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The leaders of Bahrain's antigovernment demonstrations insist that their followers use civil-disobedience techniques.
Bahrain Sentences Four Protestors to Death Margaret Coker 2011
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Having served as a clergy witness at the Bank of America civil-disobedience on Nov. 17, I was intent on bearing witness to the end of OccupyLA.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein: A Rabbi's Testimony: The Repression and Elimination of OccupyLA Rabbi Yonah Bookstein 2011
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"You can call it a civil-disobedience campaign," he says.
Freeloaders Unite to Fight Subway Fares Patrick McGroarty 2011
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For all his lifelong campaign for Swaraj "self-rule", India could have achieved it many years earlier if Gandhi had not continually abandoned his civil-disobedience campaigns just as they were beginning to be successful.
Among the Hagiographers Andrew Roberts 2011
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Having served as a clergy witness at the Bank of America civil-disobedience on Nov. 17, I was intent on bearing witness to the end of OccupyLA.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein: A Rabbi's Testimony: The Repression and Elimination of OccupyLA Rabbi Yonah Bookstein 2011
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But by Sunday night, the student movement was strategizing further civil-disobedience campaigns against the regime.
Yemen Opposition Deadlock Delays New Deal Margaret Coker 2011
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Activists say the open-ended action—which they named a "dignity strike"—is part of a wider civil-disobedience campaign they hope will help sustain the momentum of a movement that started in March as peaceful street protests.
Syrians Go on Strike, Shun Vote Nour Malas 2011
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Residents of Douma, close to Damascus, issued a statement saying they wouldn't pay bills for publicly supplied electricity and water as part of a civil-disobedience campaign.
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Meanwhile, Queerty. com, a leading site for gay issues, pays homage to Choi and other service members who staged civil-disobedience efforts to fight DADT, including handcuffing themselves to the White House gates.
Conservatives and Gay-Rights Advocates Not Happy With 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Compromise 2010
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Hamas and Hezbollah have begun to embrace civil-disobedience tactics, which they once dismissed.
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