Disobedience/obligation

Supplementary material

Podcast: BBC Radio 4 on Henry David Thoreau
Youtube: Civil Disobedience Thoreau Complete Video Audio Book

Trailer: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Youtube: Guardian video obituary: Nelson Mandela

What sort of things drive people to commit civil disobedience?
Website: The Guardian (2014) David Pocock Warned By ARU Over Arrest In Coal Mine Protest
Website: New York Times (2011) Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Political Disobedience’
Website: Reuters (2008) Gore Urges Civil Disobedience To Stop Coal Plants
Website: The Telegraph (2014) Watch: Students Storm Westminster In Protest Over Tuition Fees
Website: Wall St Journal (2014) Former Cricket Star Imran Khan Urges Mass Civil Disobedience
Youtube: Video about the 1990 poll tax riots. People talk about their experiences.
Youtube: Video of Prof. Howard Zinn's court testimony in his trial for damaging a weapons manufacturing plant. He directly discusses civil disobedience, his area of research.
Youtube:  Martin Luther King Jr. Interview On Civil Disobedience and Obeying Just vs. Unjust laws (Closed Captioned)
Youtube: Hong Kong protest 2014: What's going on? | Guardian Explainers
Youtube: Edward Snowden: "If I end up in Guantánamo I can live with that" | Guardian Interviews
Youtube:  Thai protesters step up campaign to oust government

Ferguson, Missouri
Website: Ferguson Action, a Missouri civil disobedience group protesting the shooting of black teen Mike Brown, by a white police officer 
Website: The Times of Israel (2014) Everyone Should Feel Obligated to Join the Ferguson Movement
Website:The Guardian (2014) In Ferguson the Violence of the State Created the Violence on the Street
Website: The Boston Globe (2014) Ahead of Ferguson Decision, an Education in Nonviolence
Twitter search: #Ferguson (possible content warning for racism and abuse: this is a live search so it is impossible to say exactly what you might see)

Political obligation
Youtube:  Guardian interview - John Lydon: 'Russell Brand's revolution is idiotic' (discusses obligation to vote)
Podcast:  Talk by Associate Professor of Philosophy Scott LaBarge - Do we have an obligation to vote?
Website: BBC (2013) Australia election: Why is voting compulsory?
Website: Washington Times (2012) Do Christians have a responsibility to vote?
Website: Washington Post (2014) Do illegal immigrants have an obligation to obey laws banning them from entering the United States?