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Uprooting the System: Reflections on the Strategic Use of People Power

Protester against corporate globalization and patenting seed varieties, Seattle WTO meeting, November 1999 Photo: Spinnerin via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/162825118/
Authors: David Solnit

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We need to articulate people-power-based strategies or folks will de-mobilize every election cycle.

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SECURITY WITHOUT EMPIRE:A NATIONAL ORGANIZING CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN MILITARY BASES

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Alternatives to the War in Afghanistan: Don't Escalate the War -- Pull Troops Out

This picture from a U.S. court martial file, drawn by military polygraph examiner George Chigi III, shows how Afghan detainee Dilawar was shackled by his wrists to the ceiling of an isolation cell at Bagram Air Base before being beaten to death in Decembe
Authors: Joseph Gerson

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Peace is negotiated between enemies.

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A Community Stands with its Military Women: Vigilers Grieve Four Murders in Nine Months

Fort Bragg, NC, October 8, 2008. Former army Captain Michael McPhearson, now executive Director of Veterans for Peace, joins a vigil at the gates of the Fort Bragg military base for four women killed locally by military men over the preceding nine months.
Authors: Ann Wright

Summary:Because the preventive action being taken by the military is not enough, 40 women and men from around North Carolina and the nation stood at the Fort Bragg entrance gate to commemorate the deaths and call for action to prevent any others.

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Do You Wear ''Camo''? Feminists Globalize Demilitarization

Do You Wear Camo? Feminists Globalize Demilitarization
Authors: Cynthia Enloe

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The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) isn't what most experts think of as a site of research on militarization and demilitarization. But that oversight may be due to many militarization experts' narrow views of ''expertise.'' The WCRC is an energetic organization located in downtown Oakland, California, that develops programs for Asian- American, African-American, Native American, and Latina women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Ten Reasons to Withdraw all US Foreign Military Bases

Authors: Joseph Gerson

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The US maintains an unprecedented infrastructure of more than 700 US foreign military bases.

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