Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is an active and often public nonviolent violation of particular laws, decrees, regulations, ordinances, military or police commands and other orders. This is usually done in protest of laws or orders which are regarded as immoral, unjust, or tyrannical and with the expectation and acceptance by the perpetrator(s) of the legal consequences of this disobedience. Sometimes an individual or group may disobey a particular law as a symbol of opposition to wider policies of the government, or the government’s rule itself. -Gene Sharp [1]
Examples of Civil Disobedience in so-called Canada
Kanesatake; the Oka Crisis
In July 1990, a golf course was proposed to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, in so-called Quebec. The Kanesatake were land defenders, protecting a sacred burial ground, as well as a sacred area. Defenders deployed blockades and camps, and were met by members of the Canadian army to occupy their land. The publicized invasion lasted for 78 days, however the real fight has been going on for centuries. [2]
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