The #TUC has voted for a non-compliance motion on #Tories anti-strike laws (specifically minimum service requirements).

Sometimes the #RuleofLaw is maintained by not complying with unjust laws - maintaining through #civildisobedience that the idea of the rule of law is being violated by unjust laws themselves, which those protesting such injustice should break.

This political manoeuvre has a long pedigree, from #civilrights movements across history;
can the TUC can tap into that history?

Today in Labor History September 10, 1963: 20 black children were integrated into Birmingham schools in spite of opposition by the city. Martin Luther King, James Bevel & Fred Shuttlesworth led the campaign of nonviolent direct action to integrate Birmingham, Alabama, one of the most segregated cities in the nation. Over a thousand were arrested during the campaign. Bull Connors ordered the use of high-pressure hoses and attack dogs on juvenile protesters. Racists bombed the Gaston Motel, in a failed attempt to assassinate King.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilRights #nonviolence #CivilDisobedience #MartinLutherKing #alabama #bombing #racsim #JimCrow

Local forests are being destroyed by logging
Join the direct action training
Civil disobedience
Resist extinction makers
Resist climate vandals
Stop logging native forests
#CivilDisobedience #resistance #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #vandalism #biodiversity #climate

Today in Labor History September 1, 1987: During a nonviolent protest against the illegal U.S arming of the Nicaraguan Contras, a Navy munitions train ran over anti-war protester Brian Willson, who lost both legs in the incident. But Willson continued to be an active leader in the anti-military movement. The following day, activists dismantled the train tracks in protest. Wilson was later sued by civilian members of the train crew for the "humiliation, embarrassment & emotional distress" the incident caused them. All of this occurred at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, just east of San Francisco, formerly known as Port Chicago. It was the same site where an explosion killed 322 mostly black sailors during WWII, setting off a rebellion known as the Port Chicago Mutiny.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilDisobedience #activism #protest #Nicaragua #imperialism #BrianWillson #mutiny

"I say, 'Fuck the patriarchy,' because I am a woman, a woman of color, a Muslim woman. And I am not supposed to say 'fuck.'"

—Mona Eltahawy on profanity as an essential tool in disrupting patriarchal power: https://lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-civility-will-not-overturn-the-patriarchy/

#profanity #feminism #patriarchy #CivilDisobedience

Australia's climate polluting projects and climate activism in the era of global boiling

“Let's face it, we are in extreme danger from climate change and our government isn't dealing with it in anywhere the speed it needs to do.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-20/climate-activism-woodside-abc-protest-four-corners/102714892
#Australia #mining #logging #FossilFuels #CivilDisobedience #climate #pollution #ClimateAction #Activism #GlobalBoiling

Private jets are causing significantly more pollution per passenger than any other mode of transportation including commercial flights. As we witness the devastating impact of climate change, please sign this petition to urge all governments to tax private jets immediately.

https://bit.borfai.net/TaxPrivateJets

#JustStopOil #CivilResistance #A22Network #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #FossilFuels #CivilDisobedience

#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023

"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.

"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'

"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."

Background: Back to Fairy Creek

"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.

"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.

"Until now.

"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."

Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html

#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy

Today in Labor History August 14, 1846: The authorities jailed Henry David Thoreau for refusing to pay his taxes in protest of the Mexican War. Aside from this early act of American civil disobedience and war resistance, Thoreau also wrote, “Walden.” His essay, “Civil Disobedience,” influenced generations of activists and writers, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Tolstoy, Yeats, Proust, Hemingway, Upton Sinclair and Martin Buber.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #CivilDisobedience #thoreau #MartinBuber #proust #hemingway #gandhi #MartinLutherKing #activism #jail #antiwar #writer #author #books @bookstadon

This is not different in principal from other authoritarian regimes; it's different only in degree. Furthermore, we're on a slippery slope, and descending rapidly. Let's be clear: we cannot reverse, or even slow, climate change unless we are prepared to stand up and face down the authoritarians. And yes, if we do that, some – many – of us will be imprisoned, or worse. #2 of 2

#ClimateChange
#ClimateEmergency
#CivilDisobedience

The climate crisis is here. The storm will not pass. Climate change will only get worse unless our politicians act. We have to do everything we can to stop causing more irreverable damage to the climate.
If you're in the UK, join me and email your MP now! https://act.gp/441NTq8
#JustStopOil #CivilResistance #A22Network #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #FossilFuels #CivilDisobedience

Today in Labor History August 1, 1917: IWW organizer Frank Little was lynched in Butte, Montana. Little was a Cherokee miner and member of the IWW. He went to Butte during the Speculator Mine strike to help organize the miners. Little had previously helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He had participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” On August 1, 1917, vigilantes broke into the boarding house where he was staying. They dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car and then hanged him from a railroad trestle.

Author Dashiell Hammett had been working in Butte at the time as a strike breaker for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They had tried to get him to murder Little, offering him $5,000, but he refused. He later wrote about the experience in his novel, “Red Harvest.” It supposedly haunted him throughout his life that anyone would think he would do such a thing.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #racism #indigenous #immigration #mining #FreeSpeech #CivilDisobedience #CivilRights #antiwar #author #books #fiction #writer #novel @bookstadon

The next UK General Election must be fought and won over climate change. Please sign this Greenpeace open letter to UK politicians.

https://action.greenpeace.org.uk/climate-open-letter?source=WB&subsource=ECCLPLPEWB04QI

#JustStopOil #CivilResistance #A22Network #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #FossilFuels #CivilDisobedience

Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience in Australia

"As disruptive climate protests increase across the world, governments are legislating to deter them with harsher penalties, new offences and new powers...The Australian Constitution infamously contains limited express rights."

"Mainstream politics is disincentivised from leading uncomfortable conversations unless it has no choice. If parliamentary politics steps up to the challenge of the climate emergency, it will be because it is forced to do so either by a ‘politics of discomfort’, or because the scale of disaster that unfolds from its current trajectory creates that discomfort."

https://verfassungsblog.de/environmental-protest-and-civil-disobedience-in-australia/
#AntiProtestLegislation #CivilDisobedience #climate #environment #activists #protestors #OldGrowthForest #NSW #law #rights #AuthoritarianLegalism #conservation #biodiversity #GlobalBoiling #ClimateEmergency

‘We’re angry’: #Israel tensions mount as army reservists threaten to refuse duty

Conflict over #Netanyahu’s plans to overhaul #judiciary is leading to new levels of #CivilDisobedience – and potential #SecurityRisks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/29/israel-tensions-mount-army-reservists-threaten-to-refuse-duty #Palestine

"We cannot save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed"

@gretathunberg said she won't stop rallying, despite a Swedish court fining her for disobeying police at a protest last month.

#CivilDisobedience #ZivilerUngehorsam

We met last week-end in Hanover to discuss our strategy for the upcoming months. The discussions were intense and fruitful and they brought new coordination and communication infrastructures, new action plans, but one thing was left unchanged: the fundamental urgency that academics and scientists take to the streets. You'll see us in the classrooms, at conferences, and on the streets, raising awareness for the climate and biodiversity crises and pressuring policy makers to act on them. Join us! #civildisobedience #nonviolentdirectaction #climatecrisis #biodiversitycrisis #actnow #ifnotnowthenwhen

🎙️The Water We Swim In: What does system change actually mean?—With contributions from CUSP researchers @ProfTimJackson, Peter Victor and @simon_mair, this gripping new podcast series is tackling big questions in playful ways. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/twwsi-podcast2023/
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cc #PostGrowth #BeyondGrowth #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics #SystemChange #ClimateActivism #CivilDisobedience #Neoliberalism #JustStopOil #ParentForFuture #TheWaterWeSwimIn #TWWSIpod #Fridays4Future HT Tilly Robinson

@br00t4c

Excerpt:

Following successful passage o Israeli #dictator #Netanyahu's #JudicialCoup bill enabling country's #FarRight #Extremist majority 2 overrule courts on any matter, former PM Olmert told interviewer w/ UK's Channel 4 news the #Jewish state is "going in2 a #CivilWar now." backtracking slightly when interviewer reacted w/ shock, saying "Yeah, I mean #CivilDisobedience w/ all possible ramifications 2 the stability o the state & 4 ability of gov 2 perform"

https://nationalzero.com/2023/07/24/former-israeli-prime-minister-says-civil-war-imminent/

@capnfurious #CriticalMass #CivilDisobedience

You don't have to be THAT "old" to remember "Critical Mass."

Fortunately, I was never caught in any of the traffic jams caused by them but I'm sure the "movement" was not thought of fondly by those who were.