The most notable was my work to help nonviolent protests remain nonviolent.
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Prison sentences for first-time, low-level nonviolent drug offenses and nonviolent white-collar offenses is a mistake.
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Many of those who support Israel, and who want peace through nonviolent means, are now objecting to nonviolent tactics.
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Nonviolent resistance has the potential to mobilize large numbers of people compared with, say, movements that combine nonviolent and violent techniques.
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The Center for Nonviolent Communication takes this position and has taught skills of deep listening, respect, and nonviolent dialogue for decades.
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If the next song's lyrics are nonviolent or if some other nonviolent event occurs, the effects of violent lyrics will dissipate, states the paper.
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A list of 103 methods of nonviolent action has been drawn up by Gene Sharp, an academic who is a master strategist of nonviolent struggle.
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Characterized variously as the "Machiavelli of Nonviolence" and the "Clausewitz of Nonviolent Warfare," Mr. Sharp argued that nonviolent resistance draws its strength from basic human nature.
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And University of Denver researcher Erica Chenoweth, in her work on violent and nonviolent demonstrations worldwide, found nonviolent campaigns succeed much more often than violent ones.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about Gene Sharp, a prominent advocate of nonviolent resistance, mistakenly listed a subtitle for his book "The Politics of Nonviolent Action," published in 1973.
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He now serves as executive director of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, a Belgrade-based nonprofit that teaches political activists how to overthrow oppressive regimes through strictly nonviolent tactics.
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Most of those freed were nonviolent drug offenders like Booker.
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He would end mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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They could have easily dispersed the crowd through nonviolent means.
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It won't stop police from locking up nonviolent drug offenders.
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Still, it was coordinated nonviolent action with a clear goal.
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The Don scenario finally played out, in a nonviolent way.
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In fact, Black Lives Matter is a nonviolent protest movement.
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Support policies and politicians with a belief in nonviolent intervention.
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He also wrote frequently about the history of nonviolent protest.
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Most people detained before trial are charged with nonviolent offenses.
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Should they be deprived of nonviolent economic protest as well?
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I wouldn't use the word "extreme" for nonviolent direct action.
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They are charged with nonviolent crimes, not convicted of them.
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At the saltworks nearby, colonial police attacked Gandhi's nonviolent followers.
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And nonviolent struggles were resolved much sooner than violent ones.
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He remained, to the end, the prophet of nonviolent resistance.
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Moms 4 Housing inspires a movement with nonviolent civil disobedience
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Ashin Wirathu has rejected the nonviolent teachings of his faith.
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Gerhart has argued in court that her protest was nonviolent.
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While nonviolent against persons, the campaign encourages other lawbreaking activities.
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They were dismissing his nonviolent philosophy as naive, too passive.
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Most demonstrations were nonviolent, though some protesters in Oakland, Calif.
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Is it because a nonviolent movement could not be envisioned?
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But New York simply eliminated bail for most nonviolent crimes.
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Nonviolent action is not an appeal to a dictator's conscience.
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There is a real distinction between violent and nonviolent protests.
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Would a first-time, nonviolent drug offender be allowed into Canada?
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She was serving a life sentence over a nonviolent drug charge.
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"We're trying to keep it as nonviolent as possible," he affirmed.
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The nonviolent protesters staged a sit-in near the Uber tent.
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An elimination of cash bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent crimes.
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"Nonviolent protest has NOTHING to do with self-defense," she replied.
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Otto, who is physically fit but nonviolent, pretended to lose consciousness.
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Here, 81 percent of people were in prison for nonviolent offenses.
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" "DOJ should focus on prosecuting violent criminals, not nonviolent drug offenders.
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In 2014, there were 163 violent/nonviolent arrests made in Robbinsville.
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The official residue of his years in prison: two nonviolent felonies.
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It would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for repeat nonviolent drug offenders.
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Veterans courts emphasize treatment and rehabilitation over punishment for nonviolent crimes.
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See, I'm a nonviolent person, did you know that about me?
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A lot of them are nonviolent and simply made a mistake.
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The other sought to reduce prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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In short: You do the (nonviolent) crime, you do the time.
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It was a nonviolent movement, which was a profoundly moral act.
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Fifty-four of those executed were convicted of nonviolent drug crimes.
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Detaining nonviolent immigrants with no flight risk can have devastating consequences.
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Detaining nonviolent immigrants with no flight risk can have devastating consequences.
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They study Gandhi and Gene Sharp, a guru of nonviolent resistance.
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When he tried, the Irish National Land League suggested nonviolent protest.
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For instance, they could eliminate life without parole for nonviolent offenses.
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Dr. King was assassinated for preaching nonviolent resistance in the South.
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They have been charged with nonviolent crimes, not convicted of them.
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We use peaceful, rational and nonviolent means to express our demands.
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" I asked in my most articulate, mature, but nonviolent voice. "No.
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But then you flip it around, and what about nonviolent protests?
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I am facing 28503 charges for my nonviolent human rights work.
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But nonviolent actions succeed at much higher rates than violent campaigns.
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Martin Luther King Jr. preached nonviolent resistance; Yasir Arafat practiced terrorism.
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Many are women, and often, they are nonviolent, first-time offenders.
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Christ seemed like the natural standard-bearer for that nonviolent approach.
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But many of these recent gains have accrued to nonviolent offenders.
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Cash bail will be eliminated for most misdemeanors and nonviolent crimes.
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Too many people in jail for too long for nonviolent offenses.
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He remains nonviolent until the last possible second, to his peril.
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It would reduce some mandatory minimum sentences — retroactively for nonviolent offenders.
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It won't stop law enforcement from locking up nonviolent drug offenders.
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He spearheaded American nonviolent protest as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1963 and helped to plan that year's March on Washington, where he was the youngest person to take to the microphone.
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Successful campaigns have gone beyond marches, demonstrations, and protests, embracing many other nonviolent methods—including nonviolent occupations, human barricades, strikes, interruptions, and many other disruptive techniques—to achieve outcomes without the political downsides of violent flanks.
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Currently, more than half of those sentenced to die in federal prison are there for nonviolent offenses, and 30 percent of people sentenced to life (or de facto life) are there for a nonviolent drug crimes.
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But beyond setting the agenda, nonviolent resistance has other important organizational benefits.
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Right now, we have passed bail reform, but only for nonviolent misdemeanors.
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Governments replaced one another through a lengthy sequence of mainly nonviolent coups.
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Young is currently serving life without parole for a nonviolent drug offense.
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But it remains preferable to sending lots of nonviolent criminals to prison.
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Native Americans are resilient, and nonviolent action and prayer stopped the pipeline.
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" The campaign said it is "organizing nonviolent civil resistance training for this.
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"Kneeling is an innocent, honorable, nonviolent protest," Jackson said at the event.
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Mr. Colombo said it was important legally that the theft was nonviolent.
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Krasner's first initiative was to eliminate cash bail for most nonviolent crimes.
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The police officers were assassinated while actually protecting and serving nonviolent protestors.
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Johnson was one of about 3,85033 such offenders imprisoned for nonviolent crimes.
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The group was pushing for a small, democratic, nonviolent and egalitarian state.
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He's instead pushing competing legislation to reduce sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
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We're not nonviolent — we'll f------ kill these people if we have to.
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Awlaki: I was a preacher of Islam involved in nonviolent Islamic activism.
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There were boycotts, "freedom rides," acts of nonviolent resistance, walkouts, and more.
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Birmingham was the birthplace and affirmation of the nonviolent movement in America.
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The activists were trained in nonviolent civil disobedience and got legal support.
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Then came Mr. Mirambeau's #PetroCaribeChallenge, shifting the paradigm to a nonviolent campaign.
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They are not fundamentally different from people who have committed nonviolent offenses.
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Should undocumented women be deported if they are convicted of nonviolent crimes?
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Most people with nonviolent convictions would no longer have to petition individually.
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Around the world, nonviolent civil resistance has toppled dictators and oppressive regimes.
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Kids exposed to nonviolent pornography have no increased association with sexual violence.
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The 2010s witnessed an uptick in nonviolent resistance movements across the globe.
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The second thing is the role of women in nonviolent mass movements.
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Through King's teachings on nonviolent resistance, "he belongs to everybody," Jackson says.
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Elsewhere, nonviolent first-time offenders are jammed together with extremely violent inmates.
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Diversify your tactics There's a lot more to nonviolent struggle than marching.
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"Now there is a lot of talk about nonviolent extremism," he said.
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Fonda said nonviolent protest is the key to progress on climate change.
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Tribal leaders and protesters say they are nonviolent and have no weapons.
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The police yanked on and chased after nonviolent protestors in armored vehicles.
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His Fatah party has called for nonviolent protests in the West Bank.
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This wasn't treated as nonviolent by Trump supporters, or by many commentators.
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Violent protests led to a conservative backlash, while nonviolent demonstrations helped liberals.
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Clinton would reform mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders (which we know disproportionately impact people of color) by halving said mandatory minimums; allowing current nonviolent prisoners to seek "fairer sentences"; and rejiggering the "strike" system in such a way that a nonviolent drug offense would no longer count as a "strike", thus cutting down the mandatory penalty for second- and third-strike offenses.
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The university attacked by the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday was named for a towering figure in Pakistani history — a nonviolent Pashtun activist who became known as the "Frontier Gandhi" for his advocacy of nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule.
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" Chastain then wrote, "Nonviolent protest has NOTHING to do with self defence [sic].
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You say and these are, we should say these are for nonviolent offenders.
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Defendants being sentenced to decades for nonviolent and first-time offenses. Overcrowding. Corruption.
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He is to serve in the prison's minimum-security camp for nonviolent offenders.
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They want no "gray zone" in which nonviolent Muslims can live in peace.
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Most women in prison are there because of nonviolent drug or property crimes.
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My students were skeptical of headlines and commentary that called for nonviolent protest.
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Yet much of the talk about reform has focused on nonviolent drug offenses.
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But according to Swarthmore College's global nonviolent action database, King overruled Rustin's objections.
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It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument in a democratic society.
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In the UK, 81 percent of women are in prison for nonviolent crimes.
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Stop and frisk in major US cities targets drugs and other nonviolent crimes.
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Although he was nonviolent, he resisted oppression and refused to comply with injustice.
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Charlie Crist, to restore voting rights to former felons with nonviolent felony convictions.
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He said the shooting "sickened" him and stressed his commitment to nonviolent action.
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Nonviolent protests were met with violence from white civilians and law enforcement alike.
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It is against department policy to actively pursue a nonviolent offender, he said.
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Chenoweth and Stephan identify what they call the "participation advantage" of nonviolent movements.
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Checkpoints at city entrances were closed, even as the protests remained largely nonviolent.
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Already, fewer persons convicted of nonviolent offenses are being needlessly sent to prison.
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She later insisted that she has always called for peaceful and nonviolent protests.
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For many, their most serious offense is a low-level, nonviolent drug charge.
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Johnson is a mother of five who committed a first-time, nonviolent offense.
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John Hickenlooper (D) said he was considering dismissing marijuana convictions for nonviolent offenders.
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A more realistic goal for the coalition and for Afghanistan is nonviolent coexistence.
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But it's nonviolent transfers of power that allow peaceful change without violent overthrow.
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Charlie Crist, to restore voting rights to ex-offenders with nonviolent felony convictions.
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This means reducing sentences or releasing convicts serving sentences for nonviolent drug crimes.
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None of the characters pose a nonviolent way to solve the brewing crisis.
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But in nonviolent drug cases, they would frequently find the defendant not guilty.
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About 630 women are detained daily on Rikers Island, many for nonviolent offenses.
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But, according to Swarthmore College's global nonviolent action database, King overruled Rustin's objections.
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Or do they simply want to cut prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders?
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To end mass incarceration, however, exempting nonviolent offenses from jail time isn't enough.
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He was working with students and fellow opposition leaders to organize nonviolent protests.
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Helping a sick person die in a nonviolent way is not for amateurs.
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But they're doing it in a nonviolent fashion and they're exercising their right.
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A majority of prisoners are serving time for nonviolent crimes, not violent ones.
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Let's go for a complicated, messy and nonviolent resolution that doesn't satisfy anybody.
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It features audio recordings from King and explores his philosophies on nonviolent protest.
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Combatants for Peace, formed in 2005, is dedicated to nonviolent demonstrations and dialogue.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had already moved from integrationist to separatist aims.
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Ms. Johnson had been serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug conviction.
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"Our protest is totally nonviolent," Mr. Guha said, seconds before he was detained.
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Nonviolent drug offenses accounted for only around a fifth of the new incarcerations.
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But so far, the Trump campaign has operated within the nonviolent democratic tradition.
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But other countries don't necessarily share Americans' relative capacity for nonviolent social conflict.
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In college, he was a foot soldier in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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The university blamed "about 150 masked agitators" for interrupting an "otherwise nonviolent" protest.
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BDS is the sole nonviolent strategy that is able to have an impact.
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Pakistan's powerful military is trying to crush a nonviolent movement for civil rights.
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This time, the inmates at Elmore wanted their grievances addressed through nonviolent means.
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I have a very small political party called "Innocence" — I am strongly nonviolent.
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Trump's signing of the law reduced mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Research by Erica Chenoweth, a scholar at the University of Denver who studies nonviolent revolutions, finds that the size of protests matters: that governments almost always fall when 3.5 percent of the population or more engage in sustained nonviolent activity.
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In 1960, just months after those three arrests, Mr. McDew, as a college freshman from Ohio, became a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights group dedicated to direct action but nonviolent tactics in fighting for racial justice.
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Some 87 percent of voters want judges to have more discretion to sentence nonviolent offenders on a case-by-case basis rather than saddle them with formulaic sentencing requirements that have clogged our prisons with people convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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Ms. Johnson ordered several policy changes amid the 2014 settlement, including a moratorium on suspensions for students in pre-K through first grade for nonviolent offenses, and she pledged to personally review referrals to suspend minority students for nonviolent offenses.
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After Biden raised eyebrows by saying "nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime," a campaign official told BuzzFeed News he was talking about nonviolent drug offenders, a point that was not totally clear in the context around Biden's response.
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I first got involved in nonviolent action through my parents when I was 15.
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Now 75, Baez continues to dedicate her life to nonviolent action and human rights.
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Most of the other people receiving commutations were serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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You are calling for our grassroots, nonviolent resistance movement to be met with violence.
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She also described Paddock as nonviolent and said she was unaware of his plans.
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It's unfortunate what's happening but the response we should have is to be nonviolent.
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So at least some of the supposedly nonviolent offenders have likely committed violent crimes.
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She appealed on behalf of prisoners hit with life sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Epic has always encouraged players to make their own fun with serendipitously nonviolent suggestions.
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Nonviolent or violent offenses committed for personal motivations, like greed, are not considered terrorism.
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Anderson's alleged nonviolent crime should never have led to fatal injuries, plain and simple.
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" He added, "I admire anyone who stands up against white supremacy, violent or nonviolent.
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In other words, we don't deliberately nurture boys to be emotionally whole (and nonviolent).
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"The thing is, [the nonviolent model] is an open-source book," Popović tells me.
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While the protests started out as mostly nonviolent, they have recently become more dangerous.
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Nonviolent communication integrates qualities like compassion and effective communication to allow for better leadership.
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These constitute a plausible basis to work toward nonviolent coexistence at the local level.
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And he's proposed granting clemency to thousands of people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
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Officials in many jurisdictions have been rethinking their approaches to low-level nonviolent offenses.
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But the current protests are overwhelmingly nonviolent, and have been met with murderous force.
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Organizers are running orientation sessions for newcomers, nonviolent mass action trainings, and legal trainings.
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For example, Obama passed the law to eliminate mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses.
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It is up to people of conscience to expose such injustice through nonviolent means.
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In his 1963 "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" defending nonviolent civil disobedience, the Rev.
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Johnson has been serving a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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The question is not whether but how to help Iranians who favor nonviolent change.
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Suddenly, what had been a nonviolent push for civil liberties became an uncompromising crusade.
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It also reduces some mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, among other changes.
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She had seen buses and churches firebombed, children horribly beaten during nonviolent sit-ins.
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It's particularly troubling for people accused of nonviolent or relatively minor crimes, she added.
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For one thing, despite being a top-down shooter, Butter Royale is decidedly nonviolent.
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What creative ideas for a nonviolent climate change protest can you come up with?
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There are plenty of examples in which nonviolent resistance failed to lead to democracy.
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Locking up nonviolent offenders and drug users almost always backfires, instead strengthening organized crime.
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So for Gazans, even a tentative experiment with nonviolent protest is a significant step.
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Abbie Hoffman, through his involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was the manager.
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In short, there's a lot of empirical evidence that large-scale, nonviolent protests work.
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Three-fourths of pretrial detainees are accused of property, drug, or other nonviolent offenses.
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These individuals brought with them a nonviolent, pacifist and deeply spiritual form of Islam.
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The United States should reverse its decision to deport 1,85033 nonviolent Iraqi Chaldean Catholics.
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Applicants must be nonviolent offenders who have already served 10 years of their sentence.
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Opposing BDS takes away the only effective nonviolent leverage that Palestinian society currently has.
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This relationship prevents action through standard political channels, leaving only direct, grassroots, nonviolent efforts.
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Johnson is currently serving a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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I was incarcerated from 1993 to 2015 for a first-time, nonviolent LSD offense.
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The community is bracing for a demonstration of "peaceful, nonviolent, direct action" Clatterbuck says.
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This is why nonviolent methods tend to be more gender-, age-, and ability-inclusive.
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Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth looked at 459 cases between 1900 and 2015 of violent insurgencies and nonviolent oppositions to authoritarian governments, and found that nonviolent resistance movements were more than twice as likely to succeed in their aims as violent ones.
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In addition to that, a 2013 report from the American Civil Liberties Union that looked at 3,278 prisoners serving life without parole for nonviolent drug or property crimes found that roughly 79 percent were sentenced to life in prison for nonviolent drug crimes.
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More than half of inmates sentenced under the law were serving sentences for nonviolent crimes.
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Every portrait I have done so far is of someone who has made nonviolent change.
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Yet the bill itself resulted in the bloating of prisons and jails with nonviolent offenders.
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The law in question eliminates cash bail for most misdemeanors and some nonviolent felony crimes.
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Going Further Members of Congress are trying to reform mandatory prison terms for nonviolent offenders.
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Volunteers prepare for nonviolent civil disobedience by training for sit-in harassment in Petersburg, Virginia.
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It took massive, well-organized, nonviolent dissent for the Voting Rights Act to become law.
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It expedited parole hearings for people convicted of nonviolent crimes and simplified the pardon process.
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The 63 year old was a nonviolent drug offender who was serving a life sentence.
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Sentencing reform focuses on reducing harsh sentences for low-level, nonviolent crimes — often drug crimes.
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Draconian drug laws imprisoned men and women, sometimes for life, for committing nonviolent drug offenses.
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They prefer to talk about "nonviolent drug offenders" — even when they're talking about state prisoners.
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The nonviolent independence movement in India has been a model for similar independence movements worldwide.
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Lewis has continued his activism and commitment to nonviolent protest in the House of Representatives.
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Democrats have denounced the moves, saying the administration is targeting nonviolent individuals and separating families.
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These groups pioneered tactics like striking and nonviolent direct action, along with less peaceful demonstrations.
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Mr. Brown is backing an initiative that would make more nonviolent criminals eligible for parole.
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Nearly 1,000 criminal offenses, most of them nonviolent, were recorded in Harlow in June alone.
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We need to reach out to the large nonviolent Muslim community, make them our allies.
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Among other provisions, the process treats ex-felons with violent records separately from nonviolent ones.
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Kim is fighting for criminal justice reform and lobbying for the freedom of nonviolent offenders.
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Espy called for criminal justice reform, saying that many nonviolent offenders "shouldn't be" in prison.
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And second, explain exactly how their supporters can take action in constructive and nonviolent ways.
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It promises to lessen the sentences of nonviolent criminals and reduce frankly racist sentencing disparities.
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John Hickenlooper (D) also said that he was considering dismissing convictions for nonviolent pot offenders.
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Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.
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It does not include violence against a boyfriend or girlfriend, or nonviolent offenses like stalking.
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change announced his death on Twitter.
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change announced his death on Twitter.
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Even short stays for nonviolent offenses can wreak havoc with people's jobs and child care.
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And the I.R.A. members who were released often went on to lead productive, nonviolent lives.
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As taxpayers, however, we are paying high amounts to incarcerate many who are nonviolent offenders.
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Nonviolent and peaceful protests are met with violent responses and punished by excessive prison sentences.
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The popular Palestinian nonviolent uprising of July could come back, on a much larger scale.
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The BDS campaign in the United States broadly identifies as a nonviolent social justice movement.
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"I understood that the best way to prevent violence is to be nonviolent," he said.
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Liu Xiaobo never harbored the illusion that nonviolent action would not be returned by violence.
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Aloné's boyfriend, Desmond Watson, was arrested in October 2015 on a series of nonviolent charges.
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With their battles for legalization over, it's time to release the nonviolent prisoners-of-war.
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Even after he learned about Glenn and Abraham, he continued to favor a nonviolent solution.
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Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee denounced Israel's actions against Palestinians, King found himself conflicted.
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On Wednesday night's show, Bee called out President Obama's deportation policies, specifically toward nonviolent criminals.
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In 1961, activists in McComb, Mississippi, founded Nonviolent High—which held classes at an office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—so that a hundred students who had been expelled from public school for protesting segregation could study algebra, English, physics, geometry, and French.
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Why do they think physical violence, as opposed to nonviolent resistance, is both justifiable and effective?
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"We organize nonviolent direct action to stop the AIM pipeline from being built," its website says.
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Remember, she was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of nonviolent drug charges.
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Scholl was an anti-Nazi activist with the White Rose resistance group, which practiced nonviolent activism.
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Talking about these subjects in public space is a must for a healthy, nonviolent community/world.
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But Biden's plan, like most criminal justice reform proposals, focuses largely on nonviolent and drug offenses.
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And he made his focus clear: ramping up prosecution of nonviolent crimes committed by undocumented individuals.
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At times in recent months, efforts by Dr. King to utilize nonviolent methods exploded into violence.
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Sanders also repeated the president's criticisms of athletes who stage nonviolent protests during the national anthem.
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Supporters of the movement say the tactics are a nonviolent way to promote the Palestinian cause.
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Average stay is two months Overall, the inmate population is primarily made up of nonviolent offenders.
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Wyoming, California and other states have recently restored voting rights to felons convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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Uber will begin to allow more people with nonviolent criminal convictions to become drivers in California.
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All of Duncan's charges were nonviolent, he said, involving things like drug possession and petty theft.
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What is more, another provision would allow supposedly "nonviolent" drug offenders to receive newly-reduced sentences.
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So it was a rare example of a peaceful, nonviolent overthrow in the post-Soviet space.
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The result, critics say, are overcrowded prisons and jails, many of them filled with nonviolent offenders.
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Nonviolent people did commit crimes, they did cause damage to society, they did disrupt other lives.
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Among them were 67 people serving life sentences, nearly all of them for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Arrests leapt by nearly 40 percent, flooding detention centers with nonviolent offenders and tearing families apart.
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In 1997, Alice was sentenced to life in prison as a first time, nonviolent drug offender.
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Do you think it will reduce drug violence, or keep more nonviolent people out of prison?
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Various international awards given to her for her commitment to nonviolent democratic resistance have been rescinded.
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Roughly half of those who died after applying were convicted of nonviolent fraud or drug crimes.
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Studies have found no evidence that keeping prisoners jailed for decades for nonviolent offenses reduces crime.
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The overwhelming majority ensnared by this system have been convicted of nonviolent crimes and drug offenses.
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They're factually wrong and stigmatizing to millions of completely nonviolent Americans living with severe mental illness.
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Consider two defendants with similar backgrounds who were accused of a nonviolent property crime or misdemeanor.
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But calls to execute a woman in a case of nonviolent political crime are highly unusual.
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"Nobody's destiny should hinge on a minor nonviolent offense," Mr. de Blasio said in a statement.
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Boycotts have always been accepted as a legitimate form of nonviolent protest in the United States.
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In a dissent, Barrett suggested the law should not apply to those convicted of nonviolent offenses.
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Bob McDonnell, a Republican, began re-enfranchising a small number of nonviolent former felons in 2013.
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All the effective social movements of the 20th and 21st centuries used nonviolent strategies and tactics.
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The law also pardons individuals with nonviolent convictions for amounts of cannabis up to 30 grams.
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It is unfortunate that this nonviolent form of resistance continues to be ignored in the West.
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And Nonviolent Struggle: 50 Crucial Points is a fun-to-read primer that has more ideas.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent resistance to segregation and had become legends inside the movement.
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Do you think it will reduce drug violence or keep more nonviolent people out of prison?
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His government has persecuted violent and nonviolent Islamist groups with equal zeal and without due process.
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In fact, the overall crime rate — including nonviolent property crimes — has fallen for 14 consecutive years.
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Puerto Rican police officers were also filmed beating nonviolent protesters with extendable batons on multiple occasions.
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For 13 years, he has been engaged in a creative, nonviolent campaign against the Israeli occupation.
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Six months after earning his doctorate, he led his first nonviolent mass protest in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Organizers say the march will be followed by an occupation of Washington with daily nonviolent demonstrations.
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I was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966.
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He'd be very excited about what Black Lives Matter is doing, all of these nonviolent movements.
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With the march winding down, protesters discussed plans to join other nonviolent demonstrations across the city.
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He is also pushing ahead with his goal of freeing nonviolent drug offenders from federal prisons.
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Ms. Johnson had been serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction before her release.
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Meanwhile, greater attention to developing and coordinating strategies for a nonviolent transition could well be helpful.
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As a way to topple dictators, nonviolent struggle has double the success rate of violent resistance.
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This is a typical length of sentence given to women convicted of nonviolent drug-related crimes.
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The initial successes of Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt as well as the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine demonstrated to the world that nonviolent resistance has the potential to reshape political power from below, even in systems where skeptics would view nonviolent resistance as impossible and naive.
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They&aposre calling this woman who Kim Kardashian is lobbying for, this first-time nonviolent drug offender.
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He believes they should consider pardons for those who have only been convicted of nonviolent cannabis crimes.
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Nonviolent religious extremists, in this case, have been used to convince others that violence is not acceptable.
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But not everyone seems to agree there's a marked difference between violent young men and nonviolent ones.
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He's using violence against the immigrants, he's using violence right now today… This is a nonviolent demonstration.
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However, the law allows people convicted of "nonviolent" drug offenses to receive treatment rather than jail time.
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Seriously, white people — stop telling me that MLK would be ashamed of nonviolent protest by black communities.
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Guitérrez's protest was reportedly nonviolent and he was only arrested after sitting on the White House sidewalk.
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Lewis went to college in Nashville, where he began to attend Jim Lawson's workshops on nonviolent protest.
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On the other hand, several big countries, including China, use the death penalty against nonviolent drug offenders.
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Defense attorneys argued that police were unable to determine nonviolent demonstrators from rioters amid the chaotic scene.
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We already know mass incarceration for low-level offenses — particularly nonviolent drug offenses — is a failed experiment.
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By 2018 that number dropped to only six nonviolent crimes, according to New Jersey State Police numbers.
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But even with all that gray area, there also exists a certain broad parameter of nonviolent decency.
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Approval drops from 80 percent to less than 40 percent for pursuing people who've committed nonviolent crimes.
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A small group of worshipers stayed behind, holding a nonviolent demonstration, facing a line of Israeli police.
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Indeed, the decentralized organizational philosophy of BLM most closely mirrors that of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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Congress could change the laws that mandate decades-long prison sentences to people convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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They believe such tactics help to protect nonviolent activists—particularly those from marginalized communities—from militarized police.
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But they also believe that appeals for nonviolent action are for the privileged and the sell-outs.
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"This film was made by a filmmaker who has crossed our nonviolent picket line," Barghouti told CNN.
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John Hickenlooper (D) said he is looking into the idea of dismissing convictions for nonviolent marijuana offenders.
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We applaud the Next Step Act for essential reforms, including reducing mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Two-thirds support reducing the prison sentences for people convicted of nonviolent crimes such as drug possession.
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I was convicted as a first-time nonviolent drug offender to life behind bars in federal prison.
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I am one of thousands of first-time, nonviolent offenders who were given mandatory lengthy prison terms.
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Just when did a nonviolent, nondisruptive, noncoercive personal protest against injustice in this country become un-American?
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Indeed, in many prisons, the number one reason people are sent to solitary confinement are nonviolent infractions.
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NOAA Fisheries is reportedly developing guidelines to encourage fisherman to use nonviolent methods to deter sea lions.
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Mr. Trump did not mention that most of those 180,000 are likely people charged with nonviolent crimes.
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In state prisons, the vast majority of women — 22019 percent of them — are there for nonviolent offenses.
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Mr. Abbas, who succeeded Mr. Arafat, has repeatedly said he supports nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation.
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"The players should escalate their nonviolent protests," the civil rights leader told The Houston Chronicle on Sunday.
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He plans to propose ending cash bail for those facing misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, the newspaper reported.
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Expand the "drug safety valve" to reduce the number of nonviolent drug offenders receiving mandatory minimum sentences.
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She cites increasing studies around the world, particularly at universities and nongovernment organizations, on nonviolent conflict resolution.
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I was convicted as a first-time, nonviolent drug offender to life behind bars in federal prison.
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Because of previous drug convictions, Noble was sentenced to 13 years in prison—for a nonviolent offense.
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It is not a crime if a nonviolent protester also happens to be a member of Hamas.
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He set a five-year minimum waiting period for nonviolent ex-felons and eight years for others.
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A glaring percentage of women are locked away for nonviolent drug offenses, or minor crimes like shoplifting.
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The First Step Act gives nonviolent offenders the chance to reenter society as productive, law-abiding citizens.
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Judges and prosecutors should suspend bail for defendants who are arraigned (rather than ticketed) for nonviolent crimes.
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"It was a mass Palestinian nonviolent protest against Israel, and to approach the border area," he said.
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Obama has made reducing the number of people serving long sentences for nonviolent drug offenses a priority.
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We had Florida in 2018 vote to give felons the right to vote, to nonviolent convicted felons.
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Upon his return to India, he spent the first few years leading nonviolent struggles on local grievances.
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And this is to say nothing of the nonviolent attacks, which are impossible to keep up with.
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He let lawmakers know that he was serious about reforming the system, especially for nonviolent drug offenders.
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They were convicted of minor and nonviolent crimes decades ago, they said, and received no jail time.
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The main reason, Dr. Stephan explained to me, was that nonviolent struggles attracted more allies more quickly.
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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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She was lobbying Trump to commute the sentence of a nonviolent drug offender named Alice Marie Johnson.
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Finally last year, the State Legislature banned bail for defendants charged with most misdemeanor and nonviolent offenses.
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One of the arguments for cannabis legalization has been about the effects of arrests on nonviolent offenders.
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We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
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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 vote is the most powerful nonviolent instrument of transformation we have in our democracy," said Rep.
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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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Most of these inmates were serving outrageously long terms, including life without parole, for nonviolent drug crimes.
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The entrepreneur made headlines in April when he announced that he would pardon all nonviolent drug offenders.
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There are more than 2,000 federal inmates serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes, according to the ACLU.
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He was tired of fighting and now, knowing he was terminal, wanted to choose a nonviolent death.
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Advocates for the measure argue that decriminalization would shift law enforcement resources away from pursuing nonviolent offenses.
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This meant that thousands of nonviolent criminals served longer terms than rapists, armed robbers, and even killers.
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Seemingly putting all of these beliefs together, the great majority of voters said they support reducing prison time for nonviolent criminal offenders: 78 percent said that "people who committed a nonviolent crime and have a low risk of committing another crime" should be let out of prison earlier.
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A majority were for "willful defiance," nonviolent infractions like texting in class or using profanity with a teacher.
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They also have wide discretion to set prosecutorial priorities, including how to approach misdemeanor offenses and nonviolent crimes.
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That&aposs often how criminal investigations of nonviolent crimes begin -- with conversations between intermediaries who spill the beans.
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Lynch was also asked about any plans for a blanket pardon of those who committed nonviolent drug offenses.
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Most importantly, it enshrines nonviolent mechanisms for making the government accountable to the people and improving the system.
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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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Johnson is a 62-year-old woman serving a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
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He has more than 210 nonviolent, low- level charges in his background, a sheriff's office news release said.
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The award recognized Trump last year signing bipartisan legislation including easing harsh minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
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And he's even acknowledged that criminal justice reform should, at some point, move beyond helping only nonviolent offenders.
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She is just one of many people of color behind bars for life for a nonviolent drug offense.
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Credit...Credit For nearly two decades, Geneva Cooley assumed she would die in prison for nonviolent drug crimes.
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It also grants more leeway to judges to sentence nonviolent offenders to prison terms below the mandatory minimums.
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The bill grants more leeway to judges to sentence nonviolent offenders to prison terms below the mandatory minimums.
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That is why this bill requires federal courts to conduct resentencing hearings and expunge nonviolent marijuana-related convictions.
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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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This affects a wide group of people, down to Floridians convicted of certain traffic crimes and nonviolent offenses.
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Beinart said he was then asked about his participation in a nonviolent West Bank protest two years ago.
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As an active member in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Blackwell helped African-Americans register to vote.
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Could the violence we've faced as a country this year encourage US developers to make nonviolent games too?
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In the 1970s Oregon's gravitational pull on the counterculture attracted nonviolent hippies, sex cults and psilocybin-fueled dropouts.
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Despite changes in rhetoric, America's response to illicit drug use still focuses on arrests for nonviolent drug crimes.
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But it was a nonviolent event; we hadn't been physically attacked, nor had we experienced a natural catastrophe.
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He was found guilty of NONViolent offenses and served his time complying with all prison guidelines and procedures.
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Lewis was a key civil rights leader in the 1960s as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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The vast majority of those women are black and brown, usually serving time for low-level, nonviolent offenses.
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The Tunisians' nonviolent overthrow of authoritarianism, their free elections and the new Constitution represent enormous achievements since 2011.
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The 62-year-old great-grandmother was serving a life sentence on nonviolent drug and money laundering charges.
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The national debate about ending mass incarceration often focuses on reducing arrest and incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders.
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Chavez was a champion of nonviolent protesting, using tactics like marching, fasting and boycotting to assert farmworkers' needs.
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In 1964, he came together with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to organize a voter registration movement.
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Lewis was a key civil rights leader in the 21625s as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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One book that influenced him was Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication," which he asked his top executives to read.
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Using incarceration as a knee-jerk response to low level or nonviolent drug offenses is one salient example.
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Mahatma Gandhi tamed the anger of a nation and taught it to fight for justice with nonviolent noncooperation.
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Americans no longer believe everyone who commits a serious but nonviolent crime should automatically wind up in prison.
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She was awarded the honor in recognition of her peaceful and nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights.
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He volunteered to document the protests for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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The novel follows seven characters over the course of one day as the nonviolent protests devolve into riots.
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They would have opened the cells of all people in jail in Canada for nonviolent cannabis-related offenses.
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That was a group of people who had the courage to uphold a nonviolent stance even when attacked.
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Here's what she had to say about leading a nonviolent resistance in the midst of hate-driven violence.
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"We are a nonviolent group, and luckily no one got hurt today," said Marilee Adamski-Smith, the spokesperson.
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It elevates Luke Skywalker to a hero of nonviolent resistance, the Ghandi of a galaxy far, far away.
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He said it took massive, well-organized, nonviolent dissents for black Americans to earn the right to vote.
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The majority have been charged with low-level, nonviolent offenses, such as drug possession, shoplifting, and parole violations.
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The groups released a plan on Thursday proposing to release elderly, sick and nonviolent criminals to home confinement.
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By the time she arrived at Yale, Murray was an experienced activist and a disciple of nonviolent protest.
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They agreed that their actions would be nonviolent and that they would willingly accept the consequences in court.
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Sentence reductions for people convicted of past crimes, even nonviolent ones, would lead to greater bloodshed, he maintains.
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The measure that Governor Cuomo is proposing would eliminate cash bail for people facing misdemeanor and nonviolent felonies.
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On Monday, Hong Kong social media was filled with pleas for the protesters to return to nonviolent methods.
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Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed getting rid of cash bail for people facing misdemeanor and nonviolent felony charges.
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A veteran dissident, he said he was arrested on his way to a meeting of the nonviolent opposition.
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Officer Pantaleo's critics said it showed the police using escalating force against a nonviolent man who was unarmed.
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About half of those applications were for people who had been convicted of nonviolent fraud or drug offenses.
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But calls for capital punishment for a woman in a case of nonviolent political crime are highly unusual.
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His Oxford thesis, published in 1973 as "The Politics of Nonviolent Action," became a manual for revolutionaries everywhere.
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Perez was later convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 2008 and sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
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The sheriff has added 85033,300 deputies to patrol and released 1,700 nonviolent inmates from county jails since Gov.
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It is also dedicated to proselytizing and nonviolent reformism intended to turn Pakistan into a "pure" Islamic state.
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Fifteen of 2018's best-selling console games feature sports simulation, science fiction and similarly nonviolent themed games.
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Most people charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies will be released without being required to post cash bail.
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What are different ways that nonviolent protesters can communicate their message to the larger public and effect change?
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Criminal courts in the state are now prohibited from setting cash bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.
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He was an progressive minister who had traveled to India to meet Mohandas Gandhi, who pioneered nonviolent protest.
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We shall continue our nonviolent struggle for our rights, motivated by our love for freedom, justice and equality.
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He was the main person who pushed the movement — and Martin Luther King — toward nonviolent ideas and tactics.
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She was a co-sponsor of the First Step Act, which eased harsh sentences for many nonviolent crimes.
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But protesters' decision to apologize helped convince people in the nonviolent camp to remain aligned, said Ms. Leung.
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And in Congress, bipartisan legislation to address federal sentencing stalled this year over what constitutes a "nonviolent" person.
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She had worked alongside the Republican president to free Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender, from prison.
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However, he wants to extend those consequences to nonviolent drug offenders, and that's where we run into problems.
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Though the demonstrations were largely nonviolent, protesters called for Mr. Basuki to be voted down, imprisoned — even killed.
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In his court testimony, Mr. Zhukov said that on the contrary, he was calling for strictly nonviolent protests.
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"Generally speaking, public transportation is the commons," says Hardy Merriman, president of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
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White-collar crime includes a wide range of nonviolent behavior, such as identity theft, Medicare fraud, and embezzlement.
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Today, thanks to the courageous and nonviolent efforts of the Sudanese people, a more promising path has opened.
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The regime's determination to crush all nonviolent opposition diverts attention and resources from the fight against actual terrorists.
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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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But spending tens of millions of dollars to lock up nonviolent defendants and the mentally ill is expensive.
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We train people so they can role-play being dragged off by police and practice maintaining nonviolent discipline.
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It was good-humored, confident and marked by determination, not anger, and utterly nonviolent: not a single arrest.
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This prevalent academic assertion discounts the nonviolent ideological underpinning of evolutionary jihadist terrorism, or Islamism, as any threat.
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In 1963, when he was twenty-one, he became the staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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THE STONE Opponents of the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement are involved in a dishonest branding campaign.
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We have literally filled up our jails with people who are nonviolent and frankly do not belong there.
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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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They have continually escalated a nonviolent protest into a full-scale conflict between the citizens and the police.
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We throw away $80 billion a year in this country locking up a huge number of nonviolent offenders.
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Articles like this make our country's hospitals less safe for staff and nonviolent patients by discouraging appropriate security measures.
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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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The Firearms Policy Coalition criticized lawmakers for trying to regulate the devices and wrote that AB1949 criminalized nonviolent behavior.
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By the time of that march, Lewis, then 23 years old, had been arrested 24 times for nonviolent protest.
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While electoral violence is a slightly different animal, the literature on nonviolent resistance provides some guidance here as well.
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The large majority of sentences Obama commuted Thursday -- and in total -- were those that came from nonviolent drug offenses.
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The government will allow early release for potentially tens of thousands of inmates who were convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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She initially attempts a nonviolent, peacemaking approach, before escalating the situation and choosing to physically engage with her paws.
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Classification issues, too, would arise, since Rikers separates adults from juveniles, women from men, and violent from nonviolent inmates.
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Alice Marie Johnson had spent 21 years in jail, sentenced to life for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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The report by Beyrer and his colleagues highlighted evidence of racial discrimination in incarceration rates for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Ms. Cooley was among the last women in the Alabama prison system serving life sentences on nonviolent drug charges.
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"We have a whole history of nonviolent, orderly and very large marches," PPEHCR national organizer Cheri Honkala told CNN.
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In 1968, riots broke out in more than 100 cities, despite calls from civil rights leaders for nonviolent demonstrations.
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I'm fine with the doxxing and the other nonviolent tactics, but I think antifa's street tactics undermine their cause.
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Organizers told ABC News they were disappointed that some "agitators" dismantled what was supposed to be a nonviolent demonstration.
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Finally, we have to ensure that every child can go to school and grow up in a nonviolent environment.
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It also suggested a number of strategies for managing nonviolent behavior without resorting to kicking students out of school.
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Criminal justice reformLiberals have attacked Sessions as being eager to flood the prisons with low-level, nonviolent drug offenders.
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Each of them prefers nonviolent solutions and an emphasis on diplomacy and alliance building over violence and power grabs.
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Our prison population, meanwhile, has increased by over 700% since the 1980s, and 90% of them are nonviolent offenders.
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By some estimates, as many as half of federal drug prisoners don't count as "low-level, nonviolent" drug offenders.
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"[Voting] is the most powerful nonviolent instrument or tool that we have, and we must use it," Lewis said.
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We should do it in an orderly, peaceful, nonviolent fashion, but people must stand up and not be silent.
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He was subsequently sentenced to 13 ⅓ years in prison under Louisiana law, a substantial sentence for a nonviolent offense.
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Martin Luther King Jr. advocated the strategy of nonviolent resistance, which eventually led to the victories of the movement.
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Historical research has shown that campaigns of nonviolent resistance are more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts.
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Unbeknownst to the civil rights leaders, Pritchett studied King's nonviolent techniques and ordered his officers to respond in kind.
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Most, though not all, were for nonviolent drug offenders and they were spread over the course of his presidency.
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Johnson, 63, had served 21 years of her life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense and money laundering charges.
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My sentence of 22 years was egregious, and a sentence of life without parole for nonviolent people is unconscionable.
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Did the increase in the prison population come from a more aggressive pursuit of violent offenses, or nonviolent ones?
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Known as the Mahatma (an honorific meaning "great soul"), he became famous worldwide as a practitioner of nonviolent resistance.
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BDS is a nonviolent movement, but is not without controversy or critics — and some have argued it's anti-Semitic.
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Jesus' admonition was a form of nonviolent resistance that would later be adopted by Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev.
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She also backs legislation to end racial profiling by law enforcement and reduce prison sentences for nonviolent drug criminals.
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"We have repeatedly seen a disproportionate response from law enforcement to water protectors' nonviolent exercise of their constitutional rights."
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Johnson had been convicted on nonviolent drug and money laundering charges and served her sentence in an Alabama prison.
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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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His Justice Department is cracking down on nonviolent drug offenders and amping up prosecutions against non-criminal undocumented immigrants.
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Obama and Holder had worked together on criminal-justice-reform efforts, including reductions in sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders.
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Gandhi, considered the father of the nation by Indians, was renowned for his nonviolent protests against British colonial rule.
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The Great Return March, as it is known, has been overwhelmingly nonviolent, comprising peaceful marches, gatherings, and sit-ins.
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Afternoon activities vary: massage, Mauy Thai, homework, counseling, NA, AA. We count our prayer beads and practice nonviolent communication.
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The extra risk outweighs any benefit from setting bail for defendants accused of nonviolent crimes who can't post it.
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JERSEY CITY — Every city in America knows that it's a bad idea to prosecute low-level, nonviolent marijuana offenses.
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Nonviolent cases involving 16- and 17-year-olds will soon be processed in family court instead of criminal court.
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This can be a good thing, as when legends from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee pass down their advice.
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Offenses ranging from nonviolent charges, such as bribery and forgery, to carjacking and murder are used to disqualify voters.
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Still, defendants on death row are often executed for nonviolent crimes such as drug dealing, illegal fundraising and espionage.
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With Cook seated next to her, she described spending 16 years in prison for a nonviolent methamphetamine-trafficking conviction.
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In more recent decades, an increasing number of people with mental disabilities landed in prison, usually for nonviolent offenses.
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That's in large part due to executive actions by the Obama administration to lock up fewer nonviolent drug offenders.
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This is a thing low-profile people do when they want to get attention in a virtuous, nonviolent way.
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It would also expand early-release programs and modify sentencing laws, including mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
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Those pardoned on Monday range in age from 33 to 75, and were mostly convicted on nonviolent drug crimes.
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It implies that the protesters, practicing nonviolent direct action, were harmfully unruly, when it was the police who were.
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This limited series returns with four films about women who have led nonviolent movements for peace and human rights.
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But others, including many who are charged with nonviolent crimes, are required to obtain bail to avoid pretrial detention.
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For young people in Algeria and Sudan, it's that nonviolent protests can oust even the most deeply entrenched dictator.
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The march was also supported by Women Strike for Peace and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, among other groups.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said they'd allow nonviolent felons vote.
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The Trump administration added to that backlog when it directed immigration authorities to reopen thousands of nonviolent removal cases.
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If you take nonviolent offenders with drug addiction in jail, you're only increasing the likelihood that they will reoffend.
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He and other UNPACU activists were detained last weekend for attempting to stage a nonviolent protest against the government.
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Thanks to the internet's meticulous record-keeping, journalists are rethinking to ethics of publishing the identities of nonviolent criminals.
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Effective immediately, his attorneys would offer plea deals to nonviolent offenders below the bottom range of Pennsylvania sentencing guidelines.
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The writer was a civil rights worker with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the South in the 1960s.
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Duckworth, who is an Army veteran, wants to protect military service members who have been convicted of nonviolent offenses.
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Its first president, Julian Bond, was a noted civil rights leader who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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They suggest ending the practice of incarcerating those awaiting trial for nonviolent crimes and reclassifying some low-level offenses.
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Reducing sentences for nonviolent drug offenders is a central pillar of Obama's push to rewrite the country's sentencing laws.
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The order by Attorney General Jeff Sessions reverses Obama administration efforts to ease penalties for some nonviolent drug violations.
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As the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, you were standing at the very front of the march.
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This is typically explained by the fact that so many nonviolent crimes are punishable by death under Saudi law.
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Several other Democratic contenders have backed legalizing marijuana and expunging the records of those incarcerated for nonviolent related offenses.
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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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But it should be noted that these criminal convictions covered a range of offenses, including many that were nonviolent.
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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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The demonstrations were largely nonviolent although there were some clashes between demonstrators and the police, who used tear gas.
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What Sun Tzu and Clausewitz were to war, Sharp, who was 90, was to nonviolent struggle — strategist, philosopher, guru.
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Or worse, we put people in who are inherently good nonviolent offenders and they come out hardened violent criminals.
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But not everyone who's been caught up in the sex offender registry has committed a nonviolent or minor crime.
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But Chenoweth doesn't only study nonviolent movements from an academic perspective; she also advises nonviolent movement leaders around the world (including former EK Show guests Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement and Wayne Hsiung of Direct Action Everywhere) to help them be as effective and strategic as possible in carrying out their goals.
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But XR's strategy is drawn from serious academic research on nonviolent rebellion—in particular, a 2011 book called Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, which analyzes nonviolent conflicts from 1900 to 2006 and concludes that overthrowing governments requires far fewer people and resources than you might assume.
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Last year, she successfully petitioned the president to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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Michaels, who describes his past as "checkered, " pleaded guilty to several nonviolent federal crimes including mail fraud and securities fraud.
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Both Harris and Klobuchar did pursue some "tough on crime" policies, such as going after nonviolent offenders in certain cases.
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Even Hillary Clinton mentioned in Monday's debate that the prevalent prison sentences for nonviolent crimes, like marijuana possession, are unnecessary.
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In the US, the focus typically falls on the incarceration of nonviolent drug users and militarized expansion of police powers.
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"We were nonviolent," said one of the protesters, Papy Sukami, adding that the police used pepper spray and tear gas.
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Second, we need to promote alternatives to incarceration, particularly for nonviolent and first-time offenders, so families aren't broken up.
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Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza and has managed the protests, has insisted they were intended to be nonviolent.
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For 663 days, he refused food and drink save for water, starving his body in the name of nonviolent resistance.
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The bill introduces more leniency into the justice system and allows potentially thousands of nonviolent criminals to serve shorter sentences.
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Obama has now granted clemency to 211 individuals, the vast majority of whom were serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
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America's unconscionable over-incarceration, particularly of nonviolent offenders, which is creating a permanent underclass with no hope of good employment.
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But the most obvious one is that Israel has taken great pains to destroy every nonviolent movement as it arises.
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Last year he granted clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother imprisoned for life in Alabama for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Surprisingly, among people with prior alcohol convictions, other past violent and nonviolent convictions were fairly weak predictors of future crimes.
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Op-Ed Contributor Mr. Qabbani took part in the 2011 nonviolent protests for freedom that preceded the Syrian civil war.
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" Specifically, the organization uses "urban art and nonviolent creative confrontation to expose the disastrous effects of the mass shooting pandemic.
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Saturday began with a peaceful march to several parks by local citizens and representatives of organizations committed to nonviolent protest.
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It would rebalance how the federal criminal-justice system sentences low-level, nonviolent offenders and improve prison re-entry policy.
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Do you think progress will continue to be made in regard to sentencing and the treatment of nonviolent drug offenders?
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Pictures of nonviolent demonstrators being brutally repressed, attacked with police dogs, or facing racist violence are reprinted often in textbooks.
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Or is he a redeemed man, having come back from the brink of madness to assume a nonviolent leadership role?
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Historically, states have easily exploited the appearance of violent flanks to re-assert their legitimacy and suppress larger nonviolent dissent.
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For example, 76 percent of respondents want law enforcement to reduce the number of arrests for low-level, nonviolent offenses.
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This way many nonviolent criminals could find jobs and start paying taxes—instead of being a drain on government resources.
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Their manual—"Nonviolent Struggle: 113 Crucial Points"—was downloaded 17,000 times in Iran during the presidential election protests of 2009.
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Their strategy involves tactics like occupying legislatures, organizing marches and protests, pushing corporate sustainability and divestment, and nonviolent direct action.
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Solutions include releasing nonviolent offenders and making greater use of alternatives to jail such as electronic tracking devices, when appropriate.
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Attorney General Sessions intends to reinstate mandatory minimums and prosecute nonviolent drug crimes to the fullest extent of the law.
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But some nonviolent crimes, like shoplifting or embezzlement, have remained more common than other offenses — say, murder or armed robbery.
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There is no realistic strategy for winning, little evidence the current approach is working, and insufficient investment in nonviolent alternatives.
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Over 85033 years ago, he was convicted of a nonviolent financial offense that provided grounds for an order of removal.
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King is accessible today because he was a reformer seeking nonviolent change in an America beset by reactionaries and radicals.
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The First Step Act reduces prison terms for nonviolent drug offenses and gives judges more discretion in setting those sentences.
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October 1991 She is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her "nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights," per NYT.
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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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Several nonviolent sectarian groups are also active in the district, and it has a significant number of radical religious schools.
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In San Antonio, Joe Gonzales, also a Democrat, has pledged to rehabilitate more nonviolent offenders, rather than locking them up.
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By the mid-1960s, Dr. King was sensing that the nonviolent resistance he had built his reputation on was inadequate.
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Many are charged with nonviolent drug use while lawmakers and legislators in our nation have spoke openly about using drugs.
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I don't think that outside of nonviolent crimes, nullification is typically something that jurors consider, because jurors have good sense.
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Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of a nonviolent protest movement, was elected prime minister last year on promises of sweeping change.
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I say, every person who has served time for nonviolent weed offenses should automatically get a license to sell weed.
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Far superior are nonviolent democratic checks and balances on power, constitutional guardians of civil rights and legal protections of liberties.
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Ms. Rodgers said that prison usually held people before their trials, not prisoners who had been convicted of nonviolent felonies.
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In 2007, he was arrested and sent to a boot camp program that provided substance abuse treatment for nonviolent offenders.
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Many liberals and leftists think they taint the overwhelmingly nonviolent anti-Trump resistance movement and play into Mr. Trump's hands.
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But some nonviolent crimes, like shoplifting or embezzlement, have remained more common than other offenses — say, murder or armed robbery.
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After that, she helped create the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960, which helped young civil rights activists to organize.
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Then, assuming the evidence is as compelling as it seems, there should be mass nonviolent action calling for Trump's removal.
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The sample was checked against a state database, and it matched Mr. Gills's DNA, entered after a prior nonviolent conviction.
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Nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime" and that "Nobody should be in jail for a drug problem.
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When King led his first civil rights campaign in Montgomery, Alabama, he had not yet fully embraced Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy.
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Rustin took King aside and explained to him that if he was going to be nonviolent he couldn't go armed.
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"If you're going to engage in nonviolent direct action, you're going to put your body on the line," he says.
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Prosecutors will no longer oppose the release of nonviolent offenders with bonds under $1,000 if they cannot afford to pay.
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Two months after the assassination, Coretta Scott King founded the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, in Atlanta.
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While most Islamists are nonviolent and want to advance their ideology through political means like winning elections, others are violent.
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In 20003, she worked with the organization in Mississippi, where she also became involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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"The song seems encouraging to Hong Kong," said Milton Wong, 31, a music promoter who has participated in nonviolent protests.
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Friends say Ms. Harris initially admired his instinct for empathetic prosecution, which prized diversion over jail for many nonviolent lawbreakers.
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They knew they were armed with the lessons of nonviolent protest and grassroots organizing, and they had seen it work.
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Jim Risch, the committee's chairman, said he believes Guaido "has a legitimate, nonviolent plan" to stabilize the situation in Venezuela.
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His nonviolent movement succeeded two decades later when Britain granted India its independence in 1947 -- the year before Gandhi died.
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But 73 percent of the interventions for nonviolent trauma, such as burns and vehicle accidents, also were performed on men.
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Images of nonviolent black marchers singing "We Shall Overcome" while getting beaten didn't seize the imagination of many blacks anymore.
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And in Chicago, prosecutors will no longer oppose the release of many nonviolent offenders who cannot afford to post bond.
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First, the President commuted the sentences of two hundred and fourteen people, mostly nonviolent drug offenders held in federal prisons.
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Mr. Wilson, the author of the report about Saudi extremism, acknowledged in an interview that he meant mainly nonviolent extremism.
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Until now, much of the criminal justice reform movement has focused on reducing prison sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenders.
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Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — have fervently objected to the resolution, saying the House is voting to condemn a nonviolent movement.
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"We disavow Nazism" or "we're nonviolent," the Nazis say; there were "very fine people on both sides," the president says.
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It inspired him to start a grass-roots organization to help himself and other nonviolent drug offenders with life sentences.
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And that means more nonviolent drug offenders will end up behind bars for long periods of time — particularly for fentanyl.
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The protesters themselves were acting in a manner you'd generally call "nonviolent" — they were standing or chanting or holding signs.
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Clatterbuck says that more than 1,000 people have pledged to engage in nonviolent direct action should eminent domain be granted.
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Scholars of nonviolence will say the worldwide abolition of slavery was achieved almost entirely with nonviolent means (our Civil War being an obvious exception), that great strides in women's rights were made, that nonviolent revolutions in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Chile, Egypt, the Philippines, and elsewhere were all accomplished without the use of force.
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They take moms and dads miles and miles away from their children even for a nonviolent first-time offender, like me.
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In the summer of 1962, Congressman John Lewis was a 22-year-old chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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The woman&aposs name was Alice Johnson, a great-grandmother, sentenced to life in prison for one nonviolent drug crime. OK?
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" Snoop Dogg posted a new video Saturday saying he is a "nonviolent person" and wants "no harm to come to her.
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Supporters of BDS say the movement is a nonviolent way to change what they see as apartheid-like policies towards Palestinians.
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Alice Johnson is a 63-year-old woman who was serving a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
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Allied with it was another organization formed under Dr. King's sponsorship the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, often referred to as SNICK.
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Some of the defendants have said that they were participating in nonviolent, protected speech on Inauguration Day when they were arrested.
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Johnson, who is 62, is currently serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense — a sentence she began in 1996.
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It limits stress, dissipates tension, and reduces anxiety to levels that open up room for sex and play and nonviolent living.
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Last year, she successfully petitioned President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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It costs about $38 million a day to keep these largely nonviolent people behind bars, according to the Pretrial Justice Institute.
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I recently spoke to Ehrenreich over the phone about his new book and the increasing impossibility of nonviolent protest in Palestine.
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Last year, she successfully petitioned President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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He's also proposed using executive action to offer clemency to thousands of nonviolent drug offenders on his first day in office.
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President Trump last week commuted the life sentence for Johnson, 63, who was convicted of a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
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Too bad no NFL owners aren't as understanding about Kaepernick's peaceful, nonviolent protests as they are about players that hit women.
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Dora was a nonviolent elementary schooler in her animated life, which ended in 2017 after nearly two decades on the air.
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It was nonviolent and non-confrontational, but many called it an act of "blatant disrespect" that ultimately cost Kaepernick his job.
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That nonviolent foundation also proved to influence the most notable facet of Martin Luther King Jr.'s political and social agenda.
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Like last year's bill, Grassley's proposal will reportedly focus on reducing the mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent crimes and preventing recidivism.
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Mr. McDermott had a triumph at the Met in 2008 with a production of Mr. Glass's "Satyagraha," about Gandhi's nonviolent activism.
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Some have pleaded guilty to alcohol- or hazing-related charges, while others are in a program for first-time, nonviolent offenders.
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Even as they claimed that they were nonviolent, they leveraged the threat of violence to pressure Congress into considering Chinese exclusion.
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Many of our prisons are filled with nonviolent drug offenders, anyway, and I think we should let them all go free.
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A vast majority of participants have been nonviolent, staging strikes, surrounding police stations, shutting down the airport and forming huge marches.
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Alice Marie Johnson is a grandmother who has served more than 20 years in prison for a first time nonviolent offense.
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In Liberia, a women's nonviolent social movement played critical roles in pressing for a ceasefire and negotiating for a democratic transition.
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Gandhi, who built an entire world view based on the nonviolent imperative of self-sacrifice, had looked forward to his assassination.
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That marks a sharp contrast with Holder, who pressed federal prosecutors to be more lenient with nonviolent, low-level drug offenders.
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He talked about his record of overhauling the criminal justice system in the state, including helping nonviolent felons re-enter society.
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A nonviolent protest was hijacked by violence and so, too, was the debate about the legitimate grievances that black Americans face.
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He had been at the forefront of an effort to channel widespread socio-economic frustration into an organized nonviolent resistance movement.
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And Congress is currently debating a criminal justice bill that, among other provisions, would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders.
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But most of those pardons have gone for people sentenced for nonviolent drug crimes, not those sentenced for leaking intelligence information.
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He also fought for a ballot initiative that made more inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses eligible for early release through parole.
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She is seeking more protection for incarcerated pregnant women and creating prison alternatives for those convicted of low-level nonviolent crimes.
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The president has repeatedly denounced long sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, saying they've had a disproportionate affect on communities of color.
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Among other things, the law is intended to reduce the nation's incarceration rates by lowering mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
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The federal bill eliminated mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and gained unprecedented bipartisan support including from President Donald Trump.
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Record number Obama has granted clemency to 774 individuals, the vast majority of whom were serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
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During World War II, she served as head of the nonviolent protest committee in A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington Movement.
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The BDS movement uses nonviolent means to protest what its supporters call human rights abuses against Palestinians by the Israeli state.
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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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It is extremely rare for a first-time, nonviolent offender in that range, like Flynn, to be sentenced to any time.
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They've even been compassionate, handing out second chances to former black inmates who've spent decades in prison for nonviolent, minor crimes.
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In 2011, it expanded the scope of its counterextremism policy, known as Prevent, to include "nonviolent" as well as "violent" manifestations.
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For leading the nonviolent struggle to win India's independence from the British Raj, he is considered the father of the nation.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in this city, which was emerging as a training center for nonviolent protest.
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The anti-abortion protesters in Buffalo, as elsewhere in the country, claimed to be nonviolent, invoking the example of the Rev.
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"We in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were part of that long struggle in the 1960s," the SNCC delegates wrote.
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Some Egyptians, he said, still take pride in setting the template for the nonviolent uprisings now flaring in Algeria and Sudan.
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Like few others in history, he harnessed the moral firepower of nonviolent resistance, helping wrest India away from the British Empire.
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The bill will reform our bail system so that anyone facing misdemeanor or nonviolent felony charges should be released without bail.
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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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Artists have a substantial presence at the camp, where water protectors and their allies are praying and engaging in nonviolent resistance.
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How would your proposed reforms like ending cash bail or increasing diversionary programs for nonviolent offenders impact crime in the region?
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After two detentions, a miscarriage and the birth of her son, Ms. Ayesh carried on to organize nonviolent demonstrations and strikes.
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Last year, Mr. Sessions directed federal prosecutors to reverse former President Barack Obama's work to ease punishment in nonviolent drug cases.
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President Trump said on Sunday that he was considering issuing an executive order to free older, nonviolent offenders from federal prisons.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden detailed in July his plan to help states eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent crimes. Sen.
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Philadelphia has gone even further, refusing to prosecute or arrest people for any nonviolent crime during the epidemic, including drug sales.
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"Real change can only come through nonviolent action, and anything else runs against our most deeply held American values," Sanders said.
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Some members suggested challenging Trump on his home turf — Twitter — while others advocated nonviolent protests reminiscent of the civil rights movement.
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Lacey's office said it worked with Clear My Record, a service that helps people expunge nonviolent marijuana convictions, to evaluate records.
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Johnson, who is a grandmother, was released last year after receiving a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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They posted videos to YouTube, created Twitter hashtags and attempted to portray a rising nonviolent Syrian protest wave through online media.
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A central reason for American mass incarceration is the long prison sentences in our criminal codes, even for some nonviolent offenses.
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Canceling a planned trip abroad, King again agreed to return to Memphis to persist in the nonviolent advocacy of workers' rights.
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It costs about $33,000 a year to imprison someone for a nonviolent drug offense and $6,000 to treat someone with MAT.
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He first stopped in North Carolina, where in April 1960 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil-rights group.
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Prior to Friday's protest, organizers said the march would be nonviolent, but they warned of possible military fire from Israeli forces.
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At least 462 nonviolent inmates walked out of prison yesterday in Oklahoma in a reform effort embraced by Republicans and Democrats.
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When she traveled to a border town in March, Ghanem told me she saw protesters marching in a familiar nonviolent way.
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In fact, through one of the only righteous means of executive orders, President Obama has granted clemency to several nonviolent prisoners.
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Women in civil society groups have also worked in field hospitals and schools, distributed food and medicine, and organized nonviolent protests.
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Such an initiative might have harsher consequences in the United States, with our fixation on nonviolent drug crimes and lengthy sentences.
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" The experts added that the lack of measures to address the underlying causes of the unrest through nonviolent means was "disturbing.
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It mostly applies to nonviolent cases that make up the vast majority of crimes — offenses like shoplifting, drug possession and theft.
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Instead, District Attorney Douglas A. Valeska granted him pretrial diversion, an alternative to court that is usually reserved for nonviolent offenses.
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Most were African-American and Latino men accused of misdemeanor crimes, like fare evasion, and nonviolent felony offenses, like selling marijuana.
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These men and women—most of whom are locked up for nonviolent offenses—cannot work, pay taxes, or support their families.
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Sharp's major contribution was to demonstrate that nonviolent struggle is not only effective, it's superior to armed struggle in most circumstances.
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Sharp's first work, "The Politics of Nonviolent Action," a three-volume series published in 1973, lists 198 tactics that movements use.
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The question, for her, is if she should really spend the rest of her life in prison for a nonviolent offense.
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Like war, effective nonviolent resistance is about having a clear set of demands and sticking to them until the very end.
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This contemporary moment does well to reflect on the spirit of this collective action, and the potential of the nonviolent protest.
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They can also be disenfranchised at the ballot box: Some states let certain nonviolent ex-prisoners vote, but not violent ones.
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That's why the average nonviolent resistance campaign has so many more active participants than the average armed rebel movement, for instance.
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"If our white brothers dismiss as 'rabble rousers' and 'outside agitators' those of us who employ nonviolent direct action, and if they refuse to support our nonviolent efforts, millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace and security in black nationalist ideologies — a development that would inevitably lead to a frightening racial nightmare," Dr. King wrote.
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Empty prisons of nonviolent offenders, allow law enforcement to focus on bigger issues, make pot a revenue generator not a taxpayer drain.
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Most antifa members believe it's far easier to use nonviolent methods than it is to show up and use direct action methods.
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But when you talk about nonviolent resistance, it's important to remember what that involved as far as the 20th century was concerned.
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On top of that, he said he wants to make sure Trump's nonviolent supporters aren't being unfairly restricted from expressing their views.
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The bill calls for larger reforms focused on prison conditions, sentencing guidelines including a reduction in mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Roughly 64% of these women are there for nonviolent offenses — mostly drug possession — and are subject to a multitude of harsh treatments.
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Gather your closest most hardcore MSNBC fans (most likely your family of retirees) and turn on the channel for a nonviolent viewing.
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California employs roughly 22014,21 nonviolent offenders to put out wildfires, and one such inmate firefighter died Thursday in the line of duty.
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California employs roughly 13,900 nonviolent offenders to put out wildfires, and one such inmate firefighter died Thursday in the line of duty.
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"They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes," wrote White House CounselNeil Eggleston.
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They held him up, took his LSD, threw away their guns, and decided that they were going to be nonviolent LSD dealers.
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They organized hundreds of thousands of nonviolent supporters in Washington, D.C., and in cities around the world to say no to violence.
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He spent nearly 30 years in British and Pakistani jails or under house arrest, but never abandoned his philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
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He said police have gotten violent even in confrontations with nonviolent protesters, and also appear to be arresting people far too often.
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Most of these pundits frown on nonviolent heckling, confrontation, and shaming of aides like Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Stephen Miller.
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Criminal justice in California and Oklahoma: California's Proposition 57 could make it easier for "nonviolent" offenders to get out early on parole.
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Last year, the reality star successfully petitioned the president to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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The reform plan reclassified simple drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor and eliminated mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug possession.
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Founded in 21970, it gives nonviolent criminals with a high risk of reoffending or relapsing a chance at treatment instead of incarceration.
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Last year, Kardashian West successfully petitioned President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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In 2018, she managed to petition President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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Note: LePage only commuted sentences of nonviolent offenders — he would not free those convicted of domestic or sexual abuse, or drug trafficking.
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Kardashian West had previously appealed to the President to commute the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender.
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A sixty-two-year-old great- grandmother had been in prison for twenty-one years for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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Sherman Chester served over 22019 years of his life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense before Obama commuted his sentence in 2015.
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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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Still, defendants on death row are often executed for nonviolent crimes, Dia Hua says, such as drug dealing, illegal fundraising, and espionage.
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For her PhD research on nonviolent resistance movements, Sombatpoonsiri investigates why young people in particular were attracted to Otpor's brand of activism.
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Johnson describes her descent from happily married mother to participant in a drug conspiracy, albeit nonviolent, after the death of her child.
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Let them eat in peace, said Bernie Sanders of all people, whose own supporters have engaged in many a nonviolent protest. Rep.
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Both have been symbols of nonviolent black empowerment for decades, but have also been co-opted by extremist groups with racist views.
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"Macondo is a workshop that gathers writers who are generous, compassionate, and believe their writing can make nonviolent social change," she explained.
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And it is an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement.
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The sniper's target was not the nonviolent protesters but the police officers who were protecting those concerned citizens and their constitutional rights.
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Opinion Every protest contains a contradiction: people stand up — through speech, demonstration, violent or nonviolent action — and urge the state to change.
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To fill the gap, officials established a program whereby nonviolent offenders nearing the end of their prison terms could do paid farmwork.
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Johnson, 63, was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after being convicted of a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
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She had been convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense and had already served more than 85033 years in federal prison.
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In Canada, ninth grade disclosed a history of uneasy compromise duality, and the constant search for temporary nonviolent solutions to intractable divides.
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In 2012, Georgia passed HB 1176, which laid out a gradient of seriousness for nonviolent offenses like forgeries, theft, and drug possession.
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The majority of Rohingya believe that nonviolent resistance is the best weapon for self-defense against the Myanmarese government and the Rakhine.
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Movements work on two distinct levels, Mark and Paul Engler wrote in their important analysis of nonviolent strategy, This Is an Uprising.
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Black Lives Matter is an overwhelmingly nonviolent protest against the repeated police murders of black men and our country's underlying structural racism.
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Even in these "nonviolent" gun situations, it just shows how terrible and how easy it is to sneak a weapon into school.
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Like Hoffman, Lenny cut his teeth with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and honed his tactics organizing stunts on the Manhattan streets.
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Mr. Hynes earned much praise for initiating a program in which nonviolent drug offenders were given opportunities for treatment instead of prison.
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I wanted it to be a record of history that a Catholic sister wanted to tweet a nonviolent prayer at the president.
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And that has seemingly influenced their attitudes to focus on cutting incarceration only when it comes to drugs and other nonviolent offenses.
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Ofer conceded that the greatest challenge is to stop sorting who receives relief based on a divide between violent and nonviolent offenses.
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People like Alice Johnson, for example, should not be given de facto life sentences for nonviolent drug crimes in the first place.
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Last week Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who had been sentenced to life in 1996 for nonviolent drug offenses.
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"Party culture existed to remove ourselves from gang culture," Ms. Rosales said about the resourcefulness of teenagers in finding a nonviolent outlet.
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This penalty has long been criticized because it can result in an inmate serving a life sentence for three minor, nonviolent crimes.
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The demonstration was led by newly launched nonviolent group Movimiento Cosecha, which advocates for the rights and permanent protection of undocumented immigrants.
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The protests were generally small and nonviolent, although when the actions spread to Oakland a tire was slashed and a window broken.
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Dr. King's prescient analysis of the Vietnam conflict was of a piece with his nonviolent leadership role in the civil rights movement.
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The truth of the matter is that Trump's latest batch of pardons and commutations were not about his sympathy for nonviolent offenders.
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Research shows that youth-led movements and student-led movements are much more likely to be nonviolent and more likely to succeed.
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She worked to register black voters in Georgia with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s and was twice arrested.
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Beginning next year, people charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies will in most cases be released without cash bail, pending their trials.
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"They use violent and nonviolent forms, and they use a combination of physical punishment and psychological aggression," such as yelling or screaming.
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"It was devastating to all of us," said Zellner, who was the first white field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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Other attorneys opposed the indictments by claiming the actions of their defendants were protected under the First Amendment as nonviolent political speech.
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He believed in nonviolent change in China; "No Enemies, No Hatred" is the title of a collection of his essays and poetry.
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The harms and inequities associated with money bail systems — especially when it comes to nonviolent, low-risk poor defendants — are well documented.
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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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As a student, I helped organize nonviolent demonstrations demanding the reopening of our university after it was closed by the Israeli military.
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The leading cause of imprisonment is minor drug offenses, despite laws recommending that nonviolent crimes and possession not result in jail time.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott catapulted Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., into the spotlight, and solidified MLK's commitment to nonviolent protests.
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Mr. Zellner, son of an Alabama Klansman, joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1961 and became its first white field secretary.
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He vowed never to ask for cash bail for nonviolent offenders, pursue the death penalty, or bring cases based on illegal searches.
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And the bigger the role played by mass nonviolent resistance, the freer the country and the more durable the freedom that emerge.
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Following their meeting, on June 6, Trump commuted Johnson's life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, enabling her to be released from prison.
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He was a longtime proponent of nonviolent activism, but still managed to significantly disrupt the racist fabric of American life during his lifetime.
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The Justice Department's one-time early release of about 6,000 nonviolent drug offenders in late 2015 accounted for much of the federal drop.
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Nonviolent inmates are permitted to wander the halls with relative freedom, so Jay would travel from his unit to the medical floor unescorted.
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Her mission: Get Trump to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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The entire process means nonviolent direct action can become something that appears to be much more accessible and is happening on your doorstep.
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One of the key recommendations of the new report is to decriminalize minor, nonviolent drug offenses, which includes use, possession and petty sale.
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Bipartisan support even existed for for a bill in the Senate last year that would have eased sentences for federal nonviolent drug offenders.
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The Arkansas senator has been a staunch opponent of bipartisan legislation which would push to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent criminal offenders.
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Nonviolent direct action is effective because you are showing that you are willing to put your body and your liberty on the line.
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Petrov was convicted of engagement in nonviolent activities directed against the independence and sovereignty of Estonia and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Nonviolent strategy, though little understood and analyzed, is almost universally accepted as the only practical course, as well as being moral and ethical.
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Last year, the reality star successfully petitioned President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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In 2011, I was one of the thousands, maybe millions, of Syrians who joined the nonviolent demonstrations against the injustices of Assad's government.
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Indeed, director Harvey Smith, who also oversaw the first Dishonored, has described an approach to game design that is focused on nonviolent interaction.
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Last year, the reality star successfully petitioned President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender.
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Ulbricht's particularly harsh sentence for nonviolent crimes is largely due to the massive scale at which the Silk Road facilitated the drug trade.
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With Kim Kardashian's help, Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender, was able to return to her family after 21 years in jail.
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And officers are supposed to be trained to diffuse volatile situations and peacefully engage all nonviolent suspects, even ones that make them uncomfortable.
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Eighty-one percent of women are imprisoned for nonviolent offenses, in Holloway, this [figure] was much higher as it was a local prison.
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In contrast, former President Obama had put some reforms in place that eased the severity of minimum sentencing laws for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Johnson was incarcerated in October 1996 for a first-time nonviolent drug offense after she helped facilitate communications in a drug trafficking case.
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With claims of 100 percent election victory, the regime suffers from a serious legitimacy deficit, which creates conditions for violent and nonviolent resistance.
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Johnson was given a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense after she helped facilitate communications in a drug trafficking case.
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Inmates serving time for nonviolent crimes in California make up 35 to 40 percent of the firefighting force, according to the Daily Beast.
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The alleged shooter, a 15-year-old male student, was arrested at the scene "in a nonviolent manner" and is in custody, Gov.
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With "The Vegetarian," she aimed to explore what it would mean for a person to live a completely nonviolent life, by eschewing food.
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Cruz said he fears the bill as written will give both nonviolent and violent offenders the chance to have their sentences retroactively reduced.
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I am only one of thousands of first-time, nonviolent offenders given mandatory and lengthy prison terms after committing crimes under financial distress.
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It is most definitely possible to practice nonviolent resistance to policies that are deemed abhorrent without letting rage degrade the tactics of resistance.
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Clinton wants to cut mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses and reduce the mandatory penalties for a second or third violent offense.
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In the United States, the Obama administration has taken steps toward addressing what it considers unduly harsh prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
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This soon after losing his father to police brutality that definitely shouldn't have happened, to tell protesters to act in a nonviolent way.
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He has changed an Obama-era directive to federal prosecutors to seek reasonable, as opposed to maximum, prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
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Congress should expand the scope of this bill to include an exception for veterans with Bad Conduct discharges that resulted from nonviolent offenses.
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Reports have found that Microsoft used to have a conflict-heavy culture under Steve Ballmer — now there's nonviolent communication coming from the top.
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Crimes labeled as "violence with injury" rose by 10 percent, suggesting that the U.K.'s crime spike is more tied to nonviolent instances.
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Usually those released have been charged with a nonviolent or less-serious misdemeanor like as shoplifting, traffic violations, technical crimes and first offenses.
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One revelation for the volunteers was how few prisoners were obvious candidates for clemency, such as people doing time for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Jerry Brown that would increase the number of nonviolent inmates eligible for parole and allow the inmates to earn credit for good behavior.
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Some are beseeching demonstrators to stick to nonviolent tactics, even in the face of police crackdowns and attacks by people sympathetic to Beijing.
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His grandfather gave up his business and jeopardized the well-being of his family, Gupta says, to follow Gandhi's nonviolent movement for independence.
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But as of this month, there's a third option for people charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies in all five boroughs: supervised release.
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How often has Black Lives Matter been vilified by all corners of this country's political establishment, despite being open about their nonviolent principles?
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He worries that the way he is being treated by Israel will make other Palestinians lose hope that nonviolent resistance can be effective.
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Who wants what: Jordan hoped for a gradual, nonviolent return of regime control in the southwest, if only to prevent another refugee influx.
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Category two includes re-humanization, reflexivity (keep means consistent with ends), conflict transformation, acknowledge responsibility for harm, nonviolent direct action and integral disarmament.
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Thus, our means must be creatively nonviolent if we hope to actually cultivate these ends, otherwise we perpetuate cycles of harm and violence.
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"In 2016, people were talking about things like drug courts and treatment for nonviolent offenders and very small-potatoes things," Ms. Chettiar said.
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Yet Stone, like many defendants in federal court without criminal records and charged with nonviolent offenses, was released after signing a simple bond.
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"If you were anti-Milosevic and nonviolent, you could go naked with 'Otpor' painted on your chest," said Milja Jovanovic, an Otpor founder.
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In 2014, President Barack Obama launched a more limited clemency initiative that encouraged certain nonviolent drug offenders serving mandatory minimum sentences to apply.
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The Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, said this week that his office would stop prosecuting low-level, nonviolent offenses, including trespassing and shoplifting.
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In one commercial, he pledged to "stop locking up nonviolent people" and to pursue cases that would curb illegal weapons in the city.
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For Gilmore, and for a growing number of scholars and activists, the idea that prisons are filled with nonviolent offenders is particularly problematic.
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This segment of the plan also calls for treatment instead of incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders and crisis intervention training for police officers.
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Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
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The Philadelphia Police Department instructed its offices to temporarily stop making arrests for certain nonviolent crimes until next month amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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The day I was released, a confrontation between helmeted police and nonviolent demonstrators erupted in front of the Hilton hotel in downtown Chicago.
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Though they identify as Maoists, the activists are decidedly nonviolent, unlike Maoist rebels in countries like Nepal and India who embrace violent revolution.
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Inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes, and who are scheduled to be released within the next 60 days, would be eligible for the release.
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Johnson was given a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense after she helped facilitate communications in a drug-trafficking case.
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Gene Sharp, a preacher's son whose own gospel of nonviolent struggle inspired velvet revolutions that toppled dictators on four continents, died on Jan.
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"There's not a huge number engaged in nonviolent resistance in the name of their faith, but numbers don't matter, do they?" he said.
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I think judges are smart enough to be able to distinguish Mr. Turner from poor and black and brown drug and nonviolent offenders.
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The criminalization of marijuana has been a disaster, leading to long prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, who are disproportionately members of minorities.
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She met with Trump in May to advocate for the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent offender sentenced to life in prison.
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He had begun the decade as a buttoned-down young man of the civil-rights movement, organizing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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In this lesson, students analyze the effectiveness of the protesters' actions and then come up with their own creative ideas for nonviolent demonstrations.
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" In another case, he argued that a life sentence for a nonviolent drug crime had shown "grave flaws in our statutory sentencing scheme.
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It was a couple of months into the Trump administration and, despite trepidation, there were few examples of nonviolent, nonfelon offenders being deported.
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Erwin said the deputy overreacted during an investigation of a nonviolent offense and should have waited for backup rather than entering the home.
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Anti-government protesters dismissed the move as a sham -- nonviolent protests were being met with brute force, demonstrators were targeted in mass arrests.
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And he was one of the first pastors to inspire King to merge Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance with the civil rights movement.
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We can do better than prosecuting and incarcerating 16- and 17-year-olds charged with nonviolent crimes on the same terms as adults.
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That mistake is on the sheriff, not nonviolent inmates seeking to honestly rebuild their lives, earn modest wages, and contribute to their community.
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I spent several weeks living in the Naqab and took part in a nonviolent protest against the demolition of another village, Al Araqib.
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Some nonviolent misdemeanors, such as use of a controlled substance and failure to have valid vehicle insurance, are not even eligible for citation.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch said Saudi Arabia has executed 48 people so far in 2018, half of them for nonviolent drug crimes.
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So far, most of the sentencing reforms introduced at both the federal and state levels have targeted people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes.
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He also promised to change the county's cash bail system, and implement diversionary programs so that low-level, nonviolent offenders are not incarcerated.
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"If they dare to kidnap me, I ask you to continue on the path and move forward in a nonviolent manner," he said.
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Amnesty International said that the charges were excessive and that they could discourage others from taking nonviolent action in defense of human rights.
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The commission is attributing the decline to Obama-era orders urging federal prosecutors to be more lenient with nonviolent, low-level drug offenders.
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Federal prison inmates still are without their most basic freedoms and dignity, spending years and even decades in prison, sometimes for nonviolent offenses.
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Rowan was awaiting trial for a nonviolent drug case; McCormick was being tried for a cold-case murder that had captured local headlines.
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But we have an issue with violent crime in the sense that everybody makes a stark difference between violent offenders and nonviolent offenders.
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He has now met many young men whose lives were "destroy[ed]" by long prison terms for nonviolent crimes and mandatory minimum sentencing.
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This article links nonviolent and violent tactics employed by socially marginal protesters to conditional feelings of empathy or threat in the voting majority.
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More than 500 people executed in 2015, or about 65 percent of those executed, were convicted of such crimes, many of them nonviolent.
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He said he will be the most vocal advocate for the next president to expand the clemency program beyond just nonviolent drug offenders.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Monday commuted the sentences of two nonviolent criminals and granted pardons to five others who previously pleaded guilty to nonviolent crimes but have completed their sentences.
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His method, exemplified in Memphis, is to highlight an emotive crime, then deploy outrage as a dragnet to sweep up piffling, often nonviolent criminals.
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The researchers found that nonviolent forms of punishment are on the rise, and that the use of spanking and hitting as discipline has decreased.
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The ACLU profiled him in a 2013 report titled "A Living Death," which chronicled the injustices of nonviolent offenders sentenced to die behind bars.
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The ACLU profiled him in a 22 report titled "A Living Death," which chronicled the injustices of nonviolent offenders sentenced to die behind bars.
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Over the past four decades, performance, sculpture, and painting have become his means of nonviolent protest against government autocracy and ethnic strife in Indonesia.
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In 2017, Fox News found at least six other groups that are conservative and explicitly nonviolent but branded as hate organizations by the SPLC.
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She believed she would be pardoned in 2016, when then-President Obama granted clemency to 231 people, including many with similar nonviolent drug charges.
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Federal courtrooms were packed over the summer with first-time, nonviolent offenders—many of them those same Central American families—arrested for illegally crossing.
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That could mean partnering with nonprofits to expunge nonviolent criminal records, which disproportionately impact black lives, or simply walking out his home each day.
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"They used harmful chemical agents against a peaceful crowd, which turned a nonviolent gathering into one where many, many people were harmed," she said.
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One featured Alice Johnson, who was released from a prison in Alabama under a law Trump signed that eased mandatory sentencing for nonviolent crimes.
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The president would also like to sign into law a major criminal justice overhaul that would cut mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent criminal offenders.
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Last week, I interviewed the Harvard professor Erica Chenoweth, an expert on nonviolent social movements, about whether mass protests could create momentum for impeachment.
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I first met Tom in Mississippi almost six years ago, during the 50th anniversary reunion of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick").
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Of the 214 commutations Obama granted Wednesday, 67 of the prisoners were facing life sentences and the vast majority imprisoned for nonviolent drug crimes.
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Speaking with PEOPLE, terrorism expert Max Abrahms, of Northeastern University, took a skeptical view of what Muthana said was her nonviolent role in ISIS.
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During the 21 years I served in the Bureau of Prisons for a first-time, nonviolent LSD conspiracy I was subjected plenty of urinalysis.
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"I know the allegations are disturbing," Mr. Stoll said, but he contended that the charges were nonviolent felonies that do not require jail time.
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Most worryingly, the Doklam episode may have prompted Indian nuclear preparations, a response hard to see as proportionate to a localized, nonviolent border standoff.
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Sessions also supports drug courts for alternative sentencing arrangements in lieu of criminal civilian courts mandating jail sentences for nonviolent offenders, according to Nance.
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We're told the money will be going to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Big Boi's hometown of Atlanta.
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John Lewis, a Democrat, who said Thursday that he "never saw" Sanders during that time despite Sanders' work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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