How to Find Time for Friendly Civil Disobedience, by Sarah Lazarovic, Cartoonist
"Everyone was allowed to go to the Raptors victory parade so can I go to the climate strike?"
Campaign Nonviolence: Working for a new culture of nonviolence free from war, racism, poverty and environmental destruction, by John Dear
We can change the world if we organize in grassroots movements of resistance and social transformation.
On Violent and Nonviolent Activism, the Media, Philando, and the G20 (and Charlottesville!)
Do we play into the hands of those who are moving us toward a totalitarian state by succumbing to the temptation to use violence in the streets like the neo-Nazi alt-right?
Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
The argument over violence and nonviolence — one of the oldest and most divisive on the left — is back.
Michael Nagler | Violence and Evolution: Where Do We Stand?
...contrary to common opinion, violence has been steadily decreasing by a number of measures for several millennia.
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Rivera Sun | The Nonviolent History of American Independence
“A history of military operations . . . is not a history of the American Revolution.” —John Adams
Peaceful Revolutions and the Power of Disobedience
While most people support initiatives to reduce nuclear and environmental threats, many also have a clear sense — call it skepticism or realism — that neither climate change nor arms proliferation can be reversed by the use of traditional political channels alone.
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.
▶ Debunking the Gandhi Myth: Arundhati Roy and Diversity and The Intercept: Greenwald on GritTV
On The Laura Flanders Show: Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi. And Glenn Greenwald addresses diversity concerns about his new media venture TheIntercept.com. [youtube=http://youtu.be/4-yMiBGBOe0] Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this More
Kathy Kelly/Dr. Hakim: Celebrating the International Day of Nonviolence in Kabul, Afghanistan
International Day of Nonviolence in Afghanistan: "Where there is love, their is life." Dr. Hakim 4th October 2014 Kabul--“I woke up with the blast of another bomb explosion this morning,” Imadullah told me. “I wonder how many people were killed.” Imadullah, an 18 year old Afghan Peace Volunteer, (APV), from Badakhshan, had joined me at More
Steve Clemens> Choosing Jail: Experimenting With Redemptive Suffering
Choosing Jail: Experimenting With Redemptive Suffering by Steve Clemens. June 11, 2012 Mennonista It was in reading Mohandas Gandhi that I first learned about his “experiments with truth” – a term he used in perfecting the tactics of nonviolent resistance to the apartheid regime in South Africa and the British colonial occupation of his More