Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always,[1][2] defined as being nonviolent resistance. It is one form of civil resistance. In one view (in India, known as ahimsa or satyagraha) it could be said that it is compassion in the form of respectful disagreement.

One of its earliest massive implementations was brought about by Egyptians against the British occupation in 1919 Revolution.[3] Civil disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India (Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments,[4][5] in South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, in the Singing Revolution to bring independence to the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, recently with the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution[6] in Ukraine, among other various movements worldwide.

Originally posted by Ben81


Mainstream Media IGNORES Quebec Revolution... the government obviously censored the media

Originally posted by stanguilles7
The only ones ignoring this are the general public. The media has covered it a fair bit. More in Canada than the US, obviously, since it is just a conflict with French-speaking schools in Quebec who are protesting tuition hikes, but still, its gotten press. And from what I can tell, this is a fairly roudy minority who are just looking for excuses to riot. Only about 1/3 of the students even supported the protests up until a few days ago. Many just want to get back to class.

Dont blow your minority protest out of proportion. When you have middle class people in the streets, working class people, the poor, not just a handful or relatively privileged students complaining about a rather small tuition increase, ten you'll garner more attention.

And that isnt to say I dont support the protests, myself. I do. The government broke a promise about funding. But I dont think pretending the handful of angry wanna-be anarchists you post images of is some sort of larger social movement is a accurate way to cover it. The student groups doing the actual negotiations with the government are the ones DOING something, The idiots setting things on fire are just agent provocateurs and useful idiots

Originally posted by stanguilles7

Originally posted by Ben81

If i remember correctly
Anderson Cooper was speaking days and nights about the protest in Tahir square
the government of Mubarak then imposed strick new laws and tried to disperse the protesters by force
look where it got him ..

Now the students will protest until the P-M of Quebec quit
they are chanting his name in the streets by thousand
that they will not stop until he quit

and yet there is absolutly no update on CNN about the recent events
no speaking about the new law 78 neither

Dude. Seriously? In Egypt, hundreds of thousands of people came out and protested, from all walks of life, against a government that could just as easily slaughter them all. And you're comparing that to a few thousand students in montreal? When you have nearly your entire population in the streets, demanding more than low student tuition, then you can make that comparison.

Sure, it deserves some attention. But expecting the US media to make a big deal out of it is naive, and comparing it to Egypt is absurd and inaccurate.

This latest 'riot' by protesters was, according to several student groups, was a handful of provocateurs and drunken pub goers.