Sentences with phrase «when civil protest»

In a time when civil protest and disobedience is ever increasing, it is critical that our democracy protect the privacy and civil liberties of its citizens against government overreach as technology advances.

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Nearly two - thirds of respondents also said they'd support calling up the National Guard or reserves to address civil unrest like that seen in Charlottesville in August, when white supremacists clashed with counterprotestors, one of whom was killed by a car driven by a man who had protested with a white - supremacist group.

Even Mayor de Blasio praised the councilmembers» feckless manifestation, citing proudly his own «civil disobedience» arrest in 2013 when he protested the closing of Long Island College Hospital — which wound up closing anyway, after he was Mayor.

Dukes said Moskowitz had «hijacked the language of civil rights» when she said at a protest less than a mile away that the denial of an additional co-location at the school was about «educational justice.»

Protest rallies by supporters of Long Island College Hospital have been continuing on an almost daily basis, and at one of them, Assemblywoman Joan Millman folowed Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilman Steve Levin's earlier lead when she was arrested for civil disobedience.

Last year he drew howls of protest from civil liberties groups and advocates for the poor when he instituted routine warrant checks at a security post manned by deputies inside Ulster County's Department of Social Services.

Even when «Trapped» catches a rally for the protest group Operation Save America, the camera's attitude is civil, observant.

So when we were in the midst of a unit on civil disobedience and had read Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., articles on the «take a knee» protest, and some interesting political cartoons, I introduced the lyrics to Bob Dylan's «A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.»

When students engage in protests, civil disobedience, or any other form of activism, it's important for school leaders to listen to their concerns and to support their right to protest, says educational ethicist Meira Levinson.

It was a roller - coaster time in American political and social history, when our nation experienced civil rights protests, the start of Beatlemania, and growing involvement in Vietnam.

Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era January 11 — August 3 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Signs and protests were inseparable in the 1960s and produced maximum impact when photographed or filmed by the media.

It was also when the struggle for black civil rights became a defining — even unavoidable — feature of the American political landscape, both in moments of charged protest and those of provisional victory.

A 1968 plywood panel from a mural at Resurrection City (the protest encampment that formed that year in D.C.), for example, addresses a period when Civil Rights issues were at the forefront of American politics.

Fred Clark at Patheos» Slacktivist blog recently had a thoughtful post about when civil disobedience does and doesn't make sense as a method of protest:

Nick is a retired civil servant and a regular at the daily Preston New Road protests, which began on the 5th January when Cuadrilla announced they were starting work on the site.

One protest on Sunday will be protected by a «human chain», while a day of civil disobedience will take place when the summit ends on 12 December, dubbed as «red lines» day.

First, why is it called extremism when you try to «intimidate» companies into making policy decisions you prefer, when that intimidation is done through protest, campaigning and civil disobedience, when the grand old tradition of political lobbying and corporate campaign contributions essential does the same thing?

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.

Korean civil society is unusually strong, as global leaders learned when protests and public outcry successfully ousted former President Park Geun - hye.

A major event of the civil rights struggle took place here when students from North Carolina A&T University decided to protest segregation at the Woolworth's Cafeteria.