Sentences with phrase «on urban unrest»

Three events led to passage of the Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968: the role of housing in the civil rights push, the Kerner Commission report on urban unrest, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..

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I am sure that when these leaders wake up each morning, they are not thinking about foreign policy, but about domestic social unrest, the lack of provision of a proper welfare system, about how to deal with the issue of internal migrants (some 200 million people on the move from villages to urban areas demanding the same rights as urban locals), and so on.

These interventions into urban space reflect conditions of dynamic unrest among communities living on Latin American borders.

Though the unrest roiling Turkey began as an environmental protest, the police brutality in response and the prime minister's imperious reaction have brought hundreds of thousands out into the streets to protest the government's social policies, urban - planning agenda, assaults on press freedom, and heavy - handed approach to its critics — to name just a few of the grievances.

Could environmental measures help create solutions as well?The Middle Eastern environmental blog Green Prophet published its piece on «What Urban Rooftop Gardening Could Do For The Middle East» just before unrest broke out in Tunisia and subsequently spread across the region, but it takes on new significance in light of the past two months» events.