@NorcalGma2 Thanks for being there! It's important to have a presence in smaller and mid-sized California cities.
If you or friends would like to learn more about protest de-escalation, San Jose Gandhi Team now has some training videos available here: https://www.gandhiteam.org/resource-list
They've been doing safety monitor training for years but only recently created the videos.
Proud of my town's participation in "Hands Off!"
1000 people is about 4.3% of the population.
In dreary all-day rain.
If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and the commodification of their reproductive processes, as well as the destruction of their relationship with their babies;
If you are an environmentalist and not a vegan, you are ignoring the undeniable fact that animal agriculture is an ecological disaster;
If you embrace nonviolence but are not a vegan, then words of nonviolence come out of your mouth as the products of torture and death go into it;
If you claim to love animals but you are eating them or products made from them, or otherwise consuming them, you see loving as consistent with harming that which you claim to love.
Stop trying to make excuses. There are no good ones to make. Go vegan.
- Gary L. Francione
This issue of the White Rose includes Resistance Resources and the lyrics of a new song for the movement. Download for free: https://jmp.sh/VJ85buJt #resist #prodemocracy #movement #antifascism #antifa #democracy #USpolitics #politics #protest #resources #ice #stopice #StopTheCoup #freedom #nonviolence
This is one of the most useful and insightful pieces I've read in a long time. While focused on what's going on in Serbia right now, it's chock-full of lessons and strategies that can help opposition movements anywhere. And yes, I'm pointing at those of us here in the US.
(If you are really impatient, skip down to the '5 lessons on bringing down a dictator' section.)
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#resistance #PoliticalStrategy #nonviolence
#PoliticalStrategy #Serbia #authoritarianism
If you haven't read a novel called The Fifth Sacred Thing, written by a peace activist called Starhawk, now would be a good time. I'm planning to get hold of a copy and read it again, along with the prequel and sequel novels, which I only recently learned about.
It's about how a nonviolent solarpunk community resists invasion by a brutal and expanding authoritarian empire. Due warning, unless you're made of stone, you will cry while reading.
Seconds ago, I uploaded the fourth issue of the resistance brochure, The White Rose, to https://jumpshare.com/v/Ox3Yepj2DjYy3UtRSOPA?b=r91GIRhbYdKUYpvjxfBT for free download and distribution. #resist #resistance #antifa #antifascism #nonviolence #prodemocracy
@benroyce From Gene Sharp way back in 1973:
"(The method of nonviolent action) is control... not by persuasion, nor by hopes of a change of heart in the ruler, but rather ... by cutting off his power at the roots"."
See also this content on the pillars of power model:
http://commonslibrary.org/pillars-of-power
@benroyce The caption is not correct. Nonviolence has nothing to do with whether the opponent has a conscience - it operates on a theory of power that says that if you undercut the pillars of regime power, the regime falls. The documentary _Bringing Down a Dictator_ gives an example of how this was done to Milosevic in Serbia - he had no conscience and yet the movement to oust him won.
A modern fighter plane is a device for turning taxpayer’s money into noise.
— Proceedings of the IEEE, 1978
Occasion: Canada considering pulling out of F-35 partnership … again.
(Thanks to @Dianora for inspiring me to look up this golden oldie. 
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In light of recent events in New York City
We at @50501Chicago and @50501_movement committed to nonviolent resistance. Remember, nonviolent resistance is still resistance.
In light of a recent event we would like to state
We at @50501Chicago and @50501_movement committed to nonviolent resistance. Remember, nonviolent resistance is still resistance.
Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.
Read my full bio of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #freespeech #indigenous #nativeamerican #cherokee #franklittle #civilrights #nonviolence #racism #vigilantes #lynching #author #writer #fiction #books @bookstadon
Refusing to fight an enemy who's trying to harm you won't make your enemy lose control. It'll allow them to proceed to harm you, free from any prevention on your part. You twisted Sun Tzu's quote to fit your pacifist narrative even though Sun Tzu wasn't a pacifist. He wrote an entire book called "The Art of War." Have you even read it? He believed in minimizing conflict whenever possible, which is smart, not pacifism, which is the opposite.
I assume that since you're an anarchist, that means you want the abolishment of the state. If that's your intended goal for humanity to achieve one day in the future, pacifism and nonviolence will only prevent that from becoming a reality. Pacifism and nonviolence are tools the ruling class of our society use to prevent the workers that could otherwise easily overthrow them from doing so. Pacifism and nonviolence only benefit the ruling class.
#resist #pacifism #nonviolence #anarchism #christiananarchism
As a former USMC infantryman (1977-1991) who left the Marines as a #consciencious_objector, I have first-hand witness to the futility of violence. Unless you are willing to wipe out your "enemy" completely, the risk of reprisal is always there.
I will be the first to admit that religion, when subservient to the state, is a major tool in war and oppression. For the Christian church it does not matter if you are Roman Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelical or Anabaptist, they all are complicit.
But I still hold to the Way of Jesus, as did the Berrigans.
https://cac.org/daily-meditations/sitting-with-reality/
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Here's nonviolence expert and trainer Daniel Hunter's analysis of the recent "economic blackout" that was attempted in the U.S. His conclusion is that although there were some potential positive outcomes as a starting attempt, it lacked multiple elements necessary for a successful boycott.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/economic-blackout-boycott-caught-fire-now-what/
My blog post about The White Rose resistance brochure: https://daisybrain.medium.com/the-new-white-rose-e65fe7bf3c5d
#antifascism #nonviolence #resistance #resist
This link will take you to my folder containing the brand new issue of The White Rose as well as the previous. They are free to download. Please share widely. https://jumpshare.com/b/r91GIRhbYdKUYpvjxfBT
#resist #antifascism #uspolitics #democracy #prodemocracy #nonviolence
