What does civil disobedience look like during a Trump presidency?
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Catalonia's main secessionist groups have called for widespread civil disobedience.
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In response, Catalan separatist leaders called for mass civil disobedience.
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There wasn't a threat to community violence or civil disobedience.
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Do we want people to be arrested in civil disobedience?
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Moms 4 Housing inspires a movement with nonviolent civil disobedience
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And then we'll go to Washington and do civil disobedience.
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One man suggested civil disobedience: refuse to pay property taxes.
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Civil Disobedience: Complete Texts With Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays.
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The movement's grassroots plan "civil disobedience" over an extended period.
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Life as a Runway Civil disobedience comes in many forms.
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They cast their uprising as a patriotic act of civil disobedience.
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Activists have called for more acts of civil disobedience this week.
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I was just arrested for civil disobedience in the Kavanaugh hearings.
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There was no clear consensus on the parameters for civil disobedience.
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Back in 2016, House Democrats had to resort to civil disobedience.
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Pashinyan calls for a nationwide campaign of non-violent civil disobedience.
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How do you feel about engaging in civil disobedience on Wednesday?
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The other image is one of peace, resistance and civil disobedience.
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"I'm old enough to remember how civil disobedience escalates," he said.
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His senior thesis was on civil disobedience: Thoreau, Gandhi and King.
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He has since called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience.
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Jim Crow laws were defeated through mass protests and civil disobedience.
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But the goal of civil disobedience is to make others uncomfortable.
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Already, there are calls for civil disobedience to resist such humiliation.
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That's the rationale behind doing civil disobedience and telling the truth.
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Outside of civil disobedience the Council can not control those activities.
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Activists have also held rallies and engaged in acts of civil disobedience.
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You also have these affinity groups coming together for planning civil disobedience.
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From there, they headed to Congress for their act of civil disobedience.
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Cher's first brush with politics was an act of teenage civil disobedience.
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There are also equally brave acts of non-violence and civil disobedience.
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The activists were trained in nonviolent civil disobedience and got legal support.
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Barber has previously been arrested for civil disobedience in civil rights demonstrations.
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Extinction Rebellion advocates civil disobedience, leading to arrests for disruption, not destruction.
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More delays stemming from litigation, divestment campaigns, and civil disobedience are likely.
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They are doing so knowing they will be arrested for civil disobedience.
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Skirmishes broke out as activists engaged in coordinated acts of civil disobedience.
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It's time to get avant-garde with our acts of civil disobedience.
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The Declaration of Freedom and Change announced a general strike and civil disobedience.
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Some demonstrators have promised to engage in peaceful civil disobedience and invite arrest.
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Otherwise they called for civil disobedience and a general strike from April 4.
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Wong chose not to fight the charge in the spirit of civil disobedience.
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Civil disobedience in Sheffield's increasingly non-leafy suburbs may soon be cut down.
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In fact, King used violence, integrating it into his strategy of civil disobedience.
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Meanwhile, the civil disobedience strategies of ADAPT activists have worked — and gone viral.
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Opposition leaders have called for a nationwide strike and civil disobedience next week.
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Organizers had previously told CNN this was a planned act of civil disobedience.
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A Bombay message states that the notorious apostle of "civil disobedience" was arrested.
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When I originally started brewing, it was solely an act of civil disobedience.
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Opposition leaders appear to be pinning their hopes on acts of civil disobedience.
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There were calls for civil disobedience and concerns about America slipping toward dictatorship.
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We should view the actions of Anonymous through the lens of civil disobedience.
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If it metes out long jail sentences, civil disobedience in Catalonia may follow.
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Ten organizers were arrested in New York in an act of civil disobedience.
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That means your aim is not the public, expressive one of civil disobedience.
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It's called civil disobedience, and it can succeed when the cause is sympathetic.
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"This is a civil disobedience movement to highlight oppressive government laws," he added.
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So we began to engage in what now is fondly known as civil disobedience.
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As violence continued to mark protests, a mass civil disobedience campaign also emerged nationwide.
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It's unclear what charges they will face, but they will likely include civil disobedience.
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" Walsh later said on Twitter that he was referring to "acts of civil disobedience.
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Demonstrators eschew violence, but are willing—indeed, eager—to be arrested for civil disobedience.
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Two years later, he was ordered to pay an $8,000 CAD civil disobedience fine.
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Newsom told me that he remained proud of his original act of civil disobedience.
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A few sections concerning acts of civil disobedience and environmental activists feel somewhat labored.
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If legal action fails, Trans Mountain's opponents say they will resort to civil disobedience.
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We're from a left-wing activist community where civil disobedience isn't an uncommon thing.
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"The speaker engaged in a small-but-necessary act of legislative civil disobedience," Rep.
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Neal Jose Wilkinson, a pastor in San Diego, made a plea for civil disobedience.
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In his 1963 "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" defending nonviolent civil disobedience, the Rev.
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The defendants appeared outside the courtroom, unrepentant and still defending civil disobedience and democracy.
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That unprecedented step was implemented smoothly and calls for civil disobedience were widely disregarded.
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" In "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau does not "lend [himself] to the wrong which [he condemns].
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A new group, Tsunami Democratic, has emerged, advocating more active forms of civil disobedience.
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"It deserves nothing less than civil disobedience," the state GOP said in a statement.
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The core point is that it's a no-brainer that mass civil disobedience works.
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Confronted with civil disobedience against the Vietnam War and racial subordination, Rawls and his cohort developed the canonical modern image of civil disobedience: as an appeal to the country's higher principles, a fragment of lawbreaking in support of a larger fidelity to law.
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The opposition have responded by declaring civil disobedience that has curtailed life in the capital.
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Perhaps half the 2m independence supporters want to pursue civil disobedience, says the government adviser.
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The Trump presidency hasn't even started yet, but it's already time for some civil disobedience.
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Some of the territory's citizens would resist, directly or in a campaign of civil disobedience.
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Volunteers prepare for nonviolent civil disobedience by training for sit-in harassment in Petersburg, Virginia.
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This was a dangerous type of patriotism, not a polite demonstration or mild civil disobedience.
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And they disagreed with the defendants' plea for leniency on the grounds of civil disobedience.
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Instead, Su says, she was a "fierce" activist who'd attended training camps for civil disobedience.
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She was imprisoned on January 1, 19423 for her role in the Civil Disobedience Movement.
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Defendants have cast the uprising as an act of patriotic civil disobedience against government excess.
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What's more, it will be a civil disobedience movement, a vehicle for confronting the government.
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So I do not preclude the possibility of civil disobedience and even going to jail.
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Throughout this hot summer of civil disobedience, Hong Kong's leaders have been astonishingly tone-deaf.
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Which is why I enjoyed this experiment in online civil disobedience from researchers at Mozilla.
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Once in DC, the organizing continues with a sustained civil disobedience campaign targeting President Trump.
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After a year of protests, more than 900 people had been arrested for civil disobedience.
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Otis said that he has been arrested multiple times over the years for civil disobedience.
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Fourth Universalist planned to hold a discussion of civil disobedience at a service next month.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Natives fished the waters in an act of civil disobedience.
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So is the lab encouraging people to break laws or commit acts of civil disobedience?
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What can we learn from times in the past when civil disobedience has not worked?
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The Navy continued to bomb Vieques after that, catalyzing a wave of protests and civil disobedience.
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The specific charges against him say he was involved in organising meetings to prepare civil disobedience.
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Barrientos said she had practiced civil disobedience before, and was attending the course for a refresher.
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Immigration activists stage a civil disobedience to shut down Independence Avenue March 5 on Capitol Hill.
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Maxine Waters encouraging such public pushback, the line between civility and civil disobedience is a blur.
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That display of civil disobedience got Becky Crabtree, who's never faced criminal charges, arrested on Tuesday.
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"I was just arrested for civil disobedience in the Kavanaugh hearings," Perabo wrote in her tweet.
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For them, it's all gloom and doom in all of its flag-burning, civil disobedience glory.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the transcendentalist author and advocate for civil disobedience took a passive approach to happiness.
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Our struggle is a struggle of non-violence, it is a peaceful act of civil disobedience.
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The week of President Donald Trump's inauguration, thousands of Americans used civil disobedience to disrupt events.
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Hardliners might now push for an abandonment of the referendum in favor of civil disobedience tactics.
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She said Iran's government was "scared of women practising civil disobedience and engaging in peaceful protest".
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"I feel like the law is wrong, so it's an act of civil disobedience," she said.
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Protesters promise campaign of "civil disobedience" designed to dissuade Johnson from following through on his plan.
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But they are also gearing up for confrontation with the police, including training in civil disobedience.
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"An aggression which will be met with massive civil disobedience," the CUP said in a statement.
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"If they see civil disobedience, fine; if they see civil unrest, those buyers will pull back."
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In Britain, the new climate protesters call themselves Extinction Rebellion and clog streets through civil disobedience.
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Prosecutorial power is already being used to deter people from organizing any form of civil disobedience.
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The authors were recently released from prison for a civil disobedience action protesting the CPV plant.
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Meanwhile, he's also calling for Indians to fight the CAB with a nationwide civil disobedience movement.
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Most demonstrations happening in the capital are adamant about remaining calm and don't encourage civil disobedience.
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As of June 26, 2018, non-violent civil disobedience remains a punishable exercise of First Amendment rights.
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She gave a remarkable interview on Pacifica radio a month after her historic act of civil disobedience.
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Even if I'm taken by the police and charged with civil disobedience, I'm totally fine with it.
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Environmental groups and some indigenous groups have vowed to stop the pipeline expansion through widespread civil disobedience.
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Catalan leader Puigdemont and his government have called for civil disobedience to defy the direct rule move.
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Bundy and others cast the occupation of the wildlife refuge as a patriotic act of civil disobedience.
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On Friday, millions joined a 24-hour shutdown as part of a civil disobedience campaign against Maduro.
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It aims to use non-violent civil disobedience to force governments to cut carbon emissions more quickly.
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The charge sheet accused him of coercing workers to stay away from work and encouraging civil disobedience.
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My mother had dragged her preschool-aged son to what was essentially an act of civil disobedience.
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They would be engaging in an act of civil disobedience in the interest of a higher justice.
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Opposition candidates say the March vote was fraudulent and have called for a campaign of civil disobedience.
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The former "Covert Affairs" star tweeted: I was just arrested for civil disobedience in the Kavanaugh hearings.
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That would inform his next great work, "Civil Disobedience," read by millions, including Gandhi and the Rev.
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Madani said an open-ended civil disobedience campaign would continue to force the military council from power.
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Parks was arrested for the act of civil disobedience and was convicted days later of disorderly conduct.
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But its investigation of civil disobedience and organized resistance feels heartbreakingly timely and intensely necessary (2:866).
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But its investigation of civil disobedience and organized resistance feels heartbreakingly timely and intensely necessary (2:00).
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"If they deny us the right [of the referendum], we will start with civil disobedience," Tintori warned.
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Let's see how he really feels about 'civil disobedience' if it shows up at his front door.
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It was all part of a global civil disobedience campaign demanding immediate government action on climate change.
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Organizer Vera Parra told Hyperallergic that some 400 people gathered to watch the act of civil disobedience.
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The judge used the phrase to attack the concept of civil disobedience, which underpinned the Umbrella Revolution.
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""We&aposve heard from people all over the world who are inspired by our nonviolent civil disobedience.
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A plaque explaining his act of civil disobedience now stands on the spot where he was arrested.
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I do hope that Anonymous will take one final lesson from the history of civil disobedience, however.
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They turn civil disobedience into viral social media campaigns that have ultimately led to actual political traction.
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The group has used demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience to pressure police chiefs and elected officials.
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Dr. Barber is apt to politicize his sermons on Sundays and advocate civil disobedience to win change.
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It is not clear how planned Murray's arrest was, but it became an act of civil disobedience.
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Separatist parties have agreed on massive but peaceful "civil disobedience" if the 12 leaders are not acquitted.
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"This will be a sustained civil disobedience campaign, so bring what you need to stay," they added.
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And six weeks of "direct action and nonviolent civil disobedience" are planned starting May 13, Mother's Day.
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The most effective way to change society in a rapid way is through mass, nonviolent civil disobedience.
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Universities are filled with supplies and facilities that protesters quickly discovered can be repurposed for civil disobedience.
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Some were trained in non-violent civil disobedience training Wednesday night, according to the Women's March twitter account.
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At the session on Thursday, union members learned about the principles and practices of civil disobedience, such nonviolence.
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Nonviolent civil disobedience is among the most patriotic of American traditions, and we all just think it's necessary.
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Six months later, mass civil disobedience returned to the streets of London and 60 cities across the world.
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Corrigan is a vocal opponent of the pipeline project and has pledged civil disobedience to help disrupt construction.
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Details: London police have arrested more than 1000 protesters since the civil disobedience action began on April 15.
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On July 1st they announced plans for further action, including two days of civil disobedience later this month.
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The majority of the civil rights activists were nonviolent and engaged in organized acts of strategic civil disobedience.
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"We have to remember that cannabis reform has happened on the heels of civil disobedience," he told me.
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Individual employees could appeal to similar logic, casting the refusal to code as an act of civil disobedience.
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Hughes had called his flight an act of civil disobedience to publicized the need for campaign finance reform.
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"Civil disobedience is a strategic intentional tactic," Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Women's March, said last week.
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In 2013, Walsh suggested breaking the law and to "engage in civil disobedience" to defy Obamacare in Chicago.
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Any new checks would likely soon become the target of both peaceful civil disobedience and then terrorist attacks.
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The largest civil disobedience campaign of the 21st century is happening now in 38 states across the nation.
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Such activism follows a series of acts of civil disobedience against Iran's decades-long restrictions on women's freedom.
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Both of us came to D.C. and engaged in non-violent civil disobedience to fight for our lives.
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It was a network of artists, intellectuals and students who disseminated pamphlets and posters calling for civil disobedience.
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If you intend to engage in civil disobedience, having a plan in case of arrest is especially vital.
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This week he transformed the opposition coalition into the National Resistance Movement, vowing to engage in civil disobedience.
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Imagine a world where you had the chamber do a civil disobedience, what that would that look like.
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While serving two months for civil disobedience after a demonstration at the Trident Submarine Base in Bangor, Wash.
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Yes, on the classical theory of civil disobedience, you are supposed to act openly and take your punishment.
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The opposition leader has called upon his supporters to continue civil disobedience and block roads, railways and airports.
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Others blame the growing Black Lives Matter movement, arguing that civil disobedience is what leads to police maltreatment.
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The new campaign is planning to launch six weeks of nonviolent civil disobedience on May 226, Mother's Day.
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MA: Twenty-nine women who practiced civil disobedience, who peacefully took off their hijab, they are in prison.
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Thousands of antigovernment demonstrators are out again today, the second of three straight days of planned civil disobedience.
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Thousands of antigovernment demonstrators are out again today, the second of three straight days of planned civil disobedience.
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About 600 women were arrested on Thursday during a nonviolent civil disobedience action organized by the Women's March.
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That's a dramatically different approach than the feds usually take to Islamic terrorism or even unarmed civil disobedience.
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Even the most utterly nonviolent act of civil disobedience, the sit-in, seems to have vanished from the scene.
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It is its own form of protest that complements, not contradicts, the civil disobedience that challenges the state itself.
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She said a climate catastrophe was coming and food security, not civil disobedience, should really be our main priority.
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But the DFCF has led work strikes, marches, protest sit-ins and other acts of civil disobedience for weeks.
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In enforcing what he believes to be the highest good, a degree of civil disobedience may well be necessary.
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In November, XR shut down several streets in London and targeted government buildings with acts of mass civil disobedience.
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Over 85033 consecutive weeks in 2013, we witnessed the largest state-government focused civil disobedience campaign in U.S. history.
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Indigenous protesters have chosen civil disobedience, believing it is the only means through which their voices will be heard.
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But Vancouver's example suggests that sometimes it takes a little civil disobedience to prove the effectiveness of these interventions.
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They try different forms of protest, including civil disobedience, inspired by Aster's grandfather's experience as a civil rights activist.
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The Extinction Rebellion movement of disruptive civil-disobedience campaigns has struck a nerve in countries from Britain to Australia.
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In the coming years, scientists may discover that public engagement, obstruction, and civil disobedience won't enough to combat Trump.
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"We should call for civil disobedience here," King told Iowa radio host Simon Conway on Tuesday, Buzzfeed News reported.
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They say their acts of civil disobedience — protests and hunger strikes — have provoked tensions with Berks and immigration officials.
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He also insisted that nonviolent civil disobedience, far from violating law and order, could actually help maintain social peace.
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But during sentencing, the judge also voiced his support for White's actions, calling civil disobedience a longstanding American tradition.
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He believes that a relentless campaign of street demonstrations and civil disobedience is essential to challenge an authoritarian government.
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We had been following closely the nights of civil disobedience that had birthed a new era of black struggle.
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In southeastern Utah, county commissioners decided to reopen Natural Bridges National Monument in act of self-declared civil disobedience.
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Pro-independence groups have called for a campaign of civil disobedience by public sector employees to resist the takeover.
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And hundreds have been arrested since Monday, in a civil disobedience campaign demanding immediate government action on climate change.
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In fact, Rustin is the one who taught Dr. King about Gandhi's belief in non-violence and civil disobedience.
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They promoted it as an act of civil disobedience using the hashtag #EvasionMasiva, or "Mass Evasion," on social media.
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Though it's not clear how successful the intended flashmob civil disobedience game-plan will be at this nascent stage.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the helm of the Selma bridge crossing exemplify peaceful civil disobedience and leadership.
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"Nobody wanted the summit here," said Christoph Kleine, of Interventionistische Linke, which organized displays of civil disobedience on Friday.
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But throughout the presidential campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden has repeatedly touted his own experience with civil disobedience.
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"Lennon Walls carry the spirit of civil disobedience from the Umbrella movement," said pro-democracy protester Kelvin Law, 24.
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" TODAY'S QUOTE "This is the first time that I have been arrested for civil disobedience, and it feels good.
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In 1961, he helped found the Committee of 100, an antiwar group that favored nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
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He prides himself on his activism and the times that he has been arrested in acts of civil disobedience.
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Dr. Barber has had some recent success using a sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience at the state level.
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Their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath.
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A call for widespread civil disobedience from the main civic groups behind the secessionist campaign failed to attract many followers.
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They could stoke the feelings that remain temporary in ordinary times, transforming them into civic unrest and even civil disobedience.
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In Britain, a civil disobedience campaign by Extinction Rebellion forced parliament to declare a symbolic climate emergency in early May.
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The eponymous Joshua is a fiercely optimistic figure, providing an successful example of civil disobedience in pursuit of institutional change.
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The mass act of peaceful civil disobedience resulted in 85 people being arrested, mostly for obstruction under the Highways Act.
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But it has not mounted any real protest, despite having initially said it would lead a campaign of civil disobedience.
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But when her first grandson was born, she recalled, she decided that her civil disobedience had not gone far enough.
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He labeled his sentencing "an atrocity and a nonsense", saying he had carried out a peaceful act of civil disobedience.
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He also continued to campaign for contentious causes, and grew increasingly interested in using civil disobedience to advance democratic change.
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Another opposition party, Popular Will, which has long promoted civil disobedience tactics, is also a main instigator of street activism.
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But there is a risk that before then Catalonia will be plunged into further conflict, civil disobedience and even violence.
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Reddy and his fellow activists responded by using a tried-and-tested method of civil disobedience: sitting on the road.
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CANVAS' practical how-to guides and workshops focus on small acts of civil disobedience with very low bars of entry.
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They are increasingly becoming skilled and effective in the use of mass civil disobedience and peaceful resistance in demanding change.
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Speakers and other convening groups will offer instruction in organizing tactics, educational workshops and, like 2016, tactical civil disobedience training.
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More than 3,500 activists have pledged to risk arrest in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience over the week, organizers said.
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The rules governing civil disobedience are opaque, and New York-based artist Natalie White learned that lesson the hard way.
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The protesters vowed instead to push ahead with an open-ended civil disobedience campaign to force the military from power.
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Mr. Rajoy accuses the separatists of encouraging civil disobedience, while Mr. Puigdemont compares the Madrid-ordered clampdown to Franco's authoritarianism.
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The leaders demanded universal suffrage in the city's elections, vowing to escalate their civil disobedience until they reached their goals.
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In 1963, he joined forces with Martin Luther King, Jr., by traveling around the South, teaching people about civil disobedience.
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I am counting on these teenagers to press forward with their peaceful civil disobedience until our lawmakers do their job.
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" In the same speech, he advocated for "civil disobedience" to respond to what a questioner described as the "tyrannical government.
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" He said this text, adapted from Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," should be delivered in "an optimistic spirit.
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The non-violent civil disobedience group plans to block 12 areas around Westminster, where many key government buildings are located.
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Students asked about how civil disobedience could affect their residency placements, or get them marked as agitators within their departments.
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" He worried that come summer, when temperatures soar and electricity shortages spread, there will be "civil disobedience all over the country.
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"This is a critical moment to organize civil disobedience and to voice our demand for democracy and human rights," Wong said.
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It said it was calling for another mass march on July 13 and a day of civil disobedience on July 14.
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Qamishlo said there was "civil disobedience" in the camp on Friday, when people tried to raze tents and attack security personnel.
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By traditional civil-disobedience standards, the apparel of the protesters in the Capitol basement last Wednesday fell on the bespoke side.
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D. Taylor, Unite Here national president, participating in civil disobedience on the Las Vegas Strip in 2013 with hotel casino workers.
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Animal Rebellion, a group inspired by Extinction Rebellion's non-violent civil disobedience climate activism, also is pushing for diets without meat.
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"The likely reason is the newspaper's coverage of the calls for civil disobedience," Al-Tayar's editor-in-chief, Osman Mirghani, said.
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Protests, counter protests and acts of civil disobedience are expected in Denmark Wednesday, as the country implements a nationwide burqa ban.
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Today, Lewis looks back on his acts of civil disobedience as an effort to cause "good trouble" for a noble cause.
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The unprecedented mass protest and civil disobedience are part of long-running demonstrations that began almost immediately after Trump was elected
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A campaign of civil disobedience and nonviolence, but particularly with clear, limited goals—resignation of a leader—was the winning strategy.
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A dogged impresario of civil disobedience and political stagecraft, he championed the rights of women, inmates, gay people and conscientious objectors.
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India has a proud tradition of democracy and civil disobedience, a profound strength that lies in the diversity of its people.
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His administration previously pressed Congress to make it easier to prosecute oil and gas pipeline protesters who engage in civil disobedience.
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They are among a burgeoning opposition that has grown stronger recently, with some threatening civil disobedience if the measure becomes law.
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The Indians may have succeeded in ousting the British, but we won with Gandhian-style civil disobedience, not a revolutionary war.
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Organizers say more than 500 people, mostly local residents, have pledged to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience to resist the pipeline.
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" In the same speech, he also advocated for "civil disobedience" in response to what a questioner described as the "tyrannical government.
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And I think civil disobedience has been something that for the most part the liberal media used to stand up for.
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She now offers the lessons she's learned as an activist with an emphasis on how to engage in splashy civil disobedience.
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But this could spark confrontation on the streets as some independence supporters have promised to mount a campaign of civil disobedience.
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On Wednesday, protest leaders threatened to start a campaign of civil disobedience, including mass strikes, if their demands are not met.
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Rustin thought civil disobedience was a bad idea for addressing poverty, especially in a sensitive political climate or pre-election year.
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They were founders of Occupy Central With Love and Peace, a group championing nonviolent civil disobedience in pursuit of democratic reforms.
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"This was one of the first, if not the very first, planned acts of civil disobedience for L.G.B.T. rights," he said.
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And he said Liberty was justified in barring the Red Letter Christians because Mr. Claiborne had threatened to commit civil disobedience.
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His picking up a small lump of natural salt from the Arabian Sea shore led to the historic civil disobedience movement.
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Hint: Participants in civil disobedience don't arm themselves, hole up in a basement, and dare the cops to come get them.
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Njoya used his pulpit to urge civil disobedience to force the government to change the constitution and demonstrated on the streets.
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The group is demanding quicker and more vigorous action on climate change, using protest and civil disobedience to spread its message.
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We have to engage in civil disobedience because we have very little time and what has to happen is so huge.
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Seattle's rich should engage in upper-class "civil disobedience" and refuse to pay their city taxes, Washington state's Republican leaders said.
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They stand quietly as police officers zip-tie their hands behind their backs and lead them into vans for civil disobedience.
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At King's College London, Hallam is currently working toward a PhD on how people use civil disobedience to achieve social change.
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"This is the first time that I have been arrested for civil disobedience, and it feels good," she said from Washington.
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"Often we're taught to think that resistance takes shape in the form of protests or acts of civil disobedience," writes Becerra.
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If that fails, they'll call for early elections, and failing that, will conduct "a civil disobedience or general strike," the statement said.
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"Our support personnel were aware of this planned electronic civil disobedience attack and were able to take appropriate countermeasures," the spokesperson said.
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There's the 70-year-old German woman who practices civil disobedience, painting over racist graffiti, making neighborhoods more hospitable in the process.
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An act of civil disobedience by more than 20 people who sat down in a crosswalk didn&apost draw a police response.
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The DFCF alliance has tried to sustain the protest movement through a civil disobedience campaign that largely shut down Khartoum on Sunday.
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Rustin thought civil disobedience was a bad idea for addressing poverty — especially in the sensitive political climate or a pre-election year.
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He's widely considered Capitol Hill's moral compass –– one essentially beyond reproach –– when it comes to issues of human rights and civil disobedience.
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Carbone Beni, Grace Tshiunza, Mino Bopomi and Cedric Kayembe were convicted of incitation to civil disobedience, their lawyer Jacquemain Shabani told Reuters.
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BLM was certainly inspired, in no small measure, by the nonviolent civil disobedience that was so effective during the civil rights era.
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Their act of civil disobedience was picked up first by local news website, the Village Green, and has been drawing national attention.
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Legal groups offering free representation for inauguration protesters are ready to defend anything ... and believe civil disobedience will fall under that umbrella.
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As the Nazis conquered Europe, they expressed an explicit preference for fighting resistance movements that used guerrilla rather than civil disobedience methods.
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The activists were accused of acts of rebellion, planning mass civil disobedience in the capital and producing fake passports, among other charges.
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A large group of federal employees have signed up to participate in a workshop on civil disobedience in the President Trump era.
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The health care fight produced a powerful and eclectic range of protests, town halls, and acts of civil disobedience across the country.
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It plays freely with Sophocles' drama but hews to its themes: civil disobedience, fidelity and the law, especially as regards burial rights.
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That decision came after more than a week of civil disobedience in London, with activists targeting government buildings and major financial institutions.
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Mr. Pashinyan urged a campaign of civil disobedience everywhere, and the tech workers translated the idea into the language of the internet.
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Along the way Ms. Yates touches on indigenous rights issues, political deceit, civil disobedience and several other topics, including the country's courts.
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Jane Fonda is leading Fire Drill Fridays, civil disobedience at the United States Capitol to call for action to address climate change.
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In Common Sense for the 21st Century, Hallam argues that nonviolent civil disobedience is our only shot at countering the climate emergency.
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Through non-violent civil disobedience, King leveraged social-justice transformation in American civil society even when institutions, including the church, largely disagreed.
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Everyone loves the idea of civil disobedience...until it's their turn to actually get hit with the fire hose or the police truncheon.
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" Josh Marshall, founder of Talking Points Memo , says we may disagree "when it comes to protests, mean words, civil disobedience, boycotts, public shunning.
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" It added, in a statement released Saturday, that the campaign meant not going to work and "general civil disobedience for a civil state.
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The group disrupted London with 11 days of protests that it cast as the biggest act of civil disobedience in recent British history.
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" It added, in a statement released Saturday, that the campaign meant not going to work and "general civil disobedience for a civil state.
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The march and civil disobedience in the Capitol was organized by the Women's March, the Center for Popular Democracy, and CASA in Action
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The Women's March website provides guides and materials covering the basics from defining civil disobedience and picketing to how to organize a demonstration.
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He will stay incarcerated "to gather further evidence of his statements and actions encouraging a peaceful protest and civil disobedience," court documents said.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Opposition leader Raila Odinga urged Kenyans to boycott Thursday's repeat presidential election, saying he would lead a campaign of civil disobedience.
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The charges carry a maximum sentence of seven years, Tai said, adding the activists might plead guilty, in a spirit of civil disobedience.
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Demosisto, a prominent new party, advocates civil disobedience and a referendum to determine Hong Kong's fate after the 50-year agreement is up.
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The growing school strike movement is particularly active in Germany, where protesters have also waged a civil disobedience campaign to blockade coal mines.
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Within weeks, 20,000 protesters had descended on the makeshift camp—the largest display of civil disobedience since Morocco annexed Western Sahara in 1976.
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After the hearing, two dozen landowners and other pipeline opponents vowed non-violent civil disobedience if the commission rules in favor of TransCanada.
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Turns out, nothing goes better with acts of civil disobedience than tepid cans of Pepsi swiftly lobbed at the heads of authority figures.
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My first act of political civil disobedience was in 1945 during the post-war election, so I am interested in parties and groups.
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For me, civil disobedience and protest is a minuscule price to pay for the impact this man would have on the Supreme Court.
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"It was our first high-risk, non-violent civil disobedience action," said Marla Marcum, who provided on-shore support for the two men.
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Quarantines in the US, Italy and elsewhere -- which rely on people obeying the law -- have raised questions about civil disobedience, Luke McGee writes.
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But separatist leaders in the Catalan regional government have vowed to go ahead with it, even if they risk prosecution for civil disobedience.
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Weeks of unremitting civil disobedience in Hong Kong set the template for a confrontational approach driven by vastly different economic or political demands.
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"I supported the sit-in and believe that students have the right to engage in civil disobedience," Ms. Pineiro said in an email.
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XR and a lot of civil disobedience movements around the world are obviously trying to influence the government in order to enact legislation.
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She said she decided to move to Washington so she could engage in civil disobedience to make a change on the political front.
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On Thursday alone, about 100 protesters were arrested in acts of civil disobedience staged by more than 1,000 people in over 21 states.
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The protesters' lawyers and witnesses, for example, couldn't have argued about either global warming or the efficacy of civil disobedience to effect change.
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Still, in our era of image information overload, can clear dialectical images of defiant gestures inspire civil disobedience, insubordination, or beneficial creative negation?
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Beijing needed an end to civil disobedience, not least after the latest demonstrations began targeting mainland visitors arriving on trains from over the border.
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Aden's usually bustling markets were empty on Sunday after the coordinating council of the General Confederation of Southern Workers' Unions called for civil disobedience.
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Their "Umbrella Movement" was the biggest act of civil disobedience in the territory's history and spawned new groups demanding "self-determination" for Hong Kong.
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It was an act of civil disobedience that squirted mustard right in the eye of the sports oligarchs who collectively rule our fan experience.
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But you know, I think one feature of the week has been a really high level of civil disobedience and I have to ask.
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In a session organized by the union, they were practicing civil disobedience and direct action tactics they might use if negotiations continue to stall.
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The incident comes as the actress and activist launched her "Fire Drill Fridays" campaign, a civil disobedience effort to raise awareness of environmental challenges.
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XR groups have organized across Europe since then, using civil disobedience to try to push lawmakers to respond to the threat of climate change.
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Local 355 members made headlines over Thanksgiving, for example, with a series of high-profile civil disobedience actions at airports across the United States.
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From the moment he learned of his induction, Ali stood firmly in the proud tradition of civil disobedience, saying, 'Just take me to jail.
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Some protesters chanted "I want universal suffrage" and unfurled yellow umbrellas, a symbol of the civil disobedience "umbrella movement", when the result was announced.
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The occupiers cast their protest as a patriotic act of civil disobedience in opposition to U.S. government control over public lands in the West.
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All the leaders had argued the protests were intended as peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience, only to benefit society and make positive democratic progress.
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For almost three weeks, many of them had served alongside Pashinyan in an unprecedented and peaceful campaign of civil disobedience against the sitting government.
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Moderates want Mr Puigdemont to call a fresh regional election; radicals want a formal declaration of independence backed by a campaign of civil disobedience.
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She comes from that peculiar band of prophets, the whistle-blowers and dissenters who demand our attention by their bold acts of civil disobedience.
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Various strikes are planned in coming weeks, while disruptive civil disobedience actions are taking place almost daily and look set to continue for months.
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"It is civil disobedience against the unjust pot prohibition laws that has gotten us to the verge of legalization," Larsen wrote in an announcement.
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He pointed to Sinn Fein MP Chris Hazzard, who in late November warned that civil disobedience could arise in response to a hard border.
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The Extinction Rebellion movement uses peaceful civil disobedience to highlight the risks posed by climate change and accelerating species losses in the natural world.
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Then the class assignment mushroomed into a plan — hatched by 10- and 11-year-olds — to stage a little civil disobedience of their own.
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We must continue in direct action and non-violent civil disobedience to shame those who have voted wrongly…We must organize on all fronts.
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"We made a very conscious decision to engage in acts of civil disobedience," said activist Linda Sarsour, national co-chair of the Women's March.
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The activists on trial argued that they were being disproportionately blamed for acts of civil disobedience meant to help the people of the city.
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Mr. Rajoy, however, has stood his ground, as the guardian of Spanish unity and defender of the rule of law against Catalan civil disobedience.
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Alienated and enraged, we moved on to widespread civil disobedience, rejection of mainstream lifestyles, violent clashes with police and militant opposition to the government.
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Our textbooks and national mythology celebrate moments when single acts of civil disobedience, untainted by political organizations, seemed to change the course of history.
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While delaying that order with a succession of bureaucratic maneuvers, I helped found the Resistance, an organization devoted to generating civil disobedience against conscription.
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In light of his outspoken support of the Hong Kong protestors, his restraint regarding civil disobedience in the city hosting Bare Life was surprising.
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Appetite for Gandhi-like civil disobedience within the opposition coalition - where Popular Will is the third party by number of lawmakers - appears lukewarm however.
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Since then, XR has garnered tons of media attention—and even celebrity endorsements from the likes of Radiohead—for its acts of civil disobedience.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — There have been four years of civil disobedience, reputation-bruising boycotts over bathroom access, and legal battles over voting laws and gerrymanders.
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Dominguez and Wray, who were already involved in Zapatista solidarity efforts in the US, began to discuss the idea of an electronic civil disobedience action.
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The nine stood defiantly before the court as they decried what some called "political persecution" for what was conceived as a peaceful civil disobedience campaign.
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He did so, of course, in the service of a greater good; his practice of civil disobedience was a strategy to achieve a moral end.
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Working closely with King, he helped organized the 1963 March on Washington and was a part of King's larger movement of non-violent civil disobedience.
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Friday's act of civil disobedience — which drew the largest crowd of any of Fonda's prior protests — was focused on women's role in the climate crisis.
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Extinction Rebellion, a climate movement that paralysed parts of London with a civil disobedience campaign in April, said Britain was still not acting quickly enough.
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Beginning on April 2000, activist group Extinction Rebellion has staged protests and acts of civil disobedience in central London locations, leading to over 22025,25 arrests.
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But that's why we have to come together to acknowledge there is a history of nonviolent civil disobedience in this country and throughout the world.
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It was an unprecedented display of civil disobedience, a challenge not just to the local government but to the Communist Party itself in distant Beijing.
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Later arrested, Evans joined a long list of American citizens apprehended for exercising her right to participate in civil disobedience, to stand for justice denied.
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Egyptian police arrested 382 people during and ahead of protests on April 25 in an attempt to stifle civil disobedience before it could really begin.
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And they know that through my campaign, the millions of Iranian women are, you know, breaking the law every day and showing their civil disobedience.
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This Wednesday, LACE and the Center for Cultural Innovation are hosting the workshop "Know Your Rights: Artists & Civil Disobedience," led by the National Lawyers Guild.
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Launched in London, Extinction Rebellion is an international movement that orchestrates mass non-violent civil disobedience campaigns to raise awareness of issues of climate change.
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"[Lewis] is a symbol of the importance of civil disobedience and I think it would be a mistake for them to do anything," Yarmuth said.
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And what that voice is calling for — on many different levels, from viewing habits to voting preferences, from consumer behavior to civil disobedience — is revolution.
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" Klasfeld, a veteran court reporter, said he'd "never seen such a strong statement from a U.S. attorney directed against an activist engaged in civil disobedience.
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Yet, history is rife with examples of disruptive, confrontational civil disobedience campaigns that have harnessed the power of popular mobilization for social and political change.
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Then it was off to the Senate building, where, shortly before her arrest, Fonda was asked if her civil disobedience was having its intended effect.
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Facing the unremitting backlash against the NFL national anthem protests, leftist commentators have invoked the 1960s and the reputed "golden age" of American civil disobedience.
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As the war years loomed, she became an activist in the left-leaning Artists Union, protesting government policies and frequently getting arrested for civil disobedience.
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It was an act of civil disobedience that was extremely controversial at the time -- and the protesters were criticized for what detractors considered uncivil behavior.
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That's when Mosher got involved with Extinction Rebellion, a group that urges governments to take action on environmental issues through nonviolent acts of civil disobedience.
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According to a Washington Post report, 180 federal employees have signed up for a workshop featuring expert advice on workers' rights and expressing civil disobedience.
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And Martin Luther King Jr. fought racial discrimination not by arousing anger as Mr. Bittner seems to suggest, but by inspiring calm, peaceful civil disobedience.
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This black and youth-led movement is known for disruptive acts of protest and civil disobedience designed to put pressure on decision makers to act.
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Hundreds of women plan to join an act of civil disobedience in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to protest the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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This working group set the agenda, and Barber and Theoharis began travelling across the country, speaking and leading workshops on organizing and civil-disobedience training.
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A leading House conservative on Wednesday defended the armed protesters occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon as a display of "peaceful" civil disobedience. Rep.
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John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon who participated in sit-ins of the 1960s, led the protests as an act of civil disobedience.
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The more serious question is how they can ensure that citizens comply with emergency measures and how they deal with any civil disobedience that follows.
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Extinction Rebellion, a climate movement that paralyzed parts of London with a civil disobedience campaign in April, said Britain was still not acting quickly enough.
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The landscape feels like a quieter and more poetic place to think about civil disobedience, and to get into the poetics of being a dissident.
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Police have made hundreds of arrests so far this week as the protesters have sought to shut down London with two weeks of civil disobedience.
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They sprayed the Westminster Treasury with fake blood and then doused the iconic Wall Street bull with it during acts of civil disobedience this October.
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"On the contrary, a new airport, lithium mines and bigger ports are in the works," a member of civil disobedience group Extinction Rebellion told Reuters.
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They are engaging in civil disobedience, such as school strikes, and have initiated lawsuits to stop various polluting activities or to demand stronger policy responses.
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Yet within three weeks, Mr. Pashinyan, a former newspaper editor and political prisoner, had galvanized a civil disobedience movement that transformed the country's political landscape.
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The gathering came as Extinction Rebellion climate change activists took to the streets from London to New Zealand for two weeks of peaceful civil disobedience.
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Business Insider Today sat down with the actress and activist to learn why she thinks civil disobedience will lead to widespread change in environmental policy.
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The group disrupted London with 11 days of protests in April that it cast as the biggest act of civil disobedience in recent British history.
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We can join protests, engage in civil disobedience and risk arrest, but we must also see this as the uniquely critical political moment it is.
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On Mother's Day, we'll launch a season of nonviolent civil disobedience with 40 consecutive days of action at two dozen state capitols and in Washington.
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So it's in their direct interest to support a methodology of change that is most likely to succeed, which happens to be mass civil disobedience.
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Tai, along with Chan and Chu, was the mastermind of Occupy Central with Love and Peace, a proposed civil disobedience action calling for free elections.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's protest and opposition alliance said it is suspending a campaign of civil disobedience and a general strike from Wednesday until further notice.
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The alliance of nations that signed the treaty was later monitored by the RCMP for "acts of protest and civil disobedience," the Toronto Star reported.
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Despite local and national civil disobedience campaigns, the Republican Party walked right up to the brink of passing a bill that sometimes polled below 20 percent.
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But even relatively small-scale demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience targeting Trump-branded hotels, golf courses, office buildings, and apartments can be dramatic and telling.
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Activists unleashed a wave of protests, civil disobedience, phone calls, and demonstrations over the bill that reached a scale not seen in the country since March.
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"No big change like this ever happens without mass mobilization; without ordinary people getting organized to take direct action and engage in civil disobedience," he said.
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Rather, it might have been an act of defiance—or more appropriately—civil disobedience by Bharara, who refused the request by Sessions for him to resign.
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While Americans by and large accept and respect our long, honorable tradition of political dissent, including civil disobedience, most of us draw the line at violence.
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How is it that so many of us move on with our lives while the Sudanese peoples lives have completely stopped due to the civil disobedience.
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On July 25 Thunberg and UK band The 1975 released a song in she calls for mass civil disobedience to force action on greenhouse gas emissions.
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" Then the group, including those who use wheelchairs and mobility devices, lay on the floor in an act of civil disobedience known as a "die in.
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But as YouTuber Randall "MegaCapitalG" Jordan noted in a video from yesterday, there's a bit of civil disobedience going on behind the scenes in this case.
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Not only do such people flirt with the idea of independence, but they are also more ready than old-guard democrats to engage in civil disobedience.
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King Downing, Director of Mass Defense for the National Lawyers Guild, says there's a very real possibility for civil disobedience when Donald Trump takes the oath.
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Filtering civic responsibility through the combined awareness of histories and disciplines, On Civil Disobedience asks how citizenship and resistance intersect within the pledge of democratic ideals.
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One of Mr. Lewis's goals for "March" was to teach younger readers about the civil rights movement and to use it to inspire nonviolent civil disobedience.
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He added that he and others jailed remain committed to the Black Lives Matter movement and would continue to use civil disobedience to make their points.
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That's why the other day, co-workers and I were arrested after we sat down in Harvard Square, blocking traffic, in an act of civil disobedience.
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Most importantly, millions of people made public comments in the official record and nearly 100,000 pledged to engage in civil disobedience if the pipeline was approved.
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On November 26, 2016, Wham organized an indoor forum called "Civil Disobedience and Social Movements" at a small event space inside a shopping mall in Singapore.
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While filming at the encampment, Fox witnessed what he described as "human rights violations" by police, along with the birth of a new civil disobedience movement.
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The defendants argued that their actions were simply civil disobedience, and they never discussed attempts to stop federal officials from doing their jobs, the AP said.
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Many non-Muslims took to social media declaring themselves Muslims in solidarity against a registry for all Muslims, a welcome and heartfelt act of civil disobedience.
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Other weapons of organized civil disobedience, he said, include boycotts, mock funerals, hunger strikes and what he called "dilemma protests," which hornswoggle governments into counterproductive responses.
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Plessy was a racially-mixed shoemaker who had agreed to take part in an act of civil disobedience orchestrated by a New Orleans civil rights organization.
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" It's a benefit single for the civil-disobedience environmental group Extinction Rebellion, perhaps for one line: "The birds are dying or they might as well be.
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Those detained were eventually released, but they are expected to be charged with civil disobedience and the misuse of public funds to organize an illegal vote.
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The Palestinian civil disobedience campaign was accompanied by bloodshed — three Israelis were stabbed to death and four Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli security forces.
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I watched as her message took shape and gained legs, as her protest transformed from a lone act of civil disobedience into a global youth movement.
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Meanwhile, there is not much the police can do should tactics switch to a campaign of low-level civil disobedience—strikes, sit-ins and so on.
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"When marches deviate from the intended cause and becomes characterised by violence, looting and civil-disobedience – it is less likely to produce democratic progress," she said.
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Members of Basement trained for acts of civil disobedience demanding healthcare, jobs, and resources for communities of color, and printed flyers and pamphlets for those actions.
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A group called ResistAIM, which stands for the Algonquin Incremental Market project, as Spectra calls the expansion, has organized periodic workshops on the ABC's of civil disobedience.
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Jhoanna Maldonado, a CTU organizer, said the civil disobedience they are willing to practice is no different than the actions carried out during the Civil Rights movement.
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I got arrested for doing a nonviolent, civil disobedience action for Valentine's Day through an organization called GetEQUAL, so I've always been very passionate about marriage equality.
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"We're standing in, by sitting in, a long tradition of civil disobedience in this country," NAACP President Cornell Brooks told VICE News while still in Sessions' office.
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His decades of agitation, civil disobedience, marches, fasting, lobbying, imprisonment and publicity-seeking—techniques he first practised in British-run South Africa—gradually made India's freedom inevitable.
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By day's end, hundreds of NFLers, team after team, black and white players alike, took part in the civil disobedience over injustice leveled at people of color.
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The analogy to civil disobedience rests on the insight that the law, whether domestic or international, can lead to unjust outcomes and establish unjust structures of power.
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Dr. King's SCLC set its sights on policy and legal change; by dramatizing injustice through nonviolent civil disobedience, it successfully sought civil rights and voting rights legislation.
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ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a new coalition of direct action groups, used high-profile demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience to further their agenda.
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And when it comes to wilder weather, rising seas and other threats from climate change, "civil disobedience helps ring the alarm bell a little louder", she added.
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It was a milestone in civil disobedience, but also, as the critic Ralph Caplan has said, one of the greatest examples of design in the 20th century.
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The actual experience of civil disobedience exercised through the action of squatting enables other practices to take root and reveal the counter-cultural character of the movement.
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These clergy were openly defying laws against abortion, and two ministers were arrested; but in their view they were continuing an honored Christian tradition of civil disobedience.
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Stein said she and Baraka were engaged in "civil disobedience" against the controversial pipeline, whose construction, they contend, is harming American Indian burial grounds and water sources.
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Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, with a cast that revels in acting up and acting out, this production finds the theatrical exhilaration in civil disobedience (22:245).
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Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, with a cast that revels in acting up and acting out, this production finds the theatrical exhilaration in civil disobedience (259:259).
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Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, with a cast that revels in acting up and acting out, this production finds the theatrical exhilaration in civil disobedience (239261:231984).
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Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, with a cast that revels in acting up and acting out, this production finds the theatrical exhilaration in civil disobedience (411143:411133).
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Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, with a cast that revels in acting up and acting out, this production finds the theatrical exhilaration in civil disobedience (1:05).
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To be sure, Mr. Fox adds a bit of optimism, with occasional scattershot sections highlighting renewable energy and the success of civil disobedience against corporations and governments.
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The Umbrella Movement was the first large civil-disobedience campaign since Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997; it blocked several major roads for weeks.
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In 1930, he achieved international fame with the Salt March, a protest against a British-imposed tax on salt, which catalyzed civil-disobedience campaigns across the nation.
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A decade of tumultuous politics has included two coups, five elections and bouts of civil disobedience and street violence in which scores of people have been killed.
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The Extinction Rebellion group disrupted London with 11 days of protests in April that it cast as the biggest act of civil disobedience in recent British history.
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Broadly went to the protest preparations and asked the women there why they're demonstrating today and how they feel about participating in civil disobedience over the ban.
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Demonstrators in Hong Kong have been protesting in the streets amid increasing violence and fears that Beijing will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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He was among the first group of people who were detained or jailed after the party intensified the crackdown on dissent and civil disobedience six years ago.
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Beginning in the mid-1960s, Professor Dowd struggled to unify the fractious antiwar movement behind marathon campus teach-ins and debates, civil disobedience and nonviolent public protests.
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Groups like the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion, which calls for nonviolent civil disobedience to spur climate action, have made the declarations a centerpiece of their campaigns.
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Demonstrators in Hong Kong have been protesting in the streets amid increasing violence and fears that Beijing will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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Members are looking at a range of options, including occupying the House floor once again or doing another act of civil disobedience that results in arrests. Rep.
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"We don't do civil disobedience as a first effort but we've been petitioning and writing and marching and begging the government and they don't hear," she said.
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Some districts are telling students they have to write a letter or essay on the topic of, say, gun reform or civil disobedience in order to participate.
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Hard-liners would argue that it would be seen as rewarding civil disobedience, which security officials on the mainland act quickly to snuff out, at times ruthlessly.
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Activists have used civil disobedience in their demonstrations and have barricaded themselves to vehicles in Westminster as others filled Trafalgar Square and blocked Lambeth and Westminster bridges.
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The protests have taken on an element of civil disobedience by residents angry at what they see as excessive force by police and a heavy-handed government.
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The group uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to highlight the risks posed by climate change and the accelerating loss of plant and animal species.
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And in the realm of creative civil disobedience, it is one of the most extraordinary instances of a bunch of young, working-class artists affecting the world.
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It's not hard to imagine the government using these tools against Americans who take part in large-scale protests or who carry out acts of civil disobedience.
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The decision followed a surge of civil disobedience - including traffic disruptions - across the country by protest organizations including Extinction Rebellion and a growing student school strike movement.
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That process began smoothly on Monday as employees ignored calls for civil disobedience and turned up for work, while secessionist parties agreed to stand in the December poll.
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Pennsylvanians opposed to Williams Companies' Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline have taken a page from Standing Rock activists, erecting structures in the project's path and threatening civil disobedience.
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A leader of Gabon's largest public administration trade union, Dynamique Unitaire, on Tuesday rejected the austerity measures announced by the government and called for nationwide civil disobedience campaign.
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Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mervan Qamishlo said there was "civil disobedience" in the camp on Friday, when people tried to raze tents and attack security personnel.
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"This is as an act of civil disobedience in response to a long trail of abuses," a lawyer connected to the effort told The Salt Lake City Tribune.
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"We call for and prepare for civil disobedience," Madani Abbas Madani, a leader of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), told a news conference in Khartoum.
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Police ordered a halt to all Extinction Rebellion protests in London on Monday after a week of civil disobedience, saying those who did not comply would be arrested.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan seems to be aware that Democrats might up the ante with civil disobedience on the floor Congress, as they have infrequently in the past.
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Extinction Rebellion wants to use non-violent civil disobedience to force governments to cut carbon emissions and avert a climate crisis that it says will bring social collapse.
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"If there's voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience," he said.
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What does it say about civil disobedience today that police are protecting the interests of a fossil fuel project and not the safety of the Standing Rock community?
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For one, civil disobedience has been a major tool in the weed activism toolbox, but Tobin wants to stay far away from what he calls "underground" psychedelic treatment.
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In early January, The New Yorker ran a column by Jelani Cobb in which he argued that a new wave of civil disobedience was taking over the country.
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All the defendants have denied the charges, but some of their lawyers acknowledged this week that some events of 2017 could have amounted to acts of civil disobedience.
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Nolasco has a misdemeanor on his record for engaging in civil disobedience, but in theory, even DACA recipients with no criminal history might see their renewal applications rejected.
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In what was his first postwar work for the stage, Brecht turned his attention to Sophocles' tragedy about filial duty, civil disobedience and the tyranny of the state.
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The party promised a "large civil disobedience protest" on July 1 – the day of Lam's inauguration as well as the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China.
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But this time, 50,000 broke away to join the illegal March on the Pentagon, more Americans ready to commit nonviolent civil disobedience than at any time in history.
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Angry about moves at the other end of the environmental spectrum in the U.S., and terrified of climate change, five activists are pushing the boundaries of civil disobedience.
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The government is facing criticism for the heavy-handed break-up of the sit-in by protesters from Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience movement that began in Britain.
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As the rally ended in midafternoon, hundreds of protesters trained in civil disobedience moved to the construction site, where they took down a gate and climbed over fences.
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Four Lucha activists were sentenced to 12 months in prison last September for inciting civil disobedience after they encouraged public demonstrations on behalf of an imprisoned fellow activist.
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"The civil-rights movement happened because there was civil disobedience, because people were willing to go to jail, because there were events like Bloody Sunday," Obama told Stephanopoulos.
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Thoreau would pick up his pen to skewer them mercilessly, and — practicing what he preached in his essay "Civil Disobedience" — would probably take to the streets in protest.
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Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) confirmed that the Chicago lawmaker had been arrested amid an act of "civil disobedience," and that he was joined in that act by Reps.
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Police ordered a halt to all Extinction Rebellion protests in London on Monday after a week of civil disobedience, saying those who did not comply would be arrested.
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This allows the police to continue to believe that planned, nonviolent civil disobedience is criminal activity that justifies deployment of prolonged, highly intrusive and potentially destructive investigatory methods.
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And since transit systems are often seen as an extension of local government and of the officials that run them, they've become a ripe setting for civil disobedience.
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But on the morning of oral arguments in these cases, Housing Works, a group fighting AIDS and homelessness, is planning an action at the court, including civil disobedience.
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In cities and states, activists are exchanging civil disobedience tactics, pooling financial resources and showing up to demonstrations about issues that they may not have previously focused on.
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Protesters were removed from the House and Senate galleries after yelling and chanting, and a number of people were arrested throughout the day in acts of civil disobedience.
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When: Saturday, November 12, 4–6pm Where: 104 Meserole Street (East Williamsburg, Brooklyn) This is specifically meant to be a meeting for discussing civil disobedience and direction action.
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Bowers uses a variety of mediums — photography, photorealistic graphite drawings, video installation, and sculpture — to document trans women activists of color committed to direct action and civil disobedience.
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"When you commit an act of civil disobedience you should expect a sanction," Dan Carlinsky, who serves on an advisory board in the band's alumni association, told me.
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Sudan protesters: The movement's leaders rejected a military plan to hold elections within nine months and instead vowed a civil disobedience campaign to force the military from power.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott started in 1955 with Rosa Parks's civil disobedience — attempting to sit in the front of a segregated bus — and ended with bus desegregation in 1956.
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It may sound extreme, but civil disobedience -- or what we call economic disobedience -- is what got us this far, and it's what will get us across the finish line.
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The group says its strategy is to use nonviolent civil disobedience "in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimise the risk of social collapse" due to climate change.
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Yet the throngs of mostly young people who went through that show saw work that celebrates civil disobedience and the value of freedom in the face of arbitrary authority.
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Also, if you want to engage in civil disobedience, it's important to know who you're engaging with because it may make a difference where you are taken if arrested.
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Direct action and civil disobedience — not just marches and protests, but systematic efforts to make life difficult for Southern institutions and power structures — were famously integral to forcing change.
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Beyond the question of legitimacy, though, is a more important aspect of the current Transhumanist Party—its adamant public stance that activism and civil disobedience is necessary and desirable.
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Advocating civil disobedience, I Won't Pay emerged in 22010, tapping into public anger with austerity imposed by the European Union and International Monetary Fund in exchange for bailout loans.
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Her personal Instagram and "Stealthy Freedom" Facebook pages are the source of a host of civil disobedience campaigns, including #WhiteWednesdays, where women take off their headscarves and wave them.
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In a separate protest, a dozen people were arrested outside the Park Avenue office of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for civil disobedience, said New York Police Department Sgt Lee Jones.
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Last week, members of his party in the eastern provincial capital Goma, staged discreet acts of civil disobedience, favoring tactics like roadblocks and planned sit-ins over street demonstrations.
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In April, a city court jailed four leaders of a 2014 "Occupy" pro-democracy civil disobedience movement, while young activist Joshua Wong was jailed for two months this month.
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Nimr also called for the downfall of the Saudi royal family, though he urged his followers not to "return bullets with bullets" but to use demonstrations and civil disobedience.
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"Independence will be unilateral," said Coma, who police arrested last year and released in June on charges of inciting civil disobedience and who is councilor in Osana's capital Vic.
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Instead, BLM has merged the nonviolent civil disobedience of the civil rights movement with the radical structural critique of white supremacy and capitalist inequality articulated by Black Power activists.
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But it is a nod to an increasing vocal activist movement particularly among young people in Europe, who have staged school strikes and civil disobedience campaigns to demand action.
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"The trend has been to crack down on acts of civil disobedience in ways that make public protest legally—and in some instances even physically—more perilous," he said.
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Nearly half of Americans already receive some sort of government assistance to live on — quite possibly, so they don't revolt, whether at the voting booth or by civil disobedience.
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We will see mass mobilization—including marches, vigils and civil disobedience—by people of faith and moral conscious on a scale we haven't seen since the civil rights era.
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We're here to say that there's truly no greater form of civil disobedience than dumping a massive amount of delightful French fries all over of your oppressor's front doorway.
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The Washington Post reported on federal employees holding workshops on how to engage in civil disobedience, and that several hundred employees signed a document dissenting to Trump's refugee ban.
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The necessity defense, traditionally applied to crimes committed to head off immediate physical threats, has been permitted only rarely in civil-disobedience cases, and it has almost never succeeded.
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HONG KONG — The protests that have roiled Hong Kong for weeks, combining vast marches with small guerrilla operations of civil disobedience, are not the radical development that some say.
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The large majority of the thousands of protesters engaged peacefully, some carrying signs and marching and others in civil disobedience, such as participating in sit-ins to block intersections.
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Internet shutdowns are a tool deployed by governments to quash civil disobedience amongst their citizens, and often go hand-in-hand with more sweeping — and sometimes brutal — government clampdowns.
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The app is intended to supplement mainstream social network platform broadcasts by mobilizing smaller, localized groups of supporters to carry out peaceful acts of civil disobedience all over Catalonia.
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"The march on Washington in 1963 was the culmination of years of local activism, including civil disobedience, registering voters, protecting civil rights workers and voter education movements," he said.
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This was the National Woman's Party, whose civil disobedience is cited as a main force behind the 19th Amendment, which in 1920 gave women a national right to vote.
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However, the city's top court warned that in future, public order offenses, even those stemming from civil disobedience, would be dealt with strictly and could result in prison terms.
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The former newspaper editor and political prisoner galvanized a civil disobedience movement that transformed the country's political landscape in just three weeks, forcing aside the longtime president, Serzh Sargsyan.
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"I saw folks that I worked with on labor issues, folks that I had worked with on the street, folks I've been arrested with doing civil disobedience," she said.
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" For those who planned to travel, he and others have circulated a form for gathering names and contacts that also asks, "Can you participate in civil disobedience/risk arrest?
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" Speaking before the national Parliament, Mr. Rajoy defended the detentions and accused separatist politicians of promoting civil disobedience and escalating the conflict, using methods he described as "profoundly antidemocratic.
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Four leading organizers of "A Day Without a Woman," a day-long strike for women's rights, were arrested Wednesday during an act of civil disobedience in New York City.
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Tuesday's hearing involves a separate, overlapping charge for Wong related to a court-ordered clearance of a large protest site during the 2014 civil disobedience movement that Wong helped lead.
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"This is part of a week of action ... and it is part of a global effort to peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience," said Christina See, a spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion NYC.
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Extinction Rebellion, which goes by the abbreviation XR, describes itself as an "international movement" that uses "non-violent civil disobedience" to bring issues such as climate change to the fore.
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Beginning on April 15, the Extinction Rebellion has staged protests and acts of civil disobedience in central London locations such as Oxford Street, Waterloo Bridge, Parliament Square, and Marble Arch.
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The concept of civil disobedience is "recognized in Hong Kong", Justice Johnny Chan said in a summary of his judgment, but it was not a defense against a criminal charge.
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GREY-HAIRED REBELS Asked what laws were acceptable to break as part of civil disobedience, Yamin pointed to arrests of Extinction Rebellion activists for trespass, public nuisance and serious disruption.
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"I think (Trump's) gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be a rhetorical -- and I mean civil disobedience, not violence -- but it will be a bloodbath," Stone said.
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The SPA said it would conduct a general political strike and civil disobedience through the holy month of Ramadan, which starts in early May, and the Eid holidays that follow.
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But Bastille day is so much more than a national holiday -- it fostered a culture of civil disobedience in France that inspired countless revolts, uprising, and demonstrations for centuries afterward.
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Nor did she mention the highly publicized act of civil disobedience by Bree Newsome, who was arrested after climbing the flagpole outside of the statehouse and cutting down the flag.
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"As a coalition, we have decided that we are not planning any civil disobedience," Ronnit Bendavid-Val, one of the core organizers for planned protests in New York, told me.
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In Geneva, a city of mainly bankers, bureaucrats and relentless prosperity, this minor oddity seemed like either a radical act of civil disobedience or the harbinger of the coming apocalypse.
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"The purpose of civil disobedience is not to obstruct the public, but to arouse public concern to the injustice in society and to win sympathy from the public," he said.
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He helped draft the nearly 5,000-word "Manhattan Declaration" of 2009, wherein 150 Catholic, evangelical and Eastern Orthodox leaders pledged civil disobedience around abortion, same-sex marriage, and religious freedom.
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" The letter explained that a group of students would leave during the fourth period as "an act of civil disobedience in regards to the arrival of Ted Cruz to BLCPA.
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Xi's mistakes and gross human rights abuses, such as suppressing millions of Uighurs, ensure that a random event may trigger civil disobedience and, in turn, evolve into another Tiananmen protest.
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But Rajoy's unprecedented plan to use special constitutional powers has angered both sides and raised concern over the potential for unrest if Catalan leaders resist and call for civil disobedience.
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The corporate rights movement achieved this result by following many of the same tactics as the more familiar modern African-American civil rights movement, using test cases and civil disobedience.
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Becoming Greta: 'Invisible Girl' to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way A Swedish girl's solitary act of civil disobedience has turned her into a symbol for climate action.
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"The Alliance for Freedom and Change agreed to end the civil disobedience from today," Mahmoud Drir, the mediator, told reporters, referring to the main coalition of protest and opposition groups.
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Ordained in 1952, he preached for seven years at the Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Va. He staged numerous acts of civil disobedience during this time, resulting in 17 arrests.
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Instead, organizers have operated behind the scenes by spreading messages about protests and other acts of civil disobedience through social media, word of mouth and secure messaging apps like Telegram.
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Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to postpone the vote on the bill — something some Senate Democrats attribute at least in part to nationwide civil disobedience campaigns.
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Film Club "How Dr. King Changed a Sanitation Worker's Life" is a five-minute film that touches on the struggle for justice and the value of resistance through civil disobedience.
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While financially backed by traditional unions, the movement has reached into workplaces that have resisted unionization, and it has gotten confrontational, staging ever-larger strikes and acts of civil disobedience.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and James Farmer had taken command of the civil rights movement and did not share their commitment to nonviolent civil disobedience.
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It won't halt civil disobedience that could stretch construction for years, nor beat mounting legal challenges by seven First Nations, two conservation groups and the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby.
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A National Gun Violence Protest Tests Schools," even Utah's Wood Cross Elementary School staged a protest in the school gym to allow the students to experience "a little civil disobedience.
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ICYMI, the Grace and Frankie actor has been engaging in civil disobedience in weekly demonstrations at Capitol Hill in an effort to demand action from lawmakers on the climate emergency.
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As the project has advanced, protesters have engaged in acts of civil disobedience, including suspending themselves above railway lines or chaining themselves to cement-filled drums to block rail lines.
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The comments came a day after protesters in Hong Kong carried out their most widespread civil disobedience in weeks of demonstrations, blocking trains and roads and urging workers to strike.
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The comments came a day after protesters in Hong Kong carried out their most widespread civil disobedience in weeks of demonstrations, blocking trains and roads and urging workers to strike.
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She supported her husband's fight with the United Farm Workers (UFW) against California grape growers in the 1960s to defend Hispanic farm workers' migrant rights through civil disobedience and boycott.
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His strategy was rooted in a mix of civil disobedience and international pressure, urging Mr. Maduro's military to abandon him, rather than seeking an outside military campaign to topple him.
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These start-up founders are not like Gordon Gekko or Bernie Madoff, driven by greed and avarice; they are Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., engaging in civil disobedience.
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"This has been one of Turkey's oldest civil disobedience movements," said Ahmet Sik, former journalist and a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who was at Saturday's protest.
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They said they hoped that this moment would provide a chance to highlight the forceful lengths to which he was willing to go — like resistance through civil disobedience — to overcome racism.
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This would mark a significant escalation by Extinction Rebellion, which mobilised thousands of people in a peaceful civil disobedience campaign that brought parts of central London to a standstill in April.
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However, a total of 25 people — including local religious leaders — were arrested and booked on suspicion of civil disobedience after several demonstrators blocked Spring Street, LA police officials told BuzzFeed News.
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"I have no doubt that the activism and civil disobedience of Martin Luther King Jr., Dolores Huerta, and Claudette Colvin also made many uncomfortable," Pressley went on to tell BuzzFeed News.
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Slaughter, a foreign policy expert, adviser to Hillary Clinton, and frequent Trump critic, likens the situation to civil disobedience where law-breaking is justified — perhaps even demanded — by a higher principle.
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If an agreement is not reached with the TMC, the DFCF will escalate by calling for an open strike and indefinite civil disobedience until power is handed to civilians, Saleh said.
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In protest of government inaction over medical cannabis, Paul Flynn, the Welsh MP encouraged civil disobedience in the form of public cannabis consumption—a demonstration now scheduled for Tuesday, October 10.
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Mr Rajoy is likely to face civil disobedience and strikes, especially if prosecutors opt to charge Mr Puigdemont and his colleagues with rebellion, which carries up to 30 years in jail.
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A call by activists for three days of civil disobedience also meant the streets of Khartoum were much quieter than usual this week as some teachers, pharmacists and others stayed home.
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Thousands of stoners in particular descend on central London's Hyde Park each year to protest through civil disobedience/celebrate their favorite herb by sparking one up and getting high as fuck.
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"I've made it clear when we're in meetings with other groups that we don't want them staging civil disobedience camps here," she says of fighting the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska.
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Even if the anticipated reaction was overstated, Mueller's firing could produce the largest mass protests yet of the Trump era—and, possibly, bursts of more robust civil disobedience across the country.
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Steve King (R-Iowa) is advising "civil disobedience" against the Obama administration's directive last week telling public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identities.
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After touring India after Gandhi's death, Wofford and his wife, the estimable Clare Lindgren Wofford, wrote a book in 294 urging a Gandhian strategy of nonviolent civil disobedience to break segregation.
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During the fight over the health care bill this summer, disabled activists deployed mass acts of civil disobedience, camping out in Senate offices and getting arrested when they refused to leave.
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Demonstrators have protested for more than five months in the streets of Hong Kong, amid increasing violence and fears that Beijing will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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Even the more modest step of honoring those who tried to stop war through peaceful means — organized protest, tax evasion, other forms of civil disobedience —would likely be a tall order.
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On the steps of federal buildings, city halls and university buildings, hundreds of young men protested the Vietnam War by turning in their draft cards — a national act of civil disobedience.
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Overlooked no more: Homer Plessy helped challenge segregation in 1890s New Orleans, and his case of civil disobedience later prompted one of the most notorious rulings in the Supreme Court's history.
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After reviewing the logistics for the usual public maneuvers — Facebook post, news release, online petition, sidewalk rally, Twitter hashtag, phone campaign — they debated the pros and cons of using civil disobedience.
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In 2013, progressives began a sustained series of protests in Raleigh, the state capital, called "Moral Mondays" that galvanized opposition and drew news media attention with numerous acts of civil disobedience.
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Mr. Rabasseda could be suspended from office if found guilty of civil disobedience — along with about 750 of the almost 950 mayors of Catalonia who have vowed to facilitate the referendum.
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Mr. Omar, 27, founded the arts education nonprofit Spark House, which is advising the Shed on "DIS OBEY," a series of pre-opening commissions centered on civil disobedience and social justice.
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The events showed that Venezuela may be girding for a long war of attrition on the streets as the opposition calls for sustained civil disobedience against Mr. Maduro's accumulation of power.
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He and other activists from some 160 organizations spent months organizing rallies, protests and acts of civil disobedience against what they viewed it as a blatant display of power from above.
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By living there, she and the two other founding members of a group that called itself Moms 4 Housing were engaging in an act of civil disobedience to protest house flipping.
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A pro-independence group called "Tsunami Democratic" tweeted late on Monday that it had begun a "cycle of non-violent civil disobedience" and said there would be more protests to follow.
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"The Hell It Is!" became one of their rallying cries, as recorded in an oral history of the movement, and they engaged in acts of civil disobedience, like confiscating construction signs.
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Anti-government demonstrators have protested in the streets of Hong Kong for six months amid increasing violence and fears that China will ratchet up its response to stop the civil disobedience.
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The Women's March account live-tweeted the arrest, including a selfie inside the police van: We are blocking traffic as a form of civil disobedience in Columbus Circle (outside Trump Hotel).
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Julius: Opened in 1864, this historic West Village gay bar and flashpoint for gay rights civil disobedience should be a place of pilgrimage for anyone with an interest in LGBT history.
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They agonized over whether to remain in the political system, providing such protection as they could to fellow reformists, or to take a more morally pure stand and resort to civil disobedience.
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Over a thousand North Carolinians were arrested in the largest state-government focused civil disobedience campaign in US history (arrests that would later be thrown out by a state superior court judge).
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Defense lawyers have generally argued the Bunkerville defendants were exercising constitutionally protected rights to assembly and to bear arms, casting the showdown as a patriotic act of civil disobedience against government overreach.
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The three had been charged for their roles in promoting peaceful civil disobedience, partly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and the ideas of Gene Sharp, an influential American theorist of nonviolent political movements.
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The resistance to Trump — the largest and most powerful social movement in generations — needs to enter a more radical stage that goes beyond electoral advocacy to include civil disobedience and direct action.
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Her silence on the plight of the Rohingya has bewildered a world that once saw her as Myanmar's Nelson Mandela — and a symbol of peaceful civil disobedience and the power of protest.
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In conjunction with their current protest-focused exhibition, I can call this progress to halt, LACE and the Center for Cultural Innovation are hosting the workshop, Know Your Rights: Artists & Civil Disobedience.
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On Monday, in one of his preferred stunts, Forchion protested near the state house, selling marijuana by the building and daring police officers to cuff him in an act of civil disobedience.
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Last summer's northern hemisphere heat-wave was among the factors that motivated people to join civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion, which forced Britain's parliament to declare a symbolic "climate emergency" in May.
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The coalition had called for a two-day strike of public and private enterprises from Tuesday, and threatened to call for general civil disobedience if the military does not heed their demands.
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On Tuesday, police arrested six climate activists from civil disobedience group Extinction Rebellion at a protest aimed at disrupting a site in east London belonging to London Concrete, a unit of LafargeHolcim.
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In Khartoum, employees returned to work on Wednesday and store owners opened their shops, after the alliance of protesters and opposition groups suspended a three-day campaign of strikes and civil disobedience.
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In Rawls's hands, the original position gave philosophy's imprimatur to the democratic welfare state as well as to the civil disobedience of the civil rights movement and resistance to the Vietnam War.
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The cumulative effect of these stories is a gathering wave, as more and more women enlist in the WSPU's campaign of publicity-seeking civil disobedience and the male authorities struggle to respond.
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It's taken the group two years of organizing, lobbying, marching, and civil disobedience, but they have succeeded in elevating democracy reform to the top of the political agenda in the state capital.
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The threat to freedom from illegal mass domestic surveillance was extraordinary, as were the positive reforms brought about by Mr. Snowden's act of civil disobedience – overwhelming passage of the USA Freedom Act.
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In America, when we want to take out our frustrations on a building in an act of civil disobedience—or just because we feel like it—eggs are the weapon of choice.
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Call the congressional switchboard, show up at town hall, show up at protests (where you might be surprised to find a contingent of committed Buddhists) — even, if necessary, engage in civil disobedience.
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Spanish legal experts have defended the prosecution of the separatists for civil disobedience, but have disagreed over whether the charges could include rebellion, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 30 years.
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Meanwhile, their acts of civil disobedience at key ICE facilities across the country is helping keep outrage over the issue front and center, applying pressure on leading centrist Democrats to speak out.
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What began as an act of civil disobedience led by students has turned into a broad reckoning about inequality, Chile's economic policies under its center-right government and the aspirations of Chileans.
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Along with the Tsunami Democràtic app the live map means there will soon be two bespoke tools supporting a campaign of civil disobedience whose unknown organizers clearly hope will go the distance.
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In August, he was arrested at a protest outside the White House to mark the fifth anniversary of DACA, one of several times he has been arrested in acts of civil disobedience.
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XR was founded in 2018 by a small group of British academics interested in civil disobedience, and since then has painted itself as a decentralized, "apolitical" group outside the mainstream environmental movement.
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Civil disobedience was also backed by far-left party CUP, a key support for Catalonia's pro-independence minority government in the regional parliament, which called Madrid's actions an aggression against all Catalans.
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Brendan Orsinger, a 35-year-old activist, said that he met a love interest last year after they had both been booked and put in handcuffs for civil disobedience at the Capitol.
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Publication of the report has coincided with an upsurge in environmental activism by groups including Extinction Rebellion, whose civil disobedience campaign forced the British parliament this month to declare a climate emergency.
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In the wake of this election it seems there may be myriad issues that require civil disobedience, and the ability to gather together and stand up for our inalienable rights is essential.
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Wong was just 17 when he stood at the forefront of the broad civil disobedience movement that presented China's Communist Party rulers in Beijing with one of their biggest political challenges in decades.
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Together with a growing cadre of independent journalists and bloggers they have introduced methods of communication and civil disobedience into public culture that state officials are not used to having to deal with.
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Born in 1889, Mr. Ghaffar Khan rose to prominence in the 1920s when he founded a movement that the British called the Red Shirts, whose members walked through India to encourage civil disobedience.
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Founded on the principle of using nonviolent civil disobedience, they intend to force people to pick a side: address climate change or cooperate with a system that is dragging the world toward catastrophe.
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In every case in which activists used nonviolent civil disobedience and mobilized at least 13% of the population, she found they were victorious, including revolutions that toppled dictators, from Brazil to the Philippines.
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The culture around his brand is to "Light Up Everywhere," meaning take complete disregard for your surroundings, whether it's done in the spirit of a prank or as an act of civil disobedience.
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As the Iranian women forge ahead, their acts of civil disobedience have been amplified by two social media accounts curated by Masih Alinejad, a Brooklyn-based Iranian activist and journalist living in exile.
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Extinction Rebellion has called for non-violent civil disobedience to force the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and stop what it calls a global climate crisis.
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Thoreau was arrested while living at Walden Pond and briefly jailed (where he wrote his essay "Civil Disobedience") for not paying taxes out of protest over government funding of the Mexican-American War.
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Wear a beret, and people will assume you're DTP (down to protest), even if your only act of civil disobedience thus far has been to skip the line at an H&M launch.
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Defense lawyers have generally argued that the Bunkerville defendants were exercising constitutionally protected rights to assembly and to bear arms, casting the showdown as a patriotic act of civil disobedience against government overreach.
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But it also faces strong opposition from environmentalists and communities along its route, with critics from First Nations chiefs to the mayor of Burnaby, where it terminates, vowing civil disobedience to disrupt construction.
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The strike, repeated this week, was part of "Zero Hour"—a campaign of civil disobedience aimed at blocking a plan by Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's president, to install a constituent assembly with absolute powers.
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At the end of October, a new British group, Extinction Rebellion—its name both a reflection of the dire science and a potentially feisty response—announced plans for a campaign of civil disobedience.
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Retired general Jean-Marie Mokoko, a former army chief turned opposition figure who finished third in the election, called for a campaign of civil disobedience on Thursday, potentially setting the stage for protests.
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As protesters fled underground last week, fearing arrest, their leaders changed tack, calling for a general strike and a campaign of civil disobedience in an effort to pressure the military to back down.
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Separatist leaders did not react immediately to the Felipe's message on Tuesday evening, which carried an implicit warning that Madrid could take full control of Catalonia if separatists pushed their civil disobedience further.
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"Civil disobedience is sadly sometimes the only way," said Manel Angurem, an international trade consultant who drove for about an hour with his wife and three children to Barcelona to attend the demonstration.
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The resulting civil disobedience blocked major roadways in Hong Kong's main business districts for 79 days, and gained popular sympathy when the police used tear gas on peaceful protesters who refused to disperse.
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In King's final months, he made preparations to organize a massive campaign of civil disobedience in Washington to bring attention to the persistence of poverty and to demand government action as a result.
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Gandhi may now be widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of civil disobedience, but once upon a time Gandhi was labeled a "parasite" and British forces opened fire on his peaceful protests.
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Extinction Rebellion, which promotes revolt against established political, economic and social structures as a way to publicize its dramatic climate message, is in the middle of two weeks of civil disobedience in London.
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Unlike other civil rights leaders who advocated for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm X promoted self-defense and racial justice "by any means necessary," and called for racial separatism between black and white Americans.
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Around 2010, I started to see in the news something I had never seen before, which was undocumented people doing civil disobedience—getting arrested and facing deportation as a consequence of their action.
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They found the seeds of national violence in the "un-civil disobedience" of direct action, and traced a single line from sit-ins to urban uprisings to the assassinations of King and Kennedy.
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They also argue that acts of civil disobedience, like those by ADAPT, forced the media to talk about the bill's impacts, which in turn made it more unpopular with the country as a whole.
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The protest delivered on the Women's March's promises last week for a display of "mass civil disobedience," which organizers wouldn't go into detail about at the time in attempts to safeguard demonstrators against arrest.
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She described the charges she and her colleagues were facing for civil disobedience at the border — along with a group of religious faith leaders, she said they had been arrested for protesting border militarization.
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Extinction Rebellion's commitment to non-violent civil disobedience to press for faster cuts in greenhouse gas emissions has spurred offshoots in more than a dozen countries and pushed climate change up the political agenda.
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She and her lawyer later said her act of civil disobedience was primarily a demonstration against the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from parents who were caught crossing the U.S. border illegally.
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A few months later, we went to our first protest, where 398 young demonstrators chained their wrists to the White House fence in an act of civil disobedience against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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While nobody disputes the challenge of rewiring the world economy, an upsurge in climate activism, including a global school strike movement and an international civil disobedience campaign by Extinction Rebellion, is sparking new conversations.
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Some separatist-minded Catalans have vowed to carry out a wave of civil disobedience in response to the application of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, saying they refuse to recognize Madrid&aposs authority.
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Mujeres Creando (Women Creating), the group she founded in 1992, has been daubing walls with graffiti, staging performances and engaging in acts of civil disobedience ever since to protest homophobia and maltreatment of women.
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Climate group Extinction Rebellion has targeted sites such as Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge in a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience with the aim of stopping what it calls a global climate crisis.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A civil disobedience campaign that prompted the British parliament to declare a climate emergency has galvanized environmental activists around the globe by showing how rapidly disruptive tactics can force politicians to listen.
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Grassroots pro-independence groups responsible for many of the larger protests in cities like Barcelona have called for mass civil disobedience, and the reaction of authorities in Madrid could serve to exacerbate this situation.
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"We are using the tools available to us in democracy — petitions, lobbying, public protests, civil disobedience — to say this law is wrong at its core, and it must be immediately repealed," said the Rev.
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She and her lawyer, Ron Kuby, later said her act of civil disobedience was primarily to demonstrate against the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from parents caught crossing the U.S. border illegally.
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But Mr. Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, said he hoped that his firsthand account of the struggle for equality and the power of nonviolent civil disobedience would continue to inspire a new generation of activists.
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Nowhere is this more evident than the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, which relied on acts of civil disobedience to agitate and pressure government officials to honor the equal rights of African-Americans.
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The "Extinction Rebellion," which hosted this weekend's protests, has urged British citizens to commit civil disobedience to force Prime Minister Theresa May's government to take stronger action to reduce the U.K.'s carbon emissions.
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Wong, 20, who helped organize pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2014, spoke to a "Civil Disobedience and Social Movements" conference in November, organized by a Singapore group called the Community Action Network.
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As history's perception of Gandhi evolves (some of his opinions have been considered racist by today's standards), his most well-regarded views — nonviolence, civil disobedience, secular democracy — have held up much better with time.
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But a new book shows how corporations successfully staged their own freedom movement by employing tactics associated with civil rights struggles: civil disobedience, test court cases and portraying themselves as victims of political persecution.
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Civil disobedience was also backed by the far-left party CUP, a key support for Catalonia's pro-independence minority government in the regional parliament, which has called Madrid's actions an aggression against all Catalans.
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Movies are less useful because they only show the results of organizing, the marches and rallies, and the civil-disobedience actions, but not the underlying strategy and methods, which are the models you need.
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Modelled on civil disobedience campaigns such as the U.S. civil rights movement and Britain's Suffragettes, Extinction Rebellion has pushed climate up the agenda in Britain, where parliament declared a symbolic 'climate emergency' in May.
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I think that everyone who participates in cannabis culture has been part of one of the biggest civil disobedience actions in our country and our world's history, and we're finally starting to see victory.
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"The overriding theme in all the no-deal planning is civil disobedience and the fear that it will lead to death in the event of food and medical shortages," a source told the newspaper.
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In an unusually intense episode of civil disobedience on Capitol Hill, the four-day Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was targeted for "creative resistance" by liberal activist groups, said Linda Sarsour, Women's March board member.
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This gives rise to an insurrection organized by a Mother Courage figure and puppeteer named Galya Armolinskaya in which some of the townspeople feign deafness to the soldiers as a gesture of civil disobedience.
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Through referendums, acts of civil disobedience, hunger strikes and campaigns, the party has swayed public opinion in this overwhelmingly Catholic country on several sensitive issues, among them divorce, abortion, conscientious objection and family law.
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Brown was arrested that day and has since been arrested twice more for non-violent civil disobedience, including gluing himself to a bathtub in a busy road in Bristol, a city in western England.
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"This is about the people of Kenya so that the Kenyans are justified to use civil disobedience means to seek justice if they don't get it in a court of law," Mr. Odinga said.
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Many in the audience had visceral responses to the piece, which asked them to confront a 20th-century history of civil disobedience and to then contemplate what resistance they might offer in the 21st.
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Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, pointed to news reports about upset employees, social media campaigns and "civil disobedience" training for staffers looking to push back against the White House.
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Mr. Torra is appealing a court ruling that would suspend him from office for 18 months, after he was found guilty in December of civil disobedience in his show of support for jailed separatists.
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Quim Torra, the separatist regional leader of Catalonia, recently warned that a conviction could set off civil disobedience in Catalonia and street protests, which he said could resemble this summer's demonstrations in Hong Kong.
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The civil disobedience celebrated the fifth anniversary of the start of the Umbrella Movement, a pro-democracy campaign that many see as a precursor to the demonstrations that have roiled Hong Kong this summer.
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If no agreement is reached with the Transitional Military Council (TMC), the DFCF has said it will escalate by calling for an open strike and indefinite civil disobedience until power is handed to civilians.
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The massive protests and civil disobedience, deemed the Battle of Seattle, were organized by people from many quarters of the left, including anarchist activists, NGOs, labor unions, student groups, teachers, and countless other movements.
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Organizers Extinction Rebellion have called for non-violent civil disobedience to force the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025 and stop what they call a global climate crisis.
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It strikes a public chord nearly 16 months after tens of thousands blocked roads across the city as part of an "Occupy Central" civil disobedience movement to demand China's leaders allow full democracy in 2017.
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The group wants the UK to reduce its carbon emissions to zero by the year 2025, and it has said that civil disobedience and mass protest are the most useful tools to raise public awareness.
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Not only did it inspire further acts of civil disobedience in the name of LGBTQ rights, it mobilized activists to form such groups as The National Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization, as well.
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"The offense of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance does not have the undesirable effect of curtailing or suppressing civil disobedience at its formation stage or suppressing human rights as the defendants contended," it read.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - From his refuge at the Chilean ambassador's home, Venezuela's deputy congressional leader has defended "civil disobedience" against President Nicolas Maduro and urged demoralized opponents to unite and oust him in a presidential vote.
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On the eve of the convention, Democracy Spring took the unique step of gathering protesters at a church a block north of Philadelphia's city hall for what amounted to a seminar in nonviolent civil disobedience.
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In what he called "an act of civil disobedience," Corey Menafee, a 38-year-old African-American dishwasher employed by Yale University, smashed a stained-glass window in a college dining hall with a broom.
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Their recommendations came in a report released on Thursday after weeks of civil disobedience protests by climate group Extinction Rebellion meant to raise pressure for action to tackle what it calls a global climate crisis.
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There were other moments where small groups were attempting acts of civil disobedience such as shutting down a major roadway and it became clear that most attendees weren't interested in more aggressive forms of resistance.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Britain sweltered in record heat on Thursday, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg released a track with one of the country's biggest bands calling for "civil disobedience" in response to climate change.
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YEREVAN, May 2 (Reuters) - Protesters in Armenia on Wednesday blocked some routes into the capital, Yerevan, and a road to the airport, after protest movement leader Nikol Pashinyan announced a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience.
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We are calling for all women to join us for a mass civil disobedience in DC on Thursday, 28503/22019, to demand this administration stop criminalizing undocumented immigrants and tearing children away from their parents.
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A far-left separatist party in Catalonia has called for "mass civil disobedience" after the Spanish central government sought to crush the region's independence movement by triggering its so-called "nuclear option" over the weekend.
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Actress Jane Fonda is expected to spend Friday night in jail after being arrested for civil disobedience inside a Senate office building, where she participated in what has recently become a weekly climate change protest.
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"By all accounts, this was one of the first, if not the very first, planned act of civil disobedience for L.G.B.T. rights," said Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
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The concern is that if infrastructure is installed on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, ordinary members of the public will try to take it down themselves in widespread civil disobedience.
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Following a historic wave of nonviolent civil disobedience, a 93-city bus tour and a year of deep organizing in these states, we'll convene this week for the first-ever Poor People's Moral Action Congress.
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The peaceful act of civil disobedience first gained national attention last year when Colin Kaepernick knelt to protest police violence against black people and to raise awareness and support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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"It's not nice to be a politician who has been 15 years in this office, to be heading into the end of my career with something that would show civil disobedience," Corrigan, 65, told Reuters.
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The U.K.-founded Extinction Rebellion, in particular, cite the research of the political scientist Erica Chenoweth: that peaceful civil disobedience against a repressive regime can be effective if 3.5 percent of the population joins in.
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Wheelchair users being dragged out of their chairs makes for good headlines, but the real story isn't the civil disobedience leading to arrests: It's why people are showing up to protest in the first place.
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Conservatives were also angered by his vociferous acts of civil disobedience in the forefront of large rallies staged to protest the nuclear-armed Trident fleet, which was stationed at the nearby Naval Submarine Base Bangor.
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In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Ebadi said she supported the protests "one hundred percent" and urged the people of Iran to stay in the streets in peaceful protests and engage in civil disobedience.
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DeChristopher, who went on to study divinity at Harvard, has worked with several of the Valve Turners through the New England-based Climate Disobedience Center, which provides strategic support to climate activists practicing civil disobedience.
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The action, initiated by groups calling for civil disobedience to draw attention to activities that accelerate climate change, halted streetcars and drew onlookers on Zurich's Parade Square as well as its Bahnhofstrasse luxury shopping mile.
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The Grenoble-based Alliance Citoyenne has framed swimming in burkinis as an act of civil disobedience, saying they were inspired by the Montgomery bus boycott carried out by black Americans during the Civil Rights movement.
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They've raised money to buy new tents, install and maintain port-o-potties, and have participated in two marches as well as two acts of civil disobedience when they refused to move during a sweep.
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It asked 100 artists to work with women's groups on banners inspired by the bold designs of the suffragettes, who led a decades-long campaign of protest and civil disobedience to get women the vote.
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She rushed in, then rushed out again almost as quickly to take care of things, but not before delivering a mini-riff on civil disobedience, karma and the politics of the city's privatized meter system.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson, and played a prominent role in organizing the protests, civil disobedience, and political pressure campaigns that helped combat institutionalized racial segregation in American life in the 20th century.
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The source pointed to research conducted by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, who found non-violent, civil disobedience campaigns to be a far more powerful way of shaping world politics than violence.
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The steps to intimidate people who back a vote not only may backfire, they argue, but also threaten to transform the conflict into a broad campaign of civil disobedience that could spiral out of control.
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Mr. de Blasio has faced pressure from activist groups who support safe injection sites, and who have staged demonstrations at City Hall that have included civil disobedience, with numerous protesters, including City Council members, arrested.
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These episodes are part of a global awakening in women's rights, and these expressions of bravery and civil disobedience must not be viewed as isolated incidents -- even if they are not organized under one banner.
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The dozen or so legislators, all in their late 20s or early 30s, belong mainly to the Justice First and Popular Will parties, which are promoting civil disobedience against a president they term a dictator.
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Groups like the Billboard Liberation Front and B.U.G.A.U.P. began by taking direct shots at the content of commercial billboards, and through small acts of civil disobedience, unmasked the slick marketing agendas of commercial media interests.
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Some senior police officers say Lam's refusal to heed public opinion is sowing resentment in the force, which was already battered by accusations of police brutality during the 2014 pro-democracy "Umbrella" civil disobedience movement.
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Climate group Extinction Rebellion, which carried out weeks of civil disobedience earlier this year, believes the new target still does not go far enough and wants a net zero target to be met by 2025.
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Jason Sokol: King knew when to break an unjust law Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of nonviolence and civil disobedience lives on today in those Americans who continue to practice civil disobedience in the face of injustice: the black athletes who have knelt peacefully during the National Anthem, the hundreds of thousands of youths who took to the streets in the March for Our Lives, and those in the Black Lives Matter movement who are waging nonviolent protests after the killing of Stephon Clark.
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Led by Steve and Hope Kurtz, a married couple, the group published two seminal texts in the history of digital protest: 1994's The Electronic Disturbance and 1996's Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas.
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Several of the protesters gathering for Monday&aposs rally outside a hotel-casino in Reno say they will engage in civil disobedience to bring attention to the separation of children and families at the U.S. border.
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Britain has seen an upsurge in climate activism this year, with civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion occupying four sites in central London for 11 days in April, which forced parliament to declare a symbolic 'climate emergency.
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Bielby, in her various roles, is the central figure and emotional core of the story — through her, we will come to understand the reasoning behind the decision to perform such a strong act of civil disobedience.
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LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - A civil disobedience campaign that prompted the British parliament to declare a climate emergency has galvanized environmental activists around the globe by showing how rapidly disruptive tactics can force politicians to listen.
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"Today, I join others in non-violent civil disobedience in order to help focus the nation's conversation on these key democracy issues -- and the public needs politicians to start acting now," he said in a statement.
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However, it was Dr. King who dramatized the boycott with his decision to make it the testing ground, before the eyes of the nation, of his belief in the civil disobedience teachings of Thoreau and Gandhi.
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And senior police officers have said Lam's refusal to heed public opinion was sowing resentment in the force, which was already battered by accusations of police brutality during the 2014 pro-democracy "Umbrella" civil disobedience movement.
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However radical and dangerous it may seem, the protesters' civil disobedience strategy is vetted by policy experts such as David Karpf, professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University and former Sierra Club campaigner.
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So in April she tried a new tactic: gluing herself to the door of oil company Shell's headquarters in London, as part of a civil disobedience campaign for climate action, spearheaded by the Extinction Rebellion group.
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"Additionally, the report cites Snowden's unwillingness to be tried for his actions ("in the tradition of civil disobedience he professes to embrace") as evidence that he is not a whistleblower, but "a serial exaggerator and fabricator.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese protest and opposition leaders on Wednesday called for a campaign of civil disobedience in response to what one of them described as the military's "disappointing" answer to their proposals for an interim government.
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Thousands of supporters of the movement occupied four sites in central London for 11 days in April, pushing climate change up the political agenda with one the largest civil disobedience campaigns seen in Britain in decades.
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From the Andes to the Amazon, millions joined the 24-hour shutdown, staying at home, closing businesses or manning roadblocks in a civil disobedience campaign the opposition hopes will end nearly two decades of socialist rule.
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"The offence of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance does not have the undesirable effect of curtailing or suppressing civil disobedience at its formation stage or suppressing human rights as the defendants contended," the summary read.
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Globally, XR tactics centre on civil disobedience such as blocking planes at a London airport and disrupting traffic outside Belgium's Royal Palace, while in New York activists glued themselves to a green sailboat parked in Broadway.
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He was well read, politically committed enough to have engaged in Civil Disobedience, and obviously steeped in the minutest changes in the world around him (the precise quality of the ice, the texture of the mud).
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The three men represent a new force in Hong Kong's politics that China loathes: a feisty youth-led one, that supports civil disobedience in pursuit of its demands for more democracy and greater autonomy from China.
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Globally, XR tactics centre on civil disobedience such as blocking planes at a London airport and disrupting traffic outside Belgium's Royal Palace, while in New York activists glued themselves to a green sailboat parked in Broadway.
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"I wanted to fight for my kids," said Ceballos, 29, who was on the front lines of protests and became so desperate for a deal she attended civil disobedience training and was prepared to be arrested.
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Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that ended Communist rule in Poland, joined the fray on Sunday, vowing to lead a campaign of civil disobedience if Justice Gersdorf and other judges were forcefully removed.
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The protesters are most likely aware that Hong Kong residents could eventually tire of widespread civil disobedience, as many did during the Occupy Central protests that paralyzed commercial districts in the territory for weeks in 2014.
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The case against the protesters had been dismissed on the grounds that they'd done no damage; I was trying in my essay to explain why nonviolent civil disobedience helped in the fight for a workable climate.
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New Yorkers encountered multiple acts of civil disobedience—the blocking of major roadways, the taking over of Grand Central Station—after the Staten Island district attorney failed to secure an indictment against Pantaleo back in 2014.
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"We are in a different world than we were two years ago, the level of civil disobedience that has emerged all around the world, we haven't seen for a generation, it's incredibly positive," Rivett-Carnac said.
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Most of the pieces here focus on Williams's political and environmental resistance to such marauding, including her acts of civil disobedience, their fallout, and her sustained grief and anger over the despoiling of the natural world.
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One parallel between the Hong Kong governments of 1967 and today is that both were "hopelessly out of touch" with public sentiment before the civil disobedience began, said Jason Wordie, a local historian and newspaper columnist.
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"The detained German, Turkish and Afghan dual nationals had been trained and funded by foreign intelligence services to ... stir up civil disobedience in Iran ... they had equipment to be used for sabotage," Fars reported, without elaborating.
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MOSCOW, May 1 (Reuters) - Armenian protest leader Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday called on his supporters to launch a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience after the ruling party blocked his bid in parliament to become prime minister.
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He was a talented orator — with a deep and gravelly voice — and became a vocal civil rights activist, but unlike leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he did not agree with nonviolent civil disobedience.
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The arrests are a dramatic display of civil disobedience in the nation's Capitol, although one that has become relatively common as activists seek to ratchet up their attempts to draw attention to the Republican health bill.
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As the home of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, an era of mass civil disobedience that ignited the very idea of student activism, the school has a reputation for being America's left wing ground zero.
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The deployment of drones would mark a significant escalation by Extinction Rebellion, which mobilised thousands of people in a peaceful civil disobedience campaign that brought parts of central London to a standstill for 11 days in April.
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A general strike and campaign of civil disobedience called by the opposition resulted in Khartoum being brought to a standstill earlier this week, in an attempt to encourage the Transitional Military Council to transfer power to civilians.
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Several of the protesters gathering for the rally outside a hotel-casino in Reno said they planned to engage in civil disobedience to bring attention to the separation of children and families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Campaigners set up camp then in the valley in the middle of a freezing winter, chaining themselves to trees in what became a symbol of the reawakening of civil disobedience in Poland after the collapse of communism.
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Hopping across the channel from the U.K., France has witnessed some dramatic scenes itself in recent weeks with anti-government protests turning to widespread civil disobedience and riots, violence and destruction in Paris and other French cities.
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"Sometimes you have to do something out of the ordinary, sometimes you have to make a way out of no way," said Lewis, one of the last living icons of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement.
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"I think (Beijing) will be very worried, I'm representing a new vision of Hong Kong's future and a brand new force of the resistant camp," he added, vowing to continue civil disobedience action against Chinese Communist rule.
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Juan Requesens and Miguel Pizarro, both of the First Justice party and proponents of civil disobedience, were surrounded by National Guard soldiers when they approached a highway in Caracas that demonstrators had sought to occupy from dawn.
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Fowler was among the delegates who heard from Sanders directly in person on Monday: "What I took away from it was he wants us to continue the revolution, and part of that is civil disobedience," she said.
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The civil disobedience in Yeongdeok was only one of the many challenges South Korea's nuclear power industry faced, problems it never had to confront when the first reactor went into operation in 1978 under an authoritarian government.
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Instead the coalition urged the government to stop what it called "warlike operations", asked the international community to foster a political dialogue and called on Congo's population to participate in peaceful civil disobedience to end the crisis.
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Abdourahmane Sanoh, a former government minister and an organizer of the demonstrations last week, which resulted in at least nine deaths, received a one-year jail term for inciting civil disobedience, the judge in the case said.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has fined two of the last television channels critical of the government over on-air comments which allegedly insulted the country's president and encouraged civil disobedience, a television watchdog official told Reuters on Wednesday.
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More than 1,000 people have been arrested during the protests, which started last Monday, as part of the group's campaign of non-violent civil disobedience with the aim of stopping what it calls a global climate crisis.
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Moved and outraged, a group of LGBTQ people and allies (including many longtime activists) decided to come together in order to "nonviolently break the gun industry's chain of death" through flamboyant protests and acts of civil disobedience.
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HALF a century ago in America, nonviolent protests and acts of civil disobedience, organised by leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, helped put the spotlight on the bigotry and injustice that black Americans faced.
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But while many nations seem willing to tolerate the boycott campaigns and civil disobedience, Australia appears determined to suppress the activism, even as heat waves, drought and fires make the country's vulnerabilities to climate change ever clearer.
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But even before rallies devolve into street violence, tensions frequently surface between demonstrators seeking peaceful civil disobedience and those looking for confrontation - some of whom are ordinary Venezuelans angry over chronic product shortages and triple-digit inflation.
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Sudan's main alliance of opposition groups and protesters have urged workers and employees to stay home on Sunday, launching what it called a campaign of civil disobedience to force military rulers to hand over power to civilians.
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All say that it is this relative safety — and the relative advantages of age, race, education and wealth — that makes them feel they have a particular responsibility, as climate activists, to push the boundaries of civil disobedience.
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Protesters from Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience movement that began in Britain, blocked traffic on the Pont de Sully bridge in the center of the city, the latest surge of climate activism across northern and western Europe.
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There may be a sense of exhaustion that we can't really force these Republicans to do anything they don't want to do through civil disobedience, and so the best way to do it is through electoral action.
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For Tsunami Democràtic and Catalonia's independence movement generally this week's protests look to be just the start of a dug-in, tech-fuelled guerrilla campaign of civil disobedience — to try to force a change of political weather.
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The trigger for a return to waves of technology-fuelled civil disobedience — as were also seen across Catalonia around the time of the 2017 referendum — are lengthy prison terms handed down by Spain's Supreme Court on Monday.
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Mr. Liteky, who later served two federal prison terms for civil disobedience as a war protester, said he was motivated in his political dissent by the commitment that had inspired his bravery on the battlefield in Vietnam.
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MOSCOW — Protesters in Armenia, frustrated by Parliament's refusal to elect the opposition leader as prime minister, heeded his call for widespread civil disobedience on Wednesday, fanning out across the country to close major squares, roads and schools.
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"We've tried all the normal safe ways - petitions, marches, writing letters to the politicians, so now all we can do is civil disobedience," Joan, an Australian who has been living in Madrid for 18 months, told Reuters.
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BARCELONA, Spain — The trial of a former leader of Catalonia charged with civil disobedience for organizing an independence vote in 2014 began on Monday and was met with another act of defiance from the region's secessionist movement.
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Last month, 50 years after King called for the original Poor People's Campaign, we announced just such a movement to unite the poor, disenfranchised and marginalized in direct action and collective nonviolent civil disobedience across the nation.
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Defense lawyers argued that the two men, along with four co-defendants, were exercising constitutionally protected rights to assembly and to bear arms, casting the showdown as a patriotic act of civil disobedience against government over-reach.
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Part of the public mistrust of Lam stems from her previously close working ties with Leung, who ordered tear gas to be fired at pro-democracy protesters in late 2014, during the long-running 'Occupy' civil disobedience movement.
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Part of the public mistrust towards Lam stems from her close working relationship with the staunchly pro-Beijing Leung, who ordered the firing of tear gas on pro-democracy protesters in 2014 during the 'Occupy' civil disobedience movement.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's main protest group called on Monday for civil disobedience and a general strike as meetings with the country's military rulers failed to provide any breakthrough on the formation of a joint civilian-military transitional council.
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Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and co-defendant Ryan Payne, a Montana resident prosecutors linked to a militia group called Operation Mutual Aid, have cast the uprising as an act of patriotic civil disobedience against government excess.
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The movement, which began in Britain and is carrying out a two-week civil disobedience campaign in London, is rapidly expanding around the world, with a range of protests in more than 50 countries this month, organizers said.
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Even if I could do it without creating a conflict, the scenario plays out in my head, and I'm presented with natural conclusions, all involving the law, as though my very existence is an act of civil disobedience.
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"I choose to plead guilty in this case to show, as an organizer of civil disobedience, I am willing to bear legal responsibility," the 20-year-old Wong said outside the High Court, flanked by a few supporters.
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Tensions between Hong Kong and Beijing's ruling Communist Party leaders have grown in recent years, particularly over the "Occupy" civil disobedience movement in 2014 when tens of thousands of protesters blocked roads for 79 days demanding full democracy.
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The rally is part of a national initiative consisting of numerous nationwide protests and civil disobedience actions for the first 100 hours after election day, all of which center the experiences of women of color but welcome everyone.
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" Chow, who is a standing committee member of Demosisto, the political party founded by Wong in the wake of the Occupy movement, says that as "a person advocating civil disobedience" she is "not afraid to go to jail.
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The activities range from calling for referendums, launching petitions, lobbying elected officials, protesting and using civil disobedience when needed to push for the same legislation in all countries, both democratic and authoritarian, to achieve simultaneous and radical change.
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The actions will culminate in a six-week period of civil disobedience and protest in a number of states this year, eventually fulfilling King's original goal of bringing the needs of poor people directly to the nation's capital.
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She hadn't woken up that morning and penciled civil disobedience into her schedule that day — but when the occasion arose, she found herself defying power in a way that few adults at the time had been able to.
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She met Adele Faccio, a women's rights advocate and abortion rights campaigner, "who spoke to me about civil disobedience, which I'd never heard of, about the Radical Party," and she began accompanying women to a Florentine abortion clinic.
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"It's been a feature of the post-9/85033 counterterrorism effort by the FBI to focus on nonviolent civil disobedience and to prioritize it," former FBI Special Agent Mark German, now a New York University fellow, told Yahoo.
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"My activist experience was limited to one lunch counter sit-in in Columbus, Ohio, and my civil disobedience to conscription, which didn't do much to get rid of the war system," Dr. Sharp told Reason magazine in 2011.
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But CPV would import and burn untenable quantities of dirty fracked gas from Pennsylvania, singlehandedly increasing New York's GHG emissions by 10 percent, according to the testimony of Cornell University's Anthony Ingraffea at our recent civil disobedience trial.
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - Nikol Pashinyan, leader of an Armenian protest movement locked in a standoff with the ruling elite, told Reuters on Wednesday he and his supporters would not give up, and would continue their campaign of civil disobedience.
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Despairing of last year's failure to bring about a referendum to recall Maduro and believing it is up against a dictatorship, Popular Will is now advocating civil disobedience while other opposition parties still push for a new vote.
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On Tuesday, more than 1,000 activists from Never Again Action, at least most of whom were Jews, staged actions in San Diego, Rhode Island, and Missouri, aimed at shutting down facilities associated with immigration enforcement through civil disobedience.
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This is not to say that protest movements, direct action, and civil disobedience are not valuable or that they've become outdated in some sense—far from it: today's left would be further strengthened by more militant street mobilizations.
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Extinction Rebellion, a campaign group seeking rapid action to curb global warming, rose to prominence after it mobilized thousands of people in a peaceful civil disobedience campaign that brought parts of central London to a standstill in April.
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At least three of Sanders's five picks have been arrested in the past few years for acts of civil disobedience, while Clinton's are more likely to have ties to existing Democratic institutions or center-left technocratic policy circles.
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The central government's authority in the region was to be tested on Monday after prominent members of the Catalan administration had said they did not accept the move and a civic group called for civil disobedience to the ruling.
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Three leaders of Hong Kong's 2014 civil disobedience "Occupy" movement pleaded not guilty to public nuisance charges at a packed court in the Chinese-ruled city on Monday where more than 100 protesters rallied in support of the activists.
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The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which has spearheaded the uprising since it began last December, called it a "bloody massacre" and announced a campaign of "total civil disobedience" to topple the junta that took power in Mr Bashir's place.
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From suffragettes pushing for the vote for women to other battles for civil rights, "virtually every single liberty you can think of has been gained as a result of mass protests and some civil disobedience or other", she said.
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Civil rights advocates registered voters and encouraged people to go to the polls, but given the fundamental repressive reality of Jim Crow, they employed acts of civil disobedience from sit-ins to marches to boycotts that shut down commerce.
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Despite lacking information about the man who was being deported, most media organizations jumped on the story, with the Washington Post calling Ersson's stunt a "dramatic act of civil disobedience" while Newsweek magazine described the student as a "hero".
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Representatives from the National Lawyers Guild, the nation's first racially integrated association of progressive lawyers, will discuss protocol and best responses when confronted by police, legal consequences of civil disobedience, and what rights you are guaranteed during protest actions.
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Few analysts, and certainly few Israelis, have suggested that Hamas may actually be rethinking its strategy merely because it has joined what are meant to be nonviolent mass protests and has name-checked the heroes of peaceful civil disobedience.
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A Hong Kong court found leaders of the 2014 "Occupy" civil disobedience movement guilty on Tuesday of public nuisance charges during the mass protests, in a landmark verdict that comes as the China-ruled city's freedoms come under strain.
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In September 2017, all four officers were assigned to a Civil Disobedience Team, which conducts crowd control, in anticipation of a protest against the acquittal of Officer Jason Stockley, the US Department of Justice said in a news release.
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Now, Spain's chief public prosecutor has said Catalonia's current president, Carles Puigdemont, could be arrested for civil disobedience, abuse of office and misuse of public funds for pressing ahead with preparations for the October 1 referendum, according to Reuters.
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The court heard how in 2013, Tai, Chan and Chu began promulgating and planning a non-violent civil disobedience campaign to occupy streets in the Central business district should China not allow a democratic vote for its next leader.
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In coming weeks, activists will respond to calls from the leaders at Standing Rock by gathering at the offices of banks funding the pipeline, and at the offices of the Army Corps of Engineers, for protest and civil disobedience.
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" In the past week, faced with a growing wave of civil disobedience, Iran's general prosecutor called the actions of the women "childish" and the Tehran police said that those who were arrested were "deceived by the 'no-hijab' campaign.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Civil disobedience group Extinction Rebellion staged a protest outside McKinsey & Company's London office on Friday to demand the consulting firm use its influence over companies and governments to drive far-reaching action on climate change.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Pashinyan received the support of 45 members of Parliament, signaling a deepening of the political crisis and a continuation of the peaceful civil disobedience campaign that has often paralyzed the city in the past two weeks.
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LIHKG has been vital for the protesters who use the motto, "Be Water," a reference to staging civil disobedience in one part of Hong Kong to attract attention before dispersing and quickly moving to another part of the city.
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One member of Republican nominee Donald Trump's inner circle, Roger Stone, has "predicted" (which is to say, encouraged) "widespread civil disobedience" if Trump loses the election — a situation that he once described, somewhat nonsensically, as a "bloodbath" without violence.
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The protesters responded to the break-up of the sit-in by declaring a state of civil disobedience, instructing supporters in various sectors of the economy to stay away from work in a move that has partially paralysed Sudan.
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The protesters responded to the break-up of the sit-in by declaring a state of civil disobedience, instructing supporters in various sectors of the economy to stay away from work in a move that has partially paralyzed Sudan.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's military and opposition groups have agreed to resume talks on the formation of a transitional council, an Ethiopian envoy said on Tuesday, as an opposition alliance said it was suspending its campaign of civil disobedience and strikes.
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The FFC, which organized a massive show of force on Sunday when tens of thousands of people took to the streets, said it was calling for another mass march on July 13 and a day of civil disobedience on July 14.
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Since the health care debate began, advocacy groups, liberal organizations, and "resistance" leaders have waged an all-out war against the GOP health care bill — staging sit-ins, clogging the airwaves, and organizing mass acts of civil disobedience across the country.
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The effort, which this week rendered the streets of the capital Khartoum mostly deserted, includes not going to work and "general civil disobedience for a civil state," said the organizing group, the Sudanese Professionals Association, which also led anti-Bashir protests.
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Of course our country has had a long and proud history of civil disobedience and marches that have galvanized positive change from civil rights march, of course, of 1964 to the March for Life, we have that every year in January.
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The report, commissioned by the government last year, comes after weeks of protest by climate group Extinction Rebellion, which carried out a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience with the aim of stopping what it calls a global climate crisis.
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This is when I learned about ADAPT, a national grassroots community that organizes Disability Rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.
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BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso has won a new five-year term with over 60 percent of the vote, the interior minister said on Thursday, but the opposition rejected the outcome, alleging fraud and calling for civil disobedience.
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The political crisis, Spain's worst since democracy was restored four decades ago, has become increasingly fraught at the prospect of civil disobedience and even confrontation if Madrid goes ahead with taking direct control of Catalonia in the next few days.
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Hozoji's own parents were involved in the Fish Wars of the 20103s and 70s, in which Coast Salish tribes compelled the US government, through sustained civil disobedience, to formally acknowledge native fishing rights under the 1855 Point No Point Treaty.
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YEREVAN (Reuters) - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.
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"Voting is not a crime," said Marc Solsona, mayor of the town of Mollerussa, one of nearly 750 mayors facing charges of civil disobedience, abuse of office and misuse of public funds, as he left the state prosecutor's office in Barcelona.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong, who helped lead the months-long "Umbrella Movement" in 2014 demanding full democracy, said on Thursday he would not fight a charge related to the protests in the spirit of civil disobedience.
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Since then there have been countless protests and acts of civil disobedience demanding change and drawing attention to major issues including women's rights, the rights of the LGBTQ community, and the importance of science as an integral part of modern society.
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During the civil disobedience movement that ran for 79 straight days, protesters, sometimes numbering in their thousands, faced off repeatedly with the police who used batons, tear gas and pepper spray — drawing some criticism for the excessive use of force.
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