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Title:
Civil disobedience / Elizabeth Schmermund, book editor.
Author:
Schmermund, Elizabeth, editor.
Publication Information:
New York : Greenhaven Publishing, 2018.
Call Number:
JC328.3 .C543 2018
ISBN:
9781534500655

9781534500631
Series:
At issue
Physical Description:
142 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Civil disobedience has successfully been used many times in the past / New World Encyclopedia editors -- Philosophers and activists have long debated the use and morality of civil disobedience / Donald M. Borchert -- Civil disobedience is a threat to our society / Morris L. Leibman -- Civil disobedience is a christian act / Duane Heffelbower -- Christians must use civil disobedience against our nuclear security state / Jeremy Brecher -- Students must find ways to take non-violent action against climate change / Harvard University Center for the Environment -- The time is now to use mass action to stop crimes against the environment / Kara Moses -- Pro-life activists can and should use civil disobedience against abortion / Francis J. Beckwith -- Civil disobedience must be used according to Martin Luther King Jr.'s principles / John Dear -- Civil disobedience plays an important role in democracy / Kayla Starr -- Civil disobedience will always be necessary, but we must keep it relevant / Philip Wright -- War tax resistance works against unjust wars / David Gross -- Resisting war tax is as necessary today as it was in colonial America / War resister league -- Online activists can be treated as criminals under the computer fraud and abuse act / Christie Thompson -- Hacktivism will become an important tool in future civil disobedience / Gavin Miller.
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