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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.

VIDEO: Lessons From Occupying Hurricane Sandy; & Israeli Racism

November 5, 2013 Pamela Brown and Joel Northram, www.popularresistance.org Resistance Report Israel, Poverty, Racism, Video

Lessons from Occupying Hurricane Sandy | Pamela Brown In this Resistance Report segment, Pamela Brown examines the lessons learned from Occupy Sandy in the context of the long history of race-based housing policies that have led to class based economic opportunities and asks, can these issues be addressed by localized organizing alone? Israel Is A Racists State | Joel Northam In this report, Joel Northam explores the question: What happens when you condense 500 years of conquest and colonial expansion into 65 years, possess the latest high tech weaponry, sprinkle a little bit of imperialist patronage of the United States to the tune of 30 billion dollars a year in military aid, possess a vast nuclear arsenal, and gift wrap it all in a nationalist ideology that would make every fascist dictatorial regime in history proud?

First Nation Protesters Set Sights On New Shale Gas Protest Site

November 4, 2013 Laura Brown, www.globalnews.ca Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, Video

Protesters, who have been set up along Route 134 just outside Rexton for more than a month, received word SWN Resources planned to begin seismic testing in the area this week, according to Elsipogtog Chief Aaron Sock. “We are informed that SWN Resources has provided the province and our legal counsel with their schedule of work and its shale gas exploration activities,” Sock said Friday. “SWN intends to begin work again this Monday, November 4, 2013, even though no steps have been taken by the province to begin discussions with Elsipogtog.” The group believes SWN will resume seismic testing activity along Route 11, near Laketon. On Saturday, 50 First Nations members staked land claims in the same area. They say since Saturday, more of SWN’s geophones — instruments used to collect seismic data — have been placed.

Video: Activsts Arrested Blocking West Side Hwy In NYC

November 4, 2013 EcoWatch, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Video

Video of thirteen people were arrested yesterday for blocking the West Side Highway adjacent to the site where Spectra Energy has completed a natural gas pipeline entering Manhattan, NY from New Jersey. Thanks to the Environment TV crew for capturing this direct action on video. According to the Sane Energy Project, the “New Jersey-New York Expansion Project” is a high-pressure gas pipeline, varying in diameter from 42-30″ routed up the New Jersey shoreline, through the edge of Staten Island, under Jersey City and across the Hudson River, entering Manhattan at the Gansevoort Peninsula in the West Village. It is known more commonly by the name of its builder’s parent company, Spectra Energy. It is known more commonly by the name of its builder’s parent company, Spectra Energy. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the lead agency in charge of permitting this project. During the review of the draft Environmental Impact Statements, there were nearly 5,000 public comments filed against the project, and only 22 in favor.

Baltimore Families Speak Out Against Police Brutality

November 3, 2013 Baltimore BLOC, www.youtube.com Resist!, Uncategorized Criminal Justice and Prisons, Police abuse, Racism, Video

Baltimore Families United Against Police Brutality attend the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus Town Hall meeting on "The State of Black Maryland" Twenty-seven anti-police brutality activists attended the meeting, which included the mother of Christopher Brown, ex-boyfriend of George Booker Wells III, sixteen family members of Tyrone West, and a man who was beaten by some of the same officers involved in the death of West. After the moderator, Delman Coates, the Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, neglected to call on any family members who wanted to ask the panel questions, members began speaking out demanding that their concerns be heard. Four different family members made statements, and in response to each the Coates simply guided the discussion elsewhere, as to avoid any meaningful response from the panel.

Video: H. Rap Brown Discusses Politics

November 1, 2013 Donnie Mossberg, www.youtube.com Educate! Racism, Revolution, Video

This video of H. Rap Brown discussing politics and movements in the United States with Gil Nobel. The interview has a lot of resonance with the issues we focus on today. He discusses elections not being an effective way to advance our cause; and even says that if we were to ever elect a black president, we would need to be prepared to protest him because it is the system that is broken. He also discusses the media and how it is not a vehicle for telling the truth about revolutionary political change. He also discusses movement leadership and growth. He describes the movement as one without leaders but there are people who provide ideas but do not tell people what to do. He says movements must provide people with services the government is failing to provide to bring people to the movement. He sees movements as building from the bottom up, led by people who are oppressed.

12 Year Old Takes On NC Governor On Voting Rights

November 1, 2013 Eric Byler and Annabel Parks, www.StoryofAmerica.org Resist! Democracy, Video, Youth

12-year-old Madison Kimrey of Burlington founded NC Youth Rocks after the North Carolina legislature passed voting restriction laws targeting young people, women, minorities, and the poor. The law appears to be designed to create long lines at the polls — especially in more populous, urban areas — by cutting early voting and making the voting process more time consuming (this was the formula that created 8-hour waits in Florida for the 2012 election, as a FL election official testified to the House Elections Committee in March 2013). Also, the law requires voters to produce a photo ID, but student IDs are not accepted, even if issued by a state university.

Video: Lee Camp “Are Scientific Models Saying Revolt Is Our Only Chance?”

November 1, 2013 Lee Camp, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Video

Well, there’s a trend that seems to be steadily spreading across disciplines, genres, and peoples. That trend is a call for revolt from the current system that will without a shadow of a doubt pillage this globe until there’s nothing left, and according to my calculations, that nothing-left moment will occur in… February. This week alone we’ve seen this call from a pop culture icon and from a scientific model – neither of which are the normal places you hear call for revolutionary change. (“Scientific model” refers to a computerized model, not a hot chick dressed in a lab coat—But if that kind of science model were calling for revolution, then she’d be the woman of my dreams.) In an article by Naomi Klein this week, she describes geophysicist Brad Werner’s advanced computer model which addresses – these are his words – whether we’re f*cked.

Activists Of Color Lead Charge Against NSA Surveillance

October 31, 2013 Rania Khalek, www.truth-out.org Resist! NSA, Video

"We been exposed to this type of surveillance since we got here," declared Kymone Freeman, director of the National Black LUV Fest and founder of We Act Radio as he emceed the historic rally against NSA surveillance in Washington, DC. He continued, "Drones is a form of surveillance. Racial profiling is a form of surveillance. Stop-and-frisk is a form of surveillance. We all black today!" This was the mood that characterized the atmosphere of the Stop Watching Us rally on October 26, 2013, organized by broad coalition of more than 100 public advocacy groups from across the political spectrum, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundations and Color of Change, and attended by thousands. The purpose of the rally, which began as a march from Union Station to the reflecting pool outside Capitol Hill, was to deliver a petition to Congress demanding an end to NSA mass spying.

(De)Occupy Protesters In Hawaii Receive Jail Time

October 30, 2013 Staff, www.kitv.com Resist! Homelessness, Housing, Occupy, Police abuse, Video

Two (de)Occupy protestors were sentenced to prison on Monday. They were found guilty of obstructing government operations after refusing to move when city crews were citing and removing tents from the sidewalk at Thomas Square. If Catherine "Sugar" Russell is feeling remorse for obstructing government operations, she didn't show it. Neither did Blade Walsh. But, both face time in jail for their actions while the city was removing tents and other items from sidewalks. "My father would be proud to have me protecting people," said Russell. "He instilled integrity, charity and standing up for those who need help. I am pono. Blade is pono. Madori is pono and (de)Occupy Honolulu is pono." Russell describes herself as a "protesting houseless advocate."

Congress Disgraces United States Fails To Show For Drone Hearing

October 30, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Drones, Video, Wars and Militarism

Alan Grayson (D-FL) organized an historic hearing on US drone strikes. It was the first time that drone strike victims told their stories to U.S. elected officials at a hearing. The Rehman family traveled halfway around the world from Pakistan to tell the story of their families loss; the killing of the families grandmother. Only five members of Congress bothered to show up. What does this show about the United States political leadership? It is shameful. Below are three articles describing the scene and the families ordeal. We need to help them change the hearts and minds of Americans especially our elected leadership. Please share this with the White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call) and your representatives in Congress.

Hedges: “Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Have Destroyed Satire”

October 29, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.wordpress.com Educate! Corporatism, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights, Media, Occupy, Video

In this wide ranging interview, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Christopher Hedges talks with Acronym TV's Dennis Trainor Jr about Class War, Non violence, The Great Gatsby, and about the lost art of Satire. "Satire becomes destroyed in essence in the hands of figures like Colbert, John Stewart and others," Hedges asserts. "They will attack the excesses or the foibles of the system, but they are never going to expose the system itself because they are all millionaires, they are commercially supported. You have very few people (George Carlin was one) who will stand up and do it. If you do that, it is tough to make a living. Carlin maybe being the exception. But if you really use Satire the way Swift used Satire, to expose the English barbarity in Ireland because culture, like everything else in the society has been completely corporatized."

VIDEO: Russell’s Brand New Revolution & Chris Hedges On Class War

October 27, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com Resistance Report Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Occupy, Video

Resistance Report: While watching Russell Brand’s BBC interview, it is not hard to imagine two families in Middle America, neighbors, watching separately in the comfort of their own homes as Russell Brand does his bit and each nod in lonely agreement. “Yes!”, they are likely to say- “this Russell Brand fellow is right.” But family A has to work hard at a job they are made to feel they are lucky to have buying something, selling something, or processing something when, like their inner Lloyd Dobbler, they don’t want to buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, they don't want to do that. And Family B is doing the same thing. Both are trying to keep up with the Joneses, as they the expression goes. Family B is competing to send their kids to better schools and than Family A; and Family A is competing just as hard to beat out family B. They are each other’s Jones.

From Gandhi To Occupy: The Story Of Peaceful Protest

October 27, 2013 Jamie Merrill, www.independent.co.uk Strategize! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Occupy, Police abuse, Video

From battles to end racial segregation to local struggles to protect rare habitats, the captive crew of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is following in a rich tradition of peaceful protest. But according to one of Britain’s foremost experts in civil disobedience, the nature of protest is changing. David Mead of the University of East Anglia’s Law School said that over the past 30 years there has been a radical shift towards protest and campaigns aimed at rogue corporations, not governments. “The mass protest march isn’t quite dead, but it’s very much secondary,” said the author of The New Law of Peaceful Protest. “Instead, protesters are more likely to engage with particular groups or organisations they dislike, whether they are polluting firms, oil companies or arms manufacturers.” Brian Fitzgerald, the head of mobilisation at Greenpeace International, agreed. “Corporations can be more responsive to pressure than many governments. Brent Spar and the campaign against Shell in the 1990s was a great early example of this. It was Shell that buckled over sinking the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea, not the UK government.

Oakland Protests “Urban Shield” Convention; 2nd Anniversary Of Eviction

October 26, 2013 Staff, www.contracostatimes.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Occupy, Police abuse, Video

The second anniversary of the eviction of Occupy Oakland was remembered on the same day as protesters marched through Oakland opposing the urban policing convention 'Urban Shield.' About 100 protesters gathered Friday evening at Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland to commemorate the second anniversary of the eviction of the Occupy Oakland encampment from the plaza and the police crackdown on the subsequent protest. Those gathered spoke out against police violence, whacked a pig-shaped piñata and dined on roasted pig. Many people marched to the rally from the downtown Oakland Marriott, where they had protested all day outside the Urban Shield 2013 conference, where vendors were pitching weapons and equipment to law enforcement agencies gathered for a three-day training exercise.

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