Thoreau's refusal to support what he saw as injustice culminates in his essay "Civil Disobedience." After refusing to pay four years of poll taxes, Thoreau is briefly imprisoned. Thoreau is adamantly ...
CounterPunch: Campus Protests are Part of an Enduring Legacy of Civil Disobedience Improving American Democracy
Campus Protests are Part of an Enduring Legacy of Civil Disobedience Improving American Democracy
Civil disobedience is a constant of history. The Boston Tea Party was a violent symbolic demonstration against British tyranny in 1773 that preceded the American Revolutionary War. An unelected ...
Careful observers of actions by environmentalists such as splashing paintings or gluing themselves to pavement recognize that the activists come from a long tradition of civil disobedience. The ...
PBS: Hannah Arendt taught us that civil disobedience is essential to American democracy
Scholar Roger Berkowitz shares how Hannah Arendt saw civil disobedience as a collective and political act that renews democracy by holding power accountable to justice and constitutional principles.
Hannah Arendt taught us that civil disobedience is essential to American democracy
Yahoo: Campus protests are part of an enduring legacy of civil disobedience improving American democracy
Reuters: Young French influencer turns to civil disobedience to raise climate change awareness
Young French influencer turns to civil disobedience to raise climate change awareness
Civil disobedience was an integral part of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and is playing a pivotal role again as Black lawmakers express discontent over inaction on voting rights. In ...
Disobedience is a 2017 romantic drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio and written by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Naomi Alderman. The film stars Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.