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Topic: civil disobedience

Protesters dressed as handmaids from "The Handmaid's Tale" at the Department of Labor on Sept. 2, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Alliance, defiance, noncompliance

Nan Levinson - TomDispatch.com
Mariachi players and ballet folklórico dancers perform on June 11, 2025 to support families who have been affected by the recent ICE raids and arrests in Los Angeles. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We need helpful protests over disruption

Martin Skladany
Climate protesters hold a demonstration as they throw cans of tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London, United Kingdom on October 14, 2022. (Just Stop Oil / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Why confrontational activism works

Kate Yoder - Grist
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79-year-old activist keeps protesting

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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Civil disobedience vs. global warming

Rory Varrato - WhoWhatWhy
Students march in support of gun reform legislation, February 21, 2018 (Getty/Win McNamee)

Kids could force the hand of politicians

Jennifer Berkshire - Alternet
(Getty/John Moore)

Civil disobedience under Trump

Matthew Rozsa
Nelson Mandela; Henry David Thoreau; Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty/Walter Dhladhla/wynnter/Reg Lancaster)

A return to moral politics

Paul Rosenberg
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Protesters against president-elect Donald Trump march peacefully through Oakland, California, U.S., November 9, 2016. (Reuters/Noah Berger)

protesters face punishment

Celisa Calacal, Lauren Kaori Gurley - Alternet
(AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Taylor Link
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Jennifer Earl - The Conversation
Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening protesters rally in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on April 18, 2016 (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

"Democracy Spring" spreads

Ben Norton
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(David Nehrt-Flores)

Here's why we're protesting

Yong Jung Cho, Waleed Shahid, Devontae Torriente, Sara Blazevic
(AP)

David Sirota
(AP/Frank Franklin Ii/Charlie Riedel)

America just doesn't get it

Jay Driskell
A police car is set on fire after a group of protesters vandalize the vehicle after the announcement of the grand jury decision Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked sometimes violent protests. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (AP)

Joanna Rothkopf
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Demonstrators lie on the ground during a protest marking the 100th day since the shooting death of Michael Brown in St. Louis, Missouri November 16, 2014. (Reuters/Jim Young)

STL protesters hold "die-in"

Joanna Rothkopf
In this photo provided by Seth Meyer police officers line up. Local police, firefighters and ambulances in New Hampshire responded to large crowds of students as the annual Pumpkin Festival is underway near Keene State College Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. (AP/Seth Meyer)

Joanna Rothkopf
Demonstrators rally in Ferguson on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, as part of a weekend of planned protests called Ferguson October. (AP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)

1,000 protesters take over SLU

Joanna Rothkopf
Pat Buchanan (AP/Cliff Owen)

Buchanan vs. Buchanan

Luke Brinker
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Joanna Rothkopf
Students protest against a Jefferson County School Board proposal to emphasize patriotism and downplay civil unrest in the teaching of U.S. history, in front of their school, Jefferson High, in the Denver suburb of Edgewater, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. The Jefferson County School District says classes had to be canceled at Golden and Jefferson high schools on Monday because so many teachers called in sick. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Protests close schools in CO

Joanna Rothkopf
Demonstrators make their way down Sixth Avenue in New York during the People's Climate March Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. (AP/Jason DeCrow)

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/NASA)

Rebellion to save planet Earth

Ted Hamilton
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