Sentences with phrase «protest movements across»

His 2011 book followed the Arab Spring and examined the rise in protest movements across the world.

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Earlier in January, Hardee's and Carl's Jr.'s workers protested Puzder's nomination in 20 cities across the US, organizing with the Fight for $ 15 movement to raise the minimum wage.

In the wake of the fetal organ harvesting exposé, the pro-life movement mounted vigorous and continuing protests in front of Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.

Their movement had a short, compelling name (Never Again), concise goals (more background checks for gun buyers), plans for a nationwide protest, a slew of media appearances and a handful of memorably viral speeches that took their message across the nation.

While his nonviolent protests did bring about the Civil Rights movement and led to ending the wrongs of Segregation, one of the unintended consequences of such has produced Black hoodlums across America, many of whom have the idea they do not have to obey the laws of the land because their ancestors were slaves.

These lawyers, pastors, journalists, and human rights leaders across China are trying out the strategies of the historic American civil rights movement, using litigation, media publicity, and nonviolent protests.

The labor protest movement that fast - food workers in New York City began nearly three years ago has led to higher wages for workers all across the country.

(CNN)- Tea Party activists marked Tax Day with a high - profile rally in Washington, DC, and other protests across the country, but President Obama says the anti-tax movement actually owes him a thank you.

Whereas the Seattle Education Association went on a one day strike last spring in protest of the current reform movement that is damaging public education and, therefore stood tall for all public school teachers across the country facing similar reforms, including members of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association; and

Indeed, if the privatization movement were serious about civil rights, then its supporters would stand with the tens of thousands of parents and students across the country who have protested, been arrested, and used other methods of peaceful resistance to the closings of neighborhood schools, sometimes to make room for new charters.

Since then, the «opt out» movement has grown across the country and Connecticut as thousands of parents and students across the country are refusing to take state tests in protest of educational reforms associated with high - stakes testing.

Across pieces by heavy hitters such as Ellen Gallagher, Glen Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker, different aspects of the Civil Rights movement — boycotts, protests, revolutionary Black Power movements, antebellum history — were filtered through a collection of text - based works (Ligon and Adam Pendleton), portraiture (Marshall and Simpson) animation (Walker), sculpture and an archival collection of Black Panther newspapers (loaned by New York - based artist Rashid Johnson).

The #OccupyWallStreet movement — which has now spilled into Brooklyn and inspired protests across the world — is gaining some high profile supporters.

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.