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First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

US National Security Agency

NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Is Neither a Whistle-Blower Nor a Civil Disobeyer

In July 1846, Massachusetts tax collector Sam Staples confronted Henry David Thoreau, a transcendentalist period philosopher, over his delinquent six-year tax bill. Staples threatened Thoreau with arrest if he didn't pay, but Thoreau refused. He opposed ... [Published US News & World Report - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Civil Disobedience, Whistle-Blower, Thoreau (United States), US National Security Agency, Edward Snowden

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

New York University

Why are College Presidents Treated Like Wall Street CEOs?

Two decades ago, this weeks report that NYU President John Sexton got a $1million loan from the school to purchase a Fire Island vacation home would have been a national scandal. Today, it is a sign of the times. As young people graduate college facing ... [Published BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online ... - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Wall Street, New York University, John Sexton

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Nancy Pelosi

Washington has an Edward Snowden problem

Imagine a heaping plate of spaghetti teetering on the edge of a table. A few strands of pasta have already fallen to the floor, and now the whole darn thing seems a breath away from toppling. This is basically the situation faced by the intelligence and ... [Published The Week Magazine - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Edward Snowden, US National Security Agency, Daniel Ellsberg, Nancy Pelosi, Civil Disobedience

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 reports

Civil Disobedience In Turkey, While Minister Threatens With Army Intervention

Countercurrents.orgTurkey witnessed an heroic act of civil disobedience while ministers threatened striking workers and of military intervention.An Istanbul datelined Hrriyet Daily News report headlined Turkish protester's civil disobedience act in Taksim ... [Published Counter Currents - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Protest, Civil Disobedience, Turkey

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Abel Collins: Expect Resistance

Global temperatures are rising; literally, figuratively, anyway you spin it.Despite the desperate cheerleading of economists and Wall Street pundits, despite the cheap credit of suppressed interest rates and the ingenious accounting gimmicks of the big ... [Published Huffington Post - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Fossil Fuel, Keystone XL Pipeline, Civil Disobedience, Oil Sands

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Diaspora

Civil disobedience and the Internet

Molly sez, "I wrote this short essay over at iO9 on what the future of civil disobedience could look like. Though in the past civil disobedience was enacted in the streets, with people placing their bodies in harm's way for their cause, now online activists ... [Published Boing Boing - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Civil Disobedience, Activism, Diaspora

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

TransCanada Corp

According to Keystone XL Companies, Activists May Really Be Terrorists

Photo: Stephen Melkisethian/FlickrParanoia regarding photographers and gross misrepresentation about environmentalists continues unabated. The latest example: Photography Is Not A Crime highlights how the Nebraska Information Analysis Center produced ... [Published Motherboard Magazine - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Keystone XL Pipeline, Activism, TransCanada Corp, Terrorists

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 2 reports

It’s Not Civil Disobedience If You Run Away

Joel Brenner takes issue with Rand Paul’s description of Snowden’s leaks as an act of “civil disobedience”:From Socrates through Thoreau, Gandhi, and King, the great theorists and practitioners of this form of resistance to law have told us in words ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Civil Disobedience, Joel Brenner, Rand Paul, US National Security Agency

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Cardy doesn?t support civil disobedience

MONCTON, N.B. – The leader of the provincial NDP doesn’t think civil disobedience is the best way to gain support in the fight against the shale gas industry in New Brunswick.Dominic Cardy says his party has long been opposed to the shale gas industry ... [Published CHNI-FM - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Civil Disobedience, Shale Gas, Protesters

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 4 reports

22 Arrested in New Wave of Resistance to Keystone XL Pipeline

Activists hold signs reading 'If Congress Won't Act to Protect Future Generations, I Will" during a sit-in at the State Department's Chicago office on June 17. (Photo by Jeff Schuhrke)Twenty-two people were arrested this morning after staging a sit-in ... [Published In These Times - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Keystone XL Pipeline, Civil Disobedience, Barack Obama, New Wave Group, Oil Sands

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 3 reports

Angolan journalist accused of inciting civil disobedience

An Angolan journalist, Domingos da Cruz, is facing trial on a charge of inciting civil disobedience in a newspaper article he wrote four years ago. The article, headlined "When war is necessary and urgent", was published in the independent weekly, ... [Published Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Civil Disobedience, Roy Greenslade, Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Summer heat brings climate protesters to the street

by Ali Roseberry-Polier CREDO Mobile’s political director Becky Bond was arrested today during a peaceful sit-in against the Keystone XL pipeline. (Flickr / Kira Mardikes) This summer, organizers around the United States and Canada are planning ... [Published Waging Nonviolence - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Protesters, Civil Disobedience, Climate, Hydraulic Fracturing, Anti-Fracking

Quotes

"It is important to note that he was very strongly in favor of recognizing biotechnology and these three people in particular" Quinn said

World Food Prize goes to 3 biotech scientists [Published EveningSun.com - 1 hour ago]

...was present in every major civil protest of her time with her guitar and voice, did not stay indifferent to the demands of the Turkish protesters. "I wish to express my support to Turkish citizens, lawyers, doctors, kids, families, students in your courageous peaceful fight to preserve the heart of your culture, the beauty of your land and the soul of your people" she said in a message delivered in English and Turkish at the beginning of the video...

Hundreds In Turkish Towns And Cities Stand As The Standing Man [Published Counter Currents - 2 hours ago]

...Bank now because the idea of creating a Palestinian state there is over, said Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) on Monday. "This our home. We are the tenants here, not occupiers. The story of establishing a Palestinian state within our country, that story is over" Bennett said at a public relations conference in Jerusalem sponsored by the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip

Settlers break hands of 80-year-old shepherd in ‘nationalist’ attack — and 2 are arrested [Published Mondoweiss - 3 hours ago]

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What is Anwar fighting for? [Published JUST READ! - 55 mins ago]
World Food Prize goes to 3 biotech scientists [Published EveningSun.com - 1 hour ago]
Hundreds In Turkish Towns And Cities Stand As T... [Published Counter Currents - 2 hours ago]
500 arrested in North Carolina protests [Published Press tv - 2 hours ago]
Settlers break hands of 80-year-old shepherd in... [Published Mondoweiss - 3 hours ago]
A Dishonest Attack on My Brother Rush [Published NewsMax.com - 4 hours ago]
Witnessing a new Turkey [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 5 hours ago]
'I was told to use my kids' money to pay the rent' [Published This is Local London - 5 hours ago]
Peter Foster: The NGO pipeline bullies [Published Financial Post \| Opinion » FP Comment - 6 hours ago]
Big Government Republicans now bullying Ashevil... [Published BlueNC - Where North Carolina comes to think - 7 hours ago]
Why are College Presidents Treated Like Wall St... [Published BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online ... - 7 hours ago]
Washington has an Edward Snowden problem [Published The Week Magazine - 7 hours ago]
Liberals brace for Court's ruling on voting rights [Published NBCNews.com - 10 hours ago]
Letter: Howard is obliged to uphold the law [Published Buffalo News - 14 hours ago]
Sen. Rand Paul: Clapper Should Be Fired or Forc... [Published NewsMax.com - 14 hours ago]
“Get a warrant”: Ludlam net privacy bill lands ... [Published Delimiter - 15 hours ago]
"FIAT JUSTITIA RUAT CAELUM!" Another look at Mo... [Published The Métropolitain - 16 hours ago]
Why Monopolies Make Spying Easier [Published New Yorker - 19 hours ago]
Abel Collins: Expect Resistance [Published Huffington Post - 20 hours ago]
Civil disobedience and the Internet [Published Boing Boing - 20 hours ago]
Illinois Passes Most Stringent Fracking Regs [Published Sustainable Business - 21 hours ago]
According to Keystone XL Companies, Activists M... [Published Motherboard Magazine - 21 hours ago]
Tentative deal on expanding casino gambling rea... [Published Buffalo News - 21 hours ago]
Cyprus PIO: Turkish Cypriot and Turkish Media R... [Published Hellenic Resources Network - 22 hours ago]
22 Former Obama Campaign Staff And Donors Arres... [Published Think Progress - 22 hours ago]
Protesters jailed as they decry Republican shif... [Published Reuters - 22 hours ago]
Girl, Interrupted [Published Elle - 22 hours ago]
Derna local councillors strike in protest at go... [Published Libya Herald - Jun 18 2013]
Hundreds Of Faith Leaders Arrested For Protesti... [Published Think Progress - Jun 18 2013]
The High Cost of Deportations [Published Consortium News - Jun 18 2013]

Blogs

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What is Anwar fighting for? [Published JUST READ! - 55 mins ago] By FARAH HARITH, Malaysian Digest IT shocked the nation when he was arrested back in 1998.Such was the influence he had that a major split in support took place the minute he formed his 'Reformasi' movement.Suddenly, families started arguing, friends ...
Settlers break hands of 80-year-old shepherd in... [Published Mondoweiss - 3 hours ago] Violence / Raids / Attacks / Clashes / Arrests 2 arrested for suspicion of attacking 80-year-old Palestinian Ynet 18 June by Itamar Fleishman -- Two young men, 18 and 19, were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attacking and causing severe injuries ...
Peter Foster: The NGO pipeline bullies [Published Financial Post \| Opinion » FP Comment - 6 hours ago] The Western Premiers’ conference had “bullying” on the agenda, but not Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. That’s because the $6-billion project – to pump 525,000 barrels a day (bb/d) of diluted bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to Kitimat ...
Big Government Republicans now bullying Ashevil... [Published BlueNC - Where North Carolina comes to think - 7 hours ago] They way Republicans in the General Assembly are interfering in local governments, it's hard to understand why every elected official in every city and town in North Carolina isn't participating in civil disobedience on Moral Mondays. This kind of ...
Why are College Presidents Treated Like Wall St... [Published BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online ... - 7 hours ago] Two decades ago, this weeks report that NYU President John Sexton got a $1million loan from the school to purchase a Fire Island vacation home would have been a national scandal. Today, it is a sign of the times. As young people graduate college facing ...

Audio/Video

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‘Blockupy’ Protesters Plan to Disrupt Frankfurt [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - May 31 2013]
‘Blockupy’ Protesters Plan to Disrupt Frankfurt [Published WSJ.com Video - News - May 31 2013]
Use Civil Disobedience to Fight Gay Rights, Say... [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Apr 20 2013]
Civil Disobedience to Fight Keystone Pipeline [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Jan 27 2013]
Mass anger as Supreme Court orders arrest of Pa... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - Jan 15 2013]