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Blog: A diversity of methods to discover
Tactics rely on methods of action. The more methods you know, the more vocabulary you will have to articulate the proper tactical moves and the most strategic campaigns. Find out about the three main classes of nonviolent action, and what they can do for you.
Also, guess from whom Gandhi gained most of his knowledge of nonviolent strategy. Find out from the late Barbara Deming, one of America's prominent nonviolent activists.
Blog: Invest in Strategy
Just like riots, spontaneous acts of defiance and improvised strings of actions are mere brush fires: quickly ignited, quickly extinguished. When you’re always reacting, you end up disempowered.
Civil resistance is not magic. It may succeed, or it may fail. But don't leave it to chance.
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Blog: Civil resistance runs on people power: How to shift allegiances
Powerful opponents seem to have everything: money, guns, supplies, the army and police, institutions and prisons. How can simple citizens, with scarce resources and unarmed, succeed against opponents wielding deadly weapons? “Look at us,” you say, “we are no match.”
Find out about how nonviolent struggle can achieve victory, in large part by shifting alliegeances among three main groups of people.
Blog: Power through Organizing: Lessons from the Field (2)
Al Giordano says the most threatening thing to the ruling elite is people working together across race, religion, and class. But the Left, he says, is one of the most segregated places in America. While segregation used to be enforced by law, it is now consumer culture, through market segmentation and advertising niches, that separates people. The key to the success of the Obama campaign, and how an underdog won the US presidency, can be summarized in two words: community organizing. It showed the tremendous power that comes from bridging the divides, from getting the latinos, blacks, whites and mulatos to work together.
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Blog: Power through Organizing: Lessons from the Field (1)
How often do you get the chance to take in wisdom garnered through decades of smart organizing work?
In 1979, from a remote summer camp cabin in the Berkshire mountains, nineteen-year-old Al Giordano started organizing the Rowe Nuclear Conversion Campaign. Thirty-two years later, he's back in the same summer camp to share with us, lucky few, some of his best stories. A rare treat; not many organizers lasted as many seasons, or make the effort to patiently share their crop of battle-tested insights.
Blog: Training for Nonviolent Action
From the days of the Home Rule struggle in India to large-scale actions by the environmental and alter-globalization movements, nonviolent action has involved various forms of training in the political art and practical skills of nonviolent conflict for social change. This dialogue focused on the vital importance of training for nonviolent action.
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