Sentences with phrase «of civil disobedience»

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.

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.

Bahrain is also still in the grip of a political uprising, with the tiny island nation undergoing a massive campaign of civil disobedience against the ruling Khalifa family.

With all other avenues and appeals exhausted, we began engaging in peaceful acts of civil disobedience by blockading Crestwood's gates.

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.

Simon, a constant presence at rallies and forums for LICH over the past two years, was arrested during an act of civil disobedience for the hospital.

It may prove to be no more than a cri de coeur, but it does raise afresh the question of the use of civil disobedience in climate campaigns.

On September 26th we are asking you to come to Ottawa to participate in one of the largest acts of civil disobedience on the climate issue that Canada has ever seen.

Canadians even have a «how - to» book for such practices with the Protestors» Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in British Columbia.

Invoking numerous judicial precedents in connection with acts of conscientious resistance during the Vietnam War era, as well as the history of civil disobedience in Western culture, Judge Sprizzo found them not guilty.

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.

Her action of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

In response to the question raised by post # 3 re: laws that prevent scientists from assisting wildlife, the concept of civil disobedience comes to mind.

The head of Greenpeace has vowed to renew his organization's practice of civil disobedience in protest, and, in the style of the true fanatic, has declared himself ready to die for his cause.

There were those among them who had been arrested because of civil disobedience in protest against nuclear research or U. S. involvement in Nicaragua.

Sixteen Seventeen protestors were arrested today in what's being billed as the first major act of civil disobedience since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office on Jan. 1.

The whole point of civil disobedience is that it has a cost: actual jail time, or loss of income.

Mark - Viverito shows a deep, fundamental confusion about the meaning of civil disobedience.

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.

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

«SELMA is a paean to the power of civil disobedience, and what good can come from solidarity against government - sanctioned hate.»

A new kind of civil disobedience came to Missoula, Montana, recently.

While sometimes willful and defiant and sometimes passive to the point of self - extinction (Socrates did not protest his punishment), the heroes of civil disobedience believed in the need to obey a higher authority and to be cleansed of self - interestedness.

So what brand of civil disobedience will captivate Americans in the modern age?

In matters of civil disobedience such constructivism only pushes students toward a naive belief in the primacy of conscience (which can easily become a synonym for self - centeredness).

They provide one of the more succinct definitions of civil disobedience offered to high schoolers: «The right of all Americans to express their dissent against laws in these and many other ways is protected by the Constitution.

Her act of civil disobedience resulted in her being kicked off the bus and her arrest!

From 130 BC to the present, voices that encode the crucial role of civil disobedience in changing bad law and furthering social progress.

Some of the world's greatest thinkers and visionaries have channeled and adapted their own versions of civil disobedience.

As the government's memorandum points out, I have also made public statements about the value of civil disobedience in bringing the rule of law closer to our shared sense of justice.

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

YEREVAN, May 2 - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.

It wasn't the first time during this election that Trump's star had been a casualty of civil disobedience, but what made this episode truly remarkable was that the perpetrator immediately identified himself to the media.

In recent years this has expanded to some amount of civil disobedience.

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.

DB: You have to expect that there will be incidents of civil disobedience.

Offering sanctuary is an act of civil disobedience so, by definition, there aren't a lot of rules regarding how you go about it.

Martin Luther King, Jr. cited both these thinkers in defense of civil disobedience in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail in 1963: «A just law is man - made code that squares with the moral law of God.

A close cousin of civil disobedience, whistleblowing has emerged in our time in the institutional setting.

He was outspoken in his denouncement of slavery as a moral wrong and may be considered a pioneer in the area of civil disobedience.

The fact that this mastery of civil disobedience typically coincides with potty training, is clearly the universe's cruel joke on parents everywhere.

They consumed medical cannabis in an act of civil disobedience called for by veteran MP and cannabis advocate Paul Flynn.

Acts of civil disobedience, from the «standing men and women», who remain still in central squares or read books, are continuing.

So while I think your analysis is very tight and good, I think we miss - out a big chunk of the civil disobedience issue when analysing it in purely Rawlsian terms.