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All Blog Posts Tagged 'revolution' (6)

The Outsider's Guide to Supporting Nonviolent Resistance to Dictatorship

A few months ago, a group of experts on nonviolence from around the world gathered in New York to consider how those outside a country subject to dictatorship or repression might help those within it fighting for democracy.

The result was this document, a list of nonviolent techniques that can and have been used against repressive…

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Added by Cromag on November 13, 2012 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Why Nonviolent Revolutions Sometimes Fail

Insights from Civil Resistance Struggles in China, Panama, and Kenya from 1985-1992

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In the 1980s, the world was captivated as East Germans brought down the Berlin wall and the Filipino “people power” movement ousted long-standing dictator Ferdinand Marcos.  Yet other civil resistance movements during this time failed to achieve political change.  Researchers have largely focused on successful nonviolent uprisings. Little attention has…

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Added by Cromag on May 21, 2012 at 12:09pm — No Comments

To Regulate or Not to Regulate: That is the Question

I have been thinking a lot about the ineffectiveness of regulatory systems, and the relationship to Ecologist Garrett Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons concept for understanding how we come to be at the brink of numerous environmental [and economic] catastrophes. In 2011 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Eastern Mountain Lion extinct, exemplifying a precarious system at best, and showing that impotent laws cannot…

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Added by Cromag on March 12, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

How Activists Organize (updated)

Watching the videos below, and exploring the additional materials and links, is a primer for understanding how seemingly powerless activists organize and affect widespread change.  One caveat is understanding elitism and the irony of democracy;  that changing status quo from one ruling class to another does not necessarily improve all conditions or eliminate oppression and corruption […

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Added by Cromag on February 21, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Revolution U

Early in 2008, workers at a government-owned textile factory in the Egyptian mill town of El-Mahalla el-Kubra announced that they were going on strike on the first Sunday in April to protest high food prices and low wages. They caught the attention of a group of tech-savvy young people an hour's drive to the south in the capital city of Cairo, who started a Facebook group to…

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Added by Cromag on February 20, 2011 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Interview with Environmental Attorney Thomas Linzey

Thomas Linzey thinks of himself as more than just a lawyer. A co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), Linzey is a practicing attorney, committed to the idea that change happens at the grassroots. Much of his activism occurs through CELDF's "Democracy Schools," an innovative curriculum that encourages people to go beyond the single issue they are working on to…

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Added by Cromag on October 24, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

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