Civil Disobedience

Understanding Civility in Civil Disobedience

Pamela H. Long | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Gospel, Alabama, Immigration, Civil Disobedience, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Video, Politics News

Am I aiding and abetting, harboring and transporting? Lord, I hope so. I'm taking Matthew 25: 34-40 seriously. When meeting the physical and social needs of the "least of these" becomes an act of civil disobedience, I must disobey.

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Returning To The Scene Of The Crime: Phoenix, Two Years Later

Rev. Peter Morales | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Immigration Reform, Liberal Religion, Unitarian Universalist Church, Civil Disobedience, Phoenix, Joe Arpaio, Arizona Immigration Law, Unitarian Universalist Association, Immigration, Religion News

As the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association and a man of faith, I knew it was my obligation to stand in opposition to this draconian legislation that harms immigrants and people of color, tears apart families and destroys the peace of mind within American communities.

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Bishops Say Catholics Must Disobey Unjust Laws

AP | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Religious Freedom, US Bishops, Fortnight of Freedom, Civil Disobedience, Contraception, Catholic, Video, Religion News

WASHINGTON — The nation's Roman Catholic bishops called Thursday for a national campaign in defense of religious liberty, and urged resistance t...

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Why I Was Arrested -- Again

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Prison, Sudan, Civil Disobedience, Darfur, Genocide, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, South Sudan, Jewish Social Justice, Religion News

Across Sudan, millions suffer without relief, and I am called by a power greater than I can even imagine to lend some measure of myself to their cause.

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Life And Death In Black And White

Posted 03.23.2012

"The San Francisco Bay Area is the playpen of countercultures" said Time Magazine's R.Z. Sheppard in 1986. Indeed, San Francisco has never been a city...

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Pundits Waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? Meet Khader Adnan.

Peter Hart | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Khader Adnan, Palestine, Thomas Friedman, Joe Klein, Time, Civil Disobedience, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Gandhi, Non-Violence, Non-Violent Resistance, Media News

The pundits who tell us that they crave a dramatic nonviolent Palestinian narrative can write the story of Khader Adnan, who has drawn comparisons to celebrated Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands. But they are not writing his story.

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This Is What Occupy Nigeria Looks Like

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Social Media, Twitter, Arab Spring, Civil Disobedience, Online, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Nigeria, World Activism, Art and Activism, Twitter Protest, Petroleum, Occupy Movement, Arts News

On January 1, the Nigerian government eliminated the subsidies used to keep petrol prices at reasonable rates. The Associated Press reported prices to...

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The Biblical Civil Disobedience Mandate

Bethany Blankley | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Abortion, Catholic Church, Bible, Civil Disobedience, Obamacare, Contraception, Christianity, Birth Control, Healthcare, Religion and Sexuality, Planned Parenthood, Religion News

Religious organizations, hospitals and universities are justified in not following the new Health and Human Services Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rule as their conscience dictates.

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Trees n' Settlements: First the JNF, Now the Israel Nature and Parks Authority -- What's Next?

Moriel Rothman | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, A-Tur, Issawiya, Conflict, Civil Disobedience, US Policy, Solidarity Movement, Israel, Jnf, Inpa, E1, World News

The new trend: seemingly innocuous, nature-oriented bodies in Jerusalem shedding their bark, so to speak, and revealing their true identities as expert-action-arms for the agenda of the settler movement.

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Keep D.C. Wal-Mart Free at Occupy D.C.

Head-Roc | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Walmart, Civil Disobedience, Activism, Occupy Wall Street, DC Statehood, McPherson Square, Occupy Dc, Dc Walmart, Occupy Movement, DC News

When I received a call from Faye Williams of Sisterspace and Books asking me to come rock at Occupy D.C. with hip-hop legends Dead Prez to do a "Keep D.C. Wal-Mart Free" presentation and rally, I eagerly replied "Yes."

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Occupy Ourselves

Randall Amster | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Law, Consumerism, Civil Disobedience, Oppression, Occupy Wall Street, Gandhi, Technology, Power, #Occupywallstreet, Peace, Student Loans, Impact News

Now, with peace in our hearts and power in our hands, the time to reclaim both ourselves and our world is upon us. This is our generational task, our shared responsibility, and our best hope for salvation. Let us meet it willingly, together.

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If You Want to Be a Rebel, Be Kind

Nipun Mehta | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Occupy Oakland, Nonviolence, Peaceful Protest, Pancho Ramos Stierle, Civil Disobedience, Impact News

Spirituality often sees activism as unnecessarily binding, while activism often sees spirituality as a navel-gazing escape. For Pancho, though, the two paths merge into one. Meditation is internal service, while service is external meditation.

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The First Amendment Upside Down: Why We Must Occupy Democracy

Robert Reich | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Police Brutality, Pepper Spraying, First Amendment, Civil Disobedience, Wall Street, Money and Politics, Occupy Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

The First Amendment is being stood on its head. Money speaks, and an unlimited amount of it can now be spent bribing and cajoling politicians. Yet peaceful assembly is viewed as a public nuisance and removed by force.

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PHOTOS: Seniors, Disabled Chicagoans, Veterans Join Massive March For Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Occupy Chicago, Video, Chicago Jobs Demonstration, Civil Disobedience, Chicago Day of Action, Stand Up Chicago, Chicago Demonstration, Chicago Protest, Chicago Jobs Not Cuts, Chicago Jobs Protest, Chicago News

Chicagoans turned out by the thousands to participate in the local observation of a national "day of action," synchronizing Occupy movements across th...

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Commercial Disobedience

Mark Cassello | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, John F. Kennedy, Occupy Chicago, Apple Iphone, Apple, American Exceptionalism, Civil Disobedience, Chinese Workers, Herman Cain, Bank Transfer Day, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Movement, Politics News

Decades of thoughtless purchasing decisions have engorged powerful, exploitive, and reckless corporations. In turn, these corporations have gained undue influence over the American political process.

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The Relationship Between Corporations and God

Eric Maisel, Ph.D. | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Religious Right, God, Civil Disobedience, Corporations, Obedience, Culture News

Why do impoverished working class members of the religious right love a corporate America that scorns them and exploits them? The following parable may help explain a state of affairs that is otherwise inexplicable.

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Grandma, Did You Occupy Wall Street?

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Protests, Anti War Protesters, Civil Disobedience, Sit Ins, Sit in Protests, Anti War Movement, Politics News

In my youth we used the word "sit-in," instead of "Occupy," but the movements are essentially the same kind of phenomenon, both symbolic forms of resistance to an oppressive social or economic status quo.

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Occupy Wall Street Crackdowns Smack of Colonialism

Kelly Moore | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Politics, Occupy Oakland, Civil Disobedience, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Protest, Free Speech, Economic Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

You know something is seriously wrong when people who have the option of sleeping in the comfort of their own beds instead choose to sleep in parks across America to drive home a point.

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Occupy Wall Street -- Global Nuisance or Revolutionary Brilliance

Marlise Karlin | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy Wall Street Protest, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Peaceful Protest, Civil Disobedience, Impact News

There is exponential power in peace which has been realized throughout history. But the Occupy movement hasn't always been peaceful.

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Women's Running Pioneer Plans To Repeat Historic Road Race

New York Times | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Manchester Road Race, Civil Disobedience, Women's Pioneer, Dr. Julia Chase-Brand, Thanksgiving, 1961 Road Race, Manchester, Female Distance Running, Distance Running, Fifty News

Except for a strategic bit of elastic that may be required, the blue running tunic, circa Smith College 1961, still fits. It will be worn again a half...

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Occupy Wall Street Gets New Arrest Alert App

AP | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Van Anden, Video, Civil Disobedience, Occupy Wall Street, Text Message, Occupy Wall Street Arrests, Arrested, Business News

NEW YORK -- Occupy Wall Street protesters now have a free app to alert others if they're about to be arrested. Van Anden is working to make it availa...

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Wall Street Occupennial, A Database Of Protest Art

Priscilla Frank | Posted 12.07.2011

For the past 3 weeks Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has shaken up our nation in what one protester called a "protest movement not seen in America since the ...

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Occupy Wall Street: Inarticulate Nonsense or Real Politics?

Sean Firko | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Civil Unrest, Peaceful Protest, Civil Disobedience, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Maybe the protests, by evading the traps and lures of party politics, will help to generate the nationwide sentiment that is required for policy change.

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Gandhi's Lessons for Today

Kathy Kelly | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: India, Gandhi, Night Raids, Nonviolence, Civil Disobedience, Impact News

Consider the contrast between Gandhi's precarious, defenseless efforts to reach his fellow humans, traveling alone and armed only with truth, and, in contrast, weigh U.S. reliance on a massive arsenal of weapons and armed warriors.

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Wall Street: A Reason to Rethink Parenting

Toni Nagy | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Corruption, Civil Disobedience, Wall Street, Corporate America, Emotional Wellness, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Environment, Parenting, Corporate Greed, New York City, Parents News

Here is a theory: everyone who works for Wall Street has serious mommy and daddy issues.

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