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Do You Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident?

Cindy Handler | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chris Christie, Civil Disobedience, John Corzine, Legal Equality, Protest Movement, States That Ban Gay Marriage, Chris Matthews Hardball, Young Voters, Don't Ask Don't Tell, LGBT Politics, Gay Rights, Ban on Gay Marriages, New York Gay Marriage, Student Protest, Support for Gay Marriage, LGBT Rights, New Jersey Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, The Great Schlep, Politics News
Cindy Handler

It's official: New Yorkers aren't entitled to the same freedoms that residents of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and after New Year's, New Hampshire can take for granted.

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Let's Not and Say We Did: Introducing the "Fill-In" as Gay Civil Disobedience

Mark Olmsted | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, Gay Rights, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

The freedom riders didn't wait for the laws against segregation to be changed before integrating public facilities, and neither should gays wait for marriage laws to change before getting married.

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The Day Rosa Wouldn't Move

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Naacp, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

What do you know about this courageous woman who helped spark the civil rights movement that transformed America?

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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My Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now

Michael Moore | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cooperatives, Newspapers, Twitter, Civil Disobedience, Evictions, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Media, Facebook, Democratic Party, Green Energy, Single Payer, Barack Obama, Movies, Campaign Finance, Michael Pollan, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Protest, Sarah Palin, Showdown-in-Chicago, Financial Crisis, Capitalism: A Love Story, Universal Health Care, Climate Change, Foreclosure, Medicare, Unions, Global Warming, Politics News
Michael Moore

I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!

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Health Reform Sit-Ins Thursday Across U.S.; Police Threaten Arrests

Huffington Post | Philip Ross | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies, Civil Disobedience, October 15, Sit-In, Protest, Impact News

Rather than standing for a cause, people across America are sitting in to draw attention to their frustrations with our country's health care system a...

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Interview With Pro-Bono Civil Rights Defense Attorney Paul Hetznecker

Rob Kall | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Arrests, First Amendment, Freedom of the Press, Civil Disobedience, Police Abuse, Inside DC, Politics News
Rob Kall

On Monday, October 5, over 60 peace activist, anti Afghan war protesters were arrested in front of the White House. It seems like a good time to publish this interview I did on my Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show a few weeks ago with Paul Hetznecker, who defends protesters as part of his life work.

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Did Joe Wilson Cross the Line Between Civil Disobedience and Incivility?

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Taylor Swift, Civil Disobedience, Kanye West, Joe Wilson, Beyonce, Obama, Race, You Lie, Barack Obama, Health Care Speech, Joe Wilson You Lie, Politics News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Is it possible that calling the President a liar was no different than a march through Selma or a lunch counter sit-in? Is it possible that Joe Wilson was engaged in civil disobedience?

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Stripping Massey: 81-year-old Paratrooper Leads Blockade, Court Hears $85 Million Suit

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Ground Zero, Caterpillar, Dirty Coal, Civil Disobedience, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Direct Action, Coal, Massey, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Massey Energy's brutal attacks on coalfield residents and the judicial system have drawn national criticism.

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Private Security Walks Off The Job in Protest; Coal Company Goes Too Far

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, West Virginia, Epa, Mountain Top Removal, James Hansen, Daryl Hannah, Climate Change, Coal Mining, Coal, Tree-Hugger, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, Environment, Green News
Jerry Cope

Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks spent the past week tree-sitting 80 feet above the ground in an act of civil disobedience protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal site there.

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Sounds of Silence in Appalachia: MTR Blasting Temporarily Halted

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Civil Disobedience, Don Blankenship, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Mountaintop Removal, Epa, West Virginia, Obama Administration, Climate Change, Joe Manchin, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Green News
Jerry Cope

On any given day, 3.5 million pounds of explosives blast apart the oldest mountain range on the planet. But for the past week there have only been sounds of silence.

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Now is the Time, Al Gore: Coalfield Uprising and Heroes Need National Defense, Green Jobs

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Dirty Coal, Made in America Tour, Civil Disobedience, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Blue Green Alliance, Coal, Van Jones, Epa, Appalachia, Protests, Mountaintop Removal, Repower America, Disney World, Climate Change, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Martha's Vineyard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.

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Seven Ways to Fight Dirty (Energy)

Billy Parish | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Civil Disobedience, Climate, Climate Change, Transition Towns, Aces, Copenhagen, Green, Tom Perriello, Clean Energy, Healthcare Reform, Green Energy, Beyond Talk, Healthcare, 1sky, Green News
Billy Parish

It's time we step up the effort and fight the dirty industries that pollute our communities and jeopardize our children and grandchildren's future. Here are seven ways to do it.

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Almost Hell West Virginia; Where Is The Obama Administration?

Jerry Cope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Obama Appalachia, Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Civil Disobedience, Epa, Daryl Hannah, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Ecocide, Mountaintop Removal, West-Virginia-Department-of-Environmental-Protection, Don Blankenship, Disasters, Coal River Mountain, James Hansen, Coal River Mountain Watch, Toxic Waste, Federal Office of Surface Mining, Coal Mining, Massey Coal, Mtr, Mike Brune, Ran, Rainforest Action Network, Coal River Valley, Green News
Jerry Cope

Coal mining is the Appalachians is the great American tragedy, and every citizen of this country should be ashamed and horrified that we are collectively allowing this to happen.

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Arrested in West Virginia -- A First-Person Account

Michael Brune | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Green Jobs, Don Blankenship, Civil Disobedience, Mountaintop Removal, Massey Energy Company, Dr. James Hansen, Coal River Wind Project, Coal River Mountain, Clean Energy Economy, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Green News
Michael Brune

Appalachia -- one of the few places in the country where both the cause of climate change and its solution can be found in the same location. Mountaintop removal isn't just a local issue, it's an American problem.

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The Planet Is Saved ... Pass It on

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: International Herald Tribune, Andy Bichlbaum, Civil Disobedience, Copenhagen 2009, Climate Change, YES! Magazine, Climate Crisis, Pranks, The Yes Men, Global Warming, Beyondtalk, Green News
Sarah van Gelder

World leaders negotiate an historic climate agreement. ... Temperature rise will be kept below 2 degrees, averting runaway global heating and chaotic ...

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Iran Uprising: Historic Parallels To Today's Protests

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Bulldozer Revolution, Iran Demonstrations, Iranian Revolution, Iran Election, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Velvet Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Elections, Tiananmen Square, Carnation Revolution, Tulip Revolution, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Protests, Iran Election 2009, Second Chimurenga, Islamic Revolution, Rose Revolution, Orange Revolution, Advocacy, Civil Disobedience, Iran Uprising, Iran Today, Protests in Iran and Tiananmen Square, Todays Iran Protests, World News

The massive socio-political movement in Iran, following the highly controversial announcement Saturday declaring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the victor of tha...

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It's Time to Join the Resistance

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boston Tea Party, First Amendment, Tea Party Protests, Civil Disobedience, Santelli's Chicago Tea Party, Protest, Fight-the-Power, Congress, Senate, Fight the Power, Anti-War Protests, Iraq Protest, Iraq, President, Social Activism, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Thankfully, there are a growing number of Americans--what I like to refer to as "teaspoons of resistance"--who have not given up the fight and are choosing to exercise their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and "petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

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A Shout Out to Climate Activists

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Wendell Berry, Climate Day of Action, Climate Change, Civil Disobedience, Bill Mckibben, Coal, Global Warming, Green News
Sarah van Gelder

The dirty coal power station literally powers our congressional building in DC. It is just one among the thousands around the world that threaten to push climate disruption beyond the point of no return.

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Dear Obama and Gov. Manchin: Act on Coal River Crisis

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Coal, Carol Browner, Renewable Energy, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Mountaintop Removal, Black History Month, Stephen Chu, Big Coal, Civil Disobedience, Barack Obama, Wind Energy, Joe Manchin, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented a diverse economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.

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Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben Call for Mass Civil Disobedience Against Coal

Michael Brune | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Civil Disobedience, Coal, Green News
Michael Brune

Our foremost climatologist, NASA's James Hansen, has demonstrated that our only hope of getting our atmosphere back to a safe level lies in stopping the use of coal to generate electricity.

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Time for global civil disobedience?: Five things to Advance the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Women, 60th Anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Obama, Zimbabwe, Poverty, Mugabe, NATO War on Terror, Darfur, World Bank, National Security, Cholera, Imf, Congo, Civil Disobedience, Sustainability, World News
Kumi Naidoo

Today is day of celebration for the progress we have made in the 60 years since the Declaration was signed. However, the litany of abuses does not afford us a second of self-congratulation.

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The Power of Protest in the Maldives

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Protests, South Asia, Nonviolent Action, Nonviolence, Democracy, Maldives, Maldive Islands, Civil Disobedience, Mahmoud Gayoom, Political Protests, Non-Violence Resistance, Gayoom Regime, Political Activism, Ukraine, World News
Stephen Zunes

The triumph of democracy in the Maldive Islands should be counted as yet another example of the power of civil resistance to create a government by the people, for the people.

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The Battle Plan III: Deployment and Its Dangers

Naomi Wolf | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Protests, George Bush, Bush Brigade, Civil Disobedience, Tasers, RNC Arrests, Political Protests, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

On October 1, President Bush deployed a brigade -- which means three to four thousand warriors -- somewhere in America. Troops on our streets make us something less than a democracy.

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Al Gore Encourages Civil Disobedience To Stop Coal Plants

Reuters | Michelle Nichols | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Coal Plants, Al Gore, Clinton Global Initiative, Civil Disobedience, Protest, Coal, Green News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to st...

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