Sentences with phrase «to organize protests»

Our Centre, together with other community groups and individuals, organized a protest against the poster.

I won't organize a protest of some game because of content.

In the spring of 2016, hundreds of students across six college campuses organized a protest.

A larger group of people including, but not limited to, those with Hawaiian blood organized a protest, reportedly drowning out the smaller group.

But it's not as if the people organizing the protest hadn't thought of it.

Combine this story with recent coverage of the role of cell phones in organizing protests in Vietnam, China and The Philipines (terrific detail in that last one, btw), and we can see the new tools of political advocacy taking root where they might just do some good.

Feitosa also helped organize a protest in which community members linked their boats to barricade the mouth of a major river, blocking barges carrying illegal logs.

The Nation attributes the leak to Aliya Rahman, an Ohio - based activist who helped organize protests at ALEC's Spring Task Force meeting in Cincinnati.

Arsene Wenger has come under a lot of criticism in recent times from the fans following another disappointing campaign and the supporters are looking to pressurize the Frenchman to leave the Emirates Stadium at the end of the season by organizing protest marches, unfurling banners during games and even flying planes over stadiums with anti-Wenger messages.

In February, the Metro - Detroit Political Action Network organized a protest outside Metro City Church in Riverview, Michigan where the pastor was accused of administering gay conversion therapy.

Like all black women making art at the time, Ringgold's work was excluded from the city's major galleries and museums and she responded by organizing protests against the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

«It's ironic to see state employee union leaders organizing a protest on budget cuts that are a direct result of their labor deal, which has sucked our budget dry,» Fasano said.

The tone changes dramatically after Laurel's diagnosis, though it then takes another shift when Steve Carell enters as a flamboyant gay activist who organized protests against the Freeholders» decision.

The arrests occurred after the 13 unfurled banners that read, «Veterans Against Crestwood / Defending the Climate and Seneca Lake,» and formed a human chain at the entrance of the Crestwood Midstream property, blocking trucks from leaving and entering, according to We Are Seneca Lake, a group organizing the protest.

«If they were really just trying to add balance, why would they not consult with real historians,» says Kathleen Johnson, who is organizing the protest for American Atheists.

A group called Creatives of Colour Network organized a protest beside the red carpet against a lack of racial diversity in show business.

The Service Employees International Union Local 1877, a union workers group, the California Labor Federation and other local political activists organized the protest.

To educate women about the issue and urge them to take action, PP / CA also organized a protest of nearly a hundred advocates in front of the pharmacy.

Non-union autoworkers in Canada have never organized a protest to back a political demand before.

For example, a few years ago in the U.S. several denominations and the National Council of Churches organized a protest in the stockholder meetings of several corporations that advertise on high - violence TV programs.

The group recently organized a protest at the NAACP office, demanding that they denounce the group Black Lives Matter.

I am hearing about a planned organized protests by 3 AFC support groups come Saturday.

Community Voices Heard and VocalNY organized this protest.

Teenagers organized the protest after 17 people were gunned down on Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

He also spent a lot of time both in India and in South Africa organizing protests against apartheid policies, albeit, mostly ones targeting those of Indian descent.

In June 2010, the Metropolitan Council on Housing organized a protest at Klein's house.

The groups IndivisibleNY19 and NY21Votes organized the protest, according to their website, saying that Faso is not holding a town hall during March recess.

On Oct. 30, 2008, days before the election, Lyman and Mesley organized a protest in front of the Albany County Judicial Center and criticized Soares over a judge's decision to set bail for a man accused of pointing a gun at two Albany police officers.

[32][33][34] As home mortgage foreclosures increased, and details of the 2009 stimulus legislation became known, more organized protests began to emerge.

[26][27][28][29][30][31] In late 2008, Young Americans for Liberty, with the endorsement of Rep. Paul, organized a protest called the Binghamton Tea Party for January 24 of the following year where participants dressing in Native American costumes and dumping soft drinks into New York's Susquehanna River, as a protest of former NY Governor David Paterson's proposed 18 % tax increase on soda.

Suspicious, Rogers organized the protest letter to the journal.

Seeing my students organize this protest, take complete charge of Borough Hall and demand that their voices be heard was inspiring.

By GABRIELLA CRUZ - MARTNEZ Herald Intern Students from the University of Chicago organized a protest Thursday morning at the Booth S. Apr 14, 2003.

I guess that for all the drably predictable and preachy fictional stories, the inevitable simplifications, the sloganeering and the empty gestures standing in for symbols of protest and courage, I'm impressed with what he got in there: the sense of organization and planning that turned this loose confederation of activists and protest groups into the most effective organized protest in recent history.

In the meantime thousands of teachers have taken to the streets in union - organized protests over Klein's instructional dictatorship.

When the government wanted to build a 62 - storey skyscraper in Uhuru Park, the only park in the centre of Nairobi, Maathai organized the protests thanks to which the building plans were abandoned.

They went as far as organizing protests right outside Amazons Seattle headquarters, saying at the time «no student should be left behind.»

More than 60 ethnic Chinese families organized a protest in front of the Council building in Tangerang against the sale of land used as Chinese cemetery.

Carolyn, district librarian for Eanes (Texas) Independent School District and Lilead Fellow, created this Resources for Planning a Peaceful March to support youth and educators who are organizing protests related to gun violence.

L214's investigations help draw public attention to farmed animal welfare, 137 and some grassroots organizations organize protests to coordinate with their campaigns.138 L214 has also told us that they are the only animal advocacy organization in France frequently conducting investigations, 139 making them contributors to a neglected area of animal advocacy.

In 1971, female artists picketed the Corcoran Biennial in Washington D.C. for excluding women artists, and New York Women in the Arts organized a protest against gallery owners for not exhibiting women's art.

In addition to addresses by political figures, the Great Hall hosts semi-annual meetings of the New York City Rent Control Board, as well as incidental organized protests and recreational events.

As president of Eko Krog, he kept the community updated on the legal proceedings while organizing protests in Trbovlje and the capital.