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  • n  a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)
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  • Journalistic impartiality tested in NSA leak story
    Some reporters who helped break the National Security Agency surveillance story reject the impartial journalistic stance that was a fundamental principle for a previous generation of reporters. Edward Snowden may represent the archetypal leaker of the Internet age — a tech savant who justifies his civil disobedience as a righteous rebuttal to the big institutions he believes have intruded too ...
    June 18, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
  • NC NAACP prepares for seventh week of protests
    Dozens of demonstrators line up to enter the North Carolina State Legislative Building were they were arrested during an act of civil disobedience opposing the Republican legislature's agenda Monday, June 10, 2013. More than 350 people have been arrested since 'Moral Monday' demonstrations started on April 29. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a growing number of ...
    June 17, 2013 - Asheville Citizen-Times
  • I Voted For Change: Over 20 Arrested as KXL Protests Target Obama
    Over 20 anti-Keystone protesters were arrested Monday morning for blockading the doors to a Chicago federal building as part of newly launched call to action that declares "if you don't act, I will." The demonstration was the first action organized by the group No KXL who are launching a civil disobedience campaign aimed directly at President Obama and his pending decision to permit construction ...
    June 17, 2013 - CommonDreams.org

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