...FROM: Certified U.S. Postal Mail #.... Energy Customer's Name Street Address City State Zip TO: Energy Provider Street Address City State Zip Date of letter NOTICE OF NO CONSENT TO TRESPASS AND SURVEILLANCE, NOTICE OF LIABILITY Dear (Energy Provider) and all agents, officers, employees, contractors and interested parties, If you intend to install a "Smart Meter" or any activity monitoring device at the above address, you and all other parties are hereby denied consent for installation and use of all such device on the above property and installation and use of any activity monitoring device is hereby refused and prohibited. Informed consent is legally required for installation of any surveillance device and any device that will collect and transmit private and personal data to undisclosed and unauthorized parties for undisclosed and unauthorized purposes. Authorization for sharing of personal and private information may only be given by the originator and subject of that information. That authorization is hereby denied and refused with regard to the above property and all its occupants. "Smart Meters" violate the law and cause endangerment to residents by the following factors: 1. They individually identify electrical devices inside the home and record when they are operated causing invasion of privacy. 2. They monitor household activity and occupancy in violation of rights and domestic security. 3. They transmit wireless signals which may be intercepted by unauthorized...
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...King believes it is right to protest peacefully because they are fighting for their God-given freedom. He thinks it is also right to protest because African Americans helped get America to where it is today. Not only are African Americans protesting for their God-given freedom, but their involvement with the country also lets them protest for their American-given freedom. King utilizes rhetorical questions to create a critical tone. He sarcastically speaks about how long his letter is in comparison to all of his other works. King uses sarcasm because he believes he should not be in jail: “…but what else is there to do when you are alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters…” (5). King also questions the police’s actions during civil rights protests. He wonders if the police’s actions are truly moral: “It is true that they have been rather disciplined in their public handling of demonstrations. In this sense they have been rather publicly “nonviolent.” But for what purpose?” (3). King does not understand why he is in jail. He believes he has not done anything wrong because all of his protests are...
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...Radhika Nataraj MA131235 The article in The Economist, ‘The new politics of the internet: Everything is connected’ gives us a brief overview into the world of internet activism and how it has been shaped into a political movement protesting several issues and how it has created a forum for free speech and innovation globally. The article traces the development of net activism in relation to the environmental movements of the 1960s and 70s. It also elaborates on the role of the internet as a platform in the anti-SOPA protest , the creation of ‘pirate parties’, and discusses the impact and construction of the net activism movement. In contrast to this article, Astra Taylors ‘How the internet is transforming from a tool of liberation to one of oppression’ on the Huffington Post, deals with how search engines, social media and other networked technologies earn wealth and power by constantly surveying internet activity of an individual. Taylor talks about how internet users are viewed as ‘targeted customers’ and explains how ‘more clicks equal more money’ in the article. The article in the Economist quoted Barry Commoner who said, “The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else”. This quote is especially relevant to the internet which is basically a networking technology connecting people and their interests globally. In the 1960s and 70s, varied issues like cleaning the Hudson river and banning nuclear tests, came together to form a single, powerful...
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... professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. | | Acts of Civil Disobedience(s) By: Team C CJS/211 - ETHICS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Instructor: MELISSA ANDREWJESKI Schedule: 10/27/2015 - 11/30/2015 Campus: ONLINE MAIN Group ID: BSHB1IZ706 Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline. Fifty-two environmental activists were arrested Monday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project, which would deliver Canada tar sands oil to refineries in Texas, and rather focus on developing clean energy. An estimated 2,000 people have signed up to hold sit-ins and commit other acts of civil disobedience outside the White House every day for the next two weeks — 162 have already been arrested since Saturday. Also joining the protest are indigenous First Nations communities in Canada and landowners along the Keystone XL pipeline’s planned route. An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times joined in calling on the State Department to reject the pipeline, noting that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production. Meanwhile, oil-industry backers of the project emphasize what they say are the economic benefits of the $7 billion proposal. As the Obama administration remains undecided whether...
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...One of the major news stories in New England last year was the saga surrounding regional supermarket chain, Market Basket. A family feud over control of the company led to the firing of the company’s president; non-unionized employees protesting that firing, encouraging customers to shop elsewhere and in some cases, skipping work altogether; aisles void of food and products in Market Baskets all over New England; previously loyal customers refusing to shop at Market Basket and taping their receipts from other supermarkets on Market Basket store windows; and Market Basket losing millions of dollars per day. The Arthur S. side of the family holds 49.5% of the company, while the Arthur T. side holds 50.5%. But the company has a Board of Directors that includes a number of family members, as well as three non-family members. In 2008, a board member on the Arthur S. side of the family “switched sides” and voted with Arthur T., which allowed him to win a board election and become president of the company. In 2013, that same family member switched voting sides again, giving Arthur S. and his family control of the board. Then in 2014, Arthur S. and the board fired Arthur T., replacing him with two co-CEOs, James Gooch and Felicia Thornton. Market Basket employees felt a certain loyalty to Arthur T. and many cited his generous treatment of workers. They were worried that the new leaderships would sell the chain to another business, cut wages and benefits, or otherwise demolish the...
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...campus police • Pulling out of a squirt gun threaten to blow the Secretary head off if she moves • Secretary Prudence collapses in a sobbing heap • Protesters tried to break down the locked door of the President • Protestors barricade the President door with filing cabinets • Protesters are singing “We Will Overcome.” • President Chandler was taking a nap and slept through the entire 10-minute incident • Secretary Prudence did not return to work for a week • Secretary Prudence was prescribed by doctor heavy doses of tranquilizers To plan a protest or not to plan a protest that is the question! It all happened when the Members of Students for Fair Tuition (SFT) decided to have a protest at Gigantic State University (GSU). It is possible some laws were violated, in this case. Protesting are usually planned and not held inside of a building. Knowing your rights as a protestor would be a good thing to know before planning a protest! Some universities have a Free Speech Zone, and there is some restrictions on the time and place of the speeches given. Some universities have policies in place to limit the amount of interferences with classes and university business. (Center for campus free speech. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.campusspeech.org/page/cfs/speech-zones) I don’t think there was a crime committed, in this case, due to the fact, there was no one physically injured. However, intentional torts such as assault and battery could be, in this case. Assault is when a...
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...in an open and impartial manner to allow aggrieved parties an opportunity to protest the allocation of bids by appealing to the US General Accountability Agency (Manuel and Schwartz 6). Though such protests are usually rare, the aforementioned body has heard numerous cases in its wake (Gordon 11). For example, in 1999, the Department of Commerce procured the bid to award government acquisition contracts for a specific program identified as Commerce Information Technology Solutions (COMMITS). Subsequently, this procurement was subject to a protest based on three evaluation considerations: price, team composition, and past performance. Apparently, all competitors for the bid were required to provide information revealing their management of past performance for similar contracts. Ultimately, each of the rival bidders was supposed to make one-hour oral presentations detailing the techniques and procedures used in previous works. With over 200 bids, the agency shortlisted the proposals by eliminating some of the contestants based on competitiveness. Following the decision to award the bid to the Department of Commerce, Kathpal and Computer & Hi-Tech Management protested the procurement based on the fact that the company was not given an opportunity to make oral presentations in line with the terms provided by the RPF (Edwards). The US General Accounting Office (GAO) would later sustain Kathpal’s protest on the grounds that the government did not allow all competitors to make their...
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...mortgage crisis and the impact of the Arab Spring Combination of October 2011 global protests.jpg Worldwide Occupy movement protests on 15 October 2011 Location Worldwide (List of locations) Methods Occupation Non violent protest Civil disobedience Picketing Demonstrations Internet activism General strikes Direct action Arrests/Injuries/Deaths Arrests: 7,700+,[1] Injuries: 400+,[2] Deaths: 32[3][4][5][6][7] The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed. Local groups often have different foci, but among the movement's prime concerns is the belief that large corporations and the global financial system control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy and is unstable.[8][9][10][11] The first Occupy protest to receive wide coverage was Occupy Wall Street in New York City's Zuccotti Park, which began on 17 September 2011. By 9 October, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 95 cities across 82 countries, and over 600 communities in the United States.[12][13][14][15][16] Although most active in the United States, by October 2012 there had been Occupy protests and occupations in dozens of other countries across every continent except...
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...How Important Was the Contribution of Martin Luther King To The Civil Rights Movement 55-65? 1955 to 1965 has been classed as the “golden age” of the civil rights movement. Undoubtedly Kings influence, he became the first out right leader of a diverse civil rights struggle. King was gifted with exceptional public speaking abilities & charisma which in due course changed and inspired a entire nation. King had many successes which include the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the Birmingham campaign in 1963 and the March on Washington in 1963. Although we cannot ignore the various pressure groups other than kings SCLC. CORE, SNCC and NAACP had a major contribution into improving millions of lives. We also cannot ignore the Federal government and the relationship King had with them. In short King was a key player in civil rights but other groups and organisations also contributed to the civil rights movement. Montgomery Bus boycott – 1955 In 1955 buses all over the south were still segregated, this meant that the front section of the bus was reserved for whites only this meant blacks had to sit at the back, furthermore if a bus was full blacks would have to stand. The boycott started after Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat, she was arrested and fined $14. Because many blacks couldn’t afford cars to travel many resorted to using buses. The boycotts had a major influence on the bus company’s because the majority of customers were in fact black. By boycotting the...
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...acting in defiance of laws that are detrimental to the natural rights of all men, citizens keep government in check and justice at the helm. “Cato’s Letters”, a popular writing in the American colonies before the War for Independence, furthers this idea in saying, “Power is naturally active, vigilant, and distrustful…it would do what it pleases and have no check…therefore liberty has too much cause to be exceedingly jealous and always upon her defense,” (Trenchard and Gordon). Members of free nations must be jealous of the power bestowed upon their government; if that government over-steps its bounds or violates natural rights, then it must be kept in check. The route many times required to do so is civil disobedience. From the beginning of American history, to more recently, many people and groups have done just that. The American colonists were prime examples of citizens peacefully breaking the law to advance a sound cause. While the colonials were eventually forced to violently resist the British government, they spent many years before the War for Independence practicing civil disobedience. After depriving their coffers in multiple European conflicts, the English decided to unjustly tax the colonies to raise revenue. Perceiving this as a violation of their rights, the Americans spent years resisting British laws with boycotts, protests, and famous moves like the Boston Tea Party; many of these actions forced the British to change their laws in favor of the colonies. Years after...
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...socialists. They did not just come for a one day protest they came again and again. Then other people began to take notice and the movement has been doubling in size every three days since mid September. Now there are young people, middle age and retirees, the employed and the unemployed just to name a few. How this movement has differed from other protests in the past for example, those against the Vietnam War in the 1960’s, the protestors are not just unruly mobs of young people fighting for one cause. Instead it is people with several different yet similar grievances. Contrary to the idea of Occupy Wall Street just being comprised of young people we now see that the younger element has sometimes been the majority. In this movement we see a diversity of people, varying ages, life situations, and grievances. Some are first time protestors. There are a few common denominators of the protestors but the most outstanding seems to be about economic injustice and the corporate influence on our government. Because the middle class are tired of the corporate injustices they have now come to rally for justice. It is interesting how this movement even started. The idea for the protest began in mid 2011 by a Canadian based magazine “Adbusters Media Foundation”. They did not advertise on TV, radio or bill boards. Instead they “floated” an idea through their email lists and people were immediately interested. The magazine had proposed a peaceful protest of Wall Street because of the growing disparity...
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...David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for the year: promote his book, learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. The first is going well, the second has proven challenging, and the third is looking up. Graeber is a 50-year-old anthropologist—among the brightest, some argue, of his generation—who made his name with innovative theories on exchange and value, exploring phenomena such as Iroquois wampum and the Kwakiutl potlatch. An American, he teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. He’s also an anarchist and radical organizer, a veteran of many of the major left-wing demonstrations of the past decade: Quebec City and Genoa, the Republican National Convention protests in Philadelphia and New York, the World Economic Forum in New York in 2002, the London tuition protests earlier this year. This summer, Graeber was a key member of a small band of activists who quietly planned, then noisily carried out, the occupation of Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, providing the focal point for what has grown into an amorphous global movement known as Occupy Wall Street. It would be wrong to call Graeber a leader of the protesters, since their insistently nonhierarchical philosophy makes such a concept heretical. Nor is he a spokesman, since they have refused thus far to outline specific demands. Even in Zuccotti Park, his name isn’t widely known. But he has been one of the group’s most articulate voices, able to frame the movement’s welter of hopes and grievances...
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...apart of this protest? Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an evolving succession of demonstrations in New York City taking place in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district. The protests were introduced by the Canadian activist group Adbusters which mainly protests social and economic inequality, corporate greed, corruption and influence over government and lobbyists. The protesters’ trademark, “We are the 99%”, refers to the difference in wealth and income growth in the U.S. between the richest 1% and the remainder of the public. In the middle of 2011, the Canadian-based Adbusters Foundation, suggested an amicable occupation of Wall Street to formally complain about the corporate weight on our democracy, focus on a growing imbalance in wealth, and the vacancy of legal consequences behind the recent global financial dilemma. Senior editor of Adbusters said it was without delay adopted by all the people of the world. Adbuster’s website claims that from their “one simple demand—a presidential commission to separate money from politics—we start setting the agenda for a new America.” They publicized the event with a poster presenting a dancer on top Wall Street’s famous Charging Bull statue. The internet group Anonymous promoted that its followers take part in the protests, asking participants to overflow lower Manhattan, prepare tents and kitchens along with peaceful barriers and to simply occupy Wall Street. Other groups soon joined in the organization of the protest. The mix...
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...Corporate Citizenship refers to an organization's commitment to social and environmental responsibility worldwide not only locally or regionally. With this in mind, i do believe that gap did just so. When they became the target of various protest by human rights groups who alleged that gap's products were made in sweat shops where children were employed and people were under paid. Instead of denying these charges gap turned to SAI to help develop a Code Of Vendor Conduct. Yes i think that they did. Elementary Stage- They reacted when they started to get bad publicity from these allegations. Engaged Stage- They listened to the protesters and enlisted the help of SAI to develop a software that will enable them to keep a close eye on the vendors that they do business with and to ensure that these vendors followed the code of conduct. Innovative Stage- They updated its code by including other form of unnacceptable discrimination. They also made it a requirement for factories not to interfere with workers rights to organize and bargain collectively. Intergrated stage- To assure that vendors were complying they hired VCOs. These Vendor Compliance Officers were from the communities where they worked therefore the language and customs were not a problem. These VCOs aiudited more than 1000 factories in more than 50 countries. Transforming Stage- Gap worked with other contracters to remedy problems that arose. They also adopted the view of find,fix and prevent. They partnered with...
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...Twenty years of this type of campaigning paid off, when in 1914 the South African government made several concessions to the Indian people living there. After the First World War, Gandhi decided to concentrate on improving life in his native India. His ideology was well received and he soon had a healthy following that regularly practised passive resistance. The British government didn’t like the campaigning and deemed it to be revolutionary. Consequently, British troops massacred many innocent Indians at a demonstration in 1920. This caused Gandhi to instigate a policy of non-cooperation towards the Brits. Indians began removing their children from government run schools and masses of people began squatting in the streets to protest. Even when faced with physical punishments, such as being beaten with a truncheon, they would refuse to...
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