5.01.02 nonviolent tactics - how to

Obama: Fully Fund HIV-AIDS. Protesters die-in at Social Forum 2010 (with video)

According to HealthGap, a new study published in Lancet shows that treatment with anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) decreased likelihood of transmission of HV by 92%.

Despite this finding, the Obama Administration is failing to live up to it's promises to fully find HIV-AIDS prevention and treatment worldwide. Without more funding, millions of people will die, unnecessarily, from HIV-AIDS. In New York, Governor Patterson is threatening to veto a law providing housing assistance to people with AIDS.

No More Soldiers, No More Wars: New Resources for Countering Military Recruitment

Authors: Janine Schwab

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An overview of recently published resources working against the militarization of our young people.

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Freedom Summer: A School for Young Community Organizers

Authors: Maile Kaneko

Summary:Youth conduct power analyses of policies and institutions that specifically affect people of color and poor communities.

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Potato Chip Assisted Learning: The Quest to Return Literature to Teens

Authors: Maya Gaul

Summary:When literature is negated from a community, young people lose an important means of creating and carrying their own tools of success, and imagining their own future.

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Worker Solidarity After the Work is Gone: The Story of Fuerza Unida

San Antonio, TX, 2006. Petra Mata and Viola Casares, co-directors of Fuerza Unida. Photo: Storycorps (www.storycorps.org)
Authors: Alyson Lie

Summary:"I remember when we had our first protests we used to hide our faces behind the poster boards because we were nervous and embarrassed."

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Cultures of Peace: Reflections on the UN Declaration's First Decade

Authors: Michael True

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From the Editor's Desk

Authors: Sara Burke

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Targeted Divestment: an Approach to Stopping Genocide in Sudan/Darfur

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Oil money fuels the genocide. Cut off the flow of money.

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Abolishing the Death Penalty in New Mexico: Lessons Learned in a Long Campaign

Justice for Troy Davis Protester
Authors: Viki Elkey

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Long term organizing, a focus on anti-death penalty families, and the exonerees made the difference.

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Social Media Fueling Moldovan Protests

Candlelight vigil protesting election fraud in Moldova. Photo, Sibiu, Moldova, April 7, 2009, Aurelian Sandulescu, http://www.flickr.com/photos/43008843@N00/3422186580/in/set-72157616475654208
Authors: Daniel Bennett

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Countering perceived election fraud, despite zero coverage by national media.

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