Sentences with phrase «protest against the council»

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After a week including widespread #DeleteUber protests against his company, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told employees today that he is no longer participating on President Donald Trump's economic advisory council.

Just last week, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned from the president's Economic Advisory Council, after users criticized the ride - sharing company for allegedly exploiting a taxi protest against a temporary immigrant ban and for Kalanick's relationship with Trump.

The world amateur hockey championships, to be held at Colorado Springs next month, have been sadly diminished in stature by the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in protest against the refusal of NATO's allied travel council to grant visas to the East German hockey team.

Seven rough - sleepers could have faced up to two years in prison after being accused of breaching an injunction which bans them from sleeping in tents in protest against the city council's homeless policy.

The action of the council followed a third demonstration staged by the youth against the MCE after two initial protests failed to intimidate assembly members to reject her.

Two NYC Council members — Inez Barron of Brooklyn and I. Daneek Miller of Queens — were among 41 people arrested yesterday during an union protest against CUNY cuts outside Cuomo's Midtown office.

NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who chairs the Council Education Committee and is an original plaintiff in the CFE case, is going to lead a protest Saturday against record setting education aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlement payout.

The umbrella body of Muslim faithfuls in Nigeria, the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has announced its plan to embark on a nationwide protest against the Nigerian Law School over its law against the use of hijab.

When he took his seat on March 29, all members of the Council, including Parks, protested against his «by - election» for which there seems to have been no legal basis.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined a labor protest against the retailer last June, the Daily News reported.

Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez snagged a $ 30,000 settlement Thursday in a lawsuit he and three other council members brought against the city in 2012 over the NYPD's handling of Occupy Wall Street protests.

They are accused of breaching a council injunction which prevents them from sleeping in tents in the city centre in protest against the coucil's homeless policies.

Readers of MyNewsGh.com will recall our report on Ken Addor Donkor who led his colleague law students protest against the passage of the controversial Legislative Instrument which was forwarded to Parliament by the General Legal Council and was eventually passed.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

A group of prominent European researchers today sent an open letter to the heads of all of Europe's research councils protesting against the winding up of the grant - giving activities of the European Science Foundation (ESF) so that it can be turned into a lobbying body.

The support staff are protesting against the county council's proposal to only pay them during term time.

More than 60 ethnic Chinese families organized a protest in front of the Council building in Tangerang against the sale of land used as Chinese cemetery.

In November 2017 we were pleased to host representatives of the Council for Canadians as part of its protest against open net salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago.

The leaders of corporate America launched an unprecedented revolt against President Donald Trump this week, abandoning two CEO councils created by the White House in protest at the president's comments on the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Bar Council has consistently protested against the moving of responsibility for complaints against barristers from the Bar Council to the OLC.

At the Council of Canadians AGM in Nanaimo, BC, hundreds protests against pipelines.