Civil disobedience

  • Democracy Now! July 23, 2002

    ISRAEL BOMBS CROWDED GAZA NEIGHBORHOOD, 2ND LARGEST BEEF RECALL IN US HISTORY |Israel bombs crowded Gaza neighborhood, killing a top Hamas leader, his wife, his daughter, and eight other children. Then, US oil giant ChevronTexaco suspends some of its exports after lightening strikes and women stage an unprecedented, peaceful, 10-day occupation. We’ll go to Nigeria…

  • Martin Luther King at Santa Rita

    After Joan Baez, her mother, and Ira Sandperl were incarcerated at Santa Rita prison in California after an anti-war demonstration at the Oakland induction center, Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Santa Rita and spoke first to the imprisoned activists and then the supporters and activists outside. This is a recording of the public speech…

  • Session one: an historical perspective

    Civil Disobedience and the democratic tradition was the title of a conference held under the joint auspices of the Associated Students of the University of California, the Campus Peace Center, and the Faculty Committee for the Study of Non-violence. On this panel the following people appear: Reginald Zelnik and Henry May of the History Department…

  • Session two: law, sociology, and political science

    In this second session of the conference on civil disobedience and the democratic tradition, Caleb Foote, Visiting Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of California (and a conscientious objector who served two terms in prison during World War Two) gives a talk, followed by comments from Michael Rogin, Professor of Political Science, and…