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• Between Equality and Diversity: The Rule of Law, Except When…

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  One of the principles of liberal democracies is the equality before the law . The law shouldn’t protect or harm some citizens more than others (and to some extent this even applies to non-citizens within the jurisdiction of the democracy ). The law applies equally to all . Diversity This principle, however, ...
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• Free Frank! More History of OB and the Rag

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  Today a good friend sent us a tidbit that he found tucked away in his morgue file, and that got me sidetracked in a real fun way....Frank has written a lot of historical pieces on Ocean Beach (click on HISTORY up there in the navigation bar, you wont be sorry) and in my opinion this article needs to be part of the ...
  14 hours ago

• A Child Is Born In Bukavu

  
  Mormon Matters — Authority: 469
  A Christmas message, by today’s guest poster, mormongandhi.A child is born in BukavuA child is born in Bukavu, and sadness fills his mother’s heart… Bukavu is not the city of David. It is a town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. War has been ravaging the country for years. Ever since ...
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• Resistance at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen Dec 2010

  
  Resistance Studies — Authority: 106
  During the coming days, from Saturday until the end of next week, there will be several demonstrations, civil disobedience actions and other forms of resistance in Copenhagen at the COP-15 Climate Summit. Major demonstrations are expected, a blockade of the harbor of Copenhagen is happening on Sunday and is organized ...
  5 days ago

• Christians and Civil Disobedience

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  By Neil Dykstra American evangelical figurehead Chuck Colson and several other Christian scholars recently issued a manifesto outlining several key Christian beliefs, and invited all Christians across the country to sign it. This document is called the Manhattan Declaration , and has been signed by over a hundred ...
  5 days ago

• Prostitutes Await U.N. Climate Delegates, While Steel Cages Await Protesters

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 521
  As the U.N. Copenhagen climate talks began yesterday, a series of strict new laws went into effect. Danish police now have sweeping power to preemptively arrest protesters, enact harsh fines and dole out extended sentences for those engaging in civil disobedience. According to The New York Times , holding ...
  1 week ago

• Why Dominants can’t play cards together

  
  Island of Pain — Authority: 134
  
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• More Sit-Ins for Single-Payer, Thurs. Dec. 10th

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 466
  The Mobilization for Health Care for All , about which we have blogged several times, is having another Day of Action for single-payer this Thursday, December 10th, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day. I hope some regular D&S blog visitors can participate in these sit-ins! Here is the ...
  1 week ago

• Amy Goodman on Direct Action

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 123
  Democracy Nows Amy Goodman discusses activism, Tim DeChristopher, and (one of my favorites) The Yes Men .  Via Fora.tv : (Watch the entire program or her comments on DeChristopher here ) ____________________________________________________
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• Poll shows support for local branch libraries but also shows ambivalence

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  Our recent poll on cut-backs to the Citys libraries shows strong support for the local branches - including, of course, OBs library. But the poll also demonstrates a certain ambivalence, and a weakened support for a downtown Central Library for San Diego.58% of respondents gave responses that reflect a strong ...
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• Why shouldn’t Elaine Clermont do jail time? Her heroes did.

  
  The Hung Juror — Authority: 420
  In his closing arguments in the trial of Nevada v Clermont , defense attorney Mace Yampolsky said something that struck TruTV legal commentators as masterful, but which struck a nerve in me, a former juror. He asked the jurors to imagine themselves at a cocktail party in a year or so where they discuss ...
  1 week ago

• Rebel with a cause: rebellion in adolescence.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Its the poster characteristic of the teenager years: adolescent rebellion. And its one that causes many conflicts with parents. Two common types of rebellion are against socially fitting in (rebellion of non-conformity) and against adult authority (rebellion of non-compliance.) In both types, rebellion attracts adult ...
  1 week ago

• The Bitter Fruit of Disobedience

  
  doubleknot's ruminations — Authority: 409
  I’ve lost the privilege of wearing my pretty silver neck chain collar.  Master told me to take it off.  It will not go back on until he says.  I am wearing the leather collar with metal brads that make my skin itch.  I painted over them with clear nail polish. I was sent home from the restaurant where we ...
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• Dec. 10th : Stand Up and Sit-in for Single-Payer Health Care

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 521
  Dec 10: Stand Up and Sit-In for Single-Payer Health Care! Join one of the largest civil disobedience campaigns since the Civil Rights Movement. We need you to be one of more than 100 people risking arrest on December 10 to demand the passage of single-payer amendments by targeting our senators. For more ...
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• When our responsibility to God conflicts with what Caesar commands

  
  1517 — Authority: 503
  There are encouraging statistics that show more Americans are identifying themselves as "pro-life." Nevertheless, Roe V. Wade is still the law of the land and this to our shame. For years there has been broad agreement in congress that tax payers should not be expected to pay for abortions (the Hyde Amendment). But ...
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• Dealing With Anger Caused By People That Frustrate Us

  
  Access-Jesus.com - Learn About, Love, and Promote Jesus — Authority: 125
  Esther 3:5. All of us know people that frustrate us. In many cases these people are a cause for anger to flare up in us. People frustrate us because they are not doing what we expect of them or they are preventing us from accomplishing what we desire. The question is should anger be our reaction to being frustrated. ...
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• Wall Street Bankers Buying Guns?

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 478
  It seems Wall Street is taking precautions should the financial crisis turn real ugly. By acquiring guns. From Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley turned author and Bloomberg News columnist, on the Bloomberg website today: “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Uncivil Disobedience: Why Religious Right Attempts To Invoke Martin Luther King Fail

  
  The Wall of Separation — Authority: 560
  Religious Right leaders love to invoke Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King engaged in civil disobedience to oppose Jim Crow laws in the South, they argue, and so can we to fight abortion or same-sex marriage.The argument reared its head again when a coalition of Roman Catholic, evangelical Protestant and Orthodox ...
  2 weeks ago

• Acts of disobedience

  
  MUNNA ON THE RUN — Authority: 109
  Click on the images to enlarge and see the cyclists! “I hope we have grown up to become much more disobedient, because life on this world of ours may well be terminated because of too many acts of obedience.” - John Jordan Everything we take for granted was won over by disobedience. As I watch the ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Dangerous’ Declaration, says the LA Times

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  It is a dangerous declaration full of fake facts and supported by a worthless petition. The Manhattan Declaration is irresponsible, argues the Los Angeles Times:This apocalyptic argument for lawbreaking is disingenuous, but it is also dangerous. Did the Roman Catholic bishops who signed the manifesto consider how ...
  2 weeks ago

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