The International Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1966, to coincide with the date in 1960 when police killed 69 people in Sharpeville, South Africa at
a peaceful protest against apartheid laws.
LeClercq was once arrested for participating in
a peaceful protest against the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.
A group of youths, unemployed and activists in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital known as Oyo Voice, on Monday staged
a peaceful protest against various alleged...
Scores of members of Tricycle Owners Association operating in Ojoo area of Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, on Wednesday staged
a peaceful protest against what they...
Students of the Kaduna State Polytechnic on Friday staged
a peaceful protest against acute water supply and electricity the students have been subjected to recently.
He spoke during
a peaceful protest against the proposed local government autonomy which he said would spell doom to the basic education in the country.
Students of the Federal University Oye - Ekiti (FUOYE), on Monday staged
a peaceful protest against the institution's directive preventing students who had not paid their school fees...
He was twice arrested and jailed for
peaceful protests against the bulldozing of a gravel road through Tasmania's Tarkine Wilderness in 1995.
By 1995, he had been arrested and jailed twice for participating in
peaceful protests against resource exploitation.
He felt so strongly about it that he joined one of
the peaceful protests against coal mining and nearly got arrested.
His relentless work organizing
peaceful protests against illegal logging in the Sierra Madre Mountains helped protect the forests, lands and rights of his people.
Not exact matches
It sets distressing signals about race and
protest, the same week as police moved in again on a
peaceful Indigenous - led standoff
against a North Dakota pipeline — and as Donald Trump rhetoric riles up believers in Second Amendment «remedies» when an election doesn't go their way.
Brooks defended the group's
peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness
against war and for a more
peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»
While reacting to a purported
protest carried out by members of the association, the State Government said though it was not
against peaceful protest by aggrieved citizens but it would not be stampeded into taking any action without strictly following due process and rule of law.
«While government is not
against peaceful protest by aggrieved citizens, we would like to urge Lagosians to go about their businesses peacefully.
He told reporters after the event that he wonders how the Trump administration is going to react to the
peaceful protests that have sprung up across the country
against his actions.
A very significant event — a
peaceful mass
protest against the misgovernance and mindless plunder of Imo State by Mr. Rochas Okorocha — took place in Owerri exactly...
When Maskey organised a
protest against a parade by Royal Irish Regiment soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in October 2008, he explained that he wanted «a
peaceful, dignified
protest»
against the wars, but that he did want to see British forces returning without injury.
If the Bull Connors of the time weren't using laws to engage in suppression of freedom and equality, the civil rights
protests wouldn't be called civil disobedience; they would have just been the rightful (and
peaceful)
protests against government actions protected by the Bill of Rights.
Landmark
Protests of Barkworks Inside a Shopping Mall On 12/19, the busiest shopping day of the year, CAPS held a landmark
peaceful protest with 72 participants inside Westside Pavilion Mall in Los Angeles
against one of seven Barkworks stores.
Behind Barkworks On December 9, 2009, the busiest shopping day of the year, CAPS held a landmark
peaceful protest with 72 participants inside Westside Pavilion Mall in Los Angeles
against one of seven Barkworks stores.
In 1956, the citizens of Budapest held a large,
peaceful demonstration to demand democratic changes and
protest against the economic hardships they were suffering.
Also standing in
peaceful protest, albeit as a reminder of a different historical struggle, was Manish Nai's Untitled (2017): five large sticks wrapped in compressed strips of burlap dyed indigo leaning upright
against a wall.
In December, 2010, accusations
against falsified presidential elections brought rise to a wave of
peaceful protests throughout the country, which were, in turn unmercifully retaliated
against by police and government forces.
Threats
against Cáceres and her colleagues had escalated in recent weeks, following a
peaceful protest by her community
against the Agua Zarca dam.
In their view, our war
against Bashar Assad did not begin with the
peaceful civil
protests of the Arab Spring in 2011.