civil disobedience 
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
4/21/2023
Black Mothers Bet on Themselves and Changed Las Vegas—Can Their Ideas Still Change America?
by Annelise Orleck
A courageous and politically imaginative group of women challenged the most powerful interests in Las Vegas to win better public aid and build an organization for community service and empowerment. A historian explains who they were, how she came to tell their story, and what it means today.
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7/3/2022
Organized Defiance May Be the Only Answer to an Undemocratic Court
by Alan J. Singer
If Democrats in the legislative branch won't use their majorities to define the scope of judicial power to stop rulings that defy the will of the public, the public must organize to defy the rulings of the courts.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
4/13/2022
What Makes Laws Unjust?
by Randall L. Kennedy
In Dr. King's time, appraisals of his civil disobedience tactics hinged on how one defined an unjust law, an obstacle that inevitably confronts protest movements in polarized societies.
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SOURCE: Politico
2/26/2022
The History of Tying Up Traffic for Protest
by David Greenberg
More militant leaders in the Black freedom movement advocated obstructing traffic on a large scale as an expanded form of nonviolent direct action; the tensions these plans provoked in the movement show that there are seldom clear principles for which movement tactics are legitimate, outside of our opinions of their goals.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
6/7/2020
MLK’s Prescription For Protests: Nonviolent, But Also Unceasing And Disruptive
by Jason Sokol
By recalling King’s words, we might articulate a position that builds on his own — a position that, most importantly, demands structural changes in our society to end police violence, yet readily recognizes the self-defeating nature of looting and destruction.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
12-27-2018
How women used civil disobedience to change American politics
by Connie Hassett-Walker
Breaking laws to break the glass ceiling.
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SOURCE: Israel National News
8-7-13
Louis René Beres: Peaceful Civil Disobedience in Israel
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) lectures and publishes widely on Middle East security matters. His writings on Israel, military strategy, and jurisprudence appear regularly in many major newspapers and magazines, and also in more than a dozen major law journals.Sometimes, tragedy and irony may arrive together. Now that it is reportedly back “on track,” the so-called Middle East Peace Process threatens Israel with additional dismemberment, and eventual disappearance.Aware of these intolerable prospects, thousands of Israelis who are opposed to any further existential surrenders may soon prepare for an appropriate response to “Palestine.” Whatever its particular shape and expression, this "post-peace" response to a new Arab state, one that would be carved out of Israel's own still-living body, may take some recognizable form of civil disobedience.To be sure, the Netanyahu Government, inexplicably confident in Palestinian compliance with pre-state agreements on “demilitarization,” will object strongly to any such tactics. Nonetheless, civil disobedience has a long and distinguished tradition in jurisprudence and democratic theory. In part, as the following argument will make clear, certain roots of this tradition actually lie in Jewish Law.
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