Civil disobedience is an essential tool for Iranian women to reclaim their dignity and identity against the regime.

“there is a famous saying actually in Persian that if you want Iranian women to do something tell them not to do so anyway we'll practice our civil disobedience”

Wayne Hsiung contends that direct action and civil disobedience are necessary and legal methods for ordinary citizens to expose the truth when the government fails to regulate powerful industries.

“When the government is asleep at the wheel, when the system is fundamentally broken, ordinary people need to take direct action. And that is the history of this country.”