Sentences with phrase «rights protest movements»

Focusing on photographs, collage works, performances, films and videos produced throughout the 1970s, the exhibition reflects a moment during which practices of emancipation, gender equality and civil rights protest movements became part of public discourse.

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Activists from the movements for Black lives, immigrant rights, Muslim freedom, and others protesting to save their lives, protect their families, or defend their environment and land can't wait for data protection.

What had begun as mainline Protestant support for the classic civil - rights movement quickly morphed into liberal Protestant support for black militancy, the most strident forms of anti-Vietnam protest, the most extreme elements of the women's movement and the environmental movement, the nuclear - freeze and similar agitations, and, latterly, the gay - liberation movement.

Then he formed Blacks protest movement for civil rights.

That such comportment is not inconsistent with protest for redress of grievances is a great lesson and a great legacy of the civil rights movement.

However, in this minority were leaders of protest movements as well as prominent national leaders of denominations, and right beside them were agents of national media.

«Civil Disobedience» has been criticized as naïve, but this «bible of protesting minorities» profoundly influenced both Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and, through them, both Indian independence and the U.S. civil rights movement.

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.

American feminism of the 19th century was born of the abolitionist movement, and of equal significance with Friedan's book as impetus for the current women's movement was the experience of women in the civil rights and antiwar protests of the «60s.

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.

«A lot of my friends are protesting in Washington, D.C., right now, and I see them on TV and it's like we've changed from these high schoolers living our daily lives to revolutionaries, starting this whole entire movement,» Shanahan said.

Perhaps a new «third way» that avoids the over-simplistic definitions of right - wing capitalism and left - wing socialism is needed, because even though the aims of the protest movement would seem to be leaning towards a social - democratic, «leftist» welfare state, a significant number of protesters clearly do not wish to detach themselves from the political right, and are very much opposed to being associated with the left.

Interestingly, this protest movement does not seem to be drawing inspiration from a purely left - wing or right - wing agenda; although it is the «founding fathers» of the Israeli right that are frequently quoted and praised (perhaps nostalgically) rather than the country's socialist founders.

The current Labour Party is not a protest movement against the right anymore, as critics used to suggest.

The goal of the protests, he said, is to organize a movement that will give the people of New York the right to vote on the issue of gay - marriage, which New York politicians took upon themselves to legalize without hearing the people.

Labour leader Ed Miliband addressed crowds in Hyde Park, telling demonstrators they came from a long line of protest movements, citing the suffragettes, the civil rights movements in America and the anti-apartheid struggle.

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.

Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements.

The investigative and protest movement that was started by a few women in Beverly Hills has spread throughout the city, with large animal rights organizations jumping on board in an effort to educate shoppers that 20 % of the dogs in the shelter system are purebred dogs who need homes.

And Artforum was still the locus of formalist criticism, which was proving increasingly unable to account for art that contributed to larger cultural movements, like Civil Rights, women's liberation, anti-war protests, and more.

Other exhibitions such as «It Takes a Nation: Art for Social Justice: With Emory Douglas, and the Black Panther Party, Africobra, and Contemporary Washington Artists» at American University in Washington, D.C., and «Ruddy Roye: When Living is a Protest» at Steven Kasher, make the connection between earlier black rights movements and today's Black Lives Matters activism.

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).

Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movement and explains how historical events, such as the all - male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions.

In the shadow of the Vietnam war «with the near - complete failure of the 1968 protest movements in Paris and elsewhere and with the Vietnam War uninterrupted, her spare canvases no longer looked right to her.

The protest was the first major demonstration for women's rights in Peru and is part of the «#NiUnaMenos» movement that has taken hold of Latin America over the past year.

Civil - rights marches, the women's liberation movement and anti-war protests were raging.

Through nearly 100 objects, the show aims to upend dominant narratives of the period and to unearth rich stories by examining watershed cultural moments from the Hairy Who to the Wall of Respect, from the Civil Rights movement to the AfriCOBRA, from vivid protest posters to visionary outsider art, and from the Free University movement to the radical jazz of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

The basis for Arte Povera was furnished by the political protest movements of the late 60s — student revolts and civil rights efforts, and a general opposition to consumerism and the increasing commercialisation of the art world.

It is unconscionable that journalists and leading figures from the tripartite alliance could ignore the fundamental human rights of foreign nationals and hawk fictitious stories that the vicious attacks and looting were part of an anti-Mahumapelo protest movement.

But in all successful social movements gone by — from the suffragettes to the civil rights protests to the anti-apartheid movement — civil disobedience has been a carefully used tool in a much larger arsenal.

Mayor Bloomberg's brazen refusal to acknowledge a court order upholding the Occupy movement's right to protest reveals a dangerous contempt towards free assembly in public places, a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.

One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit - in movement began on February 1, 1960, when four African - American college students sat down at the whites - only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina.

That is not how the civil rights movement or the ’68 protests in Europe or here made their marks.