Sentences with phrase «civil disobedience if»

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).»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

If there's voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.»

«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.»

Even if the Trans Mountain proposal gets bogged down — by a antagonistic new provincial government, or by the 19 lawsuits it faces, or by the massive civil disobedience opponents promise — if Kinder Morgan can entice enough investors to hand over $ 1.75 billion in an initial public offering, the company will walk away with hundreds of millions even if the proposal dies and investors lose their shirt.

The Declaration further invoked the Christian tradition of civil disobedience, affirming the right and at times the obligation to oppose injustice by refusing to comply with civil authority if it attempts to undermine these basic human rights: «We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's.

Conservatives need to defend themselves against marginalization, even as we realize that if we are to remain faithful, we might have to commit civil disobedience.

Concerning civil disobedience, all I will say is if the country's laws are based on Godly principles then the punishment should fit the crime.

«However, if the Buhari Administration fails to take immediate corrective measures to stabilize Nigeria and restore justice, equity and fairness, particularly to stop the reckless murder of Nigerians by Islamist insurgents, then all Nigerians must prepare to embark on civil disobedience and «shut down» the country.

If blocking traffic counted as protected speech, it wouldn't be a crime — and it wouldn't be civil disobedience.

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

Movies I admired more than actively loved «The Master,» «This Is Not A Film» (strong civil disobedience), «Killing Them Softly» (too heavy handed, with incongruent, inconsistent stylization, terrific performances though; what if Richard Jenkins had starred?)

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.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

The question that comes to mind is if the dog eats Preston's copy of «Civil Disobedience,» will Preston order a replacement from Amazon or endure having his «writing shack» appear less fashionable for the remainder of the summer?

However, from a pragmatic point of view, it was effective in slowing construction, so it accomplished that goal, even if it didn't rally the public as much as a Rosa Park's - style example of civil disobedience may have.

RE: «If Gore really believes that civil disobedience is an important strategy — then he needs to lead the effort and go chain himself to some fences and sit in front of some bulldozers with thousands of others.»

If Gore really believes that civil disobedience is an important strategy — then he needs to lead the effort and go chain himself to some fences and sit in front of some bulldozers with thousands of others.

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

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).

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,

Leading environmental leaders have called for civil disobedience against the Keystone Pipeline, and James Hansen has argued that if Obama approves Keystone, it will prove his entire

If the «movement» is a true exercise in civil disobedience, then you have to be prepared to embrace non-violence (Gandhi) and as well, suffer the consequences as a result of your civil disobedience.

This seems unlikely, as it appears to be a reasonable limitation, but even if such a challenge can not succeed there is the response of civil disobedience.