Revolt Against Authority -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: The (Il)legality of Protest Movements -- 1 Introduction to the Authority of Law and Social Protest -- Introduction -- The Basis of Authority -- Civil Disobedience or Conscientious Obligation? -- Self-Determination and Legal Protests -- State Authority and the Importance of the Rule of Law -- The Rights of Citizenship and Collective Human Rights -- 2 The Occupy Wall Street Movement: Attack in a "Lawless" World? -- Introduction -- The Occupy Movement's Legal Aspects: Symbolic Speech and Practical Difficulties -- The Geopolitical Aspects of Free Speech -- Expressive Conduct and the Law -- Occupy as Revolt against Law and Injustice -- Collective Human Rights against Authority -- Resistance to Plunder -- Protests, Injustice and the Rule of Law -- 3 Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Movements: Substance and Roles -- Introduction -- UNESCO, the Common Heritage of Mankind and the Principled Defense of Humanity's Arts and Sciences -- The Civil Rights Movement: Restoring Justice in Legality -- Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence -- "Civil Resistance" and the Law -- Citizens' Resistance and Declining Allegiance to State Sovereignty -- Community over Individuals and Justice -- The End of Politics and the Rise and Role of Social Movements -- Corporate Power and Cosmopolitan Democracy -- Corporations, the State and the "Two Constitutions" -- 4 International Citizenship under Siege -- Introduction -- Constructing Global Citizenship -- Citizenship, Authority and the Law -- Idle No More and the Canadian First Nations: "Frozen Rights"? -- The Crown's Obligations: Local Issues or Fundamental Principles? -- Civil Disobedience against Environmental Harms: Forceful or Not?.

Revolt and Self-Defense beyond the Right to Survive -- Citizens' Misinformation and Misguided Activism -- Transnational Citizens: Further Considerations beyond their Legal Status -- 5 The Limits of the Power of ingos, Social Movements, and Associations, and the Authority of Law -- Introduction -- The Security Council and the Mandates and Principles of the un Charter -- The Weakened United Nations and the Struggles of the "Multitude" -- The Collective and the "Multitude" -- The Commons and the Collective -- The Multitude and the "Common" -- Protest for the Rule of Law -- Illegalities Sustain Protests: Structural Violence against Society -- Self-Defense? The Moral Response to "Threats" -- Self-Defense and Protests against Violence in International Law -- Concluding Thoughts for Part I -- Part 2: Victims of Structural Violence -- 6 Victims of "Non-Intimate Violence" and the Law -- Introduction -- What is Protected by International Human Rights Charters and Jus Cogens Norms? The Question of Shue's "Basic Rights" -- Galtung on Structural/Cultural Violence -- Conclusions -- 7 Victims of Human Rights Law and of Legal Persons: Where Justice and Equal Rights Do not Apply -- Introduction: The "Original Sin" -- Corporate Responsibility and Accountability -- Multinational Corporations: Their Nature, Their Role, and Their Victims -- Crimes against Humanity? The Principles of Nuremberg and the Victims of Corporate Crimes -- Nuremberg and Equality: Victims of Non-Observance of Principles -- Victim Protection and Corporate Rights: Deterrence or Compensation? -- Victims of Corporate Power and Inequality -- Victims of "Toxic Trespass" -- 8 Victims of Legal Bombardments, Drone Attacks and Other Forms of Collateralism -- Introduction.

International Law Eliminated and Betrayed: The Case of Bombardments as Unlawful Means of Combat -- Non-combatant Immunity and the Victims of Collateralism -- Victims of Illegal Weapons, Indiscriminate Means of War, and Environmental Hazards -- Victims of Drone Attacks -- The "War on Terror" and Its Victims -- Victims of the Conduct of War -- State Terrorism and Its Victims -- Aggression and Terrorism in International Law from 1972 to 2005: Working on an Impossible Definition -- One Source: Two Major Global Phenomena -- The Issues: Terrorism and Collective Human Rights -- More Victims of State Terrorism and Counter-terrorism Measures -- George W. Bush "Indictment for Torture" -- Khalid El-Masri and the Case of Extraordinary Renditions -- The Background of "Extraordinary Renditions" and Some International Implications of the "CIA's Long-Term Detainees" -- The Canadian Position: Maher Arar and State Interests -- Concluding Thoughts on "Abandoning the Victim" -- "Abandoned" Victims in Other Countries -- 9 Responsibility to Protect or Obligation to Prevent: Whose Responsibility? -- Introduction -- The Argument of the Previous Chapters: Victims in a Lawless World -- Legal Redress for Victims? -- Responsibility to Protect for Collective Obligations -- Sovereignty as Responsibility? -- Responsibility to Protect: Downward Spiral or Best Hope for Victims? -- The "Crime of Silence" and the Activities of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine -- The Responsibility of Global Civil Society -- The "Criminalization of Dissent" -- 10 Current Changes and Concluding Thoughts -- Current Changes: Positive and Negative -- Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix I Cases -- Appendix II Documents -- References -- Index.