Sentences with phrase «of citizen uprisings»

After a bloody crackdown of citizen uprisings in 1988, Myanmar became largely isolated from the rest of the world.

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Any political uprising which isn't democratic (which isn't including the citizens as followers) will be a result of a single person's ideology shared by several others in power.

Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

With its warring factions, citizen uprisings, guerrilla insurgencies, political intrigue, bloody warfare, family tensions, and homoerotic subtext, Coriolanus is one of the year's best political thrillers.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small - town physician known as «El Doctor,» leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

And in Michoacán, Dr. Jose «The Doctor» Mireles rousts a popular uprising known at Autodefensas, armed citizens who move from town to town driving out members of the Knights Templar.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small - town physician known as «El Doctor,» shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

The year is 2021 and the zombie outbreak is over; all the citizens have been inoculated with the cure to prevent a new uprising of the undead.

That rebellion is led by President Alma Coin (Moore, Non-Stop), and masterminded behind the scenes from Plutarch Heavensbee (Hoffman, A Most Wanted Man), who has been mastering the art of propaganda to fan the flames of discontent among the citizens of Panem, and he sees Katniss as the lightning rod for spearheading a major uprising.

It is a love story between two voiceless creatures and a story of overlooked, second - class citizens who plot and succeed in an uprising.

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizen uprisings in the United States» history.

Autodefensa has elements of a populist uprising, and the grisly sights of such things as heads of decapitated victims lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery or a woman's story about the barbarous murder of a little child can not help but win sympathy for their argument for self - defense — especially when the Mexican government is, at best, ineffective when it comes to protecting its citizens.

Crafted from footage taken by actual citizens in St. Louis, Missouri, and Ferguson, the film takes an «unflinching look» at the uprising, the protests, and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Starring: John Krasinski, John Boyega and Anthony Mackie Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow Synopsis: A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizen uprisings in the United States» history.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small - town physician known as «El Doctor,» leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising -LSB-...]

From the Ferguson uprising, to the global reach of the Black Lives Matter movement, this film gives an authoritative storytelling voice to the black Ferguson community, focusing on letting activists and local citizens speak.

These concerns are legitimate and have occupied a storied place in the critical academy since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978, and certainly, the character of Tracy, the white American foreign exchange student, leading the pro-dog uprising amongst the indigenous Megasaki citizens can easily be interpreted as reflecting the white saviour trope from Hollywood films such as Blood Diamond and Avatar.

Whether it was the crusade for the rights of crime victims in the 1970s, the grassroots uprising to lower property taxes in the 1980s, or the citizens» rebellion that sought to curb illegal immigration in the 1990s, California is often the vanguard of popular movements.

Similar to recent uprisings in Egypt and troubles in Tunisia, the situation in Libya is considered so unsafe that passengers are being warned to stay out of the country as most countries work to retrieve their citizens trapped there.