Social Media Ideas for Civil Disobedience

Become Ungovernable

I Support The Protesters Cause I Am A Part Of The Society.

As someone who was privileged enough to opt out of the usual educational norms , I support the ones who chose to work hard for a goal they envisioned. I support the people who deci...

Subjects and Citizens: A Treatise by Justice Clarence Thomas

Conventional political philosophy has a blindspot over what turns out to be a crucial concept: the precise nature of the legal relationship between the human person and the regime...

Dear Fascist Government: You Cannot Beat A Generation Into Silence

On Monday morning, Delhi woke up to rain, closed metro stations, and a city fortified against its own citizens. By the time thousands of students began walking towards Parliament,...

Surveillance Camera Saboteurs Are Getting Government Officials' Attention

Sometimes direct action is the only way to get politicians to consider civil liberties.

It’s Lemonade Against The System This Time: The Wangchuk Protest

The ongoing indefinite hunger strike by environmental scientist and climate activist, Mr Sonam Wangchuk, is a current hot topic of the country. He has stated his reasons for the sa...

The state is teaching citizens to bypass the law

He Cursed at a Public Meeting. Then He Was Arrested.

Police charged Fort Worth resident E. J. Carrion with disrupting a meeting, a Class B misdemeanor, after his public comments. He says that won’t stop his activism.

Tear Gas Is Banned In War, Yet Used Against Protesters

Every time citizens gather on the streets to protest—whether students demanding educational reforms, farmers seeking better prices, workers asking for fair wages, or communities op...

Why Abraham?

Shai Held, Commonweal In his justly celebrated "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. cites St. Augustine's lapidary declaration: "An unjust law is no law at all."....

SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Virginia Man Puts Warrantless Flock Surveillance on Trial

A Virginia man accused of destroying multiple flock cameras, who pleads not guilty because mass surveillance violates our rights. As millions of Americans passively consume state-s...

Romans 13: Opposition vs Resistance :: By Sean Gooding

Let us consider the context of this chapter. Jesus had been killed under the Roman government; Pilate was one of the more ruthless governors sent out by Rome. Paul suffered under N...

The Price Of Democracy

The ongoing protest of Sonam Wangchuk , in front of the Jantar Mantar in Delhi , has been spreading like wildfire throughout the nation . Petitions being signed online , and actors...

Whose Pain Counts? The Republic Of Selective Empathy

Every time people protest in this country, we're told the same thing."Protest peacefully."It's presented as the golden rule of democracy as if the right to dissent exists, provided...

The Constitutional Paradox of Government-led Protest

Peaceful protest is an accepted democratic instrument through which citizens express dissent, hold governments accountable, and seek policy reforms. Protests in constitutional demo...

‘Streets don’t solve grievances’

Tapiwa Chirume CITIZENS should resist demonstra­tions and violent confrontation with authorities, as this is counterpro­ductive, says Youth minister Tino Machakaire. Speaking at......

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”Thomas Jefferson What exactly were Am...