Sentences with phrase «peaceful resistance against»

Gibson is inspired by the histories of Ghost Dance shirts, worn across Native American cultures in ceremonies of peaceful resistance against white assimilation — until Lakota Sioux wearing them were massacred at Wounded Knee.

In the thousands, citizens engaged in a strategy of peaceful resistance against the aggression of the central state.

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New evidence leaked over the weekend proved what many water protectors already suspected: private security and local police used surveillance and other counter-terrorism measures against their peaceful resistance of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Standing Rock Sioux land.

Together, they will take action against the pipeline project as a reminder that generations of peaceful resistance have won change across Canada, from Indigenous rights, to environmental protection, to peace activism and social justice.