Sentences with phrase «of civil disobedience on»

The act of civil disobedience on Saturday in the end carried limited legal consequences, but nevertheless was a show of strength and power that I was honored to be a part of.

«We will use everything it takes to uncover what happened here,» said Glickman, who stressed that the incident was not an act of civil disobedience on the part of the councilman.

Dr Vandana Shiva, an articulate and outspoken critic of the corporate - controlled food system, is calling a day of civil disobedience on 2 October to honor Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, at the start of the 2nd Global Seed Freedom Fortnight.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 184On 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 184on 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 184).

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.

«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.

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.

What: Press conference with a diverse set of community leaders — including some who were arrested for acts of civil disobedience during last year's «debt ceiling» debate — calling on their federal officials to demand a fair deal that protects jobs and services and ensures the wealthiest pay their fair share.

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.

Sundance hints that «Joshua comes of age on screen as he rallies tens of thousands to civil disobedience» which means this is as much of a story about him as it is about the movement.

Best Actress winner Frances McDormand said: «I appreciate a well organised act of civil disobedience... Happily, the feminist protest and direct action group Sisters Uncut had been on hand to provide some.»

They should instruct their students on the meaning of civil disobedience and then practice it.»

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.

Another PBS lesson plan on civil disobedience asks students to identify «issues of concern» (such as school uniforms or a tax exemption for a business that pollutes), «brainstorm different ways people make their opinions known about issues of concern,» «discuss which of these methods are acceptable» means of protest to them,» and «identify possible negative consequences of activism to individuals engaged in these activities.»

Typical of these lesson plans, it is thin on substance, leaves the students to teach themselves about civil disobedience, and does not help teachers whose own knowledge of civil disobedience is weak.

A PBS lesson plan on civil disobedience, packaged with the video, «A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict,» says that Gandhi's method of nonviolence had three parts: «identify an unjust law, refuse to obey it, and accept the consequences.»

In these and other lessons, the teacher is directed to place the burden on the student to «construct» his or her own understanding of civil disobedience - a notion that contradicts the beliefs of the most profound protesters.

So when we were in the midst of a unit on civil disobedience and had read Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., articles on the «take a knee» protest, and some interesting political cartoons, I introduced the lyrics to Bob Dylan's «A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.»

A growing number of parents are refusing to let their children take standardized tests this year, arguing that civil disobedience is the best way to change what they say is a destructive overemphasis on tests in the nation's public schools.

That's the chant that rang out as approximately 140 people sat arm - in - arm on LaSalle Street Wednesday in front of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) headquarters, participating in a pre-planned act of «civil disobedience» to protest the proposed closing of 54 Chicago schools.

What's been most striking in my reporting on this issue is meeting students as young as 11 or 12 who are getting involved, speaking out, and performing, essentially, civil disobedience for the cause of public education.

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

«Officer Carl Schaffer» of the New York Police Department will give a humorous talk about police attitudes on civil disobedience in light of the current Wall Street occupation and protests of all kinds.

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.

All this leads the victims of the hydroelectric project to actions of civil disobedience and resistance, which make the confrontation more serious and produce a violent reaction on part of the State.

A screening of Molly Soda's video «Come to my Window» will be featured as part of «Electronic Civil Disobedience: Phobias and Fantasies» at Res, London on 9 July 2017.

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.

The exhibition — whose themes echo the expansive humanitarian interests of the Menil Collection's founders — aims to create a platform for international dialogue on the issues of human rights, compassion, civil disobedience and progress through non-violence.

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.

The exhibition brings together journals, manuscripts, letters, books, and field notes from the Morgan Library & Museum in New York with the personal items of the Concord Museum's collections, which include the simple green desk on which Thoreau wrote «Walden» and «Civil Disobedience.»

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.»

Drawing on personal experience and history in his native Chile, as well as research about other countries such as Ukraine and Venezuela, the artist focuses on simple structures that people build in times of oppression as expressions of civil disobedience.

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.

With a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline looming, it's a good time to think about how best to respond to the decision and what forms of civil disobedience will best highlight climate change as a moral issue.

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History is being made right now in Ottawa, Canada as hundreds of people from across North America are risking arrest on Parliament Hill during a mass civil disobedience sit - in to protest tar sands development.

To better understand why it is so important to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and why tens of thousands rallied in DC on Sunday and why activists participated in acts of civil disobedience, you must understand the math of global warming.

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.

Some have used civil disobedience in particular — I circulated the call for arrestees at the start of the Keystone XL pipeline demonstrations in 2011, and observers said the resulting two weeks of nonviolent direct action resulted in more arrests than any such demonstration on any issue in many years.

WASHINGTON, DC — At approximately 10:00 AM this morning, North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge, Vermont farmer Will Allen, and fed up American entrepreneurs, who have dedicated their livelihoods to developing and marketing healthy, environmentally - friendly hemp products, for the first time turned to public civil disobedience with the planting of industrial hemp seed at DEA headquarters (700 Army Navy Dr Arlington, VA 22202) to protest the ban on hemp farming in the United States.

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.