Non-violent Civil Disobedience

A leading Hong Kong democracy activist facing jail invoked Mahatma Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in court on Wednesday as he gave a defiant speech defending his decision to take part in a banned Tiananmen vigil.

Excerpts drawn from Mahatma Gandhi's books, letters and essays on non-violent civil disobedience and activism have been put together in form of a book, publisher Penguin Classics said.

A Chinese court sentenced three activists to prison today for allegedly attempting to start a non-violent civil rights movement, campaign groups said, the latest example of the Communist Party's intensifying crackdown on dissent.

Fast food workers from across the US voted Saturday to escalate their efforts for $15-an-hour pay and union membership by using nonviolent civil disobedience, comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement.

A leading Hong Kong democracy activist facing jail invoked Mahatma Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in court on Wednesday as he gave a defiant speech defending his decision to take part in a banned Tiananmen vigil.

Excerpts drawn from Mahatma Gandhi's books, letters and essays on non-violent civil disobedience and activism have been put together in form of a book, publisher Penguin Classics said.

A Chinese court sentenced three activists to prison today for allegedly attempting to start a non-violent civil rights movement, campaign groups said, the latest example of the Communist Party's intensifying crackdown on dissent.

Fast food workers from across the US voted Saturday to escalate their efforts for $15-an-hour pay and union membership by using nonviolent civil disobedience, comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement.