The city's pro-democracy Occupy Central movement – fighting for "one person, one vote" and universal suffrage in line with international standards rather than with so-called "Chinese characteristics" that allow Beijing to pre-screen candidates first – staged a landmark protest against Beijing's announcement for the 2017 election.
The city's pro-democracy Occupy Central movement -- fighting for "one person, one vote" and universal suffrage in line with international standards rather than with so-called "Chinese characteristics" that allow Beijing to pre-screen candidates first -- staged a landmark protest against Beijing's announcement for the 2017 election.
Dr. Martin Luther King turned to an actor and singer, Harry Belafonte, to help lead landmark protests including the 1963 march on Washington.
When the civil rights movement heated up, Bibb joined Seeger, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary and other folk singers at landmark protests, including the 1963 March on Washington.
April 2010 Source: Landmark Media Iranians protest at the Swiss Embassy in Tehran after an American pastor, Terry Jones, threatened to burn copies of the Koran.
Taxi drivers had converged on the landmark in protest over the Uber mobile phone app for booking private journeys in and around London.
Join us for the opening of student-curated exhibit "Black Students Matter: Taking Over Allen in '69" on the 50th anniversary of the landmark student protest.
A few weeks later, when thousands of New Yorkers flooded the streets, bridges, highways, and landmarks to protest the grand jury decision to not indict Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD cop who placed Staten Island resident Eric Garner in a chokehold that resulted in his death, counterterrorism officers were deployed at the demonstrations.
The landmark civil rights protest on Aug. 28, 1963, drew more than 200,000 people to the District and is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
The landmark civil rights protest on Aug. 28, 1963 drew more than 200,000 people to the District and is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Elly, along with other veterans of the Bentley Blockade last year's landmark anti-fracking protest in NSW's Northern Rivers promise to stand their ground once more if Coal Seam Gas giant, Metgasco makes good on its plans to return to the region and commence mining following a supreme court decision to overturn the suspension of their drilling license.
