Sentences with phrase «where years of protests»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«In our experience, markets tend to over-react to political shocks, as was seen in the example of Tiananmen Square — where the Hang Seng fell 22 % in a single day, losing 37 % from its peak over the entirety of the protest period, before steadily recovering back to previous peak over the following year,» the team wrote.

His quick acceptance of the results eased tensions in the volatile nation where the latest presidential election, in 2013, narrowly won by Maduro, was bitterly disputed and where anti-government protests last year led to 43 deaths.

Four years after the first militant uprooting of Golden Rice, waves of protest mobilisations stir anew in the Philippines and Bangladesh against its commercialisation, while debate rages on in Indonesia, India and other Asian countries where Golden Rice is planned for commercial release.

Four years after the militant uprooting of Golden Rice, waves of protest mobilizations stirs anew in the Philippines and Bangladesh against its commercialization, while debate rages on in Indonesia, India and other Asian countries where Golden Rice is planned for commercial release.

The protests are aimed at BOTH Kronke and Wenger.They are both to blame for our demise.How Wenger was given a TWO YEAR CONTRACT last year was the final straw for the majority of fans who were demanding change.It was obvious Wenger was not only unable to maintain the 4th Place Trophy he had for years stayed was a Trophy in all but name, but would also fail to prevent us becoming nothing other than also rans within the chasing pack.And where are we now?SIXTH PLACE.That is down on last years pathetic effort and we show no signs of being able to improve with Wenger still in chaYEAR CONTRACT last year was the final straw for the majority of fans who were demanding change.It was obvious Wenger was not only unable to maintain the 4th Place Trophy he had for years stayed was a Trophy in all but name, but would also fail to prevent us becoming nothing other than also rans within the chasing pack.And where are we now?SIXTH PLACE.That is down on last years pathetic effort and we show no signs of being able to improve with Wenger still in chayear was the final straw for the majority of fans who were demanding change.It was obvious Wenger was not only unable to maintain the 4th Place Trophy he had for years stayed was a Trophy in all but name, but would also fail to prevent us becoming nothing other than also rans within the chasing pack.And where are we now?SIXTH PLACE.That is down on last years pathetic effort and we show no signs of being able to improve with Wenger still in charge.

Powell moved to Puerto Rico for three years where he worked for FEMA and participated in the Vieques protests to rid the island of the US Navy's presence.

There was the famous Peterloo massacre, where 15 people were killed protesting for the vote, but that was 80 years before the foundation of the Labour party.

Children from Hoosick Falls, N.Y., protested last year in Albany about the drinking water in their town, where water wells, at right, were contaminated with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid.

[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.

Recently the Rockland County Times reported that: Residents of New Hempstead, Pomona, Hillcrest, Spring Valley and New City have been protesting the plans for a slaughterhouse in New Square for several years, but apparently to little avail, as opponents say the plans are progressing to the point where actual construction may soon begin.

There are tens of thousands of unreported protests in China each year, a rising number of which are over environmental disputes in a country where rapid economic growth has taken its toll on the air, water and land.

The film isn't set in a definitive year, though it seems to be in a time where lynching and protesting were out of style, and casual racism has become the norm.

It took the protests at the May 1968 festival and the demands of festival critics like Jean - Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut to not only close down the festival that year but create a parallel section of films — the directors» fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) where the reputation for auteur film was established.

Where were they last year when the Tennessee Charter School Center organized a racially charged protest in front of the board offices, with a speaker telling those gathered «I need to feel your anger!»

The most dramatic moment came at a session two weeks ago where more than 300 teachers showed up, but even that lacked the outrageous flair of last year's Wisconsin protests.

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]?

Where traditional art has spent hundreds of years coming to a refined balance of aesthetic and concept, conceptual art emerged as a sort of protest.

Remembering MLK's assassination 50 years ago, The Atlantic shares LaToya Ruby Frazier's aerial photos of sites in Memphis, Chicago, and Baltimore where key Civil Rights protests of the past half century took place.

It's a worldwide march similar to the global March Against Monsanto, where millions of people around the world gathered to successfully protest the big biotech giant and Genetically Modified Food (GMOs) over the past couple of years.

As a teenager, she worked as a waitress at the very lunch counter where Ms. Griffin, «the Rosa Parks of Des Moines», staged her protests over racial discrimination some 10 years earlier.

In 2014, as a 14 - year - old schoolgirl, she was arrested for drawing a chalk flower on a wall where thousands of people created protest artworks.

When the National Association of Realtors decided last year that franchisors like Century 21 would be allowed to publish IDX listings in any markets where they had affiliated brokers, Horning and other brokers protested the move.