Sentences with phrase «protests by campaigners»

There has been growing controversy over the work experience programme in recent weeks with a series of protests by campaigners.

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A large protest against climate change due to coincide with the Paris talks last month was banned by police, leading thousands of campaigners to symbolically leave their shoes along the route it would have taken.

Originally written as a protest song against boarding schools, the song has gone on to be adopted by protesters in apartheid South Africa and campaigners against the West Bank barrier.

Parliament faced one of its most bizarre protests this lunchtime as liberal - minded campaigners demonstrated against pornographic censorship by sitting on each other's faces.

Parliament faces one of its most bizarre protests as liberal - minded campaigners demonstrate against pornographic censorship by sitting on each other's faces

Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.

KT: How did your collaboration with Laurie Jo Reynolds [an artist and campaigner for change in prisons] come about through Tamms Year Ten [a coalition, set up by Reynolds, of prisoners, ex-prisoners, families, artists and other concerned citizens who came together to protest about the Tamms supermax prison in Illinois where men were kept in permanent solitary confinement]?

The practice has inflamed passions between ranchers and animal - rights campaigners led by the Buffalo Field Campaign, which today kicked off a week of protests.

Scenes of «panic policing» were unanimously condemned by the House of Lords in Laporte, a test case against the Gloucestershire police brought after campaigners travelling to a demonstration were locked into their coaches by police and forcibly escorted away from the protest, without toilet stops, causing what Lord Bingham described as «acute physical discomfort and embarrassment.»