Sentences with phrase «protests against the land»

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More protested against new economics of the enclosure of lands by great landlords.

He has also led a protest against the recent controversial Land Use charge imposed by the government.

Adams came out against the Rabsky Group's plan to redevelop 200 Harrison Ave. — open land once owned by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer — contrary the community board's recommendation, and instead aligned himself with community groups who've protested the project since last fall, arguing it perpetuates segregation in the neighborhood.

For most of the 20th century they spent their time stealing the Mapuche's land, and even today they're complicit with mining and forestry companies in helping to destroy it, or making use of anti-terrorism legislation to lock up people who tried to protest against it.

Children fighting on the playground, teachers struggling to control a difficult class, parents arguing about the time their teenager should be home, neighbour disputes over land boundaries or anti social behaviours, protests against tyrannical leaders — conflict happens.

Then - U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy would dispatch officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to the County in order to assess how the federal government could help.21 In a summer of student protests against the continued closures, black and white leaders in the County finally landed on a plan to temporarily operate free private schools for black students.

Protests and bloodshed continued and in 1936 the Palestinians held a six - month General Strike to protest against the confiscation of land and Jewish immigration.

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.

Land art is a movement - an artistic protest against the perceived artificiality, plastic aesthetics and ruthless commercialization of art at the end of the 1960s in America.

One Million Years was first made in 1969, the year of the Woodstock music festival, major civil protests against the Vietnam War, and man's first landing on the moon.

During its five - year run, The Red Barn Atelier hosted hundreds of artist events, exhibited at art fairs held in China, and was no stranger to controversy, landing international attention from both a dinner party that hosted Rockefeller con artist Christopher Rocancourt, as well as law suits stemming from protests against the farm animals on the property which included roosters, goats and chickens.

Be this as it may, Land art was also a protest by a number of contemporary artists against the commercial straitjacket imposed by materialistic art galleries and dealers.

Giving voice not only to the village's inhabitants but also the land itself (through field recordings of festive chants and birdsong, or pressed plant specimens, in addition to the photographs), Masuyama's lifework also suggests a unique form of personal protest against the impersonal powers of big government and big contractors.

His relentless work organizing peaceful protests against illegal logging in the Sierra Madre Mountains helped protect the forests, lands and rights of his people.

Kenya Communications Intern, Grace Wanene, shares what it was like to take part in a Green Belt Movement protest against illegal land grabbing in Nairobi.

Over 120 people have been killed since 2010 for protesting against the theft or destruction of their land, forests or rivers, including high - profile indigenous activist Berta Cáceres, whose murder last year was the first to prompt international outrage.

Honduran hitmen kill fifth indigenous land activist amid protests against mining and illegal logging