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| | Civil Resistance | A Global Call (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Global Call Iraq campaign uses the term “Civil Resistance” rather than “Civil Disobedience,” the latter of which is understood as selective, conscientious disobedience of a particular law considered illegal, immoral or unjust with the focus to change consciousness and ultimately the law in question. |
 | | Regardless of the name, we believe that sustained and global nonviolent civil resistance would intensify the conflict around the U.S. policy of war, domination and aggression, bring the reality of the violence of U.S. policy to the streets of the world, and force a change in the policies of violence and domination. |
 | | Nonviolent resistance (or nonviolent action) comprises the practice of applying power to achieve socio-political goals through symbolic protests, economic or political noncooperation, civil disobedience and other methods, without the use of physical violence. |
| globalcalliraq.org /en/civil_resistance (735 words) |
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