The human rights branch of the Organization of American States issued a blistering 300-page report Wednesday against Venezuela, saying that the oil-rich country run by President Hugo Chávez constrains free expression, the rights of its citizens to protest and the ability of opposition politicians to function.
Populism in its original form arose as a protest against the ability of agricultural, railroad and industrial interests to buy influence over government policy.
At his direction, the Russian parliament passed anti-gay legislation, a law prohibiting Americans from adopting Russian children, and measures restricting protests and the ability of foreign-funded N.G.O.s to operate inside Russia.
Moss will investigate "the orchestration of protest activity and the facilitation of that protest activity on Nauru, including the tactical use of children in those protests, to frustrate the ability of those working in the centre".
On August 19, North Dakota Republican Governor Jack Dalrymple declared a state of emergency surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, which triggered the ability of other states to offer help in North Dakota as part of EMAC.
SEIU contracts with nursing home chains, for example, have limited the ability of caregivers to protest and report unsafe conditions.
As economic interconnections increase among countries around the world, critics protest that this globalization is eroding the ability of governments to protect the interests of their citizens against those of multinational corporations.
And they say that using them would undercut the ability of the United States to protest when such tribunals are used against American citizens in other countries.
This is music that springs straight from Latin American culture in its lively pulses, hot and earthy choral chants, sensuous vocal nocturnes, bright fanfares and, altogether, its expression of suffering and death in terms of carnival -- of exuberance and joy in the ability of the living to protest and pray on behalf of the departed.
Judge Grosscup had not been trying to prevent damage but to cripple the ability of Debs and others to protest against the Pullman company.
