Sentences with phrase «protest marches in»

In a separate room, Gonzales - Day brought his subject up to date in works that insert characters from Run Up into photographs of the protest marches in Los Angeles that followed a grand jury's refusal to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.

As another example, in the past twelve months, Coca - Cola has experienced both widespread panic in Europe over a supposedly tainted product and protest marches in the United States over purported discriminatory hiring practices.

I know a student who took an early bus back from a protest march in Washington in order not to miss a Giant - Packer game on television.

The film mirrors contemporary society in the most powerful, poignant way, and yet doesn't ever lose its edge in telling the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's endeavor to organize a protest march in Alabama in 1965.

in a novel I've written I used him as a character at a ficitonal protest march in Juarez referring to him only as «the American.»

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It was reported in March that Reid met with the Cincinnati Bengals in free agency and was asked about his protests during the national anthem.

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.

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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.

On March 8, women around the world are abstaining from work and shopping in protest.

More than 1 million people joined the marches in the United States yesterday, but nearly 5 million participated overall — with protests taking place around the world in cities like Sydney, Paris, London, Tokyo, and more.

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 group marches through downtown heading to the Texas Capitol during an immigration protest, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Austin, Texas.

Activists will march from Hyde Park Corner to Parliament Square on September 9 in protest against last year's Brexit vote.

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

More than 310,000 people have been killed in Syria since the war began with anti-government protests in March 2011.

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.

Demonstrators protest on the National Mall in Washington, DC, for the Women's march on January 21, 2017.

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.

Trump signed the new ban on March 6 in a bid to overcome legal problems with his January executive order, which caused chaos at airports and sparked mass protests before a Washington judge stopped its enforcement in February.

Pro-government protests in Tehran on Wednesday drew thousands to march chanting «Death to America» to show support, according to state TV IRIB.

In March, workers protested, burned tires and fought with riot police.

But this peace - making attempt appeared to fail, and led hundreds in Kauai to plan a march for Friday to protest the lawsuits as well as a six - foot wall Zuckerberg placed around the property.

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.

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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.»

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 protest hearkens back to the first women's day when, in 1908, women marched for better working conditions.

Law officers march down a street during protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 10, 2016.

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.

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.

Matt Deitsch, who graduated from the Parkland school in 2016 and is the chief strategist for the March for Our Lives protest, expressed similar skepticism.

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.

Friday: Questions for Delaine Eastin, protests over a police shooting in Sacramento, #DeleteFacebook and the weekend's gun marches.

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

But to the huge crowds that greeted them in Washington on Saturday at a march to protest gun violence, the students were fearless celebrities.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

The March on Science will take place in D.C. this weekend, in which scientists, science advocates and nerds in general will descend on the nation's capital to protest slashed budgets...