Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government. By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance.Henry David Thoreau popularized the term in the US with his essay Civil Disobedience, although the concept itself has been practiced longer before. It has inspired leaders such as Susan B. Anthony of the U.S. women's suffrage movement in the late 1800s, Saad Zaghloul in the 1910s culminating in Egyptian Revolution of 1919 against British …
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UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English
Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in …
largely peaceful campaign of protest and civil disobedience. Limited self-government was not granted …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 14 May 2024 English
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protesters, making it the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Fortunately, temperatures …
McMaster Health Forum · 18 April 2024 English
• The synthesis of findings were grouped according to the outcomes of interest: • Mandates and intention to get vaccinated: The experimental literature is based only on hypothetical mandates and …
negativity, describing themselves as involved in civil disobedience due to perceived authoritarianism. Summary …
Wilson Center Canada · 19 March 2024 English
restore the country to the path of democracy, Compared to historical outbreaks of fighting in ensure the release of political prisoners, hold Myanmar’s long-running civil war, this moment the military …
Myanmar to the NUG. Hluttaw, members of the Civil Disobedience Movement, and civil society organizations) …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 7 March 2024 English
“this threat and Incredibly, a segment of the CBC’s Fifth Estate was devoted to the Coastal from where it is GasLink extremist attacks but devoted most of the segment to …
small-c conservatives came to supporting mass civil disobedience and disruptive tactics. However, many the …
West Coast Environmental Law · 31 January 2024 English
Lawyer’s Letter of Support The letter of support is a statement of your lawyer’s willingness to work on your case and the terms and conditions of the work. [...] The …
against contempt proceedings arising from civil disobedience. Please call us with any questions. What …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 30 January 2024 English
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pipelines in peaceful, nonviolent acts of civil disobedience. With Indigenous, Black, and Brown sisters …
West Coast Environmental Law · 24 November 2023 English
Lawyer’s Letter of Support The letter of support is a statement of your lawyer’s willingness to work on your case and the terms and conditions of the work. [...] The …
against contempt proceedings arising from civil disobedience. Please call us with any questions. What …
BCCLA: BC Civil Liberties Association · 17 November 2023 English
L ast winter, Vancouver encampment residents were forcibly The BCCLA called upon the Province and Minister to publicly evicted during snowstorms and City warming centres were hold municipal governments accountable …
in Prince George and on Vancouver protest, civil disobedience, and Indigenous resistance. Island. Thousands …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 2 November 2023 English
Human rights codes emerged in the aftermath of the atrocities of the Second World War and during the rise of the civil rights movement in the United States. [...] Specifically: …
medical care. There is room in a society for civil disobedience when all else fails in the face of oppression …
