Nonviolence has returned from obscurity to become a new force. No political action seems to enjoy greater moral authority than the nonviolent methods Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated more than a century ago.
Gandhi’s neologism for nonviolent direct action was satyagraha, which roughly translates to ‘holding fast to truth’. While this term itself never caught on, in principle or form, nonviolent models of organising protest did. For decades, pro-democracy movements in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe have conspicuously embraced nonviolent politics to express mass dissent and topple authoritarian governments. Pancho Ramos Stierle: Nonviolence Is Radical by Sarah van Gelder. An interview with the activist who made headlines when he was arrested while meditating at Occupy Oakland. posted Feb 23, 2012 Pancho Ramos was arrested while meditating when police raided the Occupy Oakland encampment in November 2011.
Painter Ly Vũ Hoàng based her work on press photos of the arrest. Painting used by permission of the artist. Occupy Oakland has been at the forefront of some of Occupy’s most visible actions—a massive general strike on November 2, a shutdown of the Port of Oakland, and attempts to occupy vacant buildings. If You Want To Be a Rebel, Be Kind, by Nipun Mehta. Thoreau on How to Use Civil Disobedience to Advance Justice. We're Taught From Birth to Obey Authority—But What Should We Do If the Authority Is Wrong? Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com / Jirsak The following is excerpted from the new book Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told To Do Is Wrong by Ira Chaleff (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015): I was teaching a class on courageous followership to a group of doctoral candidates at a Methodist university.
5 Acts of Creative Disruption. The shadow of corporate domination has never felt so powerful—but neither has the ingenuity of resistance.
Here are five ways everyday people have brought national attention to some of our biggest corporate calamities. 1. It’s Raining Money in Seattle. Love Bombs! Pictures to make you think.... Daniel Spaulding's Photos. Occupy Sandy: Why Activists Are Working with NYC Mayor, Police. Two hundred people were lined up at a hurricane relief center in a park in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood on Sunday morning when three volunteers hoisted the banners of two enemy camps that had come together in an uneasy collaboration: the Occupy movement and the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
One of those helping hang the banners on white tents with duct tape was Red Hook resident Kirby Desmarais, 26, a band manager and volunteer with the local branch of Occupy Sandy, an effort launched the day after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the East Coast in late October. “I’m getting a little verklempt. This is a really big thing,” Desmarais said, looking at the two signs, using the Yiddish word for choked with emotion. One banner read, “Occupy Sandy Mutual Aid Not Charity.” The other, sent by the mayor’s office, read, “City of New York Distribution and Relief Center.” (PHOTOS: Occupy Wall Street, One Year Later: Protesters Return to the Movement’s Roots) At St. Occupy Sandy Efforts Highlight Need for Solidarity, Not Charity. Share Hurricane Sandy, the unprecedented superstorm that ravaged the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States, left large swaths of New York City destroyed and ultimately killed 109 people in the US alone.
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Blow the Whistle on Congress. Cthulhu Dagon 2012. Republican Test. Again with the pots! Louder this time! 8pm EST! #potsinprogress. This Guy Took Out a Gigantic Loan to Destroy the Financial System. In 2008, anticapitalist campaigner Enric Durán borrowed €492,000 ($642,306) from 39 different financial entities with absolutely no hope or intention of paying it back.
But—as you might expect from an anti-capitalist campaigner—he didn't spend it all on diamond kitchen knives and luxury frisbees. Instead, he ploughed it into a number of unspecified anti-capitalist causes and spent the rest on Crisi, a free newspaper that detailed how he'd done what he did and urged others to do the same. That display of reckless Robin Hoodery turned him into a hero overnight, but the one problem with becoming a hero through questionably legal means is that, for whatever reason, the police feel like they have to go and lock you up for it. Enric spent two months in jail in 2011 and was released pending trial, which was set for earlier this month.
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By the time Hurricane Sandy crashed up on the shores of New York City in October 2012, pundits had long-declared Occupy Wall Street 'dead.' But with its eviction from Zuccotti Park, the global movement had in fact begun to grow roots that would support the city's hardest hit communities through the difficult days and months that followed the worst storm the city had ever seen. Filmmaker and housing activist, Michael Preemo, was one of the Occupy Wall Street organizers who sprung into action on the day Sandy hit New York. Occupy Together Field Manual - Occupation Community Interdependence and Sustainability Information.
Rising Up Without Burning Out. Civil Disobedience Training. Blockadingforbegineers.pdf (application/pdf Object) Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else) Occupy Wall Street has called for a global day of action on October 15, and protesters are mobilizing all over the world. In the United States, the Occupy Wall Street movement has already spawned sizeable protests in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Austin, and other cities. Several of these movements have faced opposition from their local police departments, including mass arrests. Protesters of all political persuasions are increasingly documenting their protests -- and encounters with the police -- using electronic devices like cameras and cell phones. The following tips apply to protesters in the United States who are concerned about protecting their electronic devices when questioned, detained, or arrested by police.
These are general guidelines; individuals with specific concerns should talk to an attorney. Know Your Rights: What To Do If You're Stopped By Police, Immigration Agents or the FBI. OWS J29: Pepper Spray Remedy: Maalox. Occupy 2.0: The Great Turning by Michael Nagler. Michael Nagler on building a movement to build a new reality. posted Apr 05, 2012 The spinning wheel, and the spinning wheel alone, will solve the problem of the deepening poverty of India.
—Mahatma Gandhi Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence. Part 3: Norman Finkelstein on What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage. 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action. Albert Einstein Institution. Learn about nonviolent conflict and civil resistance. The Ruckus Society : Nationwide Capacity-Building for Occupy Together. Press Room Contact Us.
Occupy! Now What? « MADE IN AMERICA. One can sympathize with the central message of the Occupy movement that economic inequality and injustice have gone too far (a message recently reaffirmed by the Congressional Budget Office’s report on inequality, the Census Bureau’s new report on poverty, and the Justice Department’s criminal complaints against financial operators) and still have the foreboding that things will not turn out well. Paul Stein/Flikr Street protest movements rarely turn out well. In recent American history, it seems that if protest movements have had any political consequences of note, they have undermined their purposes probably more often than advanced them. The ones that have celebrated victory have had strong organization, discipline, defined goals, and a clear strategy to attain those goals – all features seemingly lacking in Occupy.
For the Fracture of Good Order. ANONYMOUS Code of Conduct. The Human Chain as a Non-Violent Weapon. Deepak Chopra meditation at Occupy Wall St. Grounded TV Network, video 1. Occupy Congress - J17 - Protesters meditating outside White House in Washington, D.C. Pancho Ramos Stierle: Nonviolence Is Radical by Sarah van Gelder. Interview with a Yogic Monk Activist. How To Occupy. Encampment organization clip. Walk Through Zuccotti Park OWS NYC 10/02/11. Tent City University – one of the most remarkable aspects of Occupy London. When, as now seems likely, the Occupy London protesters are forced to pack up their tents outside St Paul's Cathedral the capital will be losing more than one of its newer and less likely tourist attractions.