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Above photo: The Air Force awarded the contract for the long range strike-bomber to Northrop Grumman. AP File Photo/Wong Maye-E. “Now look, your grace,” said Sancho, “what you see over there aren’t giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone.” […]
Posts Tagged ‘nonviolent’
What’s Happening With Nonviolent Cities?
September 4th, 2021 
Awake Goy Above Photo: Rev. Carolyn Morton and friends hold up peace banner, 2019. (Nonviolent Opelika/Rev. Carolyn Morton) The Nonviolent Cities Project is uniting communities around the country working to bring nonviolence to schools, buses, and everyone in their neighborhoods. What an exciting time for the Nonviolent Cities Project! For years, Pace e Bene has fostered the vision […]
Applying Nonviolent Noncooperation
July 14th, 2021 Awake Goy I suppose I could have titled this writing Applying Nonviolent Noncooperation to Pernicious Consumerism, or to Malignant Normalcy. Notwithstanding, here are my thoughts…. For as long as it remains profitable NOT to find or accept solutions to planetary problems, those who possess economic and political power will not allow solutions. Looked at from another side, […]
Poor People’s Campaign announces ‘season of nonviolent direct action’ targeting US Senate
July 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Demonstrators gather for the Moral March on Manchin and McConnell, a rally held by the Poor People’s Campaign, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on June 23, 2021. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) The Poor People’s Campaign announced Monday that over the next several weeks, it will hold a series of nonviolent […]
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No Comments »Nonviolent Protest Over Voting Rights Ends With Arrests In DC
June 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Poor People’s Campaign/Twitter. ‘We’re Not Going Away!’ “We’re saying across this country, it’s time for people… to march on these Senate offices,” declared Rev. William Barber. Activists with the national Poor People’s Campaign were arrested Wednesday after blocking a street in front of the Hart Senate building in Washington, D.C. to demand passage […]
Let’s Reject The Violent Vs. Nonviolent Crime Dichotomy
January 15th, 2021 Awake Goy By Kassandra Frederique and Danielle Sered, Truthout. January 14, 2021 Above photo: Denver Police officers watch over the crowd at Civic Center Park on July 19, 2020, in Denver, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson/Media News Group/ The Denver Post via Getty Images. End the War on Drugs. November’s election saw criminal legal system and drug policy reform […]
A New Nonviolent Medicaid Army Is On The March
October 5th, 2020 Awake Goy At the start of Tuesday’s unhinged presidential debate — as the pandemic continued to rage outside the walls of Case Western University — the American people were offered an anemic vision for promoting and expanding public health. In the shadow of more than 200,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, viewers heard pushback on the use of masks, […]
Israel’s ‘murderous assault on nonviolent protesters’ in Gaza – an interview with Norman Finkelstein
May 16th, 2018 Awake Goy The Real News’s Aaron Maté. discusses the March of Return protests with Norman Finkelstein, author of many books, including his latest, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom. Norman Finkelstein says that while Palestinian protesters in Gaza have bravely resisted their ghettoization under merciless Israeli fire, international solidarity is falling short With the final demonstrations […]
Posted in World News Tags: assault, interview, israel, murderous, nonviolent, norman, protesters No Comments »A US Ally Is Literally Beheading People Over Nonviolent Drug Charges
April 28th, 2018 Awake Goy By Carey Wedler Saudi Arabia, the United States’ main ally in the Middle East, has executed 48 people so far this year, half of them over nonviolent drug charges, Human Rights Watch reported this week. “Many more people convicted of drug crimes remain on death row following convictions by Saudi Arabia’s notoriously unfair criminal justice […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: beheading, charges, literally, nonviolent, people No Comments »West Bank village Bil’in marks 13th anniversary of nonviolent resistance against the Wall
March 5th, 2018 Awake Goy VIDEO: Bil‘in marks 13th anniversary of nonviolent resistance against the Wall, colonies IMEMC 2 Mar — Video by Haitham Khatib — On Friday, dozens of Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, marched in Bil‘in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, marking the 13th anniversary of ongoing popular nonviolent resistance […]
Posted in World News Tags: against, anniversary, marks, nonviolent, Resistance, village No Comments »Why Training Women In Nonviolent Resistance Is Critical To Movement Success
March 3rd, 2018 Awake Goy Why Training Women In Nonviolent Resistance Is Critical To Movement Success Above Photo: Getty Images In the year since Trump’s inauguration, we have seen an outpouring of popular mobilization in resistance to his administration’s policies. Crowd estimates suggest that 5.2-9 million people took to the streets in the United States to protest Trump’s policies or points of view […]
Posted in World News Tags: critical, movement, nonviolent, Resistance, success, training, women No Comments »‘His bone turned to sand’ — Murad Shteiwi describes IDF shootings at nonviolent protests in Kufr Qaddum
November 1st, 2017 Awake Goy Murad Shteiwi does not flinch as he watches a video of his son moments after an Israeli soldier shot him two years ago. The short clip shows Khalid Shteiwi who was 11 years old at the time. He is on the ground, trying to move away from the Israeli army as they continue to fire near […]
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October 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: The Oceti Sakowin camp, near the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, in November 2016. (Becker1999 / Flickr) The encampments by Native Americans at Standing Rock, N.D., from April 2016 to February 2017 to block construction of the Dakota Access pipeline provided the template for future resistance movements. The action was nonviolent. It was sustained. It was […]
More Than 900 Nonviolent Actions Planned For Sept. 16-24
September 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From paceebene.org Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term grassroots movement for a culture of peace and nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, environmental destruction and the epidemic of violence. We invite people and organizations in the U.S. and worldwide to take action during CNV Action Week around the International Day of Peace, September 21. […]
US Independence Won By Nonviolent Resistance Before The War
July 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy Above: Colonists Tear Down Statute of King George. Note: There is much more to the story of the campaign for independence of the United States than the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence. There was a decade of resistance campaigns before 1776 that involved common people who have not shared historical recognition. In this period, […]
Chris Hedges = The Rules of (NONVIOLENT) Revolt
May 14th, 2017 Awake Goy Click for Source Article by Chris Hedges on Truth-Out #1 Nonviolent disruption of the machinery of state = Terrified Authority suppresses with power MOVES by ZIO-MOB ruling elitists & their MSM to create an EVEN GREATER BACKLASH #2 Uprising & Revolution is usually ignited by the middle-class often college-educated (DEBT SLAVES) being denied opportunities to […]
Video Shows Resource Officer Choke, Body-Slam, Tase Nonviolent Teen
May 4th, 2017 Awake Goy (Police State Daily) Confirming a clear pattern of abuse at Woodland Hills High School in Pittsburgh, a new video shows a nonviolent teen being brutalized by a resource officer. Released by attorney Todd Hollis, the footage shows the 15-year-old student being placed in a headlock before being body-slammed and repeatedly tased by officer Steve Shaulis on March 3, 2015. The teen was reportedly asked […]
Never give up: nonviolent civilian resistance, healing and active hope in the Holy Land
April 26th, 2017 Awake Goy Introduction by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb Sami Awad and Yoav Litvin are two men whose lives have been deeply impacted by the events of 1948 and 1967 when Palestinians were collectively driven from their homes and villages in order to make room for Jewish settlement. The Israeli Occupation of Palestine is ongoing; Israeli policies that resulted […]
International Collaboration to End Violence:’ “People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World”
April 21st, 2017 Awake Goy Views: 0
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