Nonviolence

Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Heckle Therapy’ Offers a Lesson in Nonviolent Self-Defense

January 8, 2014 Bryan Farrell, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Nonviolence

Very early on in my career, I hit upon this idea of being the Heckle Therapist. So that when people would say something nasty, I would immediately become very sympathetic to them and try to help them with their problem and try to work out what was upsetting them, and try to be very understanding with their anger. It opened up this whole fun avenue for me as a comedian, and no one had ever seen that before. Some of my comedian friends used to call me – what did they say? – that I would counsel the heckler instead of fighting them.

Resolved: Let’s Make 2014 A Year Of Nonviolence

January 4, 2014 Carol Bragg, www.providencejournal.com Strategize! Nonviolence

Although there have been major social-change movements in this country that have used nonviolent methods, little has been done to encourage individuals to adopt nonviolence as a way of life. When acts of violence have become so commonplace as to seem normal, we need to teach nonviolence to curb the violence that plagues society: child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, gang activity, sexual assault, bullying and harassment, date rape, gun violence, racial and religious prejudice, homophobia and road rage, among others. We are a nation on edge, fear-ridden, angry, too willing to settle scores, and seemingly incapable of resolving conflicts. We’ve forgotten how to live together harmoniously.

Join The Movement To Mainstream Nonviolence!

December 30, 2013 Pace e Bene, www.campaignnonviolence.org Organize! Nonviolence

Campaign Nonviolence invites all of us to: Practice active nonviolence toward ourselves, toward all others, and toward the world. Join people everywhere in building and nurturing a culture of active nonviolence. Take nonviolent action together. In Campaign Nonviolence's first year, we will take public action for a more nonviolent world September 210-27, 2014 in Washington, DC and in cities across the US and beyond. Launched on the International Day of Peace, Campaign Nonviolence Week 2014 wiill call for concrete policy shifts toward reversing the climate crisis, ending poverty and abolishing war, with an initial focus on banning military drones. Beyond 2014 Campaign Nonviolence will continue to build this people power movement for peace, economic justice, healing the planet, and for the well-being of all.

Man From The North: How To Fight A Tyrant

December 15, 2013 Rivera Sun, www.dandelionsalad.wordpress.com Educate! Nonviolence

It is not enough to hurl your rage at tyranny . . . every bully knows how to dodge a hothead. Anger is the alcohol of emotions. We flush, courageous in its drunken heat, but our blows miss, we flail, and our opponent easily dispatches us. I’ve had my share of schoolyard skirmishes. I’ve been provoked and beaten soundly. I’ve swung my fist in honest rage . . . and missed. More times than I would like to count, my temper tripped me into fights. I won some; I lost others. I’ve come to this . . . anger is a weakness. Some claim it has its purpose. “Righteous” anger is often lauded. Righteous or not, experience warns me that while my anger has served me little . . . my loss of control has aided my opponent greatly.

Transforming Anger Into Nonviolent Power

December 9, 2013 Stephanie Van Hook, www.opendemocracy.net Strategize! Nonviolence

As Leymah Gbowee stood in front of a crowd of women at her church in Monrovia, praying for an end to the civil war that was raging in Liberia, she had no idea of the consequences that were about to unfold. A specialist in healing from trauma, Gbowee and her allies had spent months visiting mosques, markets and churches in order to mobilize a nascent peace movement. By the late summer of 2002, she had become recognized as the leader of Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, which held daily non-violent demonstrations and sit-ins in defiance of orders from Charles Taylor, the Liberian President at the time. Eighteen months later, in August 2003, the war was brought to an end. Gbowee’s efforts, along with those of newly-elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, were recognized by the award of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

Militarism And Violence Are So Yesterday: It’s Time To Make Peace The Reality

November 22, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.truth-out.org Strategize! Nonviolence, Wars and Militarism

Many factors make this an opportune time to move toward greater use of nonviolent practices. The most obvious, of course, is that the United States and the planet can no longer support American Empire and its endless wars. We cannot continue to spend more than $1 trillion each year on the military and national security state while the basic needs of our population are not being met and our domestic infrastructure is crumbling. The empire economy quite literally is killing us. And our bloated military is not just killing us and others around the world, mostly innocent civilians, but it is killing the Earth, too. This report published by Project Censored calls the US Department of Defense the worst polluter on the planet. It states: "This impact includes uninhibited use of fossil fuels, massive creation of greenhouse gases, and extensive release of radioactive and chemical contaminants into the air, water, and soil." And that does not include the private military contractors and weapons industries. The era of American Empire is coming to an end. The signs are everywhere.

VIDEO: Nonviolent Resistance Becoming Increasingly Effective

November 6, 2013 Erica Chenoweth, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Democracy, Nonviolence, Video, Wars and Militarism

The key factor to success is the power that mass, broad-based participation provides for a movement. It turns out that, on average, nonviolent campaigns tend to attract far more participants than their violent counterparts. This allows nonviolent campaigns to create or exploit cracks within the regime’s pillars of support (economic elites, business elites, security forces, state media and civilian bureaucrats). Such cracks are difficult to create without mass mobilization with unarmed civilians, who simultaneously demonstrate their commitment, their noncooperation with the exiting order and their disinterest in physically harming those whom they oppose. In addition to imposing serious economic, political and social costs on those who resist the movement’s demands, civil resistance is also a form of psychological warfare — and a rather effective one at that.

Five Stages Of Movement’s For Revolutionary Change

October 9, 2013 George Lakey, www.trainingforchange.org Strategize! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Nonviolence, Occupy

We need to go beyond what has been done plenty of times in history -- to overthrow unjust governments through nonviolent struggle -- and create a strategy that builds at the same time as it destroys. We need a strategy that validates alternatives, supports the experience of freedom, and expands the skills of cooperation. We need a political strategy that is at the same time a community strategy, one that says "yes" to creative innovation in the here and now and links today's creativity to the new society that lies beyond a power shift. With the help and feedback of many activists from a number of countries I've created a strategic framework that aims to support today's activists, something like the way Otpur activists were supported by their strategy. I call it strategy for a living revolution. The strategy not only encourages creating new tactics and more boldness in using the best of the old, but it also helps activists sort out which tactics will be most effective.

The Syrian Resistance: A Tale of Two Struggles

September 24, 2013 Maciej Bartkowski and Mohja Kahf, www.opendemocracy.net Educate! Nonviolence, Syria

It is a tragedy of history when so many people regardless of sect, ethnicity, religion, and gender join in nonviolent resistance to demand freedom for all, and achieve so much with so little during such a brief time, only to have their accomplishments go largely unrecognized, and their struggle devolve into a fight with oppression on its own violent terms - as if these could be complementary to nonviolent resistance, an effective method to protect people, or a proven instrument to defeat a brutal regime. This happened in Syria.

Interventions For An Ever Hotter Planet

August 21, 2013 George Lakey, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Climate Change, Environment, Nonviolence

On August 1, the journal Science published a new study by a team that reviewed 60 previous climate change studies to get a big picture of what we can expect in the decades to come. The bottom line: more conflict. We’ll see it on many levels, the scientists conclude in the study, from road rage to resource fights to street confrontations to struggles over human rights. How violent will they get? I believe we can influence that by accelerating the already impressive growth in skills and knowledge of nonviolent action.

What Would it Take to Start a Peace Army?

August 10, 2013 Stephanie Van Hook, www.metacenter.org Strategize! Nonviolence

The Freedom Rides of 1961 saw some of the most iconic moments of the United States’ Civil Rights movement. Courageous, idealistic young people boarded buses to the segregated South to stand up for their ideals of freedom, equality and justice. Like our most fearless armed servicemen/women, they knew that they were risking their lives for their beliefs. What made them different, however, was that they were unarmed and trained in nonviolence. Referring to his participation in the rides, Georgia Congressperson John Lewis said, “I was like a soldier in a nonviolent army.”

Laboratories for Nonviolent Defense

July 23, 2013 George Lakey, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Nonviolence

The 1 percent would have us believe that violence must be the answer for meeting our defense and protection needs. That’s because in most places the 1 percent runs the state, which has the big guns. From that point of view it would be silly to fund major research and development programs that advance the frontier of what nonviolent action can do, since nonviolent civil resistance is not a form of power the 1 percent can control. For the 99 percent, then, it has been guesswork: What are the limits of nonviolent community defense? To find out, people have worked to develop new possibilities and try them in the real world. Some very far-fetched ideas get generated that way.

Who was Badshah Khan?

July 19, 2013 Michael Nagler, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Nonviolence

If you watched Malala Yousafzai’s much discussed and inspiring speech to the United Nations last week, you may have heard this courageous teenager — who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education — refer to Badshah Khan as a great inspiration for her determined commitment to nonviolence. You may have also wondered, “Who is this man?” After all, his name is not instantly recognizable like Gandhi or Mother Theresa — the other two luminaries Yousafzai cited. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, later known as Badshah, or King, was born in 1890 in the town of Utmanzai — not far from Peshawar, in what was then the Northwest Frontier Province of India.

Video: Military Police Join Protestors in Brazil!

July 8, 2013 Alexandra Bruce, www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com Strategize! Brazil, Nonviolence

This video is from mid-June in Brazil It shows a group of police officers joining the protests, sitting down in public space. Research on non-violent resistance movements cited in the book, "Why Civil Resistance Works" indicates that the chances of success increase by 60% when the security forces join the protesters.

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