@benroyce The caption is not correct. Nonviolence has nothing to do with whether the opponent has a conscience - it operates on a theory of power that says that if you undercut the pillars of regime power, the regime falls. The documentary _Bringing Down a Dictator_ gives an example of how this was done to Milosevic in Serbia - he had no conscience and yet the movement to oust him won.
“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
A modern fighter plane is a device for turning taxpayer’s money into noise.
— Proceedings of the IEEE, 1978
Occasion: Canada considering pulling out of F-35 partnership … again.
(Thanks to @Dianora for inspiring me to look up this golden oldie. 
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In light of recent events in New York City
We at @50501Chicago and @50501_movement committed to nonviolent resistance. Remember, nonviolent resistance is still resistance.
#nonviolence
Merci à Pauline Boyer, au milieu d'une actualité qui promeut la violence et la compétition/exclusion, de nous ramener aux fondamentaux !
Mouvement pour une Alternative Non-violente (MAN)/communiqué suite à l’allocution présidentielle du 6 mars 2025.
Les dépenses militaires de la France ne doivent pas augmenter !
https://mcinformactions.net/les-depenses-militaires-de-la-france-ne-doivent-pas-augmenter
#Etat #budget #finances #armement #strategies #nonviolence
I have been on this planet for 44 years now, have been working as a reasonably successful #entrepreneur for 27+ years in #switzerland, and find myself a #peoplepleaser who struggles to stand up for my own interests and/or needs. I'm not surprised to say this, I've been aware of it and working hard to change my behavioral patterns for a few years now, but it feels good to just write it down here today.
#empath #childhood #trauma #nonviolence
In light of a recent event we would like to state
We at @50501Chicago and @50501_movement committed to nonviolent resistance. Remember, nonviolent resistance is still resistance.
Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.
Read my full bio of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #freespeech #indigenous #nativeamerican #cherokee #franklittle #civilrights #nonviolence #racism #vigilantes #lynching #author #writer #fiction #books @bookstadon
Refusing to fight an enemy who's trying to harm you won't make your enemy lose control. It'll allow them to proceed to harm you, free from any prevention on your part. You twisted Sun Tzu's quote to fit your pacifist narrative even though Sun Tzu wasn't a pacifist. He wrote an entire book called "The Art of War." Have you even read it? He believed in minimizing conflict whenever possible, which is smart, not pacifism, which is the opposite.
I assume that since you're an anarchist, that means you want the abolishment of the state. If that's your intended goal for humanity to achieve one day in the future, pacifism and nonviolence will only prevent that from becoming a reality. Pacifism and nonviolence are tools the ruling class of our society use to prevent the workers that could otherwise easily overthrow them from doing so. Pacifism and nonviolence only benefit the ruling class.
#resist #pacifism #nonviolence #anarchism #christiananarchism
As a former USMC infantryman (1977-1991) who left the Marines as a #consciencious_objector, I have first-hand witness to the futility of violence. Unless you are willing to wipe out your "enemy" completely, the risk of reprisal is always there.
I will be the first to admit that religion, when subservient to the state, is a major tool in war and oppression. For the Christian church it does not matter if you are Roman Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelical or Anabaptist, they all are complicit.
But I still hold to the Way of Jesus, as did the Berrigans.
https://cac.org/daily-meditations/sitting-with-reality/
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My blog post about The White Rose resistance brochure: https://daisybrain.medium.com/the-new-white-rose-e65fe7bf3c5d
#antifascism #nonviolence #resistance #resist
This link will take you to my folder containing the brand new issue of The White Rose as well as the previous. They are free to download. Please share widely. https://jumpshare.com/b/r91GIRhbYdKUYpvjxfBT
#resist #antifascism #uspolitics #democracy #prodemocracy #nonviolence
I am going to upload volume 3 of the nonviolent resistance brochure The White Rose, so this is your last chance to download volume 2. It's free and I hope you spread this link. Thanks. http://www.thenewwhiterose.com #antifascist #antinazi #nonviolence #antifa #peace #freedom #uspolitics #trump #musk #doge #democracy
The new issue of The White Rose is out! Download for free at http://www.thenewwhiterose.com. It's formatted for print, so 1st and last pages on 1st sheet and middle two pages on 2nd sheet. #resistance #thewhiterose #revolution #nonviolence #mlk #resist #uspolitics #antifascism #antifa
The folks at ChooseDemocracy.us are back with new content! They've launched the Resist List, a growing list of examples of noncooperation with the Trump/Musk coup:
https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
The bottom of the page also lists four additional noncooperation databases.
About a fortnight ago, a fellow fediversian posted, what I would call supportive advice, but it is now vanished (at least for me). An online search found https://www.truthorfiction.com/daughter-of-mlk-and-coretta-scott-king-posted-this-advice-as-the-next-six-months-are-going-to-get-real/
In the current circumstances the last (unnumbered) pragraph of the post mentioned there seems most important to me.
#politics #regime #government #society #strategy #NonViolence #justice #resistance #awareness #dignity - I hope I didn't go overboard with the tags ;-)
