Sentences with phrase «of protest movements»

However, in this minority were leaders of protest movements as well as prominent national leaders of denominations, and right beside them were agents of national media.

In the following years, and in the spirit of protest movements of the time, he created sculptures that dealt with social misery and violence.

After listing the negative effects of the protest movement, the report implies that the demonstration will make no difference anyway.

It would substantially increase the power of authorities to control the public, particularly in the case of protest movements.

Many of the younger leaders of the protest movement spoke of King as a «has - been.»

He's brought his party from being a fringe sort of protest movement and he's got them into government.»

There were, it is granted, some «excesses» on the fringes of the protest movement, such as the violent activities of the Weathermen, that marred an otherwise glorious chapter of American history.

The walkouts are the latest surge of a protest movement that has already swept through West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky.

In the Michigan case you have an avowed member of a protest movement engaging in an unambiguous act of political violence.

In the annals of protest movements, this one ranks among the lowest in intellectual coherence.

Its dominantly pacifist position forces on it the character of a protest movement, encouraging individual action in withdrawing from «destructive work»; but it has given some attention to constructive alternatives, such as research in agriculture and small industries or technical assistance openings in under - developed countries.

One of the virtues of this protest movement has been to demonstrate the crucial importance of popular mobilization.

Perhaps a new «third way» that avoids the over-simplistic definitions of right - wing capitalism and left - wing socialism is needed, because even though the aims of the protest movement would seem to be leaning towards a social - democratic, «leftist» welfare state, a significant number of protesters clearly do not wish to detach themselves from the political right, and are very much opposed to being associated with the left.

The call of protest movements such as Occupy for recognition of the gulf in influence and economic resources between the super-wealthy (the 1 per cent)-- to whom the causes of the financial crisis are usually attributed — and the rest of us (the 99 per cent) resonates with republican concerns.

But feeder marches represent something important: the diversity and heritage of protests movements.

Labour leader Ed Miliband addressed crowds in Hyde Park, telling demonstrators they came from a long line of protest movements, citing the suffragettes, the civil rights movements in America and the anti-apartheid struggle.

At the same time, however, there has been a rise in the number of protest movements around the world — a surge in the number of people voicing their opinions on the streets, in online petitions and via Facebook campaigns.

The more than 200,000 of New York's 1.1 million third - through eighth - graders who refused to take the tests are part of a protest movement that is growing nationally.

In mid-June, Bengi Akbulut, an Istanbul - based activist, spoke with Brooklyn Rail contributing writer Robert S. Eshelman about what caused the uprising, the dynamics of the protest movement, and what impact it might have on broader Turkish politics.

A natural response to the lies and coercions we are fed on a daily basis, the détournement has been the reactive impulse of all those who question reality, from the Punks who adopted it in the 1970s through Culture Jammers, Adbusters, contemporary street artists and the winding legacy of protest movements from WTO to Occupy.

Authorities in Morocco on Monday arrested the fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken the country's northern Rif region for months.

So much so that some of the people are even engaged in a sort of protest movement, under the banner «NO2X.»

The title, À chaque stencil une révolution (For each stencil a revolution), is sourced from a quote by the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat when he spoke of protest movements of the 1960s and the instrumental role that the mimeograph machine served.

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.

However it is only now, more than four weeks after the beginning of the protests, that the leaders of this protest movement are starting to formulate a clear list of aims to counter those of the government's team of 40 ministers and political professionals.