1. African-American Self-Defense 
   Guns and the Freedom Struggle
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   A Review of "This Noviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Cvil Rights Movement Possible" by Carles E. Cobb. Jr.
2. Alliance for Non-Violent Action
   Resource Type: Organization
   First Published: 1982
   Inactive/Defunct Organization
   
3. Alliance For Non-Violent Action (ANVA)
   Organization profile published 1986
   Resource Type: Organization
   First Published: 1986
   Inactive/Defunct Organization
   
4. Allow the Water
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
5. Another world is possible if... 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
6. The Anti-Coup
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2003
   As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance.
7. Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
   A Toolbox for Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2014
   Ideas for organizers.
8. Bil'in and the Nonviolent Resistance
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2016
   Tells how the farming village in Bil'in, located in Palestine's West Bank, has been facing its occupier, Israel, head-on. Side by side with Israeli and civil rights activists the world over, the people of Bil'in and their protests have been standing against the injustices imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) since 2004. That was when the IOF's raids began to uproot the village's ancient olive trees and confiscate its farmlands, the main sources of its livelihood. All of it to build their separation wall and illegal settlements.
9. Budrus
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2009
   A documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.
10. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
11. Bustan
    Resource Type: Website
    A partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers promoting social and environmental justice in Israel/Palestine. BUSTAN cultivates sustainable models to effect change by combining advocacy and in-depth political analysis with strategic action. BUSTAN utilizes the principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across ethnic divides.
12. Calling Bono
    Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
14. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
15. A Case For Non-violent Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
16. The Challenge to Violence
    New Internationalist August 2005 - #381
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    Stories which explain the power of nonviolent actions and how they have made a difference in the world.
17. Changing The Cogs
    Activists and the Politics of Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
18. Civil disobedience
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence.
19. Civil Disobedience
    Originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1849
    An essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849 which argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
20. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
21. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
22. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
23. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
24. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
25. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
26. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
27. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
28. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
29. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
30. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
31. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
32. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
33. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
34. Correcting Common Misconceptions About Nonviolent Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    A handout sheet addressing common misconceptions about nonviolent action and answering some frequently asked questions. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
35. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
36. Critique of Violent Rationales
    A Review Article of Critique of Nonviolent Politics: From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Nonviolent activists and scholars will disagree with many of the arguments in the book but there is much that they can gain by examining them closely.
37. Cuadrilla versus The Nanas - #IamTinaRothery
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Thanks to fracking company Cuadrilla, grandmother Tina Rothery will be in court tomorrow over a £55,000 'debt' imposed on her for joining a peaceful occupation of a fracking site in Lancashire. But as she explains, she can't pay, she won't pay, and even if she could pay, she wouldn't. Someone has to stand up to corporate vandalism and abuse of justice - and in this case, it's her, no matter what the consequences.
38. Defence without armies
    Resource Type: Article
    The word 'defence' is often associated with the word 'violence.' However, Social Defence represents a different perspective.
39. A Discussion Concerning Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    The principle of nonviolence has terrible effects on people: it disarms them morally and politically by encouraging them to become "passive resisters," beseeching some more humane elite forces to come to their aid. It undermines the view of people which I consider to be the most needful both morally and politically to create a democratic movement - that is, for people to see and rely on themselves collectively as the conscious agents of change and the creators of a new society. However much we and other people desire a peaceful transformation of society, at some point there will come a contest of power. To win this contest, we will have to win a substantial part of the military forces to our side, or at least get them to be neutral. To succeed in this we need to build a movement that is so broad and deep that the great majority of people become mobilized as an unstoppable force.
40. A Diversion We Don't Need
    Against The Current vol. 158
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    We know from our own experience that none of us wants to have the Diversity Of Tactics argument again. So why does it continue to happen? Because we radicals and anarchists have unintentionally become a Silent Majority, unwilling for whatever reason to prevent these ideologues, who are only a tiny handful of people with loud voices, from controlling the direction of our meetings.
41. A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
42. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
43. Excerpts from Endgame: Pacifism 
    Part 1 of 3
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Derrick Jensen looks at the main arguments normally presented by pacifists and examines them to see if they make any sense.
44. The Failure of Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals following the Cold War to reveal the limits of nonviolence and uncover what a diverse, unruly, non-pacified movement can accomplish. Critical of how a diversity of tactics has functioned so far, this book discusses how movements for social change can win ground and open the spaces necessary to plant the seeds of a new world.
45. A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The goal of a true movement opposing American fascism should not be adrenaline-boosting brawls, it can only be the long and dedicated work of dismantling various engines of white supremacy within our socio-political landscape.
46. Fighting Subpoenas and Gag Orders in Iowa
    Against The Current vol. 110
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    More than two months have passed since federal officials withdrew the grand jury subpoenas against four peace activists and Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The withdrawal of the subpoenas and the gag order against Drake came amidst a firestorm of protest, not only from progressive and civil liberties lawyers and peace and justice activists from around the state and the country, but also from mainstream news media and elected politicians from both parties.
47. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
48. Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In a sense, Bilin is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
49. Free Association
    Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization
    Resource Type: Article
    The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
50. From Dictatorship to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2010
    A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
51. The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
52. Gandhi: A Biography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    
53. Gandhi Today
    A Report on Mahatma Gandhi's Successors
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Activists in India who are attempting to follow Gandhi's path.
54. Gandhiji: A Study 1960
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1960
    
55. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
56. The Great Turning
    From Empire to Earth Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
57. The Handbook of Non-Violence
    Including Aldous Huxley's An Encyclopedia of Pacifism
    Resource Type: Book
    Aldous Huxley's An Encyclopedia of Pacifism, one of the key documents of the thirties peace movement in England known as the Peace Pledge Union, is here reprinted as the opening segment of this book. Seeley has added a whole series of new entries designed to define what has happened in the realm of war and peace since Huxley wrote his book, including Hiroshima, Indochina, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and Star Wars.
58. How Empires Fall
    An Interview With Jonathan Schell
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Jonathan Schell discusses non-violent activism.
59. How Nonviolence Protects the State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.
60. How to Start a Revolution
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    A documentary on the work and ideas of Gene Sharp, a theorist of non-violent revolution.
61. Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
62. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
63. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
64. Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating nonviolent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community. They see non-violent activists as a major threat because they undermine the legitimacy of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.
65. The Joy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
66. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1950
    A biography.
67. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
68. The Mahatma: a Marxist Symposium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    
69. The Mahatma and the Ism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958
    
70. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
71. Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1990
    This popular essay provides a brief introduction to civilian-based defense, a policy in which civilians are prepared to use nonviolent resistance as a means of national defense.
72. Making Waves: The Grindstone Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    
73. A Manual on Nonviolence and Children
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1984
    The authors felt that an important way of building a peaceful world would be to develop a program for young children. It would help children and their caregivers develop non-violent attitudes and skills.
74. Misconceptions About King's Methods for Change
    A Matter of Life and Death
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Nonviolent social change requires long, hard and sustained work, research, development of solutions, and, importantly, on-going commitment. It demands far more than bringing folks together to march and wave banners. Unfortunately, many activists throughout the world seem to be of the opinion that if you are concerned about an issue you should organize huge "feel good" rallies, which is hoped will almost magically result in changes.
75. A Model for Nonviolent Communication
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    A description of communication skills to empower us to exchange resources and resolve differences nonviolently.
76. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
77. The Myth of Peaceful Protest
    The Patronizing Intransigence of Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
78. National Security Through Civilian-based Defense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
    This publication offers an introduction to civilian-based defense. It also identifies significant research areas and policy studies that are relevant to advancing the field.
79. Nature Heals 
    The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Adolescent sexuality, the nature of aggression, ethics, Freud, the psychology of artists, Reich, homosexuality -- large, important, and controversial issues like these fascinated Paul Goodman, and in these essays he writes about them as if he absolutely had to, as if nothing were more important than the subject at hand.
80. Needed: 5% Participation to Overthrow Crony Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Erica Chenoweth, author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, explains how to overthrow U.S. crony capitalism: “In raw numbers, movements generally achieve systematic change (i.e., in the +80% likelihood category) when they mobilize over 5 percent of the population. The Iranian Revolution, among the largest popular uprisings, achieved about 10 percent mobilization. In the US with 311 million people, this would mean between 15.5 million and 31.1 million people.”
81. Nonviolence
    Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
82. Nonviolent Communication
    A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    The latest edition of the communication guide that has sold more than 1,000,000 copies. An enlightening look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances, this international bestseller uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems both at home and in the workplace.
83. Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
    The Case of India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
84. The Nonviolent History of American Independence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, "the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the shot-heard-round-the-world shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.'
85. Nonviolent resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The practice of achieving socio-political goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence.
86. Nothing Is Ever Won Without Organizing 
    Remarks to the First Nonviolence Training Session of the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    All organizing begins with the telling of a story. When we listen carefully to somebody’s story, we learn what motivates him, what she is passionate about. Listening is the first skill and duty of a community organizer. Before we can get somebody to do something, we have to learn what he and she want, which is usually different than what we presumed they wanted.
87. Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
88. Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
    Where are the Demands?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
89. On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    
90. On Palestinian Civil Disobedience 
    The Google Matrix
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently use violence against the protestors - and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and 'non-lethal' ammunition against them.
91. On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Delves into the question of how to build a strategy for nonviolent struggle. Covering a variety of topics--such as ways to identify a movement's objectives, preparing a strategic estimate for a nonviolent struggle, and operational planning considerations--this publication contains insights on the similarities between military and nonviolent strategy. It represents a major new contribution to this field of study. Additional topics covered in the book include psychological operations and propaganda, contaminants that may affect the efficiency of a nonviolent movement, and providing consultations and training for members of movements and organizations. \
92. One Fine Day
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
93. 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of "nonviolent weapons" at their disposal. Listed are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
94. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
95. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
    We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
    This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
    Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
    Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
    Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
96. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
    Back to School
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
97. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
98. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
    Massacres and Morality
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
99. Our Generation
    Volume 2 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1963
    
100. Our Generation
     Volume 3 Number 1
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1964
     
101. Our Generation
     Volume 7 Number 3
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1970
     
102. Our Way to Fight 
     Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2011
     Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
103. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
     Resource Type: Website
     Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
104. People Power
     Applying Nonviolence Theory
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
105. Piecing It Together
     Feminism and Non-Violence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1983
     
106. The Politics of Nonviolent Action 
     Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
107. Powerful Peacemaking
     A Strategy for a Living Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     This book presents an approach with historical examples for the creation of social empowerment and global change in the quest for a peaceful and just world. It proposes a five-stage strategy for non-violent revolution.
108. Practical Approaches to Non-violence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The Quaker group Turning the Tide works with communities in the UK and Kenya to help different groups and organizations develop their own nonviolent approaches to radical change and social justice. Edward Dingwall catches up with staff member Steve Whiting on the Turning the Tide's aims and methods.
109. Press for Conversion #41
     July 2000
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2000
     
110. Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970
     A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US.
111. Professor's Work Shows People Power Trumps Violence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Erica Chenoweth’s research is taking the bang out of armed struggles.
112. Recovering Nonviolent History
     Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2013
     Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
113. Relentless Persistence
     Nonviolent Action in Latin America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
114. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
115. Remembering Nonviolent History
     Freedom Rides
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     By May 1961, federal law had already ruled that segregation on interstate public buses was illegal. Southern states, however, maintained segregation in seating, and at bus station bathrooms, waiting rooms and drinking fountains and the Interstate Commerce Commission refused to take action to enforce federal law. To change this, the Civil Rights Movement (CORE, SNCC, NAACP) began a series of Freedom Rides on May 4th, 1961.
116. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
     A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
     A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
117. Revolution of Conscience
     Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     Moses explores key ideas about Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy in relation to the American civil rights movement, racial equality and nonviolence.
118. Revolutionary Nonviolence
     Essays by Dave Dellinger
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
     Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
119. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1990   Published: 1994
     "Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle.
120. Seeds of Peace
     A Catalogue of Quotations
     Resource Type: Book
     Seeds of Peace is an indexed and well-organized collection of more than 1,700 quotations on war and peace, nonviolence, and the quest for justice.
121. Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1992
     In this booklet, Sharp discusses the potential of civilian-based defense for the Baltics, East Central Europe, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
122. The Sixties 
     Years of Hope, Days of Rage
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
123. SNCC
     The New Abolitionists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1964   Published: 1965
     An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
124. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
     Resource Type: Article
     Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
125. Sweeter than Honey
     Ethiopian Women and Revolution: Testimonies of Tigrayan Women
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     Through the voices of Tigrayan women-farmers, famine survivors and military commanders this book allows the reader to see what is happening in Tigray. Women have been working with the People's Liberation Front to transform their society through a gradual process of revolution to democracy. Their stories and testaments show how integral their participation is to this struggle. It is truly a revolution that is "sweeter than honey".
126. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
127. "The Term has Become Meaningless to Me": on Violence, Social Change, and Nonviolent Communication
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Violence means different things to different people. While some people find it important to show their opposition to acts like touching someone against their will or supporting an oppressive regime, others mill about in confusion around the middle of the space when facing supposedly unambiguous statements such as "murder is violent." Participants from the same family or the same activist group disagree on the classification of certain acts as violent. In our context, two important questions arise out of this apparent incoherence of the term: what are the implications for Nonviolent Communication? And, what does this mean about nonviolence as a political strategy for social change?
128. There Are Realistic Alternatives
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2003
     Developing realistic alternatives to war and other violence.
129. Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Non-volence
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     
130. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed 
     How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2014
     Charles Cobb, a veteran civil rights activist who served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the American South, unfolds a powerful narrative about Southern grass-roots black individuals and groups who played essential roles in African-American resistance. He reveals how they acted to protect black people and their allies throughout the ages with the careful use of violent self-defense methods.
131. Throwing Out the Master's Tools and Building a Better House 
     Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn't apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don't spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics -- and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
132. Transforming Power
     From the Personal to the Political
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
133. Twentieth Century Pacifism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970
     
134. The Unconquerable World
     Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     Traces the history of non-violent social change.
135. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
     Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
136. We Are All Parts of One Another
     A Barbara Deming Reader
     Resource Type: Book
     These essays, speeches, letters, stories, and poems span four decades of writing on women and peace, feminism and nonviolence.
137. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2003
     Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
     
138. What Gandhi Says
     About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     If there has been widespread recognition of Gandhi's role in developing the tactics underpinning the revolutionary upsurges of the past year, few have stopped to examine what Gandhi actually said about the relationship between nonviolence, resistance and courage. Norman Finkelstein, drawing on extensive readings of Gandhi's copious oeuvre and intensive reflection on the way that progress might be made in the seemingly intractable impasse of the Middle East, here sets out in clear and concise language the basic principles of Gandhi's approach.
139. What is Nonviolence Anyhow?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?
140. Why the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement Should Not Initiate Violence
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     One hazard we must avoid in our struggle is to allow violence to be used in the movement. We can't afford to give our approval to this by green lighting the burning of limousines and the breaking of store windows, as happened in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2017, or by punching the Nazi Richard Spencer in the face, which is satisfying but unproductive.
141. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
     Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
142. Working for Peace
     A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
143. Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence
     Resource Type: Book
     Here in one volume are most of Tolstoy's major writings on conscience and war. Stressing that the process of peace can only begin with the refusal of the individual to participate in state-organized killing, Tolstoy's writings are particularly relevant in an age when warfare is sanitized, packaged, and sold to a populace finding it increasingly difficult to respond in an ethically meaningful way.

Experts on Non-Violence in the Sources Directory

1. Michael Riordon
2. World Beyond War