Category Archives: Nonviolent Action

Interview with Nonviolent Activist, Dolores Huerta

Check out this interview with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.  Here are some great quotes…

So one of the things we do in our organization is anytime we do a plan or have an event, we do an evaluation. What went well, what can be improved, you know? And to see how to make things better.

And the thing is, the people you are working with, they will give you the answers. So, you don’t have to have all of the answers when you start. As long as you have an idea of what you want to happen and start working on that idea, then the answers will come.

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Nonviolent Civic Action Time Line

Goal: Increase exposure to the history of nonviolent action

Objective:  Participants will be able to

  • List nonviolent movements, campaigns and struggles throughout history
  • Identify tactics and methods that nonviolent movements have used
  • Research various moments, times, and themes in history
  • Design a time line of nonviolent movements
  • Collectively learn and research together the history of nonviolent struggles

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Raytheon's Pain Ray: Coming to a Protest Near You?

http://www.alternet.org/rights/86692/

This is a bit frightening…an invisible ray that boils the skin producing a burning sensation?! The things people invent…

That being said, as awful as it feels to type this, maybe this is a “good” thing depending on how you look at it. Could this “save” lives, in that violent mobs of people may no longer need to be dispersed with bombs and bullets?

The danger is of course in the title of the article…could this machine be used to disperse nonviolent resisters?

How to use this article with your students…

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