4.02.12 nonviolent direct action controversies

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

Summary:

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

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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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How to Avoid Destroying Our Movements: On the death of SDS, Nonviolence, and the War

Meaghan Linick (right) of Newschool SDS, Iraq Moratorium, 2007. Photo Thomas Good/Next Left Notes
Authors: Mark Rudd

Summary:

We (the Weather Underground) did the FBI's work for them.

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What Do You Do When a Child is Burning?: A review of the film The Camden 28

Camden 28 poster
Authors: Stephen J. McGeady

Summary:

She could now understand her protesting son, because the trial revealed the lies which killed her other son.

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Camden 28 Trial Opening Statement

Authors: Father Mike Doyle

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Consequences of War Enacted at Blackwater Headquarters

Shot-up car
Authors: Jonah House

Summary:

Activists staged a die-in to dramatize the bloody results of Blackwater's profits.

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