Sentences with phrase «campaign of civil disobedience»

He said Greenpeace would give up on negotiations and move to a campaign of civil disobedience.

Reluctant at first, Maud is encouraged by friends to join the Suffragette movement, which has begun a campaign of civil disobedience... -LSB-...]

Bahrain is also still in the grip of a political uprising, with the tiny island nation undergoing a massive campaign of civil disobedience against the ruling Khalifa family.

Was not Gandhi's largest and most significant campaign of civil disobedience, the Salt March, based on the strategy of tax resistance?

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.

While Britain's troops (including 2.5 million Indian soldiers, all volunteers) waged battle on three continents, campaigns of civil disobedience and violence against colonial rule intensified in India.

Not exact matches

«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.»

I'm not going to argue that this is some grave injustice that needs to be rectified with civil disobedience and letter - writing campaigns, but the difference between how the two players were treated by the Hall of Fame voters is striking.

De Blasio has made hospital closures a big part of his mayoral campaign of late, built around his arrest last month, in a show of civil disobedience to protest the possible closure of Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.

Green Party of New York co-chair Gloria Mattera said, «The Green Party is proud to support We Are Seneca Lake's ongoing civil disobedience campaign against methane gas storage.

Watkins Glen, NY — Eleven veterans representing all branches of the U.S. armed forces, were among 13 arrested on Tuesday morning in a human blockade at Crestwood Midstream on Route 14 as part of We Are Seneca Lake's ongoing civil disobedience campaign against gas storage in underground lakeside salt caverns.

Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union wants to go still further, demanding a campaign of «civil disobedience».

A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and provide the resources coming to the city schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol in Albany in an act of civil disobedience.

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.

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?

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.