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Blog: WHY NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE? (1)
How can this thing called "nonviolent action" work? Over the last 100 years, against seemingly insurmountable odds and always to the surprise of official analysts and media pundits, unarmed civilians have prevailed over the power and weapons of some of the world's worst human rights abusers and most brutal dictatorships. There's a long list, but highlights include the Shah of Iran, Poland's Jaruzelski, Marcos in the Philippines, Pinochet in Chile, P.W. Botha and apartheid rule in South Africa, not to mention a few Soviet-style regimes behind the Berlin wall.
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Blog: Power through Organizing: Lessons from the Field (2)
Al Giordano says the most threatening thing to the ruling elite is people working together across race, religion, and class. But the Left, he says, is one of the most segregated places in America. While segregation used to be enforced by law, it is now consumer culture, through market segmentation and advertising niches, that separates people. The key to the success of the Obama campaign, and how an underdog won the US presidency, can be summarized in two words: community organizing. It showed the tremendous power that comes from bridging the divides, from getting the latinos, blacks, whites and mulatos to work together.
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Blog: Uses of Social Media for Activists
Civil unrest Moldova in April, 2009 and and election fraud protests in Iran in June, 2009
make it clear that social media is now part of activists' toolkits.
With the ability to route around censorship and route around restricted
internet access, microblogging tools like Twitter and Identica, and social gathering sites like Facebook increase the power of social change activists.
Blog: Can the language of Otpor! be universal?
In the late 1990s, the organization Otpor! developed in
Milosevic-ruled Serbia.
Considered by many as a rag-tag group of student protestors, the group soon
became the leading citizen-based force for resistance to the Milosevic regime.
Otpor! used non-violent tactics to create a broad base of citizen support and
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