Sentences with phrase «largest civil disobedience»

Its multipronged environmental threat brought together an unprecedented coalition to oppose it last year and inspired one of the largest civil disobedience protests in American history.

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

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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.

She and Valerie Langer helped organize one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history in the almost 350,000 hectare wilderness area.

The civil disobedience was only one part of a larger protest event, Appalachia Rising, which had the support and involvement of other Christian organizations, like Restoring Eden, and even more Christian individuals, like myself.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

Was not Gandhi's largest and most significant campaign of civil disobedience, the Salt March, based on the strategy of tax resistance?

Through large - scale civil disobedience projects, augmented reality mobile apps, and an ongoing studio practice, Seiler's work questions the monopoly of consumer media on our shared public spaces while creating new opportunities for public communications.

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.

Here's what I would say, and I think I speak with many of the people arrested over the last two weeks, in the largest display of civil disobedience for four decades in this country.

Ottawa, ON — Today, 99 students and youth from across Canada were arrested in Ottawa in the largest act of youth - led climate civil disobedience in Canadian history.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

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.

But in all successful social movements gone by — from the suffragettes to the civil rights protests to the anti-apartheid movement — civil disobedience has been a carefully used tool in a much larger arsenal.

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In August 2011, 350.org and allies staged the largest show of environmental civil disobedience since the height of the anti-nuclear movement, leading to more than a thousand arrests at the White House.