Communicating with Power: Some Thoughts on Nonviolent Disobedience
Body: I have been reading and observing a lot of hate for the last week, and that is utterly necessary to my work. But I need a break, and this topic is something of a tonic for me. So I want to go...
View ArticleGene Sharp links
Body: Here are the results of the shallowest possbile online research on Gene Sharp:Amazon's page of Sharp titles, including Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century...
View ArticleUK Uncut Inspires US protest group
Tags: protestdemonstrationsnonviolenceUS Uncut is a newly formed organization, modeled after UK Uncut, to use non-violent demonstrations to get corporate tax dodgers to pay their fair share. There are...
View ArticleVia UK Uncut: "How to do a 'Bail In'"
Departments: Department of Why Can't We Do That?Thread: Class WarfareTags: citizen actioncreative protestnonviolenceempty plates protestVia Utube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHg3-xYJlI
View ArticleIf Cairo Came to Kabul
Body: Before Tahrir Square happened almost nobody predicted that President Hosni Mubarak would be forced out of office by a movement that didn't pick up a gun. Had President Barack Obama expected that...
View ArticleConfronting Violent Suppression
Body: Things are getting even uglier in Syria. Bashar is brooking no challenge to his reign, and what started as nonviolent protests have broken down into a very bloody and deadly tumult.It's giving me...
View ArticleDiversity of tactics - and uniformity of outcomes
Body: Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What's more, once...
View ArticleConcerning violence advocates and nailing jello to walls
Body: This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help. Note: this post was updated shortly...
View ArticleNV as provocation to powers that be
Forums: Non-Violence Strategy for this campaignCampaign Taxonomy: EditorialTags: strategynonviolenceTheme of this week's post? Jumping off from "Maybe is bc am 41 or bc am drawn to Kingian NV - NV is...
View ArticleElection blues.. 2016 will be here before we know it-Democrats and...
Body: Since we can't protest without being mislabeled in the current environment, lets protest by inaction. We can vote, each in our own way, but lets refuse to participate in any staged rallies or...
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