Sentences with phrase «civil disobedience tactics»

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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.

We do, however, recognize that civil disobedience has historically been an effective tactic for systemic change, from suffragettes to the civil rights movement, to Gandhi's Salt March to anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

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.

A YouGov poll out today reveals that about three - quarters of the public support the tactics of civil disobedience adopted by UK Uncut.

Therefore, we will organize the distribution of leaflets, mass rallies, forums, civil disobedience, petitions, referendums, web - based actions, economic boycotts, and other grassroots tactics.

As a result, don't be surprised to find yourself rooting for the radical Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and other more confrontational elements of the movement who employ civil disobedience as tactics.

Such games could be deeply integrated with the theme and the tactics of a protest, complement its theatrics, and inform actions of civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience is a tactic growing more common in the climate movement in the face of federal and state inaction.

Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, explains why the non-profit will add civil disobedience to its roster of tactics in an effort to curtail the «global crisis unfolding before our eyes.»