{"id":674,"date":"2012-04-19T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2012-04-19T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:58:35","slug":"what-role-for-civil-disobedience-and-arrest-in-our-work-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"What role for civil disobedience and arrest in our work for justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meaningful and focused civil disobedience resulting in arrest can be a significant part of peaceful action for justice, but there is no reason for arrest to become the activists\u2019 Red Badge of Courage.\u00a0<!--more--> \u00a0War tax resisters such as myself are rarely arrested for our civil disobedience (the IRS just wants your money).<\/p>\n<p>During the civil rights campaign, there were debates about tactics that concerned how arrests were removing leadership from the campaign and potentially injuring its effectiveness. Of course, we were blessed with Letter from a Birmingham Jail, but things were not always that clear or successful.<\/p>\n<p>I do have my arrest record and seek to make it meaningful and empowering. I am in a position to speak publically, and this can be a valuable part of my witness. But I am very careful with arrest, and continue to address the balance between its usefulness for the movement or its becoming simply attention getting and ego involvement.<\/p>\n<p>(The above was taken from my Comment on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/2012\/04\/making-our-arrests-count\/\">http:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/2012\/04\/making-our-arrests-count\/<\/a>\u00a0 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaningful and focused civil disobedience resulting in arrest can be a significant part of peaceful action for justice, but there is no reason for arrest to become the activists\u2019 Red Badge of Courage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-peace","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}