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.

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.

 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.