Sentences with phrase «says public protests»

Whether it is in Athens or on Wall Street, Fink says public protests are a simple statement of fear by people who are frightened for good reasons.

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Local government officials have approached his organization, because they worry whether their next development project will be the target of public protests, Ma said.

«It's outrageous, and a blatant attempt to confuse the public, that they are claiming they are joining a grassroots online protest that's explicitly intended to defend the Title II based net neutrality protections that people from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support,» Greer said.

(CNN)- Fred Phelps - the founding pastor of a Kansas church known for its virulently anti-gay protests at public events, including military funerals - has died, the church said Thursday.

The LDS Church released a statement in response to the protest saying, «Of course, the Church recognizes the right of groups to voice their opinion in the public square.

Among the other options the groups will consider is a protest against club sponsors, who Miles said «may be more sensitive to public opinion than some intransigent club owners appear to be.»

«Peaceful protest and civil disobedience have a long and proud history in this country, and are a perfectly legitimate response to plans that no - one voted for and no - one wants,» Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), said.

Donohue has used some colorful language during the public employee unions» furlough fight with Paterson, memorably saying during a protest outside the Capitol Monday that it's an «insult to a rodent» to compare the governor to a rat.

Individual SMS messages, emails, blog posts, Facebook messages, voice calls and YouTube videos are a lot harder to track — which is also why they're a lot more likely to be useful in a protest than, say, public Twitter posts that can be read by the police as well as the crowd.

The law, which fines groups and individuals for «public actions aimed at propaganda of pederasty, lesbianism, bisexuality, and transgenderism among minors» is an attempt to criminalise gay public protests in Russia, campaigners say.

The Ministry in a statement by its Director of Information, Salisu Na'inna Dambatta, said the payment of what the protesting staff called a Special Overtime (SOT), was stopped by the last administration in 2014 on the ground that it was not listed in any extant government Circular, Financial Regulations or the Public Service Rules.

While members of the not - for - profit have been regular critics of Paladino and his role on the Buffalo Public School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable hoPublic School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable hopublic funds that could be used for affordable housing.

PS 58 Chapter Leader Dan Lupkin said the governor's attack on public education had spurred a level of protest that was new for his school.

«I think that's long overdue,» said Rudley, a founder of a statewide test - protest group, New York State Allies for Public Education.

«This is insane, this is arrogant, and this is absurd,» council member Charles Barron, the founder of the a black and Latino led Freedom Party, said at the protest, calling Bloomberg's «private public search» for the appointee both egotistical and oxymoronic.

At a Council hearing on the NYPD's crowd control and protest procedures on Wednesday afternoon, Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Council's Committee on Public Safety, said public safety challenges are «complicated» at events involving large cPublic Safety, said public safety challenges are «complicated» at events involving large cpublic safety challenges are «complicated» at events involving large crowds.

Reacting, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Dolapo Badmus, said the traders did not need to protest, and that they should have just channelled their grievances in writing to the Police Commissioner.

But it seems safe to say that we are going through a phase of public protests around the world.

«Buffalo is a better place today because Carl Paladino no longer has any power or authority over the lives of tens of thousands of children of color in the Buffalo Public Schools,» the Buffalo chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, which has staged a series of anti-Paladino protests, said in a statement.

«Last fall, 43 student teachers protesting the attack on Mexican public schools were arrested and then found murdered,» said Magee.

One of Alcantara's politically active constituents said she wants the senator to hold a public forum — once the voter can take a break from protests on issues like Trump's immigration order.

The workers said to have made a public spectacle of government functionaries at the event and President Buhari's absence at the celebration is said to be one key factor for the protest at the Eagle Square's venue of this year's May Day Celebration.

Councilmember Donovan Richards, recently named Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Safety, has said he will also schedule a hearing on the NYPD's policing of protests.

Wednesday parents, students and community members gathered outside the Executive Mansion on Eagle Street in downtown Albany to protest what they say are «attacks on public education and teachers» and to call on the governor to «listen to all stakeholders before bringing forth another wave of misguided educational policies designed to dismantle public education.»

McCluskey said industrial action and protests were a valid response to the government's public sector pension reforms and pay freezes.

With specific reference to the Shiite members who resumed their protest, lately, Public Relations Officer of the command, ASP Mukhtar Aliyu, in a statement, said any breach of peace would be dealt with decisively.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says several groups stood together in solidarity in full - support of Buffalo Public school students who join the nation - wide protest.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald says the Republican - led chamber will pass a bill cutting collective bargaining rights for most public employees despite noisy protests inside the Capitol that have gone on...

Following a weekend firestorm of controversy, protests and bad national publicity Statehouse Republican leaders say they are taking whatever steps that are necessary to ensure the public that Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) can't be used to discriminate against Hoosiers based on sexual orientation.

Following the disruption of activity on Saturday evening along airport by some persons who were said to be protesting against the demolition of their shops at Gosa Market, the FCT Police Command wishes to inform members of the public that the situation has been brought under control and normalcy has been restored to the area.

Public defenders oppose courthouse arrests by immigration authorities, but administrators said lawyers» protests against the practice were disruptive.

The extreme right so called IS supporters make the mistake when carrying out indiscrimate attacks on the public around the World by trying to justify it by saying you supported wars etc. but instead of looking at the West as homogenous people they should recall that millions in West protested against the war in Iraq etc..

Howls of public protest were so loud that the pols backed off, or at least said they would.

Szablak said he would have protested before it was approved, but he believes the public notices were intentionally vague.

Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D - N.M., the DCCC's chairman, said Democrats see opportunity in the recent groundswell of public protests against Trump and the Republican - controlled Congress.

The recommendation follows years of protests by environmental groups who say the mushrooming of biosafety level 3 and BSL - 4 facilities across the United States since 2001 poses a public health risk.

If this comes to pass, «we will have one giant and a lot of dwarfs,» says Alain Trautmann, the public face of Sauvons la Recherche, a protest movement that brought thousands of researchers onto the streets last year to protest cutbacks in research funding.

The company building an oil pipeline that has been subject to sustained public protests said on Thursday it has resumed drilling beneath a North Dakota lake despite a last - ditch legal challenge from a Native American tribe leading the opposition.

Take the Flour Back, a group of activists that has invited the public to a day of protest at the site on Sunday, has said it has no connection to yesterday's incident.

Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white students in 1963, despite public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»

So the students said they wanted to write a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal protesting all the writing required in Louisiana's public schools these days.

Underscoring warring perspectives within the district, a Brooklyn public school on Friday sent a notice to parents urging them to protest the release, saying: «OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ARE NOT TEST SCORES!!»

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«Historical data indicates that making AYP under NCLB has been a significant struggle for Pennsylvania charter schools, with a consistently lower percentage of charter schools making AYP than traditional public schools,» the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, which also filed a legal brief in protest of the change, said in a statement.

And I just don't feel like as a public school parent, I have much of a voice except to become a part of a social movement, a protest movement which is saying that it's too much.»

A former Leesburg animal control officer who shot and killed a poodle owned by an 11 - year - old disabled boy was charged Thursday with animal cruelty.Doug Berwick, 33, shot the 8 - year - old poodle June 19 with a.22 - caliber rifle after he was unable to catch it.Police Chief Jim Brown suspended Berwick for five days without pay and recommended he be transferred to another department, but Berwick resigned as public protest grew.Bruce Haldeman, investigator supervisor for the 5th Judicial Circuit state attorney's office, said Thursday that Berwick, if convicted, would face a maximum penalty of up to one year in the county jail, a $ 5,000 fine or both.

«With so much protest art coming in from all over the country, I decided that the exhibition must be out in public for all to see and to travel if possible,» Waddell said.

Later, at the turn of the last century, he said, bidets installed in an upscale Manhattan hotel incited public protest, resulting in their removal.

Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo said: «This illegal boarding of a peaceful protest ship highlights the extreme lengths that the Russian government will go to keep Gazprom's dangerous Arctic drilling away from public scrutiny.

Vancouver, BC — EthicalOil.org today issued the following Reality Check: Today, a group of anti-Canadian pipeline protest groups released a 9 - month old poll on public attitudes regarding their foreign funding from foreign billionaire puppetmasters: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/foreign-funding-poll-british-columbians-worried-about-foreign-investment-canadian-resources-1604401.htm «The problem,» said Kathryn Marshall, spokesperson for EthicalOil.org and the new OurDecision.ca, «is that the poll was conducted 9 months... Continue Reading»