed by Shaun Leonardo, Sable Elyse Smith and Melanie Crean; a hands - on program led by The Laundromat Project, and several other programs and activities throughout the building.
In a paper calculating new Chinese earthquake risks in Geophysical Research Letters, a team led by Japanese and American geophysicists analyzed shifts in stress along several faults around the area where a magnitude 7.9 temblor killed nearly 70,000 people and drew rare citizen protests because so many schools crumbled.
The demonstration will follow 350.org's «Do the Math» event at the Warner Theatre and will feature thousands of activists, a 500 - foot pipeline, and several speakers — including Bill McKibben, who led the Keystone XL protests last summer in which...
From Silicon Valley, The New York Times published an internal protest memo written by several thousand Google employees, which vociferously opposed Google's work on a Defense Department - led initiative called Project Maven, which aims to use computer vision algorithms to analyze vast troves of image and video data.