The coalition of workers and intellectuals, operating largely under the protective umbrella of the church, was in fact building a civil society.
In 1978 Romero attempted to improve his administration's image abroad by abrogating the hated Law of Defense and Public Order, but government repression continued, as did the protests of a populist coalition of workers, peasants, and students called the Popular Revolutionary Bloc.
The honorees represent a coalition of workers, human-rights activists, and lawyers that was forged in 2013, the citation said, "when the democratization process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest".
Interestingly enough, all the governments between 1955 and 1973 tried, to the extent of their possibilities, to deepen the import-substitution process, which was still backed by an increasingly weakened coalition of workers and industrialists.
A coalition of workers known as OUR Walmart - which is backed by traditional US labour unions - have been staging one-day strikes over the past two years demanding the retailer raise wages and improve its scheduling for workers, among other concerns.
A spokesperson for the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, a Los Angeles-based coalition of workers' groups, said Arpaio's "neighborhood sweeps" have terrorized residents, and that many fear the police.
Ron Kaminkow, the general secretary of the labor coalition Railroad Workers United (RWU), told VICE News that his members don't decide what the railroads carry but they insist it be carried safely.
Recently, a coalition of workers' rights groups, student organizations, teachers' unions and colleges wrote Duncan to demand that the department prohibit Sallie Mae from servicing federal student loans until the company complies with government rules.
On May 31, a great and historic coalition of workers, labor organizations and community groups like the Working Families Party, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, UnitedNY and many others -- with support from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo -- came together to declare a new day for workers across New York State.
