Sentences with phrase «war protesters»

"War protesters" refers to individuals or groups of people who publicly disagree with or oppose a particular war. They express their disagreement by organizing demonstrations, protests or other forms of activism against the war. Full definition
Her father, Chuck Davenport, had served as an army medic for two years in Vietnam, returning in 1971 as a decorated veteran with a case of malaria and a uniform that drew epithets and gobs of spit from war protesters.
Mark Wallinger's anti-war protest replica wins Turner Prize Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India); December 4, 2007; 452 words... the prestigious Turner Prize for his replica... Iraq war protester Brian Haw.
Later, Paul warned about the ambiguity over who could be targeted by drones, suggesting that they could have been used against Vietnam War protesters in the 1960s.
Probably the same place as Code Pink and all the liberal war protesters are now.
Among the works in this show is Marc Riboud's famed 1967 photograph of a Vietnam War protester placing a flower in the barrel of a policeman's gun.
Irish juxtaposes the writing of a Vietnamese poet with images of American war protesters; poetry of a Vietnam War veteran with lavish rococo interiors that represent a suggested oligarchy.
And while the plot about kings and noblemen socking it to the middle class and poor with higher taxes resonates today — for tea party loyalists, this «Robin Hood» could become a rallying point like «Fahrenheit 9/11» was for Iraq war protesters — the screenplay never really knows what it wants to say about it.
Actor Bill Murray said the Parkland, FL students protesting gun violence after a mass shooting at their school reminded him of Vietnam War protesters.
He despises the Vietnam war protesters and black revolutionaries as antipatriotic ingrates seeking only their own aggrandizement.
In the only moment where The Post attempts to conjure this milestone era, Graham enters the Plaza Hotel across the street from a gathering of war protesters, panning across a small chanting mob, a group of hippie folk singers, and a man with a bullhorn standing next to a veteran in a wheelchair.
The second half of the film focuses on Kovic's evolution to at first being angry with the war protesters, to eventually joining them.
Like Lansdale novels and good noir, the series is populated with eccentric characters, ranging from the war protester who blew off half his face with a homemade bomb to the psychotic killers who are downright terrifying.
Vietnam War protesters, he says, often employed a similar strategy to speak out against corporate involvement in what they considered an unjust military action.
Brian Haw The Herald; June 22, 2011; 700 + words... war protester; Born January 7, 1949; Died June 18, 2011 Brian Haw, who has died aged 62 of cancer, was a peace campaigner... immortalised as a work of art in January 2007 when former Turner Prize nominee Mark Wallinger meticulously recreated his camp in...
Examples of juror veto include juror refusal to convict violators of the federal Fugitive Slave Act, prohibition - era juror refusal to convict people with whiskey, and jurors today refusing to convict peaceful gun owners, property owners, war protesters, tax protesters, and alternative medical therapy patients.
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