Civil Disobedience

But by Sunday night, the student movement was strategizing further civil-disobedience campaigns against the regime. ❋ Margaret Coker (2011)

"You can call it a civil-disobedience campaign," he says. ❋ Patrick McGroarty (2011)

Activists say the open-ended action—which they named a "dignity strike"—is part of a wider civil-disobedience campaign they hope will help sustain the momentum of a movement that started in March as peaceful street protests. ❋ Nour Malas (2011)

Having served as a clergy witness at the Bank of America civil-disobedience on Nov. 17, I was intent on bearing witness to the end of OccupyLA. ❋ Rabbi Yonah Bookstein (2011)

The leaders of Bahrain's antigovernment demonstrations insist that their followers use civil-disobedience techniques. ❋ Margaret Coker (2011)

For all his lifelong campaign for Swaraj "self-rule", India could have achieved it many years earlier if Gandhi had not continually abandoned his civil-disobedience campaigns just as they were beginning to be successful. ❋ Andrew Roberts (2011)

Residents of Douma, close to Damascus, issued a statement saying they wouldn't pay bills for publicly supplied electricity and water as part of a civil-disobedience campaign. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Meanwhile, Queerty. com, a leading site for gay issues, pays homage to Choi and other service members who staged civil-disobedience efforts to fight DADT, including handcuffing themselves to the White House gates. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hamas and Hezbollah have begun to embrace civil-disobedience tactics, which they once dismissed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What you're describing here, Teresa, is an excellent civil-disobedience protest tactic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Participants in Mr. Renou's civil-disobedience training camps are asked to pay a discretionary fee of up to €50. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[PopCrunch] • Al Gore encourages young people to block the construction of new coal plants using civil-disobedience tactics. ❋ Fair, Vanity (2008)

Once Gandhi began agitating for Indian independence from Britain in the 1920s, Churchill ought to have taken him seriously, especially by February 1931, when the viceroy of India, Lord Halifax, released Gandhi from prison in order to enter direct negotiations over ending Gandhi's huge civil-disobedience campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Associated Press Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a key organizer of a Kashmiri civil-disobedience campaign that began earlier this year, is now kept under house arrest by Indian troops. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Luis Garcia Morales to cancel his call for the president to resign or face a civil-disobedience campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But, in what amounts to a civil-disobedience action, cities and states are finding ways around the law. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We're not talking about civil-disobedience, we're talking about sneaking into another country, to work illegally, and send the money back to Mexico. ❋ David (2006)

The dissidents have repeatedly invoked that clause to fend off charges that they are fomenting another putsch under the guise of a civil-disobedience movement -- and legal scholars in Venezuela have backed that viewpoint. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Chavez himself joined the war of words, calling the dissident officers "fascists" who were hatching another uprising behind the fig leaf of a civil-disobedience campaign. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the face of [tyranny] and [injustice], it is [the people's] duty to practice civil disobedience to fight oppression. ❋ El Oaxuco (2007)

The [hippies] who [torched] [the ski] resort aren't criminals; they performed an act of civil disobedience ❋ Mjl317 (2006)