Sudan internet cuts complicate civil disobedience campaign against coup
Khartoum, SudanReuters Sudanese pro-democracy groups launched two days of civil disobedience and strikes on Sunday in protest against last month’s military coup, though participation appeared to be limited by interruptions to internet and phone connections. In a sign of the potential for the coup to unravel efforts to end decades of internal conflict, armed rebel […]
More than 125,000 Myanmar teachers suspended for opposing coup
Reuters More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official of the Myanmar Teachers’ Federation said. The suspensions have come days before the start of a new school year, which some teachers and parents are […]
ESSAY: IT’S TIME TO REVIVE RELIGIOUS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, US commentator JOHN GEHRING, author and Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, calls for a “revival of religious civil disobedience”…