Let’s Support Winning Instead of Witness
A Response to Betsy Raasch-Gilman’s
Reflection on the 2008 Protests at the
Republican National Convention
By George Lakey
As a long-time friend and comrade of Betsy Raasch-Gilman’s, I’d […] Continue Reading…
The following is posted as part of a dialogue on the elections facilitated by the War Resisters League. See <http://www.warresisters.org/node/458> for more information and perspectives.
For those of us working […] Continue Reading…
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — A group of Saudi activists is planning the country’s first public hunger strike to draw attention to the detention without charge of a dozen political reformists. The participants, who include lawyers, university students and relatives of the detained, could face arrest for their protest in this authoritarian kingdom. […] Continue Reading…
A recent International Crisis Group report is calling for a change in international policies towards Burma. It calls for an increase in the amount of foriegn aid to Burma […] Continue Reading…
Here is an example of property destruction that many would say falls into the nonviolent methods category.
Swedes disarm Iraq-bound weapons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ppK8627mA
20 Carl Gustaf antitank launchers and other armaments were damaged
Thursday […] Continue Reading…
Pt’chang has folded but in its place has arisen the Nonviolent Training Project. It has put up a wonderful website.
Their resources section are quite good relying on the diverse […] Continue Reading…
Here is the analysis of the contribution of nonviolent methods, practiced by Narodni Pokret Otpor (People’s Movement Resistance), to the uprising that ended the13 year-long reign of President Slobodan Milosevic’s regime. Foreign and domestic analysts have already written at length about the October revolution in Serbia. However, they generally failed to carefully consider the role of Gene Sharps’ groundbreaking strategic model for nonviolent action and Otpor’s application of Sharp’s model – this article aims to fill this important gap in the literature. It is curious that Sharp’s work received so little attention because, especially in the last year, Otpor (Resistance) received considerable attention in the Yugoslav and international press. […] Continue Reading…
At a glittering event at the El-Hibri Charitable Foundation on October 4th, a few blocks north of the White House, the Honorable R. Scott Kennedy received the 2008 El-Hibri […] Continue Reading…
Overcoming fear from different sources is a tough obstacle in a nonviolent action movements. Fear of change and fear of the regime are the two big ones.
Change could be […] Continue Reading…
George Lakey has written much on this topic. Here is a link to a lecture on the topic.
Nonviolent Struggle (social change)
Nonviolent Defense (social defense)
Third-Party Nonviolent Intervention
One of the ideas […] Continue Reading…