Civil disorder
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Civil disorder, also known as civil disturbance, civil unrest, civil strife, or turmoil, is a public disturbance involving violent acts by an assemblage of persons, which causes an immediate danger or
A rioter on top of a Toronto Police Service cruiser in flames during G20 Toronto summit, June 2010
Tear gas used on students in Altamira, Caracas.
Firemen dousing a building burnt down by rioters during the 2011 England riots
Protesters occupy the roof of the National Congress of Brazil
Civil disobedience
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Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government. By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to
Civil disorder
…by an assemblage of persons, which causes an immediate danger or results in damage to property or injury to persons. Civil disorder includes acts of civil disobedience. Disorder may occur when the general populace or some sector of it is aroused in the cause of effecting change or reform of government policy, or…
Mahatma Gandhi making salt in violation of and protest against British salt laws
A marker at the location where Thoreau was imprisoned in Concord, Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau's classic essay Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and many other activists.
A police officer speaks with a demonstrator at a union picket, explaining that she will be arrested if she does not leave the street. The demonstrator was arrested moments later.