civil disobedience
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A British man takes a stand with Palestine Action and hands himself in to the police
Arrests are continuously taking place across the UK as protesters defy the ban on Palestine Action, which they demand be de-proscribed as a terrorist organisation. Continue reading
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Climate Scientists Call For Civil Disobedience
A group of climate scientists have said: Time is short to secure a livable and sustainable future; yet, inaction from governments, industry and civil society is setting the course for 3.2 °C of warming, with all the cascading and catastrophic consequences that this implies. In this context, when does civil disobedience by scientists become justified. Continue reading
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UK police seek to prosecute 1,130 Extinction Rebellion climate change protestors By Alice Summers
The London Metropolitan Police are pushing to prosecute every single one of the 1,130 protestors arrested during climate change demonstrations organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR) in April. Continue reading
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Summer of Discontent? Your Legal Protest Rights
By Ian Browne– advice and information officer at Liberty: Unless you’ve stayed away from all forms of news and social media recently, you’re probably aware that hundreds of people have taken to the streets for multiple simultaneous climate change protests. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion – The world has changed
Extinction Rebellion will voluntarily end the Marble Arch and Parliament Square blockades tomorrow (Thursday). There will be a closing ceremony at 5pm 25 April at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park. Continue reading
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Extinction Rebellion: A new stage for the climate change movement
It would be criminal if political criticisms keep the organized left from supporting and joining the Extinction Rebellion campaign. Three articles from the British left … Continue reading
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Book Review: A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil
In A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil, Candice Delmas aims to foster understanding of resistance to injustice as a capacious concept that can include the possibility of lawful dissent, principled disobedience and revolution. This is a provocative and rewarding contribution to the literature, writes Suzanne Smith, that is particularly valuable for its attention to the question… Continue reading
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Direct Action and the British State By Craig MURRAY
The draconian sentencing to jail of anti-fracking activists for non-violent direct action has received insufficient attention. It is a confident state that can undertake to bring back a level of repression not seen for decades – eight decades, in fact, since environmental activists received this kind of lengthy jail sentence, despite generations of tree climbing… Continue reading
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Manning, Snowden and Assange By NOZOMI HAYASE
Computer scientist Nadia Heninger argued that leaking information is now becoming the “civil disobedience of our age”. The late historian and activist Howard Zinn described the act of civil disobedience as “the deliberate, discriminate, violation of law for a vital social purpose”. He advocated it saying that such an act “becomes not only justifiable but… Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: “VEILED THREATS” OF “INDUSTRIAL CHAOS”
On 19 September, the Sunday Times ran a major interview with Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (Andrew Davidson, ‘King of compromise alone on a tightrope’, Sunday Times, business section, 19 September, 2010; online article is hidden behind a pay wall). The bias was clear even from the text immediately following the… Continue reading
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Israelis Risk Jail to Smuggle Palestinians – 600 sign up for campaign of disobedience By Jonathan Cook
Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. Continue reading
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NATO GAME OVER: peace activists close NATO headquarters
Despite the massive presence of police forces equipped with water canons, helicopters, horses, kilometres of barb wire, … several activists managed to enter the military base to seal gates, windows and doors. 450 peace activists have been arrested and showed clearly that Vredesactie and the Bombspotters do not let the NATO keep going with its… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report #49 by William Blum, October 1, 2007
Anti-Empire Report, October 1, 2007: The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life October 1, 2007 William Blum www.killinghope.org If not now, when? If not here, where? If not you, who? I used to give thought to what historical time and place I would like to Continue reading
The New Dark Age 