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Disobedience is a 2017 romantic drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio and written by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Naomi Alderman. The film stars Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, and Alessandro Nivola.
- What Is Civil Disobedience?
- Fight For Women's Suffrage: UK 1928
- The Salt March: India 1930
- Segregation Defiance: USA 1955-56
- Wave Hill Walk Off: Australia 1966 - 1975
- The Sip-In: USA 1966
- Navy-Culebra Protests: Puerto Rico 1970
- The Tree Sitters of Pureora: New Zealand 1978
- Resistance to Toxic Mining: Estonia 1987
- Poll Tax Refusal: United Kingdom 1989 - 1990
Civil disobedience is the active, non-violent refusal to accept the dictates of governments. It informs them that unjust actions will be opposed and the people will act illegally if pushed to do so. Civil disobedience causes disruption and focuses attention, while forcing debate with the aim of bringing about fundamental and progressive changes wit...
Considered the inferior sex, women have no vote, no power and no say in how their world is governed. In the face of injustice, women fight back.
Forced to pay inflated prices for the salt which keeps them alive, thousands of Indians follow one man on the long road to victory and independence.
When an African American schoolgirl is ordered to give up her seat to a white woman, the abolitionists provide her with the strength to stay where she is.
Two hundred people turn their back on abuse and move to settle on traditional land. They refuse to leave, demanding the rightful return of the land to the indigenous people.
Four men walk into a bar and ask to be served. Sevice is denied because they are gay — the men risk arrest to ensure their story is reported and shared.
As a world superpower destroys a tiny island with bombs and bullets, undeterred inhabitants refuse to surrender the fight to reclaim their home.
A group of friends and activists set up home in the branches of 1000 year old trees, while below them, bulldozers and chainsaws move to destroy the forest.
Students and scientists rise up against the mighty Soviets in a fight to rid their country of exploitative and polluting large-scale mines.
In a steadfast wave of organised resistance, the United Kingdom comes together to fight a discriminatory system enforced by a common enemy—the British Government.
Mar 30, 2017 · Led by Sophie and Hans Scholl, Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Christoph Probst, among others, the White Rose formed at the University of Munich to oppose the Nazi regime. The group produced and distributed leaflets encouraging Germans to resist Nazi oppression, and wrote anti-Hitler slogans on buildings throughout Munich.
- Women’s Right to Vote. Emmeline Pankhurst. Brit Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women’s Franchise League in England in 1889. The League organized many demonstrations, as well as more extreme measure such as hunger strikes, in protest of the British government’s failure to give women the right to vote.
- Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. Perhaps the most famous civil rights activist in the U.S. is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who led a nonviolent movement for change in the 1950s and early 1960s.
- LGBT Rights Movement. This movement is far from a thing of the past; however, its history is rich and worth taking a look at. Image: Flickr - Razlan. Brenda Howard.
- Internal Resistance Against Apartheid. Nelson Mandela. Also called Madiba, Nelson Mandela is revered in South Africa for his resistance against the apartheid state.
Nov 15, 2022 · The American philosopher John Rawls defined civil disobedience as a “public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government”.
Sep 9, 2024 · Civil disobedience, also called passive resistance, the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition; its usual purpose is to force concessions from the government or occupying power.
Oct 9, 2023 · John Ruskin and Walter Pater played crucial roles in art history and aesthetics, and each was uniquely indispensable to Wilde’s own thinking. But whatever intellectual debts Wilde owed to...
