Sentences with phrase «staged political protests»

Iranians have previously staged political protests as a result of the country's economic decline.

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As the current protest has grown, it has rekindled a desire for change amongst lower - working class citizens, as their daily struggle has finally returned to centre - stage of political debate.

In Germany, meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel saw a small UAV flown by protesters crash - land in front of her at a political event, and a group of protesters staged a protest during a German parliamentary debate on the procurement of armed drones for the Bundeswehr.

Political crisis in Ado - Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Wednesday took another dimension as lawmakers of state House of Assembly staged a protest on the highway against the freezing of the account of Governor Ayodele Fayose at the Zenith bank by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

Thousands of students, teachers, political activists and others staged a massive protest Saturday at the state Capitol, expressing anger at gun violence, particularly in schools, and frustration that Congress has not enacted tougher restrictions.

He stressed further that the exemplary leadership quality of Comrade Sunmonu actually liberated Nigeria our of economic recession as he staged several national protests to recover the nation's wealths from the hands of fraudulent political demagogues.

Kathleen Moran's son Sean has just been transferred to the hypersecure H - block in Belfast's notorious Maze prison, where he soon emerges as a young but important force in the extreme protest, known as the Blanket, that political prisoners are staging there.

More recently, Occupy Museums evolved out of the Occupy Wall Street movement and has staged protests and interventions — and secured a spot in the highly political 2017 Whitney Biennial.

She later staged anti-Vietnam war protests, marches surrounded by hippie followers, political performances and orgies where she painted the naked bodies of the participants with dots.

These groups, rooted in a political theater of the streets, are staging interventions in museums to protest precarious employment at home and exploitative conditions abroad.

Along with headliners Walid Raad and Khalid Rabah, standout contributions were Rabih Mroue's controversial political play How Nancy Wished that Everything Was an April Fool's Joke (2007), originally banned in Lebanon and then later allowed to take the stage after public protest, and Sharif Waked's video satire about what clothing to wear through a checkpoint, Chic Points (2003).

Victoria Miro stages a group exhibition by artists concerned with socio - political issues of their day, who question the status quo and the power structures found within societies, and who take the language of protest as a means to explore its potency.

Drawing particular attention to the language of twentieth - century protest groups, Hayes invites viewers and participants to re-experience moments of political and cultural oppression by staging protests, delivering speeches, and re-performing demonstrations.

Performance has become such a catchword in contemporary art circles, as artists and critics alike seek to characterize the current shifts in production toward acting out or interacting with audiences — frequently in order to intersect artistic practice with political agency and redefinitions of protest — that I ought to have entered Tate Modern's «The World as a Stage» with ears prickling and eyeballs peeled.