Sentences with phrase «rally across the country»

And yesterday, unions held rallies across the country in an attempt to channel Martin Luther King who died 43 years ago in Memphis while supporting striking sanitation workers.

But no space was smaller and more dangerous than the green room of Green Room, whose pressure - cooker scenario has provided 2016 with its most suffocating, white - knuckle thrills — complicated, granted, by the death of leading man Anton Yelchin and the uncomfortable parallels between the film's hatemongering villains and the real ones bellowing at rallies across the country.

Witness the 11,500 - strong members of the company's Winnebago - Itasca Travelers Club, who socialize at spirited rallies across the country.

On Labor Day, activists gathered at Improving Birth rallies across the country to advocate for evidence - based maternity care.

As daughter of Burma's independence hero, General Aung San, Ms Suu Kyi soon became the leader of the opposition organising peaceful rallies across the country, These were brutally crushed by the army who then took over the government to set up a military junta.

American women stayed home from work, zipped up their wallets, wore red and joined rallies across the country to demonstrate their economic clout as part of International Women's Day events around the globe.

He also pointed to the recent rallies across the country to raise the minimum wage to $ 15, and to his own efforts to create affordable house and implement universal pre-kindergarten in New York City.

ACT for America, which has been labeled an extremist anti-Muslim group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that tracks hate groups, says it will hold «America First» rallies across the country on Sept. 9, including one in Syracuse.

Latinos have been the most visible group at the wave of immigrant - rights rallies across the country this spring.

Tens of thousands of Latino students helped fuel rallies across the country last week against federal proposals to crack down on immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

The shooting at Santa Fe High School marks the deadliest school shooting since a former student allegedly killed 17 at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in a Valentine's Day massacre that mobilized thousands for gun reform rallies across the country.

(Check out photos from rallies across the country, and a separate gallery dedicated to the march in Parkland.)

On the 7 month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican communities held rallies across the country and pressured elected officials to support the housing needs of displaced or homeless families, many of whom are facing eviction or the expiration of their FEMA hotel vouchers, leaving families and students with nowhere to go.

On the 7 month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican communities held rallies across the country and pressured elected officials to support the housing needs of displaced or homeless families...

On the 7 month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican communities held rallies across the country and pressured...

On the 7 month anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican communities held rallies across the country and pressured...

Take Occupy Wall Street — it is costing millions, maybe even a billion dollars nationwide, to police, clean - up, and monitor their protests and rallies across the country.

The rallies across the country drew massive crowds and were marked by speeches and call - and - response chants.