Sentence examples for progressive protests from inspiring English sources

"You have shown that anti-capitalistic and other progressive protests do not have to be one-day wonders with violent disorder and breathless commentary, but that they can be patient and respectful even in the face of those which you say are destroying our society and our planet".

Launched on Sunday, NextProtest.com provides the time, place and topic of a handful of upcoming progressive protests in New York City.

As a belated happy birthday to the wizened young movement, we've compiled a slice of the internet's favorite old-school advertising for its favorite progressive protest.

Throughout American history, progressive protest movements have started with local actions and spread to other places as the word spreads, momentum builds, media pays attention, and politicians wake up.

"The stuff you're writing is bullshit, because politics is bullshit," Dylan once told Phil Ochs, who continued to write and perform topical songs and identify with progressive protest movements.

As the economy continues to hurt working families, and Congress takes its orders from corporate America, many people are asking: where's the progressive protest movement that will galvanize public attention, challenge the undue influence of the Tea Party, and focus public anger on big business?

At that time, Sanders spoke to progressives protesting outside the White House who had delivered over 2.5 million signatures against the move.

An estimated 400 employees took part in the strikes that began on Black Friday 2012 and rolled into the following year, with workers and progressive allies protesting the chain's pay practices outside its stores.

Earlier this year, Common Cause and a number of other progressive organizations protested the Koch brothers during their annual meeting here in California to raise awareness of their political money trail -- from Wisconsin to Nebraska.

WASHINGTON ― A progressive coalition organized protests at the home offices of 24 Republican senators Thursday to demand legislators oppose the Senate bill repealing the Affordable Care Act.

The current wave of progressive town hall protests and citizen pressure has been compared to the tea party activism that disrupted Democrats' town halls and helped get Republicans elected in the early years of Barack Obama's presidency.