This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
The book careens around the globe, diving into campaigns and surfacing to offer fresh and often surprising lessons, even when examining well-known events.
Stephanie Van Hook: Transforming anger into nonviolent power
“Non-violence, being natural, is not noted in history” wrote Gandhi in his classic text Hind Swaraj. Modern civilization does not give us the tools to see the subtler effects of violence and nonviolence. This problem is compounded by the fact that many of those who use nonviolence to good effect live under the radar screen of history because they are marginalized.
Steve Clemens: Going to Jail as Solidarity, Doing Time in Des Moines
Drone Protest Trial By Steve Clemens Mennonista June 27, 2014 I spent 20 hours on the boundary between discomfort and pain. I thought of Martin Luther King writing about redemptive suffering and offered my time in the noisy, cold, boring void of the Polk County Jail on behalf of my despondent and discouraged friends in More
Steve Clemens, Witness Against Drones: Reaping the Whirlwind
Reaping the Whirlwind By Steve Clemens Mennonista March 17, 2014 Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Rise Up Times is also on Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. The tears were streaming down More
Exclusive Interview: Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast Exclusive Interview: Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Another extraordinary interview with Chris, again showing what a visionary, revolutionary We discuss his new book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt written with illustrator Joe Sacco. Podcast submitted by Rob Kall (about Rob Kall) Recorded October More
Ed Kinane> Drones Over the Americas
“Santa’s Sleigh” Over Venezuela? Drones Over the Americas by ED KINANE September 7-9, 2012 Counterpunch Syracuse, New York. Like the School of the Americas, the weaponized drone perpetrates terrorism. As Predator drones come to Ft. Benning, some SOA Watch activists are applying our SOAW experience to “outing” the Predator and Reaper drones already in our More
Ed Kinane> Drones Over the Americas
“Santa’s Sleigh” Over Venezuela? Drones Over the Americas by ED KINANE September 7-9, 2012 Counterpunch Syracuse, New York. Like the School of the Americas, the weaponized drone perpetrates terrorism. As Predator drones come to Ft. Benning, some SOA Watch activists are applying our SOAW experience to “outing” the Predator and Reaper drones already in our More
Poster> Join us in Washington, DC, beginning on March 30 for NOW DC and Occupy Power!
The National Occupation of Washington, DC: Occupy Power! Submitted by Margaret Flowers on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 19:14 NOWDC.org March 30, 2012, people from across the country will gather for an American Spring in Washington, DC. The National Occupation of Washington, DC (NOW DC) opposes the corruption of both parties in conducting U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Our most precious safeguard, the More
Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action
Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action Stephen Zunes Sunday 4 December 2011 Nation of Change “This has not come, in most cases, from a moral or spiritual commitment to nonviolence per se, but simply because it works.” While sitting in a Cairo café just a couple blocks from Tahrir Square a More