civil disobedience

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Recent Examples of civil disobedience This school year, Berkeley struggled with how to handle civil disobedience over the Israel-Hamas war. Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 June 2024 In recent months, several colleges have disciplined pro-Palestinian activists for ordinary speech acts and mobilized force against their acts of civil disobedience. Eric Levitz, Vox, 15 May 2024 Nonviolent civil disobedience, throughout American history, has demonstrably been the most effective tool through which minds are changed. Gregory Meeks, New York Daily News, 8 May 2024 Today in history On this day in 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years’ imprisonment for civil disobedience. The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for civil disobedience 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil disobedience
Noun
  • There are no major qualifications, but members of Congress and certain other office-holders are barred from participating, along with anyone who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Sofia’s haircut is an early sign of her rebellion; a shaggy mullet that calls back to Jane Fonda in the 1970s thriller Klute.
    Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Their decision to kiss in front of the preachers was not just an act of defiance, but a message to the world.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The dissenters—who were ordered to leave Hanover within three days—became known as the Göttingen Seven, and their act of defiance was later enshrined in German history as a banner moment in the nation’s path to democracy.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Women have also developed other forms of gendered noncooperation that can benefit mass movements.
    Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Women have pioneered other forms of social noncooperation, as well.
    Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022

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