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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. It is one of the primary methods of nonviolent resistance. In its most nonviolent form (in India, known as ahimsa or satyagraha) it could be said that it is compassion in the form of respectful disagreement. One of its earliest massive implementations was brought about by Egyptians against the British occupation in the nonviolent 1919 Revolution. Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against unfair laws. It has been used in many well-documented nonviolent resistance movements in India (Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist dictatorships, in South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, in the Singing Revolution to bring independence to the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, and recently in the 2004 Orange Revolution and 2005 Rose Revolution, among other various movements worldwide. Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action. It is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent protest. A version was taken up by the author Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience, and later by Gandhi in his doctrine of Satyagraha. Gandhi's passive resistance was influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action. In particular it is known that Gandhi would often quote Shelley's Masque of Anarchy to vast audiences during the campaign for a free India. Thoreau's 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government", the driving idea behind the essay was that of self-reliance, and also how one is in morally good standing as long as one can "get off another man's back"; so one does not necessarily have to physically fight the government, but one must not support it or have it support one (if one is against it). This essay has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience. In the essay, Thoreau explained his reasons for having refused to pay taxes as an act of protest against slavery and against the Mexican-American War. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Why is civil disobedience OK for health care but not a war? Q. Radio talk show host LauraI Ingrahamam called for "civil disobedience" and "conscientious objection" to the health care reform bill and said that going to jail for not being insured would be"honorable". Yet, her call screenerer laughed when I called to ask what she thought of conscientious objectors who were jailed when they refused to be drafted and go to the Vietnam war. Asked by __A_YAHOO_USER__ - Thu Nov 12 14:26:39 2009 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments A. Its Ok to spend more than a trillion dollars to send thousands of young men to die in Iraq but not OK to spend it on Americans dying from lack of healthcare... Answered by Wiseguy - Thu Nov 12 14:32:23 2009 What are some modern examples of Civil Disobedience other than the ones in Iran? Q. I am writing a paper on Civil Disobedience in modern society, and I need some other examples. Anywhere in the world. Asked by A p - Tue Dec 22 02:25:30 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Jury nullification: The law says one thing but the jury says (in effect) "Oh no you di'nt" Student sit-ins Answered by sheldonlinker - Tue Dec 22 02:32:10 2009 Will there be a lot of civil disobedience if Obamacare passes?
Q. Would millions simply refuse to participate? Civil disobedience was very popular in the '60s, is it going to make a return? Asked by Richard L C - Fri Sep 25 16:53:19 2009 - - 17 Answers - 0 Comments A. Hopefully... I plan on refusing...Consider this...I have health insurance, I pay $45 a check for it...I use it very rarely...now what happens when this thing passes, and my insurance company goes under(or I decide I no longer want insurance) because it can't compete...and I no longer have a qualified plan...but I don't want government run healthcare because I don't want health insurance anymore(I'm thinking of dropping mine anyways because I rarely use it...Like once every couple years...And the few times I've needed but I didn't have it, I told them to bill me and I paid...)so either I am forced to get something I don't want or I get charged a tax(call it a mandate if you want...)but I have trouble paying my taxes when they come anyways,… [cont.] Answered by ninebr8kr - Fri Sep 25 17:12:09 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "civil disobedience"
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