Tag Archives: Civil Disobedience
Ken Butigan> Challenging the ‘disposition matrix’ and its ever-expanding kill list
Challenging the ‘disposition matrix’ and its ever-expanding kill list “After September 11, 2001, though, this kind of thinking was trumped by the promise of safety manufactured by war abroad and increased surveillance at home. The choice was freedom or security, as if these are opposites. Now we are reaping the consequences . . .” by Ken […]
Steve Clemens> Reading Martin Luther King in Jail & My Day-To-Day Report on My Time in Jail
Reading Martin Luther King in Jail Posted by Steve Clemens July 1, 2012 Mennonista Reading ML King, Jr in Jail: Inmate 00712398, Hennepin County ACF. Because of my previous 10-day jail sentence for civil disobedience 10 years ago for protesting illegal indiscriminate weapons used in the early days of our (continuing) war on Afghanistan, I had […]
Chris Hedges’ Speech in Front of Goldman Sachs Leads to Arrest
Chris Hedges’ Speech in Front of Goldman Sachs Leads to Arrest “Since the formal mechanisms of power refuse to restore the rule of law, then we, the 99 percent, will have to see that justice is done.” Chris Hedges Nation of Change November 4, 2011 Chris Hedges made this statement in New York […]
Cornel West> Chris Hedges Arrested> Here’s What Happened Today When At Least 15 People Got Arrested Outside Of Goldman Sachs
Image: Julia La Roche for Business Insider Nov 03 11:00 PM Julia La Roche Business Insider The Occupy Wall Streeters turned their ire toward the “evil vampire squid” Goldman Sachs today. The Occupy Wall Streeters, joined by Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West and columnist Chris Hedges, convened at their Zuccotti Park headquarters for […]
Drones on Trial: 38 Protesters Face Charges for Disrupting Syracuse Base Used in Overseas Attacks> Democracy Now
Drones on Trial: 38 Protesters Face Charges for Disrupting Syracuse Base Used in Overseas Attacks Democracy Now November 4, 2011 Includes video. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the CIA has made a series of secret concessions in its drone campaign after military and diplomatic officials complained large strikes were damaging the fragile U.S. relationship […]
Cornell West arrested in DC> October2011> Occupy Everywhere
Global Grind October 16, 2011 The October2011.org Movement that is occupying Freedom Plaza, led an impromptu march of 250 people up Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S.Supreme Court where Dr. Cornel West climbed on the steps of the Supreme Court and denounced court decisions that have produced money-based elections that empower corporations. Dr. West was […]
Pledging Change> Stop the Machine!>Create a New World!
Pledging Change by Ken Butigan | October 6, 2011, 8:32 am Waging Nonviolence Responding to the accelerating challenges of our time—endless war, environmental destruction, and a financial system that works for fewer and fewer of us—a global movement for fundamental change is gaining momentum. Quickened by the Arab Spring, the ongoing May 15 movement in Spain, the […]
Mass Arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge> Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Mass Arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge> Is This What Democracy Looks Like? by Nathan Schneider Published October 1, 2011 Nation of Change This was the second major Saturday march halted by a mass arrest, largely on account of obstructing traffic. News is by now getting around that today there were mass arrests of […]
Kathy Kelly> Gandhi’s Lessons for Today
Gandhi’s Lessons for Today Gandhi’s Birthday is October 2> he was born 142 years ago. Kathy Kelly, Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence Posted: 10/1/11 07:25 PM ET Hufflington Post Kathy Kelly: Afghanistan and the Arab Spring. Monday, October 3, 7:00 p.m. Macalester Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln Avenue (adjacent to Macalester College), St. Paul. In a soon-to-be […]
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