Sentences with phrase «us civil disobedience»

«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

His comments came the same day First Nations chiefs from Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia held a news conference in which they vowed to resort to large - scale civil disobedience if Kinder Morgan's controversial Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast goes ahead without the consent of local First Nations.

Seattle's rich should engage in upper - class «civil disobedience» and refuse to pay their city taxes, Washington state's Republican leaders said.

«It deserves nothing less than civil disobedience,» the state GOP said in a statement.

YEREVAN, May 2 - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of a bus and was arrested for her civil disobedience.

«US protests movements» and «civil disobedience» were listed among the choices for potential threats, but they were selected far less often than white nationalism.

Some have threatened civil disobedience, efforts that are expected to gain more momentum after last month's political upheaval in British Columbia.

• Commercial property insurance covers everything related to the loss and damage of company property due to events such as wind and hail storms, fire, smoke, civil disobedience, and vandalism.

Sometimes the answer will be an online petition, sometimes it will be civil disobedience and sometimes it will be both - or something else entirely.

If there's voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.»

«The conflicts over pipelines now have in some way been inspired by Clayoquot Sound, and if there's ever a time when one of the two big pipeline proposals in BC... get approved, I think you'll see a civil disobedience campaign that will dwarf the one that occurred in Clayoquot Sound.»

In recent years this has expanded to some amount of civil disobedience.

But the tactic of trying to hit forestry companies through their customers, of seeking out and winning international attention and the War in the Woods» successful use of civil disobedience became a model for environmentalists around the world.

She and Valerie Langer helped organize one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history in the almost 350,000 hectare wilderness area.

They were efforts led by students around the world who were speaking in the most influential way they knew how: civil disobedience, marching in the streets with signs and chanting truth to power.

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

It's a miracle I can remain civil in my non-violent civil disobedience.

Mr. de Blasio has faced pressure from activist groups who support safe injection sites, and who have staged demonstrations at City Hall that have included civil disobedience, with numerous protesters, including City Council members, arrested.

Even if the Trans Mountain proposal gets bogged down — by a antagonistic new provincial government, or by the 19 lawsuits it faces, or by the massive civil disobedience opponents promise — if Kinder Morgan can entice enough investors to hand over $ 1.75 billion in an initial public offering, the company will walk away with hundreds of millions even if the proposal dies and investors lose their shirt.

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.

For this reason, anyone considering civil disobedience should inform themselves about the consequences, which can be serious.

As lawyers, our legal ethics obligations mean that we can not advise clients or others to engage in civil disobedience.

Carl Cohen argues that the argument that civil disobedience implies contempt for the law is «among the weakest» of the arguments against civil disobedience:

And a recent poll confirmed that 1 in 10 British Columbians would consider acts of civil disobedience or stop construction.

One great place to start is the Protestor's Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in BC.

At a reunion with 12 of 13 farmers who had been jailed for taking wheat across the border, Rick stood by his decision to participate in the act of civil disobedience.

DB: You have to expect that there will be incidents of civil disobedience.

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.

But apparently his way of nonviolent love was not at all incompatible with protesting police brutality or engaging in civil disobedience in a nonviolent fashion.

The return from exile begins with an emotional act of civil disobedience.

In his own words: «During my student days at Morehouse I read Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience for the first time.

It reminds us that the reception of Bonhoeffer in his native land has by no means been positive, not least because of his act of civil disobedience in participating in the abortive conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.

The Declaration further invoked the Christian tradition of civil disobedience, affirming the right and at times the obligation to oppose injustice by refusing to comply with civil authority if it attempts to undermine these basic human rights: «We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's.

We have radical radicals today; they are nonmoderate and in general can be identified by their attitudes toward James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones, Martin Luthur King and civil disobedience.

One day, the police came and said that they couldn't serve food in the park, so then it became a lesson on civil disobedience!

Much civil disobedience today, which may look in part to Gandhi for its inspiration, lacks this concern for the conversion of the opponent and even when it is successful creates the potential for future conflict.

You stand in a noble tradition of conscientious objection and of civil disobedience.

In Chile, some bishops excommunicated those responsible for torture, and the grassroots church aided victims of the regime and carried out acts of civil disobedience.

The whole point of Thoreau's parable — indeed, of all his writings, including Walden, Civil Disobedience and his famous Plea for Captain John Brown — is to declare that the revolution of 1776 is not yet over; the people and the land we love still struggle for liberation.

Conservatives need to defend themselves against marginalization, even as we realize that if we are to remain faithful, we might have to commit civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience self - justified by conviction of «higher law.»

Henry David Thoreau, «Civil Disobedience» (1849)

«Civil Disobedience» has been criticized as naïve, but this «bible of protesting minorities» profoundly influenced both Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and, through them, both Indian independence and the U.S. civil rights movement.

Last year he received widespread media attention when he declared that he would engage in civil disobedience rather than comply with a law requiring him to report illegal immigrants, and he directed priests and other church workers to follow his lead.

The Navy and Air Force had no objection to the letter, but the Army chief of chaplains, himself a Catholic, was worried that the line about not complying with the law was close to a call for civil disobedience.

The civil disobedience was only one part of a larger protest event, Appalachia Rising, which had the support and involvement of other Christian organizations, like Restoring Eden, and even more Christian individuals, like myself.

Allen Johnson of Christians for the Mountains was arrested last Monday alongside NASA climatologist James Hansen and 113 others for an act of civil disobedience protesting mountaintop removal coal mining.

«So proud of my amazing sister and niece for their balls out civil disobedience.

Both have been arrested and served six - month jail sentences for acts of civil disobedience in protesting the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)-- a military school in Fort Benning, Georgia, that has trained Latin Americans in tactics of war, terrorism and torture.