Southern Africa

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Withers documented the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Medgar Evers funeral, the integration of Little Rock High School, the March Against Fear, the Memphis sanitation workers' Strike and the assassination and funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The two employees formed the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, which demanded that the company disengage from South Africa and contribute its profits made in South Africa to recognized African liberation movements.

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The Botswanan Supreme Court ruled that their eviction by the government was "unconstitutional." Yet repression continues.

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Gandhi rightly believed in the efficacy of pitting the soul force of the nonviolent protester against the brute force of the oppressor.

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Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.

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We have demanded too little from our leaders, excused far too much.

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Where commands are no longer obeyed, the means of violence are of no use.

One hundred years ago, a mass meeting was convened in Johannesburg, South Africa by Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian lawyer outraged by the government’s proposal that Indians carry registration cards. “The Old Empire Theatre was packed from floor to ceiling,” Gandhi wrote. The group’s most important action was to pass a resolution saying they “solemnly determined not to submit to the Ordinance.”

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Goolam Vahed reviews Gandhi’s Prisoner?: The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie

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So long as there is even a handful of us true to our pledge, there can only be one end to the struggle, and that is victory.

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Was Gandhi a Gandhian? Was Buddha a Buddhist? Was Christ a Christian?