Sentences with phrase «of civil disobedience against»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Carl Cohen argues that the argument that civil disobedience implies contempt for the law is «among the weakest» of the arguments against civil disobedience:

Is it found in the arguments for or against free sexual expression of consenting adults, prison reform, government surveillance of people's lives, and civil disobedience?

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

Marching in support of a lawsuit that eight employees of the Vegas Auto Spa have filed against the owner of the car wash, the elected officials blocked traffic and were removed by the NYPD in what Lander called an act of «civil disobedience.»

Green Party of New York co-chair Gloria Mattera said, «The Green Party is proud to support We Are Seneca Lake's ongoing civil disobedience campaign against methane gas storage.

Watkins Glen, NY — Eleven veterans representing all branches of the U.S. armed forces, were among 13 arrested on Tuesday morning in a human blockade at Crestwood Midstream on Route 14 as part of We Are Seneca Lake's ongoing civil disobedience campaign against gas storage in underground lakeside salt caverns.

Another group, GASPP, or Grassroots Against Another Salem Power Plant, has pledged to use peaceful civil disobedience to block construction of the gas plant.

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

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.

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.

While Britain's troops (including 2.5 million Indian soldiers, all volunteers) waged battle on three continents, campaigns of civil disobedience and violence against colonial rule intensified in India.

The participating artists appropriate mass - media technologies towards various ends: Paper Tiger Television establishes independent public access television as a critique against the commercial media industry, Guillermo Gómez - Peña stars in a guerilla television performance piece in an act of electronic civil disobedience and Danielle Dean uses the language of over 50 years of water and toothpaste company advertisements to explore the rhetoric around purity and whiteness.

(05/16/2012) In March 2012 the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and well - known climatologist, James Hansen, spoke at a TED conference to explain what would push a 70 - year - old scientist to participate in civil disobedience against mountaintop coal mining and the Keystone Pipeline, even leading to several arrests.

In fact, I have openly and explicitly called for nonviolent civil disobedience against mountaintop removal coal mining in my home state of West Virginia.

To support its claim against me of conspiracy, Kinder Morgan relied on two Facebook postings written by unnamed individuals, and a quote from a newspaper article in which I expressed my own opinion about civil disobedience.

In a time when civil protest and disobedience is ever increasing, it is critical that our democracy protect the privacy and civil liberties of its citizens against government overreach as technology advances.