Sentences with phrase «protest action»

Throughout the month, members took other creative protest actions, including making videos that were posted online; sending thousands of tweets; and creating T - shirts and signs.

In addition to direct protest action, tribal councils are considering court challenges to defend their treaty rights and access to clean water.

Importantly, Rwanda's political space is more tightly controlled than that in Burundi and it is very unlikely that we will see weeks of protest action in the streets.

The victory, after weeks of cliffhanger budget negotiations and literally hundreds of protest actions by concerned parents and educators, was sweet indeed for teachers who can now close up their classrooms with the knowledge that they'll see their students again in September.

When newbie Lord Chancellor, Michael Gove, gave evidence to the Justice Committee last week criminal solicitors were almost two weeks into protest action over further cuts to their fees, which were introduced on 1 July.

National activist groups and students are planning two major protest actions next month: the National School Walkout on March 14 and the March for Our Lives on March 24.

We see this glaringly in the goon squads employed by the wealthy in some Latin American countries to intimidate and kill those who protest their actions.

To commemorate the historic uprooting and protest action against golden rice last August 8, 2013, hundreds of farmers will gather to hold a public forum in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon, the rice granary of the country where Philippine Rice Research Insitute (PhilRICE) Golden Rice experimental fields are located.

She won election to the park board, protesting its actions as underhanded and secretive.

You were on the right track protesting the actions of the Journal News until you pulled this stunt.

After the opening titles curiously set to Kool and the Gang's «Celebration», we get a glimpse at what constitutes a good time for Moonee and Scooty: spitting over a balcony at a neighboring hotel onto a car and shouting «ratchet» and «bitch» when its owner protests their actions.

When their peaceful protest actions fail to achieve real progress, the women become radicalized, turning to vandalism and violence in a desperate attempt to be recognized as equals in the eyes of the law.

A controversial show at the James Cohan Gallery that's drawn local ire in the Chinatown community was the site of an invasive protest action yesterday.

On Friday afternoons, as part of Everything # 3 (2003), performers will picket the museum wearing sandwich boards reading «EVERYTHING WILL BE TAKEN AWAY,» riffing on both traditional protest actions and street advertisements.

Protesters temporarily take over the Guggenheim Museum to protest the museum's construction of a branch in Abu Dhabi: · video > Occupy Museums, Gulf Labor & NYU Groups Intervention at Guggenheim NYC Hyperallergic - ytb · video > Gugenheim Protest Mic - Check npinto - ytb · video > Guggenheim Protest Explained npinto - ytb > Protest Action Erupts Inside Guggenheim Museum hyperallergic

In front of the international head quarters of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Gland Geneva, participants of the Social and Climate Justice Caravan made their first protest action.

Mr. McShane has defended public contractors in bid protest actions and construction defect litigation, pursued commercial code and contract remedies for financial institutions and corporations, prosecuted and defended legal malpractice cases and protected lenders» interests in bankruptcy estates and civil forfeiture cases.

This leads to mass publicity, public sympathy, and often release without charge (Frances Olsen, «Legal Responses to Mass Protest Action: The Dramatic Role of Solidarity in Obtaining Plea Bargains» (2003) 41 Osgoode Hall LJ 363).

A petition protesting the actions leads to a special membership meeting, where the members vote to reinstate the EO and call for the board executive to resign.

The controversial Keystone XL pipeline has inspired people to take all sorts of courageous and creative protest actions.

It was subsequently reported — again by the Gazette — that protest action by criminal defence lawyers could be on the cards, «as anger escalates over the government's latest attempt to slash legal aid fees».

The protest took place at the 2015 Commencement Ceremony yesterday, and was organized by student activist group Free Cooper Union, which has directed a variety of informational and protest actions in response to the landmark tuition decision.

When you see a black friend being pulled over by the police for no apparent reason, you serve as a real witness to this event, and you protest the action you see as unjust.

«A toddler uses speech to request desired items, to protest actions, to engage socially, and to communicate effectively with everyone around them,» Boerner adds.

«The attacks and looting of shops show that some of the protest actions are motivated by pure criminality,» the government said.

Protestors were out in force in Niagara Square Saturday afternoon, protesting actions of police officers around the country and locally.

During the protest actions, numerous advocates attempted to block the ambulance's departure, leading to the arrest of 20 individuals, including two City Councilmembers, Ydanis Rodríguez and Jumaane Williams.

The U.S government had protested the action, which sparked a bitter diplomatic row between the U.S and the then Federal Military Government, headed by Gen. Gowon.

Hundreds of high school students marched out of their classes and joined community members in front of Helix Charter High School in La Mesa, California, on Monday to protest the actions of a school resource officer who threw a female student to the ground last week.

TORONTO — Labour organizations across Ontario are holding rallies today to protest the actions some Tim Hortons franchises have taken in response to an increase in the province's minimum wage.

The protest action was important, Salemy continued, because it helps illuminate «the invisible part of the iceberg... the ugliness in the art world.

And then there's your Facebook friends, who are probably getting involved in the protest action too, even if just remotely.

The casual observer may question if the protest action taken over the last three weeks by criminal solicitors over legal aid fees, and expanded today to include barristers, isn't all just about money.

The Osgoode Hall Faculty Association has protested his actions; the CAUT is conducting a review of his «review».

The protest action followed a ballot of two special interest groups, the Criminal Law Solicitors» Association and London Criminal Courts Solicitors» Association, whose members voted overwhelmingly to refuse new cases after 1 July.

The nationwide walkout is both a memorial and protest action in response to the Parkland school shooting.