Sentences with phrase «own counter protest»

The white nationalist group called the Traditional Workers Party has also promised to show up to counter protest, though they haven't said if they will be armed.

Planned removal of a statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee sparked protests by white supremacists, which in turn inspired counter protests.

The Illinois Rifle Association appeared to be planning counter protests, including one in their town.

The organization (or clan of a few family members) knows that no matter where they go the news will cover them and there will be counter protests and they will gain attention.

The Hausa who spoke to Today News Africa in Washington DC on Friday said the counter protest against the Igbo activists became necessary to defeat the false propaganda that President Buhari is not popular at home.

Hundreds of Hausa have started arriving Washington D.C. to stage a counter protest in support of President Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting with President Donald Trump, at the same time Igbo activists would be rallying against the 75 - year old Nigerian leader.

Morton said he's boycotting the entire NFL because of the protests, and is organizing his own counter protest of sorts, distributing bumper stickers on Saturday.

Pro-Cuomo supporters countered the protest.

But Cuomo abandoned his plans after tenant activists threatened to hold a counter protest.

Counter protests are organized.

Rev. Moore was active in the Civil Rights Movement, organizing a student sit - in at Royal Ice Cream parlor in Durham, N.C., on June 23, 1957, prior to the more well - known Greensboro lunch counter protests in 1960.

People who felt Chic - Fil - A was in the right organized a day of support, where thousands of people visited their local franchise for chicken sandwiches, while gay rights groups organized counter protests and kiss - ins.

Not only are they an issue by themselves, but outrage over their horrible conduct has been reported all over the country, including counter protests.

Not exact matches

After one of the last British Viceroys over India releases Gandhi from jail following the Empire's inability to counter the 1930 «salt march» protest.

In the era of Woodstock and Port Huron, Haggard was viewed as a kind of counter to Joan Baez, a poet laureate of Richard Nixon's «silent majority» who took a direct shot at the 1960s hippie scene and student protests in his most famous song, «Okie from Muskogee.»

That moment triggered a series of responses and counter responses by authorities and residents, as well as local and national clergy that shaped two weeks of protest and clarified camps that were largely defined by social and religious location.

I have found that the typical spiced or chocolate varieties of zucchini breads may be initially enjoyed but soon find themselves stacked on counters alongside their origins or pressed into the protesting hands of anyone without a garden of their own.

Protest at this stage will be counter productive.

Our normal reaction would be to damn NATO's travel council and protest that sport is above politics, that it improves relationships between peoples and that the NATO decision is counter to the spirit of the Olympics and all amateur sport.

And also its counter productive because it will only upset the players» morale during the match and you'd be achieving exactly what you're protesting against.

A section of the club's fans have moved to turn on the Frenchman in recent seasons, with a protest having been attempted to be had during a home match toward the back end of last term, which was somewhat countered by cheers, and chants of «there's only one Arsene Wenger».

Let me be clear, I have no time for «fans» protesting during games and being counter productive at times when our team needs support the most.

He might protest at first but will calm down when he realizes that some firm counter pressure is making him feel better.

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.

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox is promising a protest tour of his own to counter Gov. Andrew Cuomo's regional State of the State addresses.

Clinton launched Onward Together in April of last year with the intent of providing funding to established liberal groups that could quickly counter President Donald Trump using direct action and protests.

Prot: 9 g, Carbs: 6 g, Fat: 1 g, Cal: 70 (per 3 mini donuts) I was making myself some Protein Whoopie Pie cookies recently, and I had a donut pan on the counter.

In response, Julie Woestehoff, PAA co-founder and executive director of Chicago's Parents United for Responsible Education, countered, «Mayor Emanuel and his hand - picked Board of Education have just closed or turned around 17 schools despite vehement protests of parents who were already deeply committed to their children's schools.

I addressed her issues with a counter question: «Why do you think teachers are protesting?»

Meanwhile, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, a Rockingham County Republican who's one of the most powerful policymakers in the state, implied this week that teachers» organized protest may be counter to the spirit, if not the letter, of North Carolina labor laws.

Protests were countered with violence, which then transformed into an uncompromisable war, which caused Syria's economy to become almost entirely annihilated, therefore making political restoration even more difficult.

The picture was auctioned off at the Art the Arms Fair, a five - day expo that forms part of a larger, two - week festival organized to counter the Defense and Security Equipment International arms fair, which ran concurrently with the protest events.

Fast completely revamped the exterior and interior of the James Cohan gallery into a pre-gentrification Chinatown shop, complete with a dilapidated exterior, two non-working cash machines, and a grimy counter selling cheap phones and lottery tickets: A play that was well received in the art world but which sparked protests among a group of Chinatown residents who felt pigeonholed by an out - of - touch elite.

A circular black enamel canvas from the tragically deceased artist Steven Parrino counters the black window display cases of perfume bottles, toilet cleaners, and a Joseph Beuys type white hare holding a twirling protest sign, «Oui or No,» by Josephine Meckseper.

Standout items include a section of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter (different from the Smithsonian's) where black college students staged the first protest and a bronze casting of the Birmingham jail cell door where King penned his «Letter from a Birmingham Jail.»

Since the desires of the climate movement are to limit the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere in order to ensure a safe environment in which we can live long into the future, protest actions taken by the movement are not necessarily seen as moral objections to unjust laws in the same way sitting at a lunch counter or taking a seat at the front of a bus obviously are.

As a teenager, she worked as a waitress at the very lunch counter where Ms. Griffin, «the Rosa Parks of Des Moines», staged her protests over racial discrimination some 10 years earlier.

One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit - in movement began on February 1, 1960, when four African - American college students sat down at the whites - only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina.