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Chapter 1
ACT UP/New York
www.actupny.org/
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) advocates direct action 'to end the AIDS crisis'. Contains details of protests organized, and a plethora of materials on practicing non-violent civil disobedience, how to respond to police arrest, and so on.
Complete site on Mahatma Gandhi
www.mkgandhi.org/
Resources on Gandhi and his philosophy of Satyagraha (non-violent resistance).
Crito
socrates.clarke.edu/aplg0170.htm
Full text of Plato's dialogue, often regarded as the precursor to social contract theory.
Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation
www.archive.org/details/PrinciplesOfPoliticalObligation
Free access to the lectures of T. H. Green, delivered at Oxford, 1879–80. Green apparently first coined the expression 'political obligation'.
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
www.stanford.edu/group/King/index.htm
A collection of resources on the role of Dr King in the American civil rights movement, and his philosophy of non-violent resistance.
The Popular Basis of Political Authority
press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/v1ch2.html
Documents relating to the notion of political authority as invoked in the US constitution, edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, of the University of Chicago.
Protest.net
www.protest.net/
A protesters' portal, with details of upcoming campaigns on numerous issues, including: war, the death penalty, animal rights, and drug laws; also includes an 'activists' handbook'.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
plato.stanford.edu/entries/political-obligation/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/authority/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/
Entries on political obligation, authority, and civil disobedience.
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
Thoreau's essay, alternatively called 'Resistance to Civil Government', which influenced Gandhi and Dr King. Web page also includes links to secondary commentary.
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
vcnv.org/
An American group advocating non-violent civil disobedience as a means of protest against the ongoing occupation of Iraq.