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The history of Civil Disobedience is a long and international one. ... Below are several pages describing some of the history, theory, and practice of civil disobedience. Many of these sections were taken (with love) from the Handbook for Nonviolent Action available from the War Resister's League in New York City.
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www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html
www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html
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Civil Disobedience Training ... In the late 1970s mass civil disobedience actions took place at nuclear power plants from Seabrook, New Hampshire to the Diablo Canyon reactor in California and most states in between in this country and in other countries around the world.
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www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/HistoryNV.html
www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/HistoryNV.html
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Milestones in the modern civil rights movement since 1954. ... The SCLC becomes a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience. ... Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
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In July 1846, Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond was interrupted by his famous one-night imprisonment in a whitewashed jail cell in the town of Concord. Opposed to slavery, Thoreau had protested for several years by refusing to pay his poll tax. ... What is accomplished by acts of civil disobedience?
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www.calliope.org/thoreau/thurro/thurro1.html
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This was one of the many acts of civil disobedience leading to the War for Independence, establishing the United States of America as a sovereign state. ... Massive acts of civil disobedience took place at nuclear power facilities across the country, followed by worldwide protests against first-strike nuclear weapons,
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www.civilliberties.org/sum98role.html
www.civilliberties.org/sum98role.html
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The Original Famous Hams and ex-Hams List ... Guilford College student from Damascus, MD, who is widely reported to have allegedly committed acts of civil disobedience during the third week of October 2003 by leaving skyjack materials (including box cutters and simulated plastic explosives) on two Southwest Airlines planes,
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users.tellurian.com/gjurrens/famous_hams.html
users.tellurian.com/gjurrens/famous_hams.html
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He organized nonviolent strikes, boycotts, marches, and other acts of civil disobedience. After the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of ... The novel's first sentence, which indicates its concern with the domestic, is perhaps Tolstoy's most famous:
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www.safran-arts.com/42day/history/h4jun/h4jun10.html
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I Am Rosa Parks (Puffin Easy Read) - ages 4-8 .The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
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www.netposterworks.com/individuals/women/parksr.html
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