Tag: Civil Disobedience

Activists in Illinois and Washington D.C. stand in defiance, calling for an end to the siege on Gaza and urging U.S. officials to back a ceasefire.

The whole world should be standing behind the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and their clans and their vision for a different future.

“Criminal justice is deterring bad behavior.”

The leading force behind this wave of action is an organization called Sunrise Movement, which launched in 2016 with the immediate goal of making ambitious climate action a key issue in last year’s midterm elections.

There is a lot for us to do, and unless we have public space, we can’t do the work of building a different kind of society and a different kind of world.

The militarized response to communities of color signals a possible double standard in law enforcement’s acceptance of civil disobedience.

A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells.

Civil disobedience to halt the assault by the oil and gas industry is an act of faith for retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard.

Ripping down the structures of the corporate state is a must as the 2016 presidential election is looming in the distance. This means refusing to co-operate. It means joining or building radical mass movements and carrying out civil disobedience.