Sentences with phrase «civil disobedience actions»

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.

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.

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.

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

Veterans for Peace, Ventura County CA: Green leader Howie Hawkins Arrested in Veterans - led Civil Disobedience Action at Seneca Lake

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

We're definitely putting @tomfriedman on the guest list for the next civil disobedience action nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opi...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.»

Not exact matches

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

Brooks defended the group's peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness against war and for a more peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»

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.»

Her action of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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.

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.

Alfredo Scaroina: «Reclaimed Matter» and «David Graeve: Civil Disobedience to Direct Action,» through Aug. 23; Deborah Colton Gallery, 2445 North Blvd.; 713-869-5151, deboracoltongallery.com.

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.

Credo Action, a progressive cause group - has had more than 52,000 people pledge to engage in civil disobedience if President Obama does approve the pipeline.

Following those actions and the climate rally in Washington D.C., I wrote a post making the case for civil disobedience for climate change.

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.

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.

In 2009, Hansen was involved in another controversy when he published a video that encouraged people to engage in civil disobedience to propel action against manmade global warming.

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

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

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.

He was arrested at the Tar Sands Action place [White House civil disobedience].

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.

Because the police tolerated these actions, as neither were considered civil disobedience, it is likely that similar future events will not incite confrontations with law enforcement.

If the only action left to you is civil disobedience, is it wrong?

The initial plan was to have one civil disobedience begin from Le Bourget and an approved action from Avenue de la Grande Armée.

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).