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Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), an organization that assists lawyers around the world who themselves defend human rights, has published a «Protesters» Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in British Columbia — Olympic Edition» [PDF].

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

David Roberts» most recent post tackles an issue I spend a good amount of time thinking about: the efficacy of civil disobedience in the modern era.

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.

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 the day after president Obama's February State of the Union speech, Brune zip - tied himself to the White House gates — the first sanctioned, illegal, act of civil disobedience in the Sierra Club's history.

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

«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.»

I was alarmed to learn from James Lopach and Jean Luckowski («Uncivil Disobedience,» Features, Spring 2005) that some high schools are recommending a thoughtless embrace of civil disobedience in their civics classes.

The group threatened to perform acts of civil disobedience in front of City Hall, but gave support to the proposals over the weekend after de Blasio agreed to study ways to deepen the levels of affordability.

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

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:

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

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.

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.

One great place to start is the Protestor's Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in BC.

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.

Not exact matches

«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

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.

And a recent poll confirmed that 1 in 10 British Columbians would consider acts of civil disobedience or stop construction.

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.

Jesus certainly did not kill and probably did not whip the moneychangers, but he clearly resisted their evil in a dramatic act of civil disobedience.

But apparently his way of nonviolent love was not at all incompatible with protesting police brutality or engaging in civil disobedience in a nonviolent fashion.

Much civil disobedience today, which may look in part to Gandhi for its inspiration, lacks this concern for the conversion of the opponent and even when it is successful creates the potential for future conflict.

You stand in a noble tradition of conscientious objection and of civil disobedience.

In Chile, some bishops excommunicated those responsible for torture, and the grassroots church aided victims of the regime and carried out acts of civil disobedience.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the civil rights movement promoted, not rage and disruption, but nonviolent civil disobedience, accepting the penalties imposed under what protesters deemed unjust laws in order to awaken consciences to the injustice of those lawIn the 1950s and early 1960s, the civil rights movement promoted, not rage and disruption, but nonviolent civil disobedience, accepting the penalties imposed under what protesters deemed unjust laws in order to awaken consciences to the injustice of those lawin order to awaken consciences to the injustice of those laws.

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.

Grave dignity and selflessness had characterized the civil disobedience of the Southern sit - ins and marches.

[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.

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?

In the latter perspective, Edward Snowden committed a noble act of civil disobedience to let his fellow citizens know what was going on.

Oberlin College went so far as to advocate «civil disobedience» in the face of the fugitive slave laws (leading to the Oberlin - Wellington Rescue Case — an important event in the history of American civil liberties).

Massive non-violent civil disobedience carried forth from India would eventually win civil rights for African - Americans in the United States and be an important ingredient in the overthrow of Communism and apartheid in the closing years of the century.

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

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.

«And for the miscreants and hoodlums, the Lagos State Government and the Police Command would not allow any act of civil disobedience and those arrested would be dealt with in accordance with the law and further arrests would be made as investigation continues,» he sai

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

In her 1972 work Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, Arendt points out that the rise of state violence is frequently connected to a decrease in substantive power as regimes mistakenly believe they can retain real control through violent measures (CR 184In her 1972 work Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, Arendt points out that the rise of state violence is frequently connected to a decrease in substantive power as regimes mistakenly believe they can retain real control through violent measures (CR 184in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, Arendt points out that the rise of state violence is frequently connected to a decrease in substantive power as regimes mistakenly believe they can retain real control through violent measures (CR 184in substantive power as regimes mistakenly believe they can retain real control through violent measures (CR 184).

«Peaceful protest and civil disobedience have a long and proud history in this country, and are a perfectly legitimate response to plans that no - one voted for and no - one wants,» Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), said.

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

In private, and increasingly in public, union representatives are also talking the language of strikes, co-ordinated industrial action to maximise damage, and civil disobediencIn private, and increasingly in public, union representatives are also talking the language of strikes, co-ordinated industrial action to maximise damage, and civil disobediencin public, union representatives are also talking the language of strikes, co-ordinated industrial action to maximise damage, and civil disobedience.

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

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.»