Sentences with phrase «of civil disobedience by»

After five - plus years of bureaucratic deliberations, landmark protests, and headline - making acts of civil disobedience by a reinvigorated and broader environmental movement, the basic numbers involving the Keystone XL Pipeline were served up to the media and...

Graziani systematically evades them, carrying out an act of civil disobedience by adopting an ethical and formal rigor reminiscent of the photographs of Walker Evans and Lewis Baltz.»

The CUNY faculty and staff were joined in their act of civil disobedience by CUNY students.

Council powers to ban gatherings of two or more people have been challenged in a wide act of civil disobedience by campaigners.

Not exact matches

«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.

At a reunion with 12 of 13 farmers who had been jailed for taking wheat across the border, Rick stood by his decision to participate in the act of civil disobedience.

It reminds us that the reception of Bonhoeffer in his native land has by no means been positive, not least because of his act of civil disobedience in participating in the abortive conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.

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.

Civil disobedience self - justified by conviction of «higher law.»

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.

That is, by an act of imagination, creation theology becomes a warrant for what the Empire would regard as civil disobedience.

[14] A concise article, summarising much of the «ideology» of martyrdom, is that by Everett Ferguson, «Early Christian Martyrdom and Civil Disobedience,» in Journal of Early Christian Studies, Vol.

I'm not going to argue that this is some grave injustice that needs to be rectified with civil disobedience and letter - writing campaigns, but the difference between how the two players were treated by the Hall of Fame voters is striking.

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

Another short documentary called Singapore Rebel by Martyn See, which documented Singapore Democratic Party leader Dr Chee Soon Juan's acts of civil disobedience, was banned from the 2005 Singapore International Film Festival on the same grounds and See is being investigated for possible violations of the Films Act.

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.»

«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.

In an act of Civil Disobedience, the group refused to stop protesting beyond police barricades during a major demonstration by thousands at Foley Square.

New York State Senator Tom Duane was arrested yesterday in an act of civil disobedience in protest of the veto of an HIV / AIDS funding bill vetoed by Governor David Paterson earlier this year, WNYC reports:

New York State Senator Tom Duane was arrested yesterday in an act of civil disobedience in protest of the veto of an HIV / AIDS funding bill vetoed by Governor David Paterson earlier this year, WNYC reports: «The bill would insure that poor people... Read

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

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

Comparing Wednesday's antics with the courageous acts of civil disobedience 50 years ago by the the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rep. John Lewis and others is wrong.

Protest rallies by supporters of Long Island College Hospital have been continuing on an almost daily basis, and at one of them, Assemblywoman Joan Millman folowed Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilman Steve Levin's earlier lead when she was arrested for 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.

A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and provide the resources coming to the city schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol in Albany in an act of civil disobedience.

Reluctant at first, Maud is encouraged by friends to join the Suffragette movement, which has begun a campaign of civil disobedience... -LSB-...]

Mrs. Pankhurst urges her followers to engage in civil disobedience, which leads to shocking incidents of violence by the police at otherwise peaceful demonstrations.

But now, unable to change decisions made by faraway state and federal policymakers, these families are employing a kind of civil disobedience.

The families, offended by what they regarded as sartorial tyranny, have since given their children a two - year lesson in civil disobedience, the Bill of Rights, the American legal system, and the vagaries of iron - on patches.

It is not surprising, then, that history and government textbooks, increasingly shaped by loose standards, incomplete assessments, and a generation of constructivist pedagogy, poorly serve the teacher's critical need for solid information about civil disobedience.

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.

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.

After the speeches by Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others, the group marched past City Hall and stopped in front of CPS Headquarters where the pre-planned acts of civil disobedience took place.

Consent by the People has not been deemed to be of importance therefore leaving civil disobedience as the next step in a parent's duty to defend what they think is best for their children.

«For parents concerned about the harm being caused by this increasing focus on testing, «opting out» is a powerful option — a kind of civil disobedience in response to a testing regime imposed by politicians, many of whom haven't spent any significant time in a public school classroom.»

Pirates who illegally access research materials may paint the sharing of copyrighted material as an act of civil disobedience that benefits the public by making information more accessible.

In 1919, General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on peaceful demonstrators in Amritsar; and in 1930, during the Dandi Salt March (a massive demonstration of civil disobedience led by Mahatma Gandhi) demonstrators were clubbed, and many, including Gandhi, were arrested.

She is acting like a petulant child and she will get everything she deserves with respect to her future credit score by her act of «civil disobedience.»

And the rally was likely initially fueled by easing concerns over Catalonia, thanks to a poll over the weekend from an anti-independence newspaper showing that support for independence has waned, as well as reports on Monday that there were little signs of unrest in Catalonia despite calls by the Catalan government for civil disobedience.

On Civil Disobedience is a monthly pamphlet series co-edited by Fulla Abdul - Jabbar, Devin King, and Caroline Picard, where The GLP commissions writers from a range of professional backgrounds to contribute essays addressing the title topic.

Removal of privileges due to «civil disobedience» is subject to the procedures outlined by the Code of Conduct:

By screen - printing figures from 1960 - 70's's civil disobedience / social justice movements on ceramics and creating drawings of movement buttons and protest signs, Hammonds monumentalizes heirlooms of cultural transgression.

On May 3rd, in light of the «handshake incident» in which Jamshed Bharucha fired student - instructor Vincent Hui and removed him from the cross-country team without due process, Cooper's Joint Student Council passed a resolution that they, «[do] not recognize the right of the administration to punish a student according to its own judgement without an official complaint and trial,» and that, «Removal of privileges due to «civil disobedience» is subject to the procedures outlined by the Code of Conduct.»

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 issue has galvanized climate and environmental activists in the US with the massive rally on Sunday preceded by civil disobedience actions in late summer that lead to the arrests of 1,253 people.

Climate Rush is inspired by the actions of the Suffragettes 100 years ago, who showed that peaceful civil disobedience could inspire positive change.

The undeniable truth is that the moral / ethical obligation is for all of the most fortunate to lead the rapid increase of awareness and understanding of the corrections required for the future of humanity and lead by example (discrediting and correcting «legal developments» when developed Laws and their enforcement are unethical / harmful, including exposing the awareness of unethical legal developments by disobeying through «civil disobedience»).