Sentences with phrase «political protest movement»

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«What they have produced is unbridled advocacy,» says Heaney, who studies the nature of political protest movements.

Meckseper melds the aesthetic language of modernism with the formal language of commercial display, combining them with images and artifacts of historical undercurrents and political protest movements.

The basis for Arte Povera was furnished by the political protest movements of the late 60s — student revolts and civil rights efforts, and a general opposition to consumerism and the increasing commercialisation of the art world.

Not exact matches

Political instability in Spain continued with hundreds of thousands of protesters gathering in Catalonia's capital Barcelona over the weekend to protest against a resurgent independence movement that has been gathering steam in recent days.

The Black Lives Matter movement has shown us the power of protest to elevate dormant issues to the political agenda.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

Recent examples include #metoo, the movement for people to discuss sexual assault, #deleteuber, the campaign to protest Uber last year amid political controversy, and now, there is the movement to #deletefacebook in response to the Cambridge Analytica controversy.

In the Michigan case you have an avowed member of a protest movement engaging in an unambiguous act of political violence.

Nostalgia for the old, monuments of spiritual aspiration, the worldwide revival of ancient religious forms, the power of orgiastic political movements of destruction, and the protest impulse that has driven artistic expression for more that a century all testify to the profound ambivalence with which the success of instrumental rationality has been greeted.»

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

It's an identity - based political movement, characterized by marches, protests, speeches and posters.

Political theologies and theologies of social activism, coinciding as they did with the protest movements of the past decade, sought to secure a transcendent reference point for a minority cadre confronting the status quo.

And how did they feel about the student - protest movement, and what role ought the church to play in social and political affairs?

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

Contrary to the movement for a just globalisation (also called the «alterglobalist» movement), the Occupy protests have concentrated less on ideas and counter-expertise and more on gathering people in the streets and tents in order to put pressure on political leaders and strike the media's attention.

Perhaps a new «third way» that avoids the over-simplistic definitions of right - wing capitalism and left - wing socialism is needed, because even though the aims of the protest movement would seem to be leaning towards a social - democratic, «leftist» welfare state, a significant number of protesters clearly do not wish to detach themselves from the political right, and are very much opposed to being associated with the left.

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.

Taking the podium, Nixon thanked the committee members for their «courage» and called the WFP, which has come under assault this week from inside and out — with two major unions leaving the fold in protest after it became clear Nixon was all but locked into the endorsement — the «political home for progressives in New York State, and a source of grassroots muscle for the movement.»

«We come in the tradition of movements that have marched in peaceful but powerful protest for justice, fairness and political change.

«This peculiarity has reduced the real locus of civil society activism to spontaneous protest movements led by charismatic leaders such as Tunde Bakare, Femi Falana, Wole Soyinka, and Joe Oke - Odumakin, etc, some of whom are also active in the political arena.

the issue is him hes not a leader he is great at protesting but shouldnt lead a political party at all, the labour party is not a movement its a party and 500, ooo members cant lord it over 9million labour voters..

Political scientist Michael Heaney of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, another researcher well - steeped in protest movements, deployed a six - page survey designed to gauge the political identities of the Political scientist Michael Heaney of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, another researcher well - steeped in protest movements, deployed a six - page survey designed to gauge the political identities of the political identities of the marchers.

Abstract: In this article I examine the successes that led to the toppling of both the Tunisian and Egyptian authoritarian regimes through non-violent protest, as well as some of the failures of the leaderless youth movements to accede to political power following the «downfall of the regime.»

Opponents of Common Core said they see the NYSUT vote as a turning point, indicating that the protest movement has expanded beyond parents and political activists.

More recently, Occupy Museums evolved out of the Occupy Wall Street movement and has staged protests and interventions — and secured a spot in the highly political 2017 Whitney Biennial.

Raised as a child in Nazi Germany, Gustav Metzger (born 10 April 1926) is an activist political artist who founded the auto - destructive art movement and called for an Art Strike in the late 1970s to protest art's engagement with capitalism.

Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Farocki developed an experimental documentary style integrating his own material with footage appropriated from a range of sources, including mass media, surveillance, and political propaganda.

(NYT) Occupy Wall Street Library Limps On - The protest movement's library, a real - life political - art readymade of the sort that makes artists like Thomas Hirshhorn and Mark Wallinger drool, has been recovered after being seized by police, but only 1,000 of the 3,600 donated volumes survive.

Peter Kennard, patron of the UK protest movement and one of the country's most revered yet under - celebrated political artists presents his latest exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London.

With a focus on the feminist movement and its evolution, including trans - feminism, the art featured reactivates political graphics, photography, signs and other protest imagery.

In the 1980s, artists belonging to the Minjung Misul (People's Art) movement began to explore social themes and were linked to the political protests of that decade.

In the glorious Blair years we had a lot of senior Labour politicians who had cut their political teeth in various protest movements such as CND & CCL & it seems to me that they never really realised the importance of the gulf they stepped over in going from activism to democratic government.

Sarah van Gelder: In a lot of movements, there's some combination of putting pressure on the political process, through lobbying and so forth; protests out on the street; and building the new society — not asking for permission, just going ahead and doing it.

As protests go, Time to Act was a demonstration of the lack of political movement behind climate action.

A rational approach would focus not only on climatology and the political science of protest movements but also on the sciences involved in energy production, the social science of economics, and how the interchange between these affects the health, wealth and lifestyle of people across the planet.

Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, says, «The Science and Security Board is heartened by the Arab Spring, the Occupy movements, political protests in Russia, and by the actions of ordinary citizens in Japan as they call for fair treatment and attention to their needs.

I would be surprised if there were any other protest movement in Canadian history that arose so largely from legal issues as Idle No More (INM), and from the First Nations political movements as a whole.

She also authored a book and organised various conferences and workshops on political change, economic crises and protest movements around the world.