Protesters upset over state budget cuts fill the Washington state Capitol.
President John F. Kennedy once said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
An act of civil disobedience 55 years ago -- Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of a city bus -- made the seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, a pivotal symbol in America's civil rights movement.
CNN's Bruce Morton looks back on the legacy of Rosa Parks shortly after her death in 2005.
Thousands of protesters in cities across the United States waved American flags as they rallied Saturday against Arizona's tough new immigration law and pushed for national immigration reform.
Police arrested Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez with a group of protesters Saturday at a rally outside the White House.
Olive Thompson's living room is filled with dozens of delicate glass figurines: swans, angels, Asian dolls. She has spent the past five years fixing this house. The bedroom is pink, the kitchen dotted with red pots and pans.
CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports on homeowners are refusing to go along with foreclosure.
Hezbollah militants Thursday began removing street blockades -- one day after the reversal of two Lebanese Cabinet decisions made during the recent factional violence.
A pro-government television station burns as clashes continue in Beirut.
Hezbollah militants will leave Beirut's streets in response to the Lebanese army's assuming security in the city, an opposition spokesman said Saturday, but "civil disobedience" will continue.
Fighting between Iraqi security forces and supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr left 50 dead in the southern city of Basra and spread to several Baghdad districts Tuesday, Iraqi officials said.
Kenya's opposition party says it will embark on a "mass civil disobedience campaign next week" if its demands aren't met in the intensive negotiations aimed at defusing the political crisis in the tense East African nation.
More than 1,000 climate change activists massed near London's Heathrow airport on Sunday and pledged a mix of peaceful protest and civil disobedience to draw attention to the impact of aviation on global warming.
Two Presbyterian ministers were among 71 people arrested during a series of peaceful protests against the Iraq war Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for a group participating in the protests.
The committee handling Bush's Thursday inaugural is focused on pomp and pageantry, but protesters are also preparing.
Thousands of protesters will face thousands of security officials at the Republican National Convention even before the event begins Monday at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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