Nonviolence

Over 220 Nonviolent Actions Planned For Nonviolence Week

August 30, 2015 Staff, www.paceebene.org Resist! climate crisis, Nonviolence, Peace, Poverty, Sustainability

By Staff of Campaign Nonviolence - Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term movement to mainstream nonviolence and build a culture of peace in three interrelated ways: practicing nonviolence toward ourselves, toward all others, and toward the world by working to abolish war, end poverty, reverse the climate crisis, and challenge all violence. In cities and towns in all 50 states, Campaign Nonviolence will march against violence and for a world of peace, justice and sustainability. During Campaign Nonviolence Week, we will connect the dots between war, poverty, climate change, and all forms of violence —and join forces to work for a culture of peace.

Nonviolent Resistance In Palestine: Steadfastness, Creativity & Hope

July 21, 2015 Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh, www.opendemocracy.net Resist! Israel, Nonviolence, Palestine, Resistance

For Iyad Burnat, nonviolent resistance is as central to daily life as the twisted-trunk olive trees that frame his rural village of Bil’in in the occupied West Bank. An enthusiastic father of five with a large smile and deep, piercing eyes, he is recognized not only in Palestine, but also among scholars and opinion-shapers around the world as a courageous leader among leaders in an exemplary movement of nonviolent resistance. Over the past decade, images and footage of Bil’in’s resistance have spread across the world, in large part due to the movement’s characteristic use of creative actions, which have increasingly captured the attention of international journalists. The movement also gained significant exposure, especially in the United States, when the film Five Broken Cameras (incidentally filmed by Iyad’s brother, Emad Burnat) was nominated for the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Nonviolent Organizer’s Recipe For Social Change

March 29, 2015 Adam Vogal, www.paceebene.org Strategize! Nonviolence, Nonviolent Action

For me, creating a march for Campaign Nonviolence that encourages positive social change is like making a perfect loaf of banana bread. Like the perfect loaf, there is also a tried and true and unfailing recipe for doing the things necessary to bring equality, love, peace, and joy to our world. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., not to mention countless other inspirational leaders, have devoted their lives to perfecting the recipe for helping to create positive social change. Their recipe is called nonviolent action. It is strategic and loving, powerful, but never harming, and always accessible to anyone willing to use it. Most importantly, the result of nonviolence is that it always works. To be successful in creating positive change, all we have to do is follow the recipe of nonviolence that has been handed down from these amazing leaders. For me, the first part of organizing the nonviolent march recipe means contacting everyone I can to get buy in. I know intuitively that everyone wants a better world so I just have to let them know that we are doing something to work towards that end. Many people are willing to spend time helping to create a better world, but first I have to find them and then bring them all together.

The Mother Of Nonviolent Direct Action: Lucy Parsons

March 16, 2015 William Loren Katz, www.zinnedproject.org Educate! Anarchism, Civil Rights, Nonviolence, Women's Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

She called for the use of nonviolence that would have broad meaning for the world’s protest movements. She told delegates workers shouldn’t “strike and go out and starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production.” A year later Mahatma Gandhi, speaking to fellow Indians at the Johannesburg Empire Theater, advocated nonviolence to fight colonialism, but he was still 25 years away from leading fellow Indians in nonviolent marches against India’s British rulers. Eventually Lucy Parsons’ principle traveled to the U.S. sit-down strikers of the 1930s, Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the antiwar movements that followed, and finally to today’s Arab Spring and the Occupy movements.

Popular Resistance Needs Your Support

March 8, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! Media, Nonviolence, Popular Resistance, Resistance

The point is that the Popular Resistance team is deeply committed to human rights and protection of the planet. We will do all that we can nonviolently to bring justice and build a stronger movement of movements. The problem is that by stepping out of the realm of traditional political tools, we are not able to receive funding from traditional foundations. We won't compromise our work for funding, but we still need funds to do the work we do. Some of our readers have made donations recently and we greatly appreciate that. We try not to be aggressive about seeking donations, but we currently find ourselves in a situation that makes it necessary to ask. Some of our staff are going without pay and some have reduced their pay in order to keep Popular Resistance going, but this isn't sustainable. We know that the economy is hard for everyone, but we are asking you to make a donation if you can.

Newsletter: Transforming Fundamental Power Inequities

February 21, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Corporatocracy, Cove Point, Energy, Environment, fast track, Fracking, Free Trade Agreements, Nonviolence, Oil & Gas, Oil Trains, Seneca Lake, TPP, Trade

Most of the Popular Resistance team is in Cove Point, Maryland right now. Almost all are very likely to go to jail for several weeks after Monday's hearing for our efforts to stop the Dominion fracked gas export terminal at Cove Point. You can donate to the campaign here. Stopping this terminal is the key to stopping fracking on the east coast. The Calvert Commissioners have made a charade out of democracy. The government in Calvert County has kept the facts from the public. Before letting the public know of the plan to build the terminal they entered into a secrecy agreement with Dominion so the public has been kept in the dark. In the first hearing on the terminal, the County Attorney wrote the agenda: take public testimony, close the record and vote for the proposal. The proposal was for massive tax breaks for Dominion and waiver of zoning requirements. The latter turned out to be unconstitutional. Protests and civil resistance are the only avenues left to stop the Dominion terminal. This is literally a life and death situation for a community of 44,000 people; hundreds, probably more than a thousand lives, will be shortened and diseases that are not common now, will become common.

How Nonviolent Activists Shape American Identity

February 15, 2015 Rivera Sun, www.laprogressive.com Strategize! Nonviolence

Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. One hundred and fifty years before Gandhi, the colonists were employing many of the same tactics the Indian Self-Rule Movement would use to free themselves from Great Britain. The boycotting of British goods (tea, cloth, and other items) significantly undermined British profits from the colonies. Noncooperation with unjust laws eroded British authority as the colonists refused to comply with laws that restricted assembly and speech, allowed the quartering of soldiers in colonists’ homes, and imposed curfews. Non-payment of taxes would prove to be a landmark issue for the independence movement. The development of parallel governments and legal structures strengthened the self-rule and self-reliance of the colonists and grew local political control that would ultimately prove strong enough to replace British governance of the colonies. Acts of protest and persuasion, petitions, pamphlets, rallies, marches, denouncements, legal and illegal publications of articles, and disruption of British meetings and legal proceedings were also employed.

Nonviolence: Not Just The Moral Choice But The Strategic One

February 15, 2015 Tina Rosenberg, www.nytimes.com Strategize! Nonviolence, OPTOR, Popovic

In very harsh dictatorships, concentrating people in marches, rallies or protests is dangerous; your people will get arrested or shot. It’s risky for other reasons. A sparsely attended march is a disaster. Or the protest can go perfectly, but someone — perhaps hired by the enemy — decides to throw rocks at the police. And that’s what will lead the evening news. One failed protest can destroy a movement. So what do you do instead? You can start with tactics of dispersal, such as coordinated pot-banging, or traffic slowdowns in which everyone drives at half speed. These tactics show that you have widespread support, they grow people’s confidence, and they’re safe. Otpor, which went from 11 people to 70,000 in two years, initially grew like this: three or four activists staged a humorous piece of anti-Milosevic street theater. People watched, smiled — and then joined. Nonviolence is not just the moral choice; it is almost always the strategic choice. “My biggest objection to violence is the fact that it simply doesn’t work,” Popovic writes. Violence is what every dictator does best.

Peace Activists To Shut Down Nuclear Weapons Base

January 13, 2015 Leonard Eiger, www.gzcenter.org Resist! Nonviolence, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

The vigil and action are part of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action's annual tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. The day will include nonviolence training, education on efforts to stop a new generation of ballistic missile submarines, as well as a keynote talk by Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Participants in the annual peace walk led by monks from the Bainbridge Island Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple will take part in Saturday's event. On Monday, January 19th Ground Zero Center will take part in the Seattle MLK Rally & March, walking with a fullscale inflatable Trident II D-5 missile depicting one of Dr. King's famous quotes: “When scientific power outruns spiritual power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”

Resistance And Transformation

December 28, 2014 Malik Yakini, www.michigancitizen.com Resist! Free Speech and Assembly, Nonviolence, Protest

I applaud the young people who have reinvigorated our movement! I am not among those who will criticize others who are marching, dying-in, walking with their hands up, chanting “I can’t breathe” or setting fires and throwing rocks. It is unintelligent and unhealthy to have a foot on your neck, and not use all means available to remove the foot. All resistance to oppression is healthy for the oppressed. The writings of Frantz Fanon are instructive in this regard. In his classic book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” Fanon, speaking of the oppressed, says, “Once their rage explodes, they recover their lost coherence, they experience self-knowledge through reconstruction of themselves…” I am encouraged by this latest wave of resistance. But, while this activism is encouraging, and protesting is significant, it is clearly not enough. We need a long-term strategy guided by a clear vision of the society that we seek to bring into being. If we are to move this strategy forward, as our revered ancestor Kwame Ture (formerly Stokley Carmichael) advised, we must belong to an organization. “The only way you can help your people is by helping to organize them, and the only way you can do that is by joining an organization.”

Murder Of New York Police: Violence Will Not Reduce Violence

December 21, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! killed by police, Nonviolence, Police abuse, police brutality

Popular Resistance joins with #BlackLivesMatter and Ferguson Action in being shocked and saddened by the deaths of two police officers in New York. We extend our sympathy to the families, friends and colleagues of the people killed by an obviously troubled person. Civilian violence is not the solution to police violence, indeed it will lead to an escalation of violence. We need to de-escalate violence between police and the people and not want to do anything to encourage its escalation. It is important to emphasize that these murders were not connected to the movement against police abuse, brutality and racism. The three murders by a troubled man, two police officers and his former girlfriend, are not acts of protest but of someone who needed mental health treatment. Organizers of these nationwide protests have consistently emphasized nonviolence. Peaceful protests across the country have begun to move the issues surrounding the re-making of the relationship between police and the people. Popular Resistance does not want to see that progress undermined by violence, especially the killing of anyone -- civilian or police.

You Are Not My Enemy. Violence Is My Enemy

December 21, 2014 Peijman Kouretchian, Strategize! Nonviolence, Police violence, Racism

When protests breakout there is often an abundance of rage. Where is this anger usually directed? At people. Often towards the police, or individual officers. This results in dehumanization, seeing others as less than human. When we dehumanize others, violence is justified against them, and the system which created them remains unchanged. The way out of this cycle is two fold: 1) Attack and transform the systems that created these individuals. 2) Refuse to hate individuals and instead empathize. Empathy is the art of connecting to the real experience of another person by looking at the world from their perspective. It is at the root of all social evolution, and according to Gloria Steinem, “the most revolutionary emotion.”. When we empathize and look at other’s actions from the point of view of human needs, it becomes easier to understand why someone acts the way they do, even if the strategies they are using to meet those needs are flawed, and possibly unacceptable.

Power Of Protest: Seneca Lake Judge Reconsiders Sentences

December 9, 2014 Charlie Haeffner, www.odessafile.com Resist! Blockade, Fracking, Nonviolence, Seneca Lake

"Judge Berry told us tonight he doesn't like to jail people because sometimes his granddaughter stops speaking to him." That's true, too. He did. In fact, as I sit here recalling that particular evening, the judge said a number of things that were interesting, if only for the fact that other court sessions -- at least those I've observed -- don't veer as readily into the interpersonal. The evening was noteworthy too because the direction of court cases there (at least those begging jail sentences) took an abrupt turn. The prevailing philosophy went from "Go Directly to Jail for 15 Days" to "Let's Talk About It." "I don't like putting people in jail," he said, adding that he has a granddaughter who doesn't like it either, and on occasion "doesn't speak to me" because his job requires such difficult decisions. "For those of you who have a grandchild," he said, "to have a granddaughter" react like that "is terrible."

Narrow-Minded Focus On Military & Weapons Makes Us Less Secure

November 23, 2014 David J. Ragland, www.theportlandalliance.org Educate! Ferguson, militarism, Nonviolence, Violence

Researchers for some time now have been able to understand how freedom from violence and the threat of violence, community-based economic development, authentic democratic processes and transparency increase human security. Violence and security have often been linked; human security research suggests they are mutually exclusive. Choosing violence to attain security precludes that very security for anyone who critiques violence, as thousands have learned in Ferguson. Clanging claims that we live in a great democracy that protects everyone’s rights sound awfully hollow to an unarmed protestor who has just been injured and arrested by a jack-up cop strapped with an official lethal sidearm and a legal system that affords him every benefit of every doubt. Democracy is not just a system of voting but an approach to governing that recognizes obstacles to participation and development and listens, trying to hear what communities need.

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources