Sentences with phrase «through years of protests»

Julia Walsh, who's led the group Frack Action through years of protests, hearing testimony, and other actions, helped deliver a thank you petition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo the day the fracking ban was formalized.

Julia Walsh, who's led the group Frack Action through years of protests, hearing testimony, and other actions, helped deliver a thank you petition to Governor Cuomo the day the fracking ban was formalized.

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CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

It was as if everything the school had worked for — a three - year turnaround through a federal grant, a revamping of the facilities and extracurricular activities — was erased by a protest that happened to take place directly across from the school's entrance.

A difference of 3.16 points was measurable through 15 years.17 A casual observation regarding reactions to such data demonstrates anger in individual mothers who protest that their bottle - fed infants turned out fine and went to college and graduate school.

With the growth in the commercialisation of public space, through sell - offs, a Peaceful Protest Act would also create a limited right of access to quasi-public land for the purposes of protest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted lasProtest Act would also create a limited right of access to quasi-public land for the purposes of protest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted lasprotest — as Tom Watson unsuccessful amendment to the Protection of Freedoms Bill attempted last year.

Fast - forward a couple of years, through leaks of TTIP chapters, exposés by journalists and huge protests, European countries are now falling over themselves to reject this deal.

Marshall says she and other advocates have learned, through the fracking fight, where years of protests eventually led Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process, that applying political pressure can work.

Two years ago thousands of French scientists marched through the streets of Paris to protest what many saw as a crisis.

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«It takes away a huge, huge chunk of money from their chunk of money» The fights in Maplewood and Millburn are reminiscent of what East Brunswick went through last year, before the DOE approved the charter school's application over parental protests and the local board of education's recommendation to deny the application.

KT: How did your collaboration with Laurie Jo Reynolds [an artist and campaigner for change in prisons] come about through Tamms Year Ten [a coalition, set up by Reynolds, of prisoners, ex-prisoners, families, artists and other concerned citizens who came together to protest about the Tamms supermax prison in Illinois where men were kept in permanent solitary confinement]?

Last year Vélez was featured in the Whitney Biennial, and a version of this piece was a prominent part of his display (which referred to the path that a review he wrote, «White Privilege in Criticism,» took through social media over the course of a year in which NATO protests, outrage over the Trayvon Martin verdict, and other political flashpoints occurred.)

The trans - friendly move comes after two - years of intense pressures from the student body, student activists previously protesting through ripping the gender signs off themselves, and penning «degendered» and simply «bathroom» on the restroom doors.

An extraordinary journey through art, politics, and society, with works by artists such as Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano, Mario Merz, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, recounting and reflecting on the contrasts, transformations and new artistic trends in Italy between the end of World War II and the years of protest, from the opposition between Realism and Abstraction in the postwar period to the triumph of Informal Art in the fifties, Pop Art, and Arte Povera and Conceptual Art in the sixties.

The potential environmental impacts had raised the project to the level of a campaign talking point, largely through ferocious criticism of President Obama from the left for approving it and inventive «#ShellNo» protests as the company deployed its vessels earlier this year: Read more...

The potential environmental impacts had raised the project to the level of a campaign talking point, largely through ferocious criticism of President Obama from the left for approving it and inventive «#ShellNo» protests as the company deployed its vessels earlier this year:

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.

-- who applied 5 times for permits to protest at designated venues their house evictions relating to the Chinese Olympics — have been sentenced to one year of «re-education through labour.»

Starting from the bottom: with regard to Argentina — there is no mention of the military junta in the mid-70s, nor the 30,000 (at the least) torture and killed, nor of the mothers and grandmothers walking for 20 or more years in silence protesting the killings in a Bueno Aires plaza, nor is there is mention of the billions of dollars of US military aircraft and other weapons (as well torturing equipment for sending high to low charges of electricity through various parts of the body (private parts though preferred, as they say), but sold to the junta in power which weighs heavily in the total external debt, nor of the wholesale and retail sale of government agencies or corporations, and of the rights of water (in the 1990s), and the default of the government on various debts and contracts: 40 or more cases before the courts and ICSID — seems the sanctity of the contract and personalty of the international organization is a barrier to putting an end these very crooked and immoral business transactions, etc..

In that year of 2010, in fact, the NUS helped organise one of the largest student protests in history, with up to 50,000 people marching through central London.