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.
Ida B. Wells: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Ida B. Wells-Barnett would have turned 153 on July 16. She was a writer and editor, a suffragist and an early leader in the civil rights movement.
ā¶ Howard Zinn: Have a More Interesting Life
The late historian, who studied injustice and action through the centuries, offers this wonderful insight: http://youtu.be/0gQoZhnkidw Subscribe or āFollowā us onĀ RiseUpTimes.org.Ā Rise Up Times is also onĀ Facebook!Ā Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more!Ā āLikeāĀ our page today. Rise Up Times is also onĀ Ā Pinterest,Ā Google+Ā andĀ Tumblr. Find us on Twitter atĀ Rise Up Times (@touchpeace).Ā Ā Click hereĀ to More
Tom Engelhardt: Remembrance of Wars Past | Why There Is No Massive Antiwar Movement in the US
...if much in the American way of war remains dismally familiar some five decades later, one thing of major significance has changed, something you can see regularly in I.F. Stoneās Weekly but not in our present world. Thirteen years after our set of disastrous wars started, where is the massive antiwar movement, including an army in near revolt and a Congress with significant critics in significant positions?
Nekima Levy-Pounds: Letter from a Bloomington Jail (Metaphorically Speaking)
Much like protesters during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s, participants of #BlackLivesMatter, have stood on the front lines braving arrests, police violence, surveillance, chemical weapons, and hostility from those who are comfortable with the status quo. Yet, even in the face of such adversity, the young people have demonstrated remarkable courage to continue standing, marching, and fighting for our freedom. They are standing on the right side of history.
Fracking Opponents Create Sandstorms in Minnesota
First it was tea. Then it was salt. Now itās sand. Anti-fracĀ sandĀ activist Steve Clemens being arrested. (Rise Up Times, originally published in the Winona Daily News) PopularResistance.org Ā February 18, 2014 Ā Originally published on WagingNonviolence.org Successful nonviolent action often hinges on fusing the transcendent with the everyday. While it frames the struggle in visionary terms like More
Ryan Shapiro: Is Freeing a Duck Terrorism?
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience is a great American tradition. Editor's Note: Ā It is not only environmental activists who are being charged with being "terrorists." Ā All over the countryāat the Republican National Convention in 2008, during the Occupy movement, and ongoingāactivists who are arrested in acts of civil disobedience for dissent from animal rights, antiwar and antidrone More
Interview of Noam Chomsky: Eight Decades of Struggle
M.I.T. professor emeritus Noam Chomsky reflects on eight decades of struggle. Ā Ā Progressive changes are going to come. People with power are not going to say thank you, I'll give it up and hand it over to you. They're going to struggle to retain their right, their power and domination. The effort to undermine that, which More
Rebecca Solnit: Too Soon to Tell ā The Case for Hope
The future is bigger than our imaginations. Itās unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. To meet it we need to keep going, to walk past what we can imagine. We need to be unstoppable.Ā ByĀ Rebecca SolnitĀ May 19, 2013 Ā TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Ten years ago, my part of the world was full More
Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action
Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action Stephen Zunes Ā Sunday 4 December 2011 Ā Ā Nation of Change āThis has not come, in most cases, from a moral or spiritual commitment to nonviolence per se, but simply because it works.ā While sitĀting in a Cairo cafĆ© just a couĀple blocks from Tahrir Square a More