Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming.
Sometime
in 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail because he refused to pay
his taxes. This was his way of opposing the Mexican-American War as well as the
institution of slavery. A few years later he published the essay Civil
Disobedience, which has since been read by millions of people, including
many Israelis and Palestinians.
Kobi
Snitz read the book. He is an Israeli
anarchist who is currently serving a 20 day sentence for refusing to pay a
2,000 shekel fine.
On Wednesday, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress
on health care. Later this year he will decide whether to deploy
additional troops to the war in Afghanistan, in addition to the 69,000
troops already deployed. The struggle for health care and the struggle
to end warfare are inextricably linked. The cost for substantive
(though imperfect) health care reform as envisioned in the House of
Representatives approach (with the public option) is projected to
average $100 billion per year for the next 10 years. The cost to
continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanist
A coalition of groups opposed to the G-20 met last night to plan
what appears to be shaping up as a 21st Century battle for Fort Pitt --
saying the city has blocked plans to protest.
Some hinted at civil disobedience, others at civil litigation.
"I've always had it in the back of my mind about civil disobedience
and being arrested," said Kathy Cunningham, a Sharpsburg woman who said
she has long experience marching in the streets, but none to date
waiting in a jail cell.
In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England. While other activists cut electricity on the plant's grounds, they prepared to climb the interior of the structure to its top, rappel down its outside, and paint in block letters a demand that Prime Minister Gordon Brown put an end to plants like the Kingsnorth facility, which releases nearly 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each day.
Palestinian youth activists Yousef Nijim and Faris Arouri, in
collaboration with the Dutch NGO “Send a Message Foundation,” are
engaged in a nonviolent campaign to combat the oppressive
infrastructure of Israeli occupation. Setting their sites on the
separation barrier which destructively meanders through Palestinian
life and land, they assert their international solidarity and national
identity through graffiti art.
One hundred years ago, on 5 July 1909, the imprisoned suffragette Marion Wallace Dunlop, a sculptor and illustrator, went on hunger strike.
Why would I fly across the country on my own dime knowing I would
most likely end up in jail in one of the poorest parts of America?
Well, have you ever heard of MTR?
Don't feel bad, my friends are intelligent, well-read and informed
people, but most of them had never heard of MTR (Mountain Top Removal)
either.
My name is Ezra Nawi. I am a Jewish citizen of Israel.
Seven of the Baucus 13 were arraigned in Washington, D.C. Superior Court this morning.
The Baucus 13 are doctors, nurses, lawyers and other single payer
advocates who stood up before Senator Max Baucus and the Senate Finance
Committee during hearings on May 5 and May 12 and demanded that a
single payer advocate be allowed to testify.
Senator Baucus called 41 witnesses over three days of hearings on
health care reform – not one of which was a single payer advocate.
