A Canberra University professor has become the second Canberra academic to be arrested protesting against expansion of coal mining in Australia. The first, ANU Professor Frank Briggs, along with Wallaby David Pocock, will join a contingent of about 30…
LOS ANGELES – Earlier this month, two dozen workers, clergy, and other community folks sat down in the aisles of the Walmart store in Pico Rivera, not far from downtown LA, then moved into the streets, where they were…
Will they or won’t they? That is the question. The court has spoken. Occupy Central protesters are abusing the rule of law by ignoring injunctions to remove barricades in Admiralty and Mong Kok. Monday’s ruling contradicts legislators and law professors…
First Connecticut, and then New York passed gun control laws this year – that many people believe are unconstitutional – turning hundreds of thousands of AR-15 owners into felons simply for not registering their guns. Now, Washington state gun owners…
Bicycles are the perfect tool for civil disobedience; so why don’t we use them for that purpose more often? The worlds of cycling and activism have a long history of intersecting. In the 19th century, bicycles were a vehicle…
The internationally recognised Libyan government called today for a civil disobedience campaign in Tripoli until its forces retake the capital from militias who seized it. Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani’s cabinet said on its Facebook page that it has ordered Libya’s…
The company installing meters on behalf of Irish Water wants a 20-metre exclusion zone around its workers to prevent them from being assaulted and intimidated by protesters. Share GMC Sierra Ltd, which has installed some 55,000 water meters and is…
Two months after the August day that Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African-American was shot to death by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a «Weekend of Resistance» was launched to focus public attention on the urgent need to…
The Disobedient Objects exhibition is on display at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London, until 1st February 2015. It narrates at least one hundred years of world history to remind us that in the multitude of global societies, one…
Hong Kong democracy activists say protesters planning to blockade the city’s financial district should bring food, goggles and sleeping bags. It’s a signal organizers are determined to go ahead with a prolonged confrontation after Beijing ruled out genuine democratic reforms.…
