Post by cjm on Nov 21, 2016 8:45:14 GMT
It is science because it is published in the Scientific American.
The Democratic slip showing?
The ANC had a military branch early on but gradually embraced nonviolence.The Democratic slip showing?
If recent events have left you feeling powerless and fearful, visit the website of the Albert Einstein Institution, download its publications, make a donation if you can. In this dark time, Gene Sharp’s ideas are more relevant than ever.How to Resist an Unjust Regime Nonviolently
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A 2008 profile in The Wall Street Journal credited Sharp with “helping to advance a global democratic awakening.” His writings have influenced opposition movements in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Burma, Palestine, Venezuela, and Iran as well as Tunisia and Egypt. Leaders in some of these countries have denounced Sharp. Iranian officials viewed him as such a serious threat that they accused Sharp of being a CIA agent plotting Iran’s overthrow with John McCain and George Soros.
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He published his first major work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, in 1973 while teaching political science at Harvard. Since then, he has churned out many more books, papers and pamphlets. His writings, which have been translated into dozens of languages and are available on the internet, describe a wide variety of tactics: worker strikes, student strikes, mass petitions, underground newspapers, skywriting, display of flags and banners, boycotts of goods, boycotts of sporting events, refusal to pay rent, withdrawal of bank savings, fasts, mock trials, occupation of government buildings, marches, motorcades, teach-ins, pray-ins, ostracism of collaborators, publication of names of collaborators, seeking imprisonment, formation of parallel government and mass disrobing.
Many of Sharp’s methods involve mockery, which the !Kung and other hunter-gatherer groups also employ against the swell-headed. A tactic called "Lysistratic nonaction" refers to the Aristophanes play, in which Greek women withhold sex from their men until the men stop fighting wars.
Sharp’s meta-goal is to get people to realize that they have more power—more choices—than they think they do. Even the most brutal tyrants need the cooperation of citizens, not just those serving as soldiers and police but throughout the society.
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Other examples of nonviolent action include Gandhi’s organization of boycotts, strikes, and other acts of civil disobedience against the British Empire; Martin Luther King’s marches against segregation and other legally sanctioned forms of racism; the rebellion of Lech Walesa and Polish labor unionists against the totalitarian control of the Soviet Union; and the triumph of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress over white rule in South Africa. (The ANC had a military branch early on but gradually embraced nonviolence.)
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A 2008 profile in The Wall Street Journal credited Sharp with “helping to advance a global democratic awakening.” His writings have influenced opposition movements in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Burma, Palestine, Venezuela, and Iran as well as Tunisia and Egypt. Leaders in some of these countries have denounced Sharp. Iranian officials viewed him as such a serious threat that they accused Sharp of being a CIA agent plotting Iran’s overthrow with John McCain and George Soros.
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He published his first major work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, in 1973 while teaching political science at Harvard. Since then, he has churned out many more books, papers and pamphlets. His writings, which have been translated into dozens of languages and are available on the internet, describe a wide variety of tactics: worker strikes, student strikes, mass petitions, underground newspapers, skywriting, display of flags and banners, boycotts of goods, boycotts of sporting events, refusal to pay rent, withdrawal of bank savings, fasts, mock trials, occupation of government buildings, marches, motorcades, teach-ins, pray-ins, ostracism of collaborators, publication of names of collaborators, seeking imprisonment, formation of parallel government and mass disrobing.
Many of Sharp’s methods involve mockery, which the !Kung and other hunter-gatherer groups also employ against the swell-headed. A tactic called "Lysistratic nonaction" refers to the Aristophanes play, in which Greek women withhold sex from their men until the men stop fighting wars.
Sharp’s meta-goal is to get people to realize that they have more power—more choices—than they think they do. Even the most brutal tyrants need the cooperation of citizens, not just those serving as soldiers and police but throughout the society.
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Other examples of nonviolent action include Gandhi’s organization of boycotts, strikes, and other acts of civil disobedience against the British Empire; Martin Luther King’s marches against segregation and other legally sanctioned forms of racism; the rebellion of Lech Walesa and Polish labor unionists against the totalitarian control of the Soviet Union; and the triumph of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress over white rule in South Africa. (The ANC had a military branch early on but gradually embraced nonviolence.)