Blockades

The rail blockades hurt both our agriculture and energy sectors, so to bring a band in that actively promotes the blockades goes against what this community thrives on,” Hagan said.

Banners and posters at blockades regularly call for bringing back cheap nationwide rail passes, a popular temporary policy from last summer, and imposing a 100-kph speed limit on the country’s highways to promote fuel efficiency.

Bishop was among those who showed their frustration with McCarthy by putting up procedural blockades to conducting regular House business and advancing GOP bills.

Blockades by aggrieved lorry drivers in 2000 caused huge disruption in Britain, while protesters upset by high fuel prices also disrupted motorways last year.

Despite these attacks, struggles and blockades, the ABWU continues to fight for an increasing number of members seeking representation, according to the organisation’s president, which further cements its commitment to this year’s theme.

In the spring of 2021, I went to visit the Fairy Creek blockades.

Lai is accused of conspiring with others to call for sanctions or blockades, or engage in hostile activities, against Hong Kong or China.

More recently, Parliament passed legislation that would make blockades of critical infrastructure such as roads, airports and railways punishable by prison terms.

Peru's ombudsman office said there were more than 90 blockades across the country on Wednesday and one person was killed in Cusco city.

Protests, community or political opposition, and blockades involving sabotage and violent intimidation have bedevilled the construction of both the Coastal Gaslink pipeline and the TransMountain Pipeline expansion.

Senior police officer Suhail Sukhera said police moved to remove encroachments and blockades erected by Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party and his defiant supporters.

Shaded by the towering spruce, hemlock and cedar, she listened to the Guardian Watchman tell the story of the 1980s “War in the Woods” and the series of Indigenous-led blockades to stop the island from being logged.

The economic fallout of the war in Ukraine, and continued blockades of Ukrainian grains had intensified the famine crisis in East Africa while millions of lives are at risk due to hunger and mass starvation.

The government agencies also warned that road blockades have also triggered shortages and increases in the prices of basic food and fuel.

The imposition of collective punishment in the form of mass expulsions, blockades and unilateral coercive measures entails retrogression in terms of civilization and human rights.

The Irish Daily Mail reports that new blockades have been set up across centres for asylum seekers across the country, after an elderly man was allegedly assaulted at Corofin in Clare yesterday.

Thousands of pupils could not attend school last week due to taxi blockades that the department calls illegal.

We see collective punishment against entire civilian populations in the blockades imposed against people considered unilaterally by some countries as dangerous or hostile.

At the same time, the commission is considering amending the licenses of the other three dams to permit their operator, Brookfield Renewable, which also owns the Shawmut, to pursue feeble efforts to develop ways for fish to bypass these blockades.

Chinese forces in the Taiwan Strait have become increasingly aggressive in recent years, routinely staging invasion drills and simulating blockades around the island.