Sentences with phrase «other social protest»

He chronicled Beat Generation poets and writers; the folk musicians who gathered around Washington Square in the early 1960s, including Bob Dylan and Joan Baez; Vietnam War demonstrations and anti-AIDS rallies; and every other social protest that took place Downtown — and sometimes Uptown, too.

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People used twitter and other social media to organize the protest, and the government stopped the internet to stop the protest.
The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.
Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.
While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.
There is no other way for them to vent their anger than through protests at games and social media.
While Facebook and other social media played an essential role in creating the protests themselves, I would argue that their even more important role consisted in continuously fuelling them, as multiple Facebook pages dedicated to the protests started posting photos, videos and articles on what was happening, while simultaneously engaging the public and the protesters in a discussion on a wide range of important and thought - provoking civic topics, ranging from the manifestations themselves to Romania's political future.
In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.
Many others joined local protests shared via social media and text messages, including some that show a high level of organizing sophistication:
Social media has allowed many of the campaigns to link up and support each other and barely a week passes without a message on Twitter calling for fellow activists to attend a protest somewhere in London.
One of the stronget Depression era's social protest films, this expose shattered audiences in its harrowing depiction of guards» brutalities and other inhuman conditions of prison chain gangs.
Social - Media - Savvy, Irreverent, and Maybe a Bit Entitled, Parkland Students Succeed Where Others Have Failed to Launch a National Movement Around Guns Chalkbeat: «I can be a part of this change»: New York City students prepare to join nationwide gun violence protests
But parents protested that other subjects, especially science, social studies and the arts, suffered.
Furthermore, it ties directly into real - world money and social progression to the point that I feel like if we saw this same behavior from any other less beloved company, you'd be seeing a lot more people rising up in protest.
Other exhibitions such as «It Takes a Nation: Art for Social Justice: With Emory Douglas, and the Black Panther Party, Africobra, and Contemporary Washington Artists» at American University in Washington, D.C., and «Ruddy Roye: When Living is a Protest» at Steven Kasher, make the connection between earlier black rights movements and today's Black Lives Matters activism.
Last year Vélez was featured in the Whitney Biennial, and a version of this piece was a prominent part of his display (which referred to the path that a review he wrote, «White Privilege in Criticism,» took through social media over the course of a year in which NATO protests, outrage over the Trayvon Martin verdict, and other political flashpoints occurred.)
In January 2011, social protests broke out in Tunisia which soon spread to other Arab states.
The act of throwing, Mutu said, varies depending on the social context: in some cases, it is used in defiant protest, and in others the intent is malicious and violent, such as with stoning.
Some people have quite strong reactions to certain issues, and will protest vocally in favor of gay rights or against abortion, or any number of social, political, or other issues.
Over the weekend, the protests spread to other parts of the city, and across Turkey, channeling frustrated anger at Erdoğan's government and its increasingly authoritarian approach to social issues, press freedom, religious minorities, political opposition, and more.
The most current guide to protest law available covers this list of legislation, case law and more: • Austin v UK, ECtHR Grand Chamber, Judgment 15th March 2012 • Police Reform and Social Responsibilities Act 2011, ss141 - 149 • Police (Conduct) Regulations 2008 • R v Jones and others (2007) 1 AC 136 • R (LaPorte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire (2007) 2 AC 105 • Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2004 • Police Reform Act 2002 • Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 • Public Order Act 1986 • Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 • European Convention on Human Rights
While millennials are less likely to vote than the older population, they engage in politics in other ways: social media protests are a brand new way of dealing with a broken political system.
At 20, I was put in jail for three months with a group of other students for protesting against Perón, and my concept of myself changed again: I became an Argentinian Jew who was committed to social justice.
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