Question.588 - D 7: Civil Disobedience 4242 unread replies.6161 replies. Remember the word "Kafkaesque," coined after the 20th century writer Franz Kafka? It means "having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality (Links to an external site.)", and often refers to bureaucracies and other vast social structures that are oppressive to the individual. One way to respond to a Kafkaesque situation is with civil disobedience, a term coined in an 1849 essay (Links to an external site.) by the 19th-century American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Civil disobedience is ancient -- see the first chapter of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible, where the midwives disobey the pharaoh, refusing to kill the Hebrew male children, and then dissemble about their disobedience. (See Exodus 1:15-19 (Links to an external site.)) Civil disobedience is still with us today, as suggested in the short BBC video below that traces the idea from Henry David Thoreau, through Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., up to climate change protesters and the "occupy" movement. A recent and widely-publicized reincarnation of civil disobedience is perhaps in the "cancel culture" movement that is currently a fault-line in the fracture of American politics.
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1. Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential women activists of the 20th century. She was the leader of Chicano Civil rights movement. Despite discrimination based on race and gender, Huerta helped organize the Delano grape workers' strike in 1965 and was the chief negotiator in the subsequent workers' contract. Huerta organized employees, negotiated contracts, and pushed for safer working conditions, including the eradication of toxic pesticides, throughout her time with the UFW. She also advocated for farm workers' unemployment and healthcare benefits. Antigone on the other hand always stood for what she found right, irrespective of any circumstances. Even though she had to be a victim of her Uncle Creon who was the king of Thebes. In the same way, Huerta faced dire consequences for her civil rights movement, where she was shackled to death, yet she came back and stood for her right. 2. Even though we have a ready food supply for ourselves and our families, it becomes imperative to have a moral obligation to workers. It is an ecosystem. We are all cohabiting in this ecosystem. We as humans are interdependent on each other to qualify for our basic needs. There will be a huge dearth of employment if we will not support the invisible workers. Interdependence is the required essence of a civilized society. 3. In order to address the food insecurity in San Antonio, a civil disobedience movement that I will undertake is a silent protest, through flyers, a peaceful march that will help the city council to notice the food insecurity problem. educating society about food insecurity which is a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active and healthy life. The various measures the government should take to resolve the food insecurity issue.More Articles From Humanities
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