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Blog: A diversity of methods to discover
Tactics rely on methods of action. The more methods you know, the more vocabulary you will have to articulate the proper tactical moves and the most strategic campaigns. Find out about the three main classes of nonviolent action, and what they can do for you.
Also, guess from whom Gandhi gained most of his knowledge of nonviolent strategy. Find out from the late Barbara Deming, one of America's prominent nonviolent activists.
Blog: Tactical Transferability: The Nonviolent Raid as Case Study
photo: Benoît Aquin
One goal of the New Tactics Project is to help us adapt action methods in innovative ways. As we look to various tactics, the main focus remains on "transferability", the capacity to bring and apply a given tactical framework to a different issue or situation.
It's hard.
Most activists do not even think twice about "transferability' when they choose to organize a march or a boycott. But when it comes to more complex tactics, most people can't bring themselves to envision it in a different context. Yet, every tactic is transferable.
Because I have had some experience with the nonviolent raid as intervention tactic, some fairly recent, I thought it might be useful to show a few examples of how this tactic can be, and was, transferred across different campaigns on a number of issues. The goal of the exercise is to spark our imagination.
Blog: The Nonviolent Raid as Intervention Tactic
From the movie Gandhi (1982). — See the raid on the Dharasana Salt Works.
When Santa Claus and elves tried to deliver a piece of coal to the Prime Minister of Canada last December, the tactic they used was the nonviolent raid. In a nonviolent raid, committed and well-trained actionists attempt to enter a protected facility to seize it, or to carry out some legitimate task consistent with their goals.
The nonviolent raiders are seen advancing. They seek to enter the facility. But fences, barricades or police lines are there to block them. They proceed nonetheless. Most often than not, they are stopped through some form of repression, with arrests usually. But they still win.
Blog: One use of the “nonviolent raid” tactic
Photo: Ashley Fraser, The Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 13, 2007. — Protesters dressed as Santa Claus and several of his elves were arrested at 24 Sussex Drive last night when they took Stephen Harper a lump of coal. It was to be his reward for what they call his sabotage of the UN climate talks in Indonesia.
That’s a picture of yours truly as... well, a flying elf.
I was arrested last week. Again.
First time ever as one of Santa’s Little Helpers, though.
Let me tell you what happened as an introduction to how the tactic — the nonviolent raid — can be, and has been, used in a wide range of campaigns.
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Blog: When stuck, shift tactics
As I watch the display of gutsy, soulful dissidence in the streets of
Rangoon, I hold my breath. I pray this new wave of protest can loosen
the deathly embrace of the military regime that has been smothering the
people of Burma/Myanmar for so, so long.I am hopeful as I see monks in crimson robes take the lead in the streets, civilians form human chains to protect them, key footage escape the country through cell phone cameras, religious services withdrawn from the military.
The power of creative actions! Tactical innovation lies at the heart of the new momentum. Audacity gives new impetus, helps a movement come unstuck.
Blog: Technology marches with Freedom in Myanmar/Burma
The situation in Myanmar
(formerly Burma)
has continued to escalate, and as more time passes the body count is rising.
The violence and harsh, repressive tactics of the military junta regime is
widely known; however, the past month’s events have put a new perspective on
the role and importance of technology and access to information. Our current
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