Sentences with phrase «protest march of»

MEXICO CITY — An organized protest march of about 1,000 Central American migrants slowly traveling through Mexico toward the U.S. border has become a hot - button political issue in Washington,...

The stunt coincided with a protest march of hundreds of supporters, not only demanding justice for those that died in the fire, but support for those who survived, many of whom remain homeless.

In July 1960, he agreed to address the crowd at the protest March of 7,000, staged at Salisbury's Harare Town Hall.

Not exact matches

People participating in the women's march Saturday booed in unison as they walked by, and many left their protest signs in front of the building.

As soon as she intervened, Air Canada alleges its pilots began calling in sick in protest, forcing the cancellation of 23 flights on March 17 alone.

Police officers use bicycles to create cordons around a protest march by various groups, including «Black Lives Matter» and «Shut Down Trump and the RNC,» ahead of the convention.

A week of protests over concerns for public safety preceded the spraying, with protesters marching outside city hall and circulating an online petition that gained thousands of signatures.

Police in Barcelona estimated that 350,000 people had attended the march while Societat Civil Catalana, an anti-independence group that organized the protest, put the number of demonstrators at 930,000.

A movement by scientists to march on Washington as a protest against the Trump White House's treatment of science has gained traction, with more than 115,000 supporters joining a Facebook (fb) group for the cause.

Alex Schaefer, of Los Angeles, prepares his giant Sen. Bernie Sanders, I - Vt., costume before a march during a protest in downtown.

Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), near the encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the oil pipeline that is slated to cross the Missouri River nearby, Sept. 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

Demonstrators from various groups, including supporters of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, take part in a protest march on the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 25, 2016.

Social media previously enabled the rapid mobilization of street protests, including the Arab Spring and the Women's March on Washington.

A women's march was being organized in Washington, the teenager wrote, to protest the incoming administration of President - elect Donald J. Trump and to speak up for gender equality.

Since Election Day, Philadelphia physician Rhea Powell has marched with other women in Washington, protested in her home town against the potential repeal of Obama's health care law and joined in airport demonstrations against Trump's immigration restrictions.

Despite the West Coast clashes, most nationwide protests were peaceful as immigrants, union members and their allies staged a series of strikes, boycotts and marches to highlight the contributions of immigrants in the United States.

Over the weekend students, teachers, parents and a whole array of civilians took to the streets to participate in the March For Our Lives protest.

Ducey, who attended the Women's March in LA with his wife, says the protest, «thrust me out of my despondency and on to an exciting new chapter in my life.»

«And given the nature of Quebeckers being very fond of taking their cause to the streets, I would expect marches and protests.»

Johnson, 25, was the sniper who targeted the officers at the conclusion of a peaceful march July 7 in downtown Dallas, where demonstrators were protesting fatal police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana.

The day is billed as one of protest and advocacy for gender equity organized by the activists behind the Jan. 21 Women's March on Washington.

During Trump's other weekend in Florida, several thousand people marched near the property to protest his temporary ban on travel to the United States by refugees as well as citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries.

A protest against violence attacking black communities, the parade was one of the first public marches for civil rights.

Around 1,500 members and supporters of the South African Federation of Trade Unions take part in a march through Cape Town city center on April 25, 2018, to protest against the government's proposed minimum wage.

Thousands of Puerto Ricans are marching to protest pension cuts, school closures and slow hurricane recovery efforts as anger grows across the U.S. territory over looming austerity measures.

The recent escalations in Kashmir began this summer, when thousands of Kashmiris marched across the region to protest the Indian army's escalating activities in the area.

Members of the Committee of retired Teachers of Puerto Rico's Teachers Federation protest against the underfunding of their pension system in San Juan on March 18, 2016.

The higher estimate would make the March for Our Lives «the largest single - day protest in the history of the nation's capital,» according to USA Today.

Now, across the country, students are planning to stage walkouts in protest of gun violence on March 14 and April 20.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

Our march, Protest Against Gun Violence was inspired by the depth of tragedy in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the countless other shootings, but also the looming fear that the next shooting is inevitable, whether at our school, or any other across the country.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) plans to hold a protest outside the offices of Nelson Peltz, board chair of Wendy's fast food restaurants from March 15 - 18.

Tens of thousands marched in Madrid at the weekend to protest against drastic cuts, including a 7pc cut in public wages.

For many of the young people, the Washington rally, called March for Our Lives, was their first act of protest and the beginning of a political awakening.

The pro-gun protests were swamped in size and enthusiasm by those marching for gun control, many of whom traveled for many hours to attend the rallies in cities across the country.

Murdock created her protest independent of the March 14 National School walkout, which the Women's March helped organize.

On March 14, students at Lewis Middle School in Allied Gardens joined hundreds of thousands of other students from across the country in a walkout to protest gun violence in schools following the death of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida one month earlier.

Going back to the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, Berkeley has been a city with a strong social and civic identity and today is still frequently the site of protests and marches.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the March for Our Lives protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday to advocate for gun control reform in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Dr King, motivated by his belief in the equality of all people before God, organised three protest marches from Selma to walk the 54 miles to the state capital, Montgomery.

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

And the Church seemed all too willing to oblige, as when Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus», declared his support for Putin in the March 2012 presidential election and condemned the feminist collective Pussy Riot for intruding into Christ the Savior Cathedral to protest the Church's unholy alliance with Putin.

I believe these marches are protesting for the rights of all people.

All the marches, protests, talk, and bluster haven't made a bit of difference.

God is famous in the family dinners and protest marches, in the re-reading of a favourite book to small children and in Wednesday night Bible studies open to the public, in the prayers of the unknown and the faith of the uncelebrated.

But thousands of hardline Muslims marched in protest anyway, eventually clashing with police and lighting vehicles on fire.

After one of the last British Viceroys over India releases Gandhi from jail following the Empire's inability to counter the 1930 «salt march» protest.

In fact, since March 16, 2011, more than 40 Tibetans have followed Thich Quang Duc's lead, setting themselves on fire to protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Similar kind of March and protest have been continued in different parts of USA by the Blacks power.

Thousands of Croatian far - right supporters have marched in Zagreb to protest over an international convention... More