Sentences with phrase «civil disobedience action»

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

Highly acclaimed environmental author Bill McKibben will lead a mass civil disobedience action against coal - fired power plants in Washington DC on March 2.

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.

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.

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.

We've had the largest civil disobedience action in 30 years about anything, about this pipeline.

In 2011 the group and its partners carried out massive civil disobedience action, resulting in over 1,000 arrests, and a rally 12,000 - strong that literally encircled the White House.

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

The PSC, Weingarten wrote, has «tried mightily to shift Gov. Cuomo's position: proposing and passing legislation that he vetoed, and holding demonstrations, teach - ins and even a civil disobedience action in which 53 faculty and staff were arrested.»

Yesterday, we had a civil disobedience action, which ended in police brutality against all the teachers that were protesting and been pepper sprayed.

47 people participated in the civil disobedience action and arrested on August 25th, 2011.

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.

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.»