Civil and social disobedience
Civil and social disobedience is the practice of the
Disobbedienti, an anti-capitalist movement in
Italy, which grew out of the "
Tute Bianche" or "White Overalls" movement, known in the
United Kingdom as the
WOMBLES (White Overall Movement Building Libertarian Expression) and in
New York City as Ya Basta. The White Overalls principle, inspired by the
EZLN and
Zapatista-solidarity groups, consisted of covering one's body in padding and wearing helmets to deflect the blows of police, and going on marches or demonstrations while wearing easily-recognizable white or yellow overalls. This practice came to be associated with
civil disobedience during the
International Monetary Fund and
World Bank protests in
Prague,
Czech Republic, on
September 26,
2000, in which those who offered symbolic physical resistance by crossing police lines while covered in padding joined the yellow line, which was associated with civil disobedience. Currently, civil and social disobedience includes the creation of autonomous squatted
social centers and political
activism for
migration rights. See
anti-globalization movement.
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