It being only legal to protest in a disused lavatory, in a dark cellar, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard", is why nonviolent & proportionate civil disobedience is a human right.
Nonviolent & proportionate civil disobedience is a #HumanRight#RightToProtest we have no way to hold authoritarian governments to account & there can be no democracy. When protest is a crime, civil disobedience is a duty.
Nonviolent resistance in Palestine is more dangerous than ever — but it’s the only way forward “We are not going to build a better future by killing or dominating each other and nonviolent resistance is the way to move forward.” #peaceful#resistancewagingnonviolence.org/2024/10/nonv...
We will not build a better future for all people by killing or dominating each other. Only a nonviolent movement with vision and strategy can.
Adams stole $10 million from NYC taxpayers. NYPD shot an innocent person in the head on the subway over a nonviolent alleged theft of $2.90. Overly aggressively property crime policing has resulted in at least 1 pedestrian getting killed during a police chase. abc7ny.com/post/police-...
The 7 On Your Side Investigates Team has found that pursuits by the NYPD are up more than 644% from fiscal year 2022 to 2023, costing city taxpayers an additional $14 million in crash claims.
Israeli massacres of Palestinians have been going on since its foundation, decades before any of these leaders were born. Hamas is, quite frankly a predictable response to Israel ethnic cleansing Palestinians and crushing all forms of Palestinian nonviolent resistance.
The thing that's funny about the Columbia student group endorsing violence is their protests as a whole were pretty much nonviolent and probably would have been more successful if that were emphasized instead of edgy "resistance by any means necessary" rhetoric.
I'm so old I remember Israel supporters complaining there were no nonviolent Palestinian leaders while they (Israel supporters) ignored nonviolent protests by Palestinians.
Zionists like to ask why there's no Palestinian leader organizing nonviolent resistance. The answer is that there have been plenty; Israel just kills them.
"Ziad Abu Helaiel was a popular tribal figure in the West Bank, famous for peacefully confronting Israeli soldiers during demonstrations and standing between them and protesters." www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...
Ziad Abu Helaiel was famous for peacefully confronting troops during demonstrations
Palestinians Mourn Elderly Nonviolent Activist Beaten to Death by IDF in West Bank | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/palesti...
Israeli forces also killed a Palestinian boy on his way home from school in the occupied territory.
Palestinians Mourn Elderly Nonviolent Activist Beaten to Death by IDF in West Bank www.commondreams.org/news/palesti...
Israeli forces also killed a Palestinian boy on his way home from school in the occupied territory.