The Two Saddest Words In Any Language Are ‘If Only…’ In Honor of the 70th Anniversary of the Munich Students Movement – 3rd Leaflet The White Rose Third Leaflet Munich, 1942 “Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be “governed” without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has [...]
The latest poll shows 61 per cent of Palestinians favouring non-violent resistance as an alternative to stalled negotiations [EPA] Washington, DC - Khader Adnan spent 66 days on hunger strike, a symbolic, self-denying act of non-violent resistance to Israel‘s practice of “administrative detention” or imprisonment without charge. His story quickly became well known and began to [...]
Since 1960, Gene Sharp has written over a dozen books on non-violent struggle [Photo: How to Start a Revolution] Gene Sharp, a humble, 83-year-old intellectual, has been credited with promoting non-violent struggle around the world. Sharp’s book From Dictatorship to Democracy, a how-to guide for toppling dictators first published in 1993, has been translated into 24 different languages. [...]
Now Is the Nonviolence Moment Now is not the moment to declare “We tried nonviolence and it didn’t work.” The purpose of a nonviolent movement is not to prevent police violence. The purpose is to change the society. And there is always every expectation that the police will be ordered to [...]
Occupy By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/occupy-winter-our-discontent Can occupations survive a winter of global weirding, escalated police brutality, and the corporate media‘s venom? Should they? In some parts of the country there will be no cold weather. In others, police abuses will result in larger occupations, not smaller. And it’s certainly possible that for the first time [...]
