Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

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

Mark - Viverito was taken into custody after sitting down in the middle of 5th Avenue and 57th Street shortly after noon — an act of civil disobedience against President Trump's recent move to expunge protections put in place by his predecessor on behalf of so - called Dreamers.

Graziani systematically evades them, carrying out an act of civil disobedience by adopting an ethical and formal rigor reminiscent of the photographs of Walker Evans and Lewis Baltz.»

We were chatting about Tim DeChristopher, a college student who was convicted after sabotaging an oil - lease auction, and I asked Hawkins whether more environmentalists might start engaging in non-violent civil disobedience in order to force people to pay attention to the issue.

Eventually, in a triumphant success story of peaceful civil disobedience, the Germans backed down and rescinded the order.

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

In fact, I have openly and explicitly called for nonviolent civil disobedience against mountaintop removal coal mining in my home state of West Virginia.

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.

Like the more daring Israel - based green group who plays with civil disobedience once and while, Green Action, Heschel's enviro teachings are intricately intertwined with social issues - which are ones that no one can ignore in this densely populated country.

They can take action through civil disobedience,» says Brune.

While there's nothing new about civil disobedience and other environmental protests, in 2013 they seemed to intensify and spread globally.

This morning's papers, at the start of the TUC Conference, are full of threats of strike action and civil disobedience from Britain's trade union leaders (see BBC and Guardian).

-- Some activists were arrested in a planned civil disobedience action and Hawkins was among those arrested.

(By «kinks» I mean leftover bigots practicing civil disobedience.)

Just this week, the LA Times editorialized against Keystone XL; Bill McKibben's massive civil disobedience at the White House to pressure the president has picked up considerable steam with over 1000 respondents to his call; and now seven senators have written to Secretary Clinton to express their «concern» over the project.

Both in theory and in practice, Operation Rescue is worthy of the classic civil disobedience tradition.

I am honored to risk arrest with my fellow Green Party comrades, Howie Hawkins and Mark Dunlea along with the many other climate activists participating in nonviolent civil disobedience today.

Does civil disobedience justify police brutality?

Many present, including 82 - year - old Congressman Charles Rangel, had been arrested earlier that day for civil disobedience after protesting low wages earned by Port Authority workers.

In 2013, greens organized the muscular Forward on Climate Rally and staged more White House arrests, including the Sierra Club's first foray into civil disobedience in its history.

Rules and regulations must be twisted, bent and if necessary broken / flouted in acts of mass civil disobedience if we are to neutralise the stranglehold of the Greenhouse Mafiosi (energy market plutocrats / financiers).»

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (second from left), her coordinator Dan Wiley, District Leader Jo Anne Simon (third from left), and other LICH advocates committed civil disobedience by creating a human chain across Atlantic Avenue, blocking traffic.

Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, who has been in office for forty years, says he has not been arrested for civil disobedience since the 1990s, but feels it's important to make a point now, as there's been little movement on changing the rent laws, less than two weeks before they sunset.

It's unlcear if Cuomo was back in the building by the time this latest act of civil disobedience took place.

Molly Soda and Branda Miller use dating websites and webcams to represent female desires and behaviours in cyberspace, Cornelia Sollfrank speaks to an anonymous female hacker practicing Electronic Civil Disobedience and Anna Mikkola explores the automation of affective, domestic tasks constructed as unwaged women's work.

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NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito says she's prepared to engage in civil disobedience while pushing the federal government to assist Puerto Rico with its fiscal crisis and that such a strategy may make sense.

And some second amendment advocates are also considering civil disobedience of the law.

It is because of this tendency that nonviolence should be at the very core of any understanding of justified civil disobedience.

«PCS fully supports the protests and peaceful civil disobedience tactics used by the grassroots campaigners UK Uncut.

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.

A new kind of civil disobedience came to Missoula, Montana, recently.

52 more protesters were just reported arrested at the ongoing civil disobedience outside of the White House, bringing the tally to 162 arrested over three days.

That's why more than 300 of us have been arrested outside the White House in the last week, the largest civil disobedience demonstration in a generation for the environmental movement.

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.

A peaceful civil disobedience demonstration to mark the beginning of its operation was held on November 2.

In matters of civil disobedience such constructivism only pushes students toward a naive belief in the primacy of conscience (which can easily become a synonym for self - centeredness).

Former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why civil disobedience and #Occupy is so important in the age of big money.

I'll wager that most successful 21st century civil disobedience will be nonviolent and creative.

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.

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.