Why Resistance Matters: Resistance & Regeneration
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
The growing movement for regeneration offers a much needed reframe of how to fully show up in our humanity at this critical moment in our planet’s history.
Tag: nonviolent resistance
UK activists keep being acquitted by juries. What does that mean for protest?
By Paul Rogers, Open Democracy
When juries deliver verdicts that offend the political establishment, they are commonly termed ‘perverse’ – and Boris Johnson’s government has been experiencing a veritable plague of perversity in recent months.
Campaign to shut down New England’s last coal plant is doing ‘what must be done’ for the planet
By Arnie Alpert, Waging Nonviolence
“This is what the state, this is what the fossil fuel industry will do to protect this big, outdated, ancient asset — instead of protecting us, the people, and taking action against the climate crisis.” Without missing a beat, Shapiro-Weiss boldly stated, “This is why we’re doing this.”
Overcoming Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘three evils of society’
By Thomas W. Fraser, Waging Nonviolence
In this spirit, let us set forth with truth, love and justice as our guides, mourning the cost of needless harm while nurturing the promise of radical transformation. Let us move, in a word, from despair to beloved community.
Protest, violence, class
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
The tactics of ‘get off our land’ and ‘hey, we have a collective civilizational problem that needs greater action’ are not the same, even if they’re part of the same larger story.
Fighting injustice can trigger trauma — we need to learn how to process it and take healing action
By Kazu Haga, Waging Nonviolence
Trauma is not conducive to creative thinking. Which brings us to another paradox of these times ― how do we slow down enough so that we can fully utilize our neocortex and listen to our hearts while addressing the real urgency and opportunity of this moment?
Why We Need to Move Closer to Martin Luther King’s Understanding of Nonviolence
By Kazu Haga, Open Democracy
Nonviolence is not about what not to do. It is about what you are going to do about the violence and injustice we see in our own hearts, our homes, our neighborhoods and society at large. It is about taking a proactive stand against violence and injustice. Nonviolence is about action, not inaction.
A Taste of Palestine: Cultivating Resistance
By Megan Perry, Sustainable Food Trust
On this culinary tour with a twist, we travelled the West Bank meeting farmers and food producers, eating in local restaurants and with families in refugee camps and Bedouin villages. Heartening and heart-wrenching in equal measure, the ten days spent exploring Palestinian food culture showed a people with a deep love for the land and the food traditions that come with it.
How Maine Climate Activists Found their Power Potential by Moving Past One-off Protests
By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence
Rob Levin, a Quaker attorney in Portland, Maine, has been concerned about the growing climate crisis for years. Recently, he came to see that using nonviolent direct action could increase his effectiveness on the issue.
Why Are the Danes so Happy? Because their Economy makes Sense
By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence
The World Happiness Report puts Danes consistently in the top tier. Twice in the past four years Denmark came in first. Danes also report more satisfaction with their health care than anyone else in Europe, which makes sense, since happiness is related to a sense of security and others being there for you. A fine health care system makes that real.
Standing Rock and the Return of the Nonviolent Campaign
By George Lakey, YES! magazine
Nonviolent campaigns are often dramatic and catch the attention of millions—think of Standing Rock water protectors resolute in the face of a brutal police force. All the more puzzling that the concept of a “nonviolent campaign” is little known and often ignored when people talk about how to mobilize power, for example, to prevent Donald Trump from erasing gains made in addressing climate change.
Maine Sail Freight Revives a Salty History of Revolution & Independence
By Rivera Sun, Irresistable Fleet of Bicycles
In this new millennium marked by the looming threat of transnational trade deals...one unusual trade adventure, Maine Sail Freight will embark on a creative, bold journey as an act of defiance against business-as-usual.