Sentences with phrase «action of civil disobedience»

Her action of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Such games could be deeply integrated with the theme and the tactics of a protest, complement its theatrics, and inform actions of civil disobedience.

All this leads the victims of the hydroelectric project to actions of civil disobedience and resistance, which make the confrontation more serious and produce a violent reaction on part of the State.

Not exact matches

1) I agree with just civil disobedience and, as I see it, this is the foundation of Hobby Lobby's actions.

In private, and increasingly in public, union representatives are also talking the language of strikes, co-ordinated industrial action to maximise damage, and civil disobedience.

Therefore, we will organize the distribution of leaflets, mass rallies, forums, civil disobedience, petitions, referendums, web - based actions, economic boycotts, and other grassroots tactics.

Best Actress winner Frances McDormand said: «I appreciate a well organised act of civil disobedience... Happily, the feminist protest and direct action group Sisters Uncut had been on hand to provide some.»

If the Bull Connors of the time weren't using laws to engage in suppression of freedom and equality, the civil rights protests wouldn't be called civil disobedience; they would have just been the rightful (and peaceful) protests against government actions protected by the Bill of Rights.

From large - scale collaborative civil disobedience actions taking place on the streets, to the slow dissemination of PublicAccess sculptures which happen to open bus shelters around the world, to a gallery practice that illuminates the inner machinations of advertising content and persuasion, Seiler's practice attempts to challenge the commercial discourse that monopolizes public space while cultivating engaged citizenship.

Looking back at my post, I see I am talking about why people feel compelled to engage in civil disobedience, but not the effectiveness of those actions.

The issue has galvanized climate and environmental activists in the US with the massive rally on Sunday preceded by civil disobedience actions in late summer that lead to the arrests of 1,253 people.

Some have used civil disobedience in particular — I circulated the call for arrestees at the start of the Keystone XL pipeline demonstrations in 2011, and observers said the resulting two weeks of nonviolent direct action resulted in more arrests than any such demonstration on any issue in many years.

Please take the moments to watch the video from last week's civil disobedience action in front of the White House.

Climate Rush is inspired by the actions of the Suffragettes 100 years ago, who showed that peaceful civil disobedience could inspire positive change.

To address climate change, we need to link all kinds of initiatives: legal reforms and civil disobedience, hunger strikes and national consultations, massive protests and creative individual actions, consumers» actions and boycotts, occupation of banks and road blockages, political pressure, and replication of good practices.

With many of the bird - dogging actions being led by youth and students, a group of students and youth leading the organizing of a mass act of civil disobedience planned for October 24th, called Climate 101, are hoping the actions build momentum towards the mobilization.

With many of the bird - dogging actions being led by youth and students, a group of students and youth leading the organizing of a mass act of civil disobedience planned for October 24th, called

Ottawa, ON — Today, leaders from the environmental and Indigenous rights movements, including Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, David Suzuki, Union of BC Indian Chiefs President Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and six others, released a letter supporting Climate 101, a youth and student - led civil disobedience action planned for October 24th in Ottawa.

Thousands Call for Abolition of Mountaintop Removal in Action at White House; Over 115 arrested in non-violent civil disobedience.

What might be dubbed «virtuous malfeasance» — hostile actions motivated by the public good aimed at damaging a company's interests — may be a new form of civil disobedience practiced by a market - savvy generation of young activists.

Others called for the full reinstatement of the climate bill, which, before a last - minute amendment in March, sanctioned protection for direct action protest and civil disobedience in the face of oil and gas protest.

And the next day, at the Ende Gelände action, this behind the scenes video was filmed as a demystification of civil disobedience.

Participants discussed the question of direct action and civil disobedience, asking whether the urgency of climate change might require us to break the rules.

We know that successful civil disobedience actions like those on May 8th — coupled with pressuring our cities, churches, universities and local non-profits to sever ties with the banks enabling the climate crisis — represent the most effective way for us to tell CEOs like Chase's Jamie Dimon that we will not stand idly by as you profit from the destruction of our planet.

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.

Dr. James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, is calling on Americans to join him on March 2nd at the Capitol Power Plant in the largest display of civil disobedience in U.S. history to demand national action on global warming.Check out his video.

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?

If you're anywhere near Ottawa, you might consider coming to the Ottawa Action, a peaceful civil disobedience about the tar sands planned by the Council of Canadians, Greenpeace Canada, and Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN).

That said, it's obvious that not all civil disobedience or direct action has that kind of effect.

For the first time in its 120 - year history, the Sierra Club will participate in this civil disobedience action to convey the severity and urgency of action on climate.

That's why a group of us at tarsandsaction.org are organizing the biggest civil disobedience action in the environmental movement's history.

Hansen was taking part in a civil disobedience action at the White House organized to halt the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will bring dirty oil from the Canadian tar sands down to US refineries in the Gulf.

If you're anywhere near Ottawa, you might consider coming to the Ottawa Action, a peaceful civil disobedience about the tar sands planned by the Council of Canadians, Greenpeace Canada,

The distinction being broadly one between disobedience to orders or writs made or issued in civil actions (civil contempts) and contumacious behaviour or behaviour which tends to publicly depreciate the authority of the court or the administration of justice (criminal contempts).

It will also explain how Canada's laws on dissent and disobedience interact with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the private rights protected in civil actions.

This action comes on the heels of last week's Climate 101 civil disobedience action that resulted in 99 young people being arrested on Parliament Hill, while they called on Trudeau to «Reject the Kinder Morgan pipeline.»

In King's vision of the campaign, thousands of Americans who had been abandoned by the economy would create a tent city on the National Mall, demand action from Congress, and engage in nonviolent civil disobedience until their voices were heard.