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Walk the plank?

May 17, 2012
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Walk the plank?

 Social change is itself conflictual.--Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse and Hugh MiallOne of the founders of the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, Johan Galtung, wrote about the difference between what he called the intelligentsia--those intell...

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National Nurses United: Still we march

May 17, 2012
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National Nurses United: Still we march

by Jake Olzen. The past couple of weeks have been something of a roller-coaster for National Nurses United and it all culminates this Friday morning with the first major march and rally in what is expected to be a weekend of protest in Chicago. But it was a fight to get even there. Last Tuesday,

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Action that can produce results

May 17, 2012
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by Daoud Kuttab   This week, two totally different cases saw real progress towards resolution due to persistence, focus on achievable results and the use of nonviolent means. Palestinian prisoners and supporters of their just and reasonable requests in Palestine, the Arab world and the international community saw a successful resolution of their demands. The end of administrative detentions was the aim when Adnan Khader and Hana Shibli began the protests with a pair of hunger strikes followed by Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diab. This was followed by 1,600 prisoners demanding the end of solitary confinement,...

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TURKMENISTAN: Arrest of conscientious objector Juma Nazarov

May 17, 2012
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How Walter Wink confronted violence

May 17, 2012
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How Walter Wink confronted violence

by Ken Butigan. Fifteen years ago I attended a talk by Walter Wink. Like a growing number of people who knew his work on nonviolence I was a fan, and told him so. He demurred, saying he was just a writer. “It’s the activists who are doing all the real work,” he said. It was

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25 years on, Singaporeans remember the ‘Marxist conspiracy’

May 16, 2012
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25 years on, Singaporeans remember the ‘Marxist conspiracy’

by Kirsten Han. On May 21, 1987, 16 Singaporeans were arrested and detained in a crackdown called Operation Spectrum. About a month later, four of the original 16 were released, and another six arrested. They were branded as Marxist conspirators out to “subvert Singapore’s political and social order using communist united front tactics” and detained

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Nonviolent action pays off in Palestinian prisoner deal

May 16, 2012
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Ali Sawafta, Reuters, May 15, 2012Standing up to Israel through nonviolent resistance can produce encouraging results, Palestinians said on Tuesday, after a prisoner hunger strike produced some Israeli concessions. "The prime lesson here is that resist...

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Syria: Assad’s businessmen have defected

May 16, 2012
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Hussein Shobokshi, Al Arabiya News, May 14, 2012The danger, insults, humiliation and the exorbitant cost which the Syrian business sector have had to pay - especially when considering this category as one that is accustomed to "calculating" issues befo...

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India: The Naxalite campaign’s shadow over the world’s largest democracy

May 16, 2012
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Ayushman Jamwal, Kindred Mind, May 13, 2012The Naxalite campaign in the so-called Red belt in central and south India, has been poorly treated by India's democratic disconnect. The tribal people of the region are fighting for the rights to their lands,...

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Russia: Stroll Moscow, occupy Abai

May 16, 2012
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Masha Gessen, NY Times, May 14, 2012"Socrates might be surprised to find out that we have included him in the history of civil disobedience," says Tamara Eidelman, to the 300 people who have gathered in this park in central Moscow. This is the first in...

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How Chile’s mothers resisted

May 16, 2012
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Nadine Bloch, Waging Nonviolence, May 13, 2012During the brutal dictatorship of Agusto Pinochet, Chile's Mothers spent hours stitching stories of resistance and suffering in the 1980s into a traditional tapestry form, arpilleras. D...

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A new symbol for new times

May 16, 2012
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A new symbol for new times

by John Jackson. Do a Google image search for protest symbols and your first page will show a range of raised fists, Guy Fawkes masks and possibly even a few giant inflatable rats. But by far the single most represented image you’ll see is the peace sign. It is probably the most famous protest symbol

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  • Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
    Thomas A. Edison

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