Sentences with phrase «does civil disobedience»

Check it out: I know many of you are probably thinking either 1) what good does civil disobedience do anymore, or 2) Barack Obama has already done a pretty good job with his appointments and actions so far, so why should we risk arrest to close one measly power plant?

Not exact matches

We do, however, recognize that civil disobedience has historically been an effective tactic for systemic change, from suffragettes to the civil rights movement, to Gandhi's Salt March to anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

Jesus certainly did not kill and probably did not whip the moneychangers, but he clearly resisted their evil in a dramatic act of civil disobedience.

Pope Pius XII did not demand that people rise up in violence to stop the Nazis, yet many regard him as a hero because he and the Church were able to save 800,000 Jews through civil disobedience and cultural resistance.

Mark - Viverito said she approved of civil disobedience as a means of protest, and proudly said she had done it many times: «I engage in that kind of First Amendment way of expressing yourself.»

Rather than debate individual responsibility, gun control, American domestic and foreign policy and civil disobedience (as Millar did), it all comes down to Cap doing everything he can to help his incredibly guilty - seeming best friend.

As a result, don't be surprised to find yourself rooting for the radical Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and other more confrontational elements of the movement who employ civil disobedience as tactics.

Though these texts do not specifically condone civil disobedience, neither do they encourage students to consider the wisdom of the past while making their own judgments.

Even the Center for Civic Education, a 40 - year - old nonprofit organization whose National Advisory Committee reads like a Who's Who of democratic values and traditions (including a dozen current and former members of Congress and a couple of Supreme Court justices), does not explain in its curriculum standards that civil disobedience is rooted in fundamental principles as opposed to personal preferences.

While sometimes willful and defiant and sometimes passive to the point of self - extinction (Socrates did not protest his punishment), the heroes of civil disobedience believed in the need to obey a higher authority and to be cleansed of self - interestedness.

Do our teachers appreciate that there is more to civil disobedience than mere self - expression or simple claims on conscience?

Typical of these lesson plans, it is thin on substance, leaves the students to teach themselves about civil disobedience, and does not help teachers whose own knowledge of civil disobedience is weak.

Nor does the lesson discuss the difference between a fundamental principle and a personal desire or between legal protest, civil disobedience, and purely criminal activity, much less the threats that each poses to a democratic society.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

practice random acts of civil disobedience... but more importantly... vote with your checkbooks... we do!

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On May 3rd, in light of the «handshake incident» in which Jamshed Bharucha fired student - instructor Vincent Hui and removed him from the cross-country team without due process, Cooper's Joint Student Council passed a resolution that they, «[do] not recognize the right of the administration to punish a student according to its own judgement without an official complaint and trial,» and that, «Removal of privileges due to «civil disobedience» is subject to the procedures outlined by the Code of Conduct.»

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However, from a pragmatic point of view, it was effective in slowing construction, so it accomplished that goal, even if it didn't rally the public as much as a Rosa Park's - style example of civil disobedience may have.

That doesn't work nearly as well and I would argue that it's not really quite the same as civil disobedience, which I would want to confine to disobedience of the unjust law itself.

Fred Clark at Patheos» Slacktivist blog recently had a thoughtful post about when civil disobedience does and doesn't make sense as a method of protest:

Credo Action, a progressive cause group - has had more than 52,000 people pledge to engage in civil disobedience if President Obama does approve the pipeline.

Shame on the media, who actually could be doing more then civil disobedience, they could be doing their civil duty.

The key difference between «geoengineering as self - defense» and «geoengineering as civil disobedience» is what does the justificatory work.

Although both had been feminist writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet / novelist Jan Clausen didn't know each other very well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003, after which they gradually became better acquainted with each other's work.

It may prove to be no more than a cri de coeur, but it does raise afresh the question of the use of civil disobedience in climate campaigns.

At CREDO, we will do everything in our power to resist this pipeline — including risking arrest through peaceful civil disobedience.

Together, they will engage in a mass civil disobedience action in Ottawa to teach Trudeau (who self appointed himself Minister of Youth) the most basic lesson of climate science: climate leaders don't build pipelines.

This was an act of civil disobedience, yes done in an impromptu fashion, but at the moment when they told me to turn off the cameras, I could not.

We can't do decades or centuries of civil disobedience, public discourse, etc., this time.

Rule No. 1 for civil disobedience: Don't be boring.Photo: Cheryl ColanTherein lies the (potential) value of civil disobedience: It is a social signaling device.

First, why is it called extremism when you try to «intimidate» companies into making policy decisions you prefer, when that intimidation is done through protest, campaigning and civil disobedience, when the grand old tradition of political lobbying and corporate campaign contributions essential does the same thing?

It seems clear to me that DeChristopher did the right thing in peaceably engaging in civil disobedience to halt a destructive process that he knew was wrong.

Unfortunately, there are many who do not understand why some are engaging in civil disobedience on Burnaby Mountain, which is unceded Coast Salish Territory.

I like to think of what he did as civil disobedience in the tradition of Henry Thoreau, not hacking.

In doing so, it is important to recognize that there is significant debate surrounding this link, as well as the proper characterization and uses of civil disobedience and dissent.

There are about 450 criminal cases that have arisen from a non-violence civil disobedience and we are doing our best to defend those.

It doesn't touch on the right to advocate civil disobedience.