Sentences with phrase «civil disobedience after»

Last month, a Massachusetts judge ruled that 13 protesters were not responsible for civil disobedience after they were arrested for sitting in holes dug for a pipeline to block construction.

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.

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Some have threatened civil disobedience, efforts that are expected to gain more momentum after last month's political upheaval in British Columbia.

Even Mayor de Blasio praised the councilmembers» feckless manifestation, citing proudly his own «civil disobedience» arrest in 2013 when he protested the closing of Long Island College Hospital — which wound up closing anyway, after he was Mayor.

Councilman Daniel Dromm is escorted into a police van after being arrested for civil disobedience.

The group threatened to perform acts of civil disobedience in front of City Hall, but gave support to the proposals over the weekend after de Blasio agreed to study ways to deepen the levels of affordability.

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.

After the speeches by Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others, the group marched past City Hall and stopped in front of CPS Headquarters where the pre-planned acts of civil disobedience took place.

He was a well - known speaker and abolitionist throughout his life, before and after Civil Disobedience and Walden were published.

After the incident, Anjali learns the preaching of Gandhi's nonviolent civil disobedience.

Here, in the 1930s, shortly after the Great Depression buckled Britain's industry and plunged the nation into a suffocating period of mass unemployment, we have the cream of the privileged class flexing their rebellious muscles in the most ludicrous of ways; asserting their right to civil disobedience from the roof of St John's College Chapel and then anonymously publishing their acts of sin for fear of academic retribution.

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.

Although both had been feminist writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet / novelist Jan Clausen didn't know each other very well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003, after which they gradually became better acquainted with each other's work.

On the day after president Obama's February State of the Union speech, Brune zip - tied himself to the White House gates — the first sanctioned, illegal, act of civil disobedience in the Sierra Club's history.

After five - plus years of bureaucratic deliberations, landmark protests, and headline - making acts of civil disobedience by a reinvigorated and broader environmental movement, the basic numbers involving the Keystone XL Pipeline were served up to the media and...

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