Sentences with phrase «when peaceful protest»

When their peaceful protest actions fail to achieve real progress, the women become radicalized, turning to vandalism and violence in a desperate attempt to be recognized as equals in the eyes of the law.

And when peaceful protest is met with guns and brutality, Billy kicks ass as a one - man - army of poetic justice.

Not exact matches

It sets distressing signals about race and protest, the same week as police moved in again on a peaceful Indigenous - led standoff against a North Dakota pipeline — and as Donald Trump rhetoric riles up believers in Second Amendment «remedies» when an election doesn't go their way.

The protests and sporadic gun battles in Sana'a rumbled on in Saleh's absence, but then, on 23 September, the crisis came to a head when Saleh returned to Sana'a, announcing that his government would work toward a peaceful resolution to the crisis, but refusing to relinquish power.

What good was the HRA when New Labour's database state was being built, tourists, photographers and trainspotters were routinely treated as terrorist suspects, and the right to peaceful protest was systematically eroded until it became almost a cipher?

Ninety - three per cent think everyone in the UK should have the right to peaceful protest, while 50 per cent think the police are too heavy handed or deploy too many officers when dealing with protests.

How can the police claim they have an order from above to come and disperse a peaceful protest, especially when there was no evidence of violence.

When Maskey organised a protest against a parade by Royal Irish Regiment soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in October 2008, he explained that he wanted «a peaceful, dignified protest» against the wars, but that he did want to see British forces returning without injury.

When a debate on Burma took place in 2007 in the aftermath of the regime's brutal suppression of peaceful protests in Burma, William Hague insisted on opening for the Opposition, even though David Miliband was on paternity leave and his then junior minister Meg Munn was deputed to speak for the government.

Peaceful grassroots protests for racial equality were met with police violence, as when, in April, high pressure hoses and dogs were turned on students in Birmingham, Alabama.

The International Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1966, to coincide with the date in 1960 when police killed 69 people in Sharpeville, South Africa at a peaceful protest against apartheid laws.