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Pat Buchanan calls for conservative anti-LGBT ‘civil disobedience’
Former Nixon aide and ousted MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan penned a new op-ed column on Tuesday calling on conservatives to continue to oppose marriage equality for LGBT couples and urging them toward “a new era of civil disobedience” if they are not heard. According to Think Progress LGBT, Buchanan even…
Spies for Peace: Meet the 1960s activists who spilled nuclear secrets
My parents were Spies for Peace. Today’s protesters have far stricter surveillance to overcome but civil disobedience lives on Fifty years ago Britain had just emerged from the coldest winter of the 20th century when some protesters emerged to stoke the fire of protest and rattle the establishment. The Spies…
Sierra Club leader tells Moyers: Keystone XL ‘so horrendous’ we lifted our ban on civil disobedience
The executive director of the Sierra Club told Moyers and Company that the Keystone XL pipeline project was big enough for him to break the environmental organization’s 120-year policy against engaging in civil disobedience. Michael Brune said he took part in a protest outside the White House because Keystone XL…
Virginia Attorney General cites Martin Luther King in fight against contraception mandate
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Monday said opponents of Department of Health and Human Services regulations should practice civil disobedience like Martin Luther King Jr. Cuccinelli said earlier this month that Catholic bishops and others opposed to the so-called contraception mandate should protest the regulation by getting themselves arrested.…
Why “civil disobedience” isn’t the answer in this case
This post by an anonymous doctor suggesting “civil disobedience” from doctors in response to mandatory ultrasound laws is making the rounds, mainly being forwarded by people who are rightfully outraged by these laws, but—and I hate to say this—don’t really understand the issue very well. Both actual abortion providers (using their…
Nonviolence, Nonviolence
You remember when Gandhi fought against the British occupation of India through a systematic program of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience? Of course you do, you got the Facebook invite. Well, a moderately transformative health care bill takes effect in 2014, a full two electoral cycles after passage and during…
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