Sentences with phrase «student protest movement»

Farocki emerged as a filmmaker in Berlin during the international student protest movement, and over the past four decades he has transitioned from «guerrilla cinema» to essay films to video installations.

Galvanized by the international student protest movement of the late 1960s, Farocki developed an experimental documentary style integrating his own material with footage appropriated from a range of sources, including mass media, surveillance, and political propaganda.

The Summit will consist of a variety of lectures, performances and readings that address subjects such as the rising costs of higher education, the history of student protest movements, organizing around debt, and Cooper Union in the context of these spheres.

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Citing recent student movement protests, some of which involved 1960s style sit - ins at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts Amherst that motivated official review of the school's investment policies, she pointed to Yale.

Managua - At least six students were hurt Thursday when Nicaraguan police and civilian supporters raided a university searching for activists calling for the ouster of President Daniel Ortega, a protest movement spokeswoman said.

Alex Wind, one of the student activists with the #NeverAgain movement, high - fived his protesting teachers just before everyone filed back into school.

In the heady days of protest the seminary faculty and students could suppose that their movement was free and spontaneous — a supposition that Tietjen, retrospectively reflecting on events, terms a «myth» about the origins of Seminex.

And how did they feel about the student - protest movement, and what role ought the church to play in social and political affairs?

Liberation theology, liberation movements in Central America and the rest of South America, South Africa, Asia, etc., «People's Power» in the Philippines, student protests and a democratic reform movement in South Korea, as well as the stubborn persistence of dissidents in the Soviet Union, and Solidarity in Poland all bear witness, in their various and fragmentary ways, to peoples» fundamental desire to belong and to participate effectively in the decisions that shape their futures.

Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, stood up in their classrooms and walked out of their schools in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida.

It supports investigation efforts in the disproportionate suspension rates of black students and works with the Black Lives Matter movement to participate in protests, which perpetuates the myth that institutional racism is a cause of student failure.

The tensed atmosphere therefore made the protesting students to overpower security agents at the entrance of the state secretariat, which housed the office of the Governor, which was barricaded for hours, halting movement in and out of the secretariat.

Fernand said that Columbine students did not have the benefit of social media that now fuels the youthful protest movement, which Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - NY, called «the most successful protest in the history of America.»

On Wednesday, he joined a student walkout protesting gun violence, including the «die - in» in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the original home of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The protests peaked on 14 November when L'Onda (The Wave), the Italian student group that instigated the protests and now gives its name to the movement against the new laws, «invaded the city of Rome with colors and singing,» as Ravaglia, who took part in the march, puts it.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

Loud protests and initiatives, big and small, have created cracks in the standardized testing movement, resulting in the passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which now requires multiple indicators for making determinations of school quality and student prStudent Succeeds Act, which now requires multiple indicators for making determinations of school quality and student prstudent progress.

They are doing this by engaging as public citizens who are leading student organizing, participating in community - led school transformation and other active protest movements.

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.

The student voices in the Parkland movement also call to mind the circumstances around the landmark 1969 Supreme Court decision «Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District,» which also involved teens, schools and the freedom to protest.

Since then, the «opt out» movement has grown across the country and Connecticut as thousands of parents and students across the country are refusing to take state tests in protest of educational reforms associated with high - stakes testing.

He was born in China, survived 1976 Tangshan earthquake, participated in the Tiananmen Square student protests, and became one of the student leaders before escaping to the US after China cracked down on the movement.

His work was at the forefront of the Chinese Neo-Realist movement that took hold in the 1990s, and his artistic practice gained crucial momentum when, as a student, Liu experienced firsthand the aftermath of the protests at Tiananmen Square.

A robust student - led protest movement known as Free Cooper Union, started in fall of 2012, has been staging displays and distributing informational materials to bring transparency to a process that, to many, has felt anything but.

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.

The creation and reception of both land art and feminist art were indebted to the hippie movement and student protests of the late 1960s.

Various criticisms expanded challenging the educational systems, the student protests and the hippie movement and on a broad scale tried to revolutionize the world.

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.

On Wednesday, the students said 100 people from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will rally in Tallahassee at the state Capitol in the first organized protest of their movement, dubbed #NeverAgain.

The shooting reignited the passionate national discussion on gun laws and how to keep communities safe, catalyzing a protest movement led by the young students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.