Sentences with phrase «peaceful protests against»

His relentless work organizing peaceful protests against illegal logging in the Sierra Madre Mountains helped protect the forests, lands and rights of his people.

He felt so strongly about it that he joined one of the peaceful protests against coal mining and nearly got arrested.

By 1995, he had been arrested and jailed twice for participating in peaceful protests against resource exploitation.

He was twice arrested and jailed for peaceful protests against the bulldozing of a gravel road through Tasmania's Tarkine Wilderness in 1995.

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 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 Kaduna State Polytechnic on Friday staged a peaceful protest against acute water supply and electricity the students have been subjected to recently.

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...

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...

LeClercq was once arrested for participating in a peaceful protest against the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.

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.

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.