These six global struggles show the power of nonviolence in action
WEBFeb 3, 2021 · Embed from Getty Images. In today’s media world — especially if you live inside the U.S. media bubble — if you hear news about foreign countries, it tends to be about business, political leaders, wars or disasters.
How draft resistance helped end the Vietnam War
WEBOct 12, 2021 · Robert Levering comes to Nonviolence Radio this week to talk to Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler about the film “The Boys Who Said No!” and the powerful draft resistance movement that helped end the Vietnam War. Robert is an executive producer of the film, a position he is well suited to as he …
You only need 10 percent: The science behind tipping points and …
WEBJan 2, 2012 · Way back in 2000, author Malcolm Gladwell published The Tipping Point, a book that explains how ideas and messages spread like viruses.With catchy phrases of its own, like “the law of the few”–which attributes the success of any social epidemic to 20 percent of the population–The Tipping Point led to an explosion in the pop science genre. ...
8 skills of a well-trained activist - Waging Nonviolence
WEBJun 12, 2013 · Here are a few of the key benefits that we should expect to gain from one another through training: 1. Increase the creativity of direct action strategy and tactics. The Yes Men and the Center for Story-Based Strategy lead workshops in which activist groups break out of the lockstep of “marches-and-rallies.”.
In the face of assassinations and paramilitary terror, the Zapatista ...
WEBAug 2, 2021 · Chiapas, a state in southeastern Mexico bordering Guatemala, was the epicenter of the 1994 Zapatista uprising. On Jan. 1,1994 — the effective date of the North American Free Trade Agreement — the insurgents of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, or EZLN, seized five county towns in the state at dawn, declaring a struggle for “work, land, shelter, food, health, education ...
The successes and failures of South Africa’s student movement
WEBJun 29, 2017 · The "Fees Must Fall" movement that rocked South Africa last year is not over, as students demand a complete transformation of the education system. South Africans were not surprised by the emergence of the “Zuma Must Fall!” call which manifested in huge protests in April and May 2017. We are accustomed to protest at many levels, from the ...
It's not just 'coal country' | Waging Nonviolence
WEBNov 8, 2019 · It’s not just ‘coal country’ — what the history of women’s labor reveals about Appalachia. With her recent book “To Live Here You Have to Fight,” Jessie Wilkerson is changing percpetions of Appalachia with stories of its women-led movements. Historian Jessie Wilkerson (left) with lifelong social justice activist Sue Ella Kobak ...
The Plowshares Eight: Thirty Years On - Waging Nonviolence
WEBSep 9, 2010 · While commemorating thirty years of resistance to nuclear weapons at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, TN, this past July, John Schuchardt reflected upon the first days of the Plowshares 8, “We would never be thinking about starting a [Plowshares] movement,” he said. “This was a humble, simple human action by a …
Why Martin Luther King’s pledge of nonviolence matters today
WEBJan 18, 2016 · Bill Hudson’s image of Parker High School student Walter Gadsden being attacked by dogs in Birmingham, Alabama was published in The New York Times on May 4, 1963. (Wikipedia) Alycee Lane believes that the same spirit that guided Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work can be awakened within us.
How the spirit of the indigenous occupation of Alcatraz lives on, …
WEBNov 14, 2019 · In 1969, indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island, demanding that their treaties be honored. Fifty years later, they’re still fighting.