In 1985 a stand-off occurred at the group's new headquarters in Southwest Philadelphia, whose residents were believed to be armed resisters.
"We're trying to move from a civil service, bureaucratic model to a performance-based one," says Klein. "There are resisters who figure they can wait it out, but with mayoral control I think we can do it".
De Gaulle had decided that all Frenchmen had been resisters, and all this collaboration business was behind them.
"I know a lot of you are resisters, right?" Campa-Najjar asked the volunteers, who shouted affirmatively.
According to the Palestinian writer, Daoud Kuttab, both Israel's leaders and Hamas were interested in an escalation: "One side wants to resuscitate its public support by appearing to be a heroic resister, while the other, on the eve of elections, wants to show toughness to a public unhappy with the nuisance of the Qassam rockets".
One side wants to resuscitate its public support by appearing to be a heroic resister, while the other, on the eve of elections, wants to show toughness to a public unhappy with the nuisance of the Qassam rockets.
Thus, one visitor wrote, "Enjoying Occupation," and another said, The main thing was not to be Jewish or a resister (terrorists, they were called!).
They were called vaccine resisters, and elaborate communication campaigns were devised to get them to change their minds and allow their children to be immunized.
"What it's a testament to is that war-tax resisters are engaging in a conscious act of civil disobedience," said Quinlan.
Oddly enough, resistance can have an apparently active side to it because resisters are, well, resisting; however resisting is rarely the same as proactively doing something about what troubles you.
