5.01.02 nonviolent tactics - how to

Ten Ways To End the Occupation of Afghanistan: Inform, Educate, Agitate, Organize

Protesters of the war in Afghanistan collect blankets for Afghanistan refugees at Boston City Hall Plaza, November 8, 2001. Over 75,000 blankets were collected and sent within four months. photo: © Ellen Shub
Authors: maTT De Vleger

Summary:

To organize, we need to inform ourselves and share what we learn.

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Repression at the Republican Convention: The Criminalization of Dissent

Anti-war demonstration in St. Paul, MN, September 4, 2008. photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash
Authors: Tom Good

Summary:

The Republican Party Host Committee bribed St. Paul to violate protesters' rights. The city, and Homeland Security, complied.

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The Burmese Cyclone, Nonviolent Action, and the Responsibility to Empower

Pushing the relief truck out of the mud, photo: Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Patrick Meier

Summary:

It is not acceptable to let regimes like Burma's dictate the rules of humanitarian intervention.

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Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx

Majora Carter
Authors: Majora Carter

Summary:

The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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Remembering Tony Henry And a Generation of Leaders

Tony Henry, 1989. PHOTO: American Friends Service Committee
Authors: Keith Harvey

Summary:

We need to remember that the dream was not just Dr. King's, but belongs to the many, many people who gave their time, their energy -- even their lives -- to achieve this powerful vision.

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How to Wage Peace & Justice - Tools for Activists

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How to Wage Peace & Justice - Tools for Activists

How to Wage Peace & Justice - Tools for Activists:
Peacework Magazine's Annotated Guide to Organizing Resources

First compiled especially to accompany the How to Wage Peace and Justice Peacework Issue, March, 2008.

Sections in this How-to-Organize Resource Include:

One Way to Live a Pacifist Life: After 80 Years of Activism - WWII CO Ralph DiGia Dies

Ralph DiGia promoting war tax resistance on tax day, April 17, 2007. photo: Ed Hedemann
Authors: Judith Mahoney Pasternak

Summary:

The US Attorney referred him to the War Resisters League. He never left.

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How to Undo the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing

Silence=Death, photo: Malik Williams
Authors: Louise Dunlap

Summary:

I feel like a leader because I know I can say what I mean.

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How to Avoid Destroying Our Movements: On the death of SDS, Nonviolence, and the War

Meaghan Linick (right) of Newschool SDS, Iraq Moratorium, 2007. Photo Thomas Good/Next Left Notes
Authors: Mark Rudd

Summary:

We (the Weather Underground) did the FBI's work for them.

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How Student Radicals Can Be Relevant: Athens, OH SDS Scores Victories -- Sealed with a Pinkie-Swear

Demonstrators at Indonesian Consulate, NY Photo: www.etan.org
Authors: Joshua Kahn Russell

Summary:

Reaching beyond the usual suspects.

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