4.03 nonviolent intervention

Trauma and Resilience: Covering the Colombian Civil War

October 2008. La Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres is a coalition of over 200 Colombian womenís organizations. They hold events for peace and nonviolence throughout the year and also coordinate an annual parade, held in different violent regions, to giv
Authors: Jenny Manrique Cortés

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Telling the truth is frequently unpopular, but it is an important way to help communities survive and grow, and heal the wounds opened by war.

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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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From the Editor's Desk

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Authors: Sam Diener

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Human Rights Workers Sail Jubilantly into Gaza

The SS Liberty and the SS Free Gaza prepare to leave Crete and attempt nonviolently to break the Israeli siege of Gaza, August 13, 2008. Photo: Free Gaza.org
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From the Editor's Desk

Outside a bookstore in Beijing, China, February 2006. Photo: J. SAMUEL B.
Authors: Sam Diener

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Peacework Co-Editor Sam Diener reviews Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus Bordewich and comments on the themes of this issue.

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In Memory of Saudi Feminist Blogger Hadeel Alhodaif

Authors: HAMSA

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The Burmese Cyclone, Nonviolent Action, and the Responsibility to Empower

Pushing the relief truck out of the mud, photo: Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Patrick Meier

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It is not acceptable to let regimes like Burma's dictate the rules of humanitarian intervention.

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Assisting Burmese Cyclone Survivors: Defying the Government to Save Lives

A generous monk who shared relief supplies with his entire region stands in front of the village's damaged monastery photo: © Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Beyond Rangoon Project

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When we made it to villages farther down the road, we found that a monk had shared the rice for his village with all the surrounding villages, which had received no aid and were starving.

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Syrian Human Rights Defenders Brave Jail: Repression Met with Waves of Resistance

Syrian stamps celebrating the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Photo: Joseph Morris
Authors: Dr. Radwan Ziadeh

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Ali Abdullah has been jailed three times. One of his sons is serving a five-year sentence for involvement in a pro-democracy youth group. The other chose exile.

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How to Respond to Verbal Or Physical Violence at Vigils and Protests

Authors: Larry Dansinger Sam Diener

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Ralph was extricated from police kicks by a knot of rolling huggers.

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