Areas for Consideration Provided by the Wording Committee:
- Check on Government
- Individual Conscience
- Duty to Act
- Rule of Law
- Tacit Consent
Conflict Areas: AFF
- Abolitionist Movement - William
Lloyd Garrison
- Civil Rights Movement - Martin
Luther King, Jr., 1968 Olympics
- Universal Suffrage - Susan
B. Anthony
- Womens Rights Movement
- American Revolution - Boston Tea Party
- Anti-war Demonstrations
- Ecological Demonstrators -
Greenpeace
- Variations of 1st
Amendment Rights
- Medical Rights - TAC South
Africa
Conflict Areas: NEG
- Eco-Terrorism - Earth First
- Animal Rights Activists -
Animal Liberation Front
- Domestic Terrorism - Timothy
McVeigh, Unabomber
- Citizen Militia Groups - Waco
- Unlawful Combatants
- Suicide Bombers - Israel/Palistinian
Conflict
- Abortion Clinic Bombings -
Rudolph
Literature on Civil Disobedience
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse
of Voluntary Servitude, Étienne de la Boétie, Black Rose Books; 2nd Revision edition, September 1997.
http://www.doingfreedom.com/readrm/boetie.html
"Letter From a Birmingham
Jail", Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=40
Civil Disobedience, Henry
David Thoreau, 1849.
http://eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
General Background Civil Disobedience
ActivistCash.com - a site, part
of the ConsumerFreedom.com Network, committed to providing detailed and up-to-date information on where anti-consumer organizations
and activists get their money. (Good List of Activist Groups)
http://activistcash.com/
Civil Disobedience Good/Bad - Thoreaus
Civil Disobedience, Its Intellectual Roots, and Its Contribution to the American Radical Tradition, Jonathan Glickstein, University
of California, May 6, 2003.
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/syllabi/Spring03materials/Glickstein/Nonresistance%20Thoreau--out-12.pdf
Civil Disobedience - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
Civil Disobedience - "Civil Disobedience",
Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia, Peter Suber; Garland: 1999.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/civ-dis.htm
Legal Background - "Philosophy
of Law", Kenneth Einar Himma, University of Washington,
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2001.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/law-phil.htm
Civil Disobedience - "The Role
of Civil Disobedience in Democracy", Kayla Starr, adapted by Bonnie Blackberry. (Good Historical Examples)
http://www.civilliberties.org/sum98role.html
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience -
The Nonviolent Action Handbook, Sanderson Beck. 2003.
http://san.beck.org/NAH1-Nonviolence.html
Civil Disobedience - Good
Search and Seizure - "A Businessman
Stands Up for His Rights," Timothy Lynch. Cato Institute. September 6, 1994.
http://www.cato.org/research/articles/lynch-940906.html
Civil Disobedience and The Patriot
Act - "INSATIABLE APPETITE: The Governments Demand for New and Unnecessary Powers After September 11", American Civil
Liberties Union, April, 2002.
http://archive.aclu.org/congress/InsatiableAppetite.pdf
Criminalizing Dissent - "Suppression
of Dissent", New York City Bill Of Rights Defense Campaign, Briefing Papers, January
2003.
http://www.nycbordc.org/docs/NYCBORDC_briefing_papers_030611.pdf
Ecological Disobedience - "Boot
Camp for Civil Disobedience", CBS News, June 27, 2003.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/27/tech/main560733.shtml
English Civil Disobedience - "Land
and Freedom: The Seventeenth Century Diggers and Land Rights", and "The Levellers: Seventeenth century democrats in the English
Civil War", The Land and Freedom pages: English Civil War History, Civil Disobedience.Org.Uk
http://www.civildisobedience.org.uk/
Civil Disobedience Resources -
P.L. Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College, Western Australia.
http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/issues/disobedience.htm
Pro-Life Disobedience - "Civil
Disobedience to Save Unborn Children: Is 'Rescuing' Right?", Eternal Perspective Ministries, Randy Alcorn, 1991. (**Note:
Kind of Creepy)
http://www.epm.org/rescue6.html
Abolitionist Disobedience - "Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, and the Underground
Railroad," A Calliope Fact Sheet, Calliope Film Resources, Inc. 2001.
http://www.calliope.org/thoreau/thurro/thurro1.html#anchor6745
Cyber-Disobedience - "Transforming
Luddite Resistance into Virtual Luddite Resistance: Weaving A World Wide Web of Electronic Civil Disobedience", Stefan Wray,
7 April 1998.
http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/elec-act.htm
AIDS Activists - ACT UP - a diverse,
non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. We advise and inform.
We demonstrate. We are not silent.
http://www.actupny.org/
Disobedience Backlash - "Caught
in the Backlash: Stories from Northern California", ACLU.
http://www.aclunc.org/911/backlash.pdf
Civil Disobedience Ideology - "On
the Importance of Civil Disobedience," Sunni Maravillosa, Doing Freedom Magazine, October 2002.
http://www.doingfreedom.com/gen/1002/
AIDS Activists - "Aids Activists
Resort To Civil Disobedience", David Beresford, The Guardian, March 16, 2003.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,915205,00.html
Agricultural Activists - "We Would
Support the Lawbreakers: The Head Of The Countryside Alliance On Civil Disobedience",
John Jackson, The Guardian, October 23, 2002.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,817273,00.html
Just Dissent - a campaign to support
current legislation in California -- and to encourage similar legislation in
other states -- to protect the American tradition of non-violent dissent by limiting the parameters of prosecution. (Great
links to articles!)
http://www.justdissent.org/pages/4b-articles.html
The American Friends Service Committee - an organization that carries out service,
development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious
objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many
races, religions, and cultures.
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/activism/local.shtm
Agricultural Disobedience - "Thoreau
the Bums Out: Oregon's Farmers Embrace Civil Disobedience. Will It Be So Long,
Sucker Fish?", Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2001.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrassel/?id=95000803
Religion and Civil Disobedience
- "Pax Christi Urges Civil Disobedience If U.S. Escalates
War On Iraq", Tom Kelly, National Catholic Reporter, August 16, 2002.
http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/081602/081602k.htm
Civil Disobedience in Australia - "Why Are We Holding A Forum On Civil
Disobedience?", James Goodman, Civil Disobedience Today, October 31, 2002.
http://sydney.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/10/2002-10.html
Civil Disobedience Background -"Why
Are You Not Practicing Civil Disobedience?", SARTRE.
http://strike-the-root.com/columns/Sartre/sartre4.html
Civil Disobedience - "Hierarchic
Democracy And The Necessity Of Mass Civil Disobedience", Ted Honderich, Conway
Lecture, University College London.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted5.htm
Disobedience in Israel - "Civil Disobedience in Nablus",
Miami Herald, Adam B. Kushner, Aug. 02,
2002.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/3782126.htm
Ecoterrorism - "Blue Planet: Ecoterrorism
Redefined", Dan Whipple, UPI Science News, United Press International, Sept. 13,
2002.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020911-115335-8099r
Antiwar Protests - "Protestors Eye Civil Disobedience", John Ritter, USA
Today, March 9, 2003.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-09-protests-usat_x.htm
Ecoterrorism - "Waging Environmental
War", Brooke Pace and Andrea Giallorenzo, EccoNet, 2001.
http://www.ecconet.com/ecconet/CommunityChat/spotlights/Archive/archive_ecocrime.htm
Civil Disobedience - Bad
Ecoterrorism - "Saving Earth, One
Arson at a Time: Ecoterrorism, Or Act of Love?", Heather Maher. ABC News. Oct. 27,
1999
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/eco_activists.html
Ecoterrorism - "The Threat of Ecoterrorism,"
James F. Jarboe, Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, FBI, Congressional Testimony, February
12, 2002.
http://www.amprogress.org/news/NewsPrint.cfm?ID=127&c=20
Animal Rights Extremism - "Reilly
Announces 43 Indictments Against 12 People In Connection With International Animal Rights Extremist Group", Office of Attorney
General Tom Reilly, October 25, 2002.
http://www.ago.state.ma.us/press_rel/shacind.asp
Animal Rights Extremism - Animal
Rights.Net - organization provides a critical analysis of the animal rights movement and debunks many of their claims.
http://www.animalrights.net/
Domestic Terrorism - "EDITORIAL:
Just Criminals", Beloit Daily News. September
1, 1998.
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/998/edit1.htm
Cyberterrorism - "French Teen A
Hacker Extraordinaire", CBS News. , July 9, 2003.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/10/tech/main562582.shtml
The Center for the Defense of Free
Enterprise - a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy
research, book publishing, conferences, white papers, and media outreach.
http://www.cdfe.org/
Citizen Militia Groups - "Paranoia,
Patriotism, and the Citizen Militia Movement: Constitutional Right or Criminal Conduct?", R.J. Larizza, Mercer Law Review,
Feb. 2, 2002.
http://review.law.mercer.edu/old/20210.htm
Ecoterrorism - "Ecoterrorism",
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. (Great articles and resources!)
http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.htm
Ecoterrorism - "Eco-terrorism-A
New Kind of Sabotage", L. Cheryl Runyon, National Conference of State Legislatures, March
6, 2003.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2001/freedom/ecoterrorism.htm
Ecoterrorism - "Environmentalists
Blamed for Arizona Wildfire Disaster", Jason Pierce, CNS News, June 25, 2002.
http://www.cdfe.org/arizona_fires.htm
Ecoterrorism - "Off the Reservation,
Civil Defense Perspectives", Vol. 19, Number 3, Physicians for Civil Defense, March 2003.
http://www.oism.org/cdp/mar2003.html
Ecoterrorism - "In US, A Rise Of
Violent Environmental Tactics: Arson And Death Threats Have Followed Ecoterrorists' Call For More Use Of Force", Brad Knickerbocker,
The Christian Science Monitor, September 26, 2002.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0926/p01s01-ussc.html
Domestic Terrorism - "Senate Bill
742", 72nd Oregon Legislative Assembly, Regular Session, Sponsored By Senator
MINNIS, 2003.
http://www.riverwestcurrents.org/2003/March/000559.html
Domestic Terrorism - "Reflections
On The Oklahoma City Bombing, 5 Years Later", Chip Berlet, The Progressive, April 12, 2000.
http://www.progressive.org/mpdvcb00.htm
Pro-Life Extremism - "The Propagandist:
Neal Horsley, America's leading anti-abortion Webmaster, is
the profane voice of the extreme Christian right", Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report, Spring 2002, Issue 105.
http://www.splcenter.org/cgi-bin/goframe.pl?refname=/intelligenceproject/ip-4u5.html
Stop Eco-Violence! - a grassroots
advocacy organization committed to raising the awareness of eco-terrorism and the harm it causes others, and to building the
unified support necessary for the advancement of legislative and law enforcement efforts to eradicate violence perpetrated
in support of environmentally motivated agendas.
http://www.stopecoviolence.org/index.htm
Thoreau Criticism - "Henry David
Thoreau: Readings of Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government", Wynn Yarborough,
Virginia Commonwealth University
(1995).
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/critonrcg.html