- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- Canadian First Nations, US-based Tribal Governments and Indigenous Advocacy Groups Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience Action to Protest Canadian Tar Sand
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Canadian First Nations, American Indian Tribes, Territorial, Provincial and Federal First Nations Governments and Advocacy groups have added their support for a rally featuring a civil disobedience sit-in against the tar sands on Sept 26 in Ottawa.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Civil disobedience
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence.
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Disobedience
Introduction to the January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- Failure To Quit
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Zinn argues that pessimism over the so-called 'me generation' apparent apathy was unfounded, and that activist ideals do consistently carry over across generations.
- 'Fill the Jails': Identity, Structure and Method in the Committee of 100, 1960-1968
PhD Thesis,University of Sussex, 2010 Resource Type: Article Published: 2010
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- Investigation of a Flame
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2003 Investigation of a Flame is a 2001 documentary by Lynne Sachs about the Catonsville Nine, nine Catholic activists who became known for their May 17, 1968 nonviolent act of civil disobedience in burning draft files to protest the Vietnam War.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132 Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honeys Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther Kings Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Myles Horton
Insights from organizer Myles Horton Resource Type: Article Published: 1990
- Naturism and Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article Published: 1996 May a naturist go so far as to break the law to encourage the liberalization of anti-nudity laws? When is nonviolent civil disobedience justified in advocating the naturist cause?
- A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
- The Nine-Hour Movement
How civil disobedience made unions legal Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 From todays strike-first strategy of fast food workers in America, to the 1965 postal workers wildcat which ushered in public sector collective bargaining, civil disobedience has long been essential to breaking through legal barriers imposed on workers. The birth of Canada's labour movement was during a movement of mass civil disobedience in attempt to secure the nine hour workday.
- Nonviolent resistance
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence.
- On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence
Resource Type: Book
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Essays looking at American political ideology.
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Rising Tide Toronto launches "Line 9 Pledge of Resistance"
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Rising Tide Toronto launches Line 9 Pledge of Resistance. Group encourages civil disobedience to stop pipeline approved by NEB.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Taking Action
Working Together for Positive Change in Your Community Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Taking Action is a guide for people who do not think of themselves as activists, yet want to make positive changes in their community.
- We Are Legion
The Story of the Hacktivists Resource Type: Film Published: 2012 A history of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.
- Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
An Honor to Defend Them Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who have been arrested for protesting for peace, civil rights, economic justice, and human rights for all. It is amazing to see people put their freedom on the line when they risk jail for justice.
- Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book Here in one volume are most of Tolstoy's major writings on conscience and war. Stressing that the process of peace can only begin with the refusal of the individual to participate in state-organized killing, Tolstoy's writings are particularly relevant in an age when warfare is sanitized, packaged, and sold to a populace finding it increasingly difficult to respond in an ethically meaningful way.
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