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Two days after her arrest the South Carolina state legislature had enough votes to remove the flag from the capitol.

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30 year old, Bree Newsome climbed a flagpole in South Carolina and tore down the Confederate flag. She was not alone but she was the only one arrested. They did this as an act of civil disobedience and used the different colors of their skin to demonstrate power of people when working together.

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She was objecting to racism and doing so by demonstrating power of the people as well.

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June 29, 2015; Washington Post

It's been almost a year since Michael Brown's shooting ignited a frenzy of Internet activists, community organizers, and social justice leaders. As NPQ 's coverage of the Black Lives Matter has shown, civil disobedience and social media have gone hand in hand as situations like the Charleston shooting, Eric Garner's death, and the slew of slain unarmed black men and women continue to illustrate how racism is an established force in our society. Social media has been the natural medium for many to react and communicate amid this frenzy. But there has been nothing yet quite like Bree Newsome, the woman who scaled a flagpole in South Carolina and tore down the Confederate battle flag.

Readers may remember NPQ's coverage of the controversy last week concerning the flag. Politicians spanning the partisan spectrum from Mitt Romney to Bernie Sanders called on South Carolina to take down the Confederate flag following the Charleston shooting. While some said they considered the flag part of the South's heritage and history, others stood behind their belief that history is founded on the vitriol of slavery and racism.

On Monday, the South Carolina state legislature had enough votes to remove the flag from the Capitol. But two days earlier, while politicians waged their wars with words and lobbied legislatures, Newsome, a 30-year-old North Carolina resident and community organizer, climbed the flagpole in front of the South Carolina state capitol building using a metal harness and removed the flag herself. She was promptly arrested afterward, but her smile-and the social media response to her proactivity-reflects a victory.

Artists online have reimagined Newsome into a superhero while other members of the public continue to fundraise for her legal fees. An Indiegogo campaign has raised more than $120,000.

Newsome did not act alone. According to a statement she gave to the Blue Nation Review, Newsome and a "small group of concerned citizens, both black and white" came to the decision to remove the flag.

"We discussed it and decided to remove the flag immediately," said Newsome in her statement, "both as an act of civil disobedience and as a demonstration of the power people have when we work together. Achieving this would require many roles, including someone who must volunteer to scale the pole and remove the flag."

"It was decided that this role should go to a black woman and that a white man should be the one to help her over the fence as a sign that our alliance transcended both racial and gender divides. We made this decision because for us, this is not simply about a flag, but rather it is about abolishing the spirit of hatred and oppression in all its forms."

In many ways, Newsome and the group's response is a direct response to the very issue at the heart of these conflicts: a lack of power and control over their circumstances. In those situations where law enforcement is in control, they have seen their friends, family members and strangers killed. Where they have tried to assert their power or control, they have also been killed.

This protest draws on the fundamental power given to the American people to act and bring justice when the government will not. After Michael Brown and Eric Garner, many may have forgotten the purpose of a grand jury: to give the people the power to stop an unjust prosecution.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, "In a government of laws existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

However, the people's power to counteract the government is most effective when exercised prudently by the masses. " Whether the topic is trending nationally or it's an issue affecting our local communities, those of us who are conscious must do what is right in this moment," says Newsome. "And we must do it without fear. New eras require new models of leadership. This is a multi-leader movement. I believe that. I stand by that. I am because we are. I am one of many."-Shafaq Hasan

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In Act of Civil Disobedience, Woman Removes Confederate Flag at SC Capitol - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

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June 29, 2015; Washington Post It's been almost a year since Michael Brown's shooting ignited a frenzy of Internet activists, community organizers, and social justice leaders.

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Thoreau and Gandhi's influence on Mr. King

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Thoreau and Gandhi's influence on Mr. King

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Thoreau, Gandhi, and King are all inspiring leaders of Civil Disobedience. From Thoreau, King learned about civil disobedience and from Gandhi, he learned how to believe and achieve is goals without violence.

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He wanted to stand against the mistreatment of black people in America during the 1950’s.

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Topic Sentence: Like Gandhi, King used civil disobedience as a means of effectuating government change. It took the form of large-scale, non-violent refusals to obey government commands....

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. His method of non violence civil disobedience is what was know for.

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Gandhi is influenced by Thoreau by the way he just simply does not cooperate with the government. Thoreau's civil disobedience stuck out to Gandhi.

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In this article, it tells about Gandhi's act of civil disobedience. This march was in protest ( which makes it civil disobedience) against Britain's Salt Acts. These acts prohibited Indians from buying or selling salt

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On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.

Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet. Citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Although India's poor suffered most under the tax, Indians required salt. Defying the Salt Acts, Gandhi reasoned, would be an ingeniously simple way for many Indians to break a British law nonviolently. He declared resistance to British salt policies to be the unifying theme for his new campaign of satyagraha, or mass civil disobedience.

On March 12, Gandhi set out from Sabarmati with 78 followers on a 241-mile march to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea. There, Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater. All along the way, Gandhi addressed large crowds, and with each passing day an increasing number of people joined the salt satyagraha. By the time they reached Dandi on April 5, Gandhi was at the head of a crowd of tens of thousands. Gandhi spoke and led prayers and early the next morning walked down to the sea to make salt.

He had planned to work the salt flats on the beach, encrusted with crystallized sea salt at every high tide, but the police had forestalled him by crushing the salt deposits into the mud. Nevertheless, Gandhi reached down and picked up a small lump of natural salt out of the mud-and British law had been defied. At Dandi, thousands more followed his lead, and in the coastal cities of Bombay and Karachi, Indian nationalists led crowds of citizens in making salt. Civil disobedience broke out all across India, soon involving millions of Indians, and British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people. Gandhi himself was arrested on May 5, but the satyagraha continued without him.

On May 21, the poet Sarojini Naidu led 2,500 marchers on the Dharasana Salt Works, some 150 miles north of Bombay. Several hundred British-led Indian policemen met them and viciously beat the peaceful demonstrators. The incident, recorded by American journalist Webb Miller, prompted an international outcry against British policy in India.

In January 1931, Gandhi was released from prison. He later met with Lord Irwin, the viceroy of India, and agreed to call off the satyagraha in exchange for an equal negotiating role at a London conference on India's future. In August, Gandhi traveled to the conference as the sole representative of the nationalist Indian National Congress. The meeting was a disappointment, but British leaders had acknowledged him as a force they could not suppress or ignore.

India's independence was finally granted in August 1947. Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist less than six months later.

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Mohandas Gandhi begins 241-mile civil disobedience march

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On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet.

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He was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. He fought to create an Indian state free of British rule. Gandhi believed in achieving his goals without violence.

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Thoreau basically says that the government is better when they are not involved. In the long run, especially in today's time, some people would need the governments assistants. In the second quote he says he is not asking for no government but just a better one. He also talks about being a real man is doing what is right and have the right to do so.

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In this quote, Thoreau says that in a government that is corrupt the way it is, the only place for a true man is also in a prison. He says this because being in prison means that a good man has protested and had been arrested for standing up for what is right. In the real world, it would draw attention to the situation if an arrest happened but to make a big statement and impact people, many arrest would probably need to take place

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Thoreau believes it is not to late to rebel or stand up for what is right. The right to refuse the government while they are not doing right. Protesting is the solution. Protesting in the real word is not always effective, it ends in violence and sometimes has no affect.