Sentences with phrase «neighborhood protest against»

Human rights groups within and outside your neighborhood protest against the violence.

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Adams came out against the Rabsky Group's plan to redevelop 200 Harrison Ave. — open land once owned by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer — contrary the community board's recommendation, and instead aligned himself with community groups who've protested the project since last fall, arguing it perpetuates segregation in the neighborhood.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

While some detractors pushed back against a co-location, others outright protested another Success Academy in the neighborhood.

The story focuses on a young woman protesting against a powerful developer, who designs neighborhoods as slums so his people can buy up property.

As a current example of ever - larger traditional public schools, the Chicago Board of Education is closing fifty traditional schools at one time and sending their students out of their neighborhoods to ever - larger schools against continuing parent protests.

And Edith Wharton had Newland Archer and May Welland move here after marriage in The Age of Innocence, set around 1877: «The neighborhood was thought remote, and the house was built in a ghastly greenish - yellow stone that the younger architects were beginning to employ as a protest against the brownstone of which the uniform hue coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce.»

If someone in your neighborhood leads protests against a new coal plant,