JC: The last time there was a large gathering in DC on climate, Capitol Climate in '09, we were focused on a large scale act of civil disobedience.
When Gandhi broke the salt laws at 6 30 am on 6 April 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians.
In areas where the army has had to confront the militants frontally, fighting has ensued on the scale of a civil war, displacing tens of thousands of people.
This is a job that will require a campaign on the scale of the civil rights movement, and it will have to be initiated by the black community.
Yet that episode illustrates, in a way, the sheer scale of what civil libertarians are up against: growing hostility to anything European, a new public harshness toward many of the vulnerable groups protected by the ECHR, and politicians increasingly nervous about challenging either of those attitudes.
Full-scale training of civil servants began in many Western countries in the decades after World War II.
Kolina Khaled Said, a Facebook group meaning "We are all Khaled Said", quickly gathered hundreds of thousands, of supporters, who swapped information on other examples of inhumane police treatment and helped organise small-scale acts of civil disobedience.
In this paper, we focus on the pathway in which large-scale involvement of civil society, as opposed, for example, to top-down governmental regulation, achieves the vision.
This paper is a continuation of the paper titled "Concurrent multi-scale modeling of civil infrastructure for analyses on structural deteriorating Part I: Modeling methodology and strategy" with the emphasis on model updating and verification for the developed concurrent multi-scale model.
"There is no doubt this is towards the top end of the scale for civil contempt," said Justice Peter Gross of London High Court.
