5.03.05 social movement organizations and coalitions

Despite the Violence, Peace Broke Out: Reflections on the Nonviolent Blockades of NATO in Strasbourg

The nonviolent blockade of the north access road, organized by NATO-ZU/Shudown NATO, Strasbourg France, April 4, 2009, PHOTO: POR CMI-SANTIAGO / MEDIACTIVISTA VIA FLICKR
Authors: Andreas Speck

Summary:

Creative nonviolent activists succeeded in blocking roads to the official summit.

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Ingredients for Failure: NATO, Violence, and the Demonstrations in Strasbourg

The Strasbourg police tried to ban peace flags, a ban that was upheld by a local French court. If you outlaw peace, will only outlaws have peace? Strasbourg, France, April 4, 2009 Anti-NATO demonstration. PHOTO: JOS VAN ZETTEN VIA FLICKR
Authors: Diana Johnstone

Summary:

The violent factions: NATO and the members of the black block, stole the show.

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Citizens of an Earth Democracy: Vandana Shiva Offers a Vision for our Times

Vandana Shiva with microphone
Authors: Anna Gyorgy

Summary:

If it is tapped, says Vandana Shiva, the largest energy source we have "is the internal energy of human beings in all its dimensions -- spiritual, cultural, emotional, intellectual, physical."

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US Workers Have Had Enough: A Call for Labor to Regain its Defiant Voice

Vermont, December 2008. Participants in the nationwide People's Bailout Week of Action, sponsored by Jobs with Justice. photo: JOBS WITH JUSTICE
Authors: Bill Fletcher Jr.

Summary:

A social justice movement cannot
always play by the rules, but has to call
upon its members and supporters to
make their voices heard — publicly
and defiantly.

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Everything Is Different — But our Work Goes on: A Report from United for Justice with Peace

Authors: Joseph Gainza

Summary:

Just as the sources of the crises confronting
us are connected, so too must be the
solutions we bring forward and
demand be implemented.

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Building on Afghanistan's Traditions of Peacemaking: An Interview with Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Authors: Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Summary:

We're caught between warlords, drug lords, the government, international armies, and the Taliban.

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Repression at the Republican Convention: The Criminalization of Dissent

Anti-war demonstration in St. Paul, MN, September 4, 2008. photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash
Authors: Tom Good

Summary:

The Republican Party Host Committee bribed St. Paul to violate protesters' rights. The city, and Homeland Security, complied.

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Passionate About Books - and Social Justice

Reading in Chilean Recycling Cooperative, November 2007. PHOTO: © MARTA ESCOTET
Authors: Gustavus Myers Center

Summary:

The 2007 Gustavus Myers Book Awards by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

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Stop the Killing: Arab Activists Call for Ending the Death Penalty in Arab Countries

Egyptian labor bloggers Hossam el-Hamalawy and Kareem el-Beheiry. Kareem was jailed from April to early June 2008 after promoting and covering an April 6 general strike (partially organized via Facebook!) and ongoing independent labor union activism cente
Authors: Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Summary:

Sharia'a law insists that room be left for forgiveness and reconciliation.

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