They didn’t illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The first amendment guarantees the right to freedom of speech, assembly and petition against the government by the people of the United States. However, the exact details of ...

Anti-Israel protestors on some college campuses have engaged in clearly illegal behavior, including taking over buildings, building illegal encampments on school property (thereby denying its use to ...

It’s worth taking a moment to reflect on what civil disobedience is, and what it isn’t. Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience” held that citizens were responsible for the unjust actions ...

Thoreau's refusal to support what he saw as injustice culminates in his essay "Civil Disobedience." After refusing to pay four years of poll taxes, Thoreau is briefly imprisoned. Thoreau is adamantly ...

For most of us, the term “civil disobedience” brings to mind images of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and lunch-counter protests during the civil rights movement, or Lech Walesa climbing a fence at ...

2022 may be remembered as the year that climate protests got weird. Activists prowled cities in the dead of night, using lentils to deflate the tires of thousands of SUVs. They glued themselves to ...