He remained, to the end, the prophet of nonviolent resistance.
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They study Gandhi and Gene Sharp, a guru of nonviolent resistance.
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Dr. King was assassinated for preaching nonviolent resistance in the South.
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Martin Luther King Jr. preached nonviolent resistance; Yasir Arafat practiced terrorism.
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But beyond setting the agenda, nonviolent resistance has other important organizational benefits.
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There were boycotts, "freedom rides," acts of nonviolent resistance, walkouts, and more.
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The 2010s witnessed an uptick in nonviolent resistance movements across the globe.
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Through King's teachings on nonviolent resistance, "he belongs to everybody," Jackson says.
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You are calling for our grassroots, nonviolent resistance movement to be met with violence.
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There are plenty of examples in which nonviolent resistance failed to lead to democracy.
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Why do they think physical violence, as opposed to nonviolent resistance, is both justifiable and effective?
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent resistance to segregation and had become legends inside the movement.
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The initial successes of Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt as well as the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine demonstrated to the world that nonviolent resistance has the potential to reshape political power from below, even in systems where skeptics would view nonviolent resistance as impossible and naive.
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Mr. Abbas, who succeeded Mr. Arafat, has repeatedly said he supports nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation.
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Here's what she had to say about leading a nonviolent resistance in the midst of hate-driven violence.
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It elevates Luke Skywalker to a hero of nonviolent resistance, the Ghandi of a galaxy far, far away.
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While electoral violence is a slightly different animal, the literature on nonviolent resistance provides some guidance here as well.
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Martin Luther King Jr. advocated the strategy of nonviolent resistance, which eventually led to the victories of the movement.
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Historical research has shown that campaigns of nonviolent resistance are more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts.
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Known as the Mahatma (an honorific meaning "great soul"), he became famous worldwide as a practitioner of nonviolent resistance.
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Jesus' admonition was a form of nonviolent resistance that would later be adopted by Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev.
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In 1961, he helped found the Committee of 100, an antiwar group that favored nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
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For 663 days, he refused food and drink save for water, starving his body in the name of nonviolent resistance.
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By the mid-1960s, Dr. King was sensing that the nonviolent resistance he had built his reputation on was inadequate.
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Nonviolent resistance has the potential to mobilize large numbers of people compared with, say, movements that combine nonviolent and violent techniques.
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He had been at the forefront of an effort to channel widespread socio-economic frustration into an organized nonviolent resistance movement.
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Like few others in history, he harnessed the moral firepower of nonviolent resistance, helping wrest India away from the British Empire.
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Artists have a substantial presence at the camp, where water protectors and their allies are praying and engaging in nonviolent resistance.
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Like war, effective nonviolent resistance is about having a clear set of demands and sticking to them until the very end.
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That's why the average nonviolent resistance campaign has so many more active participants than the average armed rebel movement, for instance.
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But when you talk about nonviolent resistance, it's important to remember what that involved as far as the 20th century was concerned.
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He spent nearly 30 years in British and Pakistani jails or under house arrest, but never abandoned his philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
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For her PhD research on nonviolent resistance movements, Sombatpoonsiri investigates why young people in particular were attracted to Otpor's brand of activism.
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The majority of Rohingya believe that nonviolent resistance is the best weapon for self-defense against the Myanmarese government and the Rakhine.
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And the bigger the role played by mass nonviolent resistance, the freer the country and the more durable the freedom that emerge.
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With claims of 100 percent election victory, the regime suffers from a serious legitimacy deficit, which creates conditions for violent and nonviolent resistance.
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It is most definitely possible to practice nonviolent resistance to policies that are deemed abhorrent without letting rage degrade the tactics of resistance.
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He worries that the way he is being treated by Israel will make other Palestinians lose hope that nonviolent resistance can be effective.
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"There's not a huge number engaged in nonviolent resistance in the name of their faith, but numbers don't matter, do they?" he said.
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And he was one of the first pastors to inspire King to merge Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance with the civil rights movement.
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And larger, cross-national studies show that nonviolent resistance campaigns are more likely to overthrow their own governments without violent flanks than with them.
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After all, he preached peaceful and "passive nonviolent resistance," both a term of art and a strategy that most Palestinian leaders have never embraced.
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Because of this, well-organized nonviolent resistance tends to widen a movement's appeal to a broader audience compared with violent or chaotic forms of unrest.
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The rapid diffusion of information technology may have something to do with this, making nonviolent resistance somewhat "stickier" than it has been in prior periods.
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Some time earlier, they had discussed Gandhi and nonviolent resistance, and so, without premeditation, when the bus driver asked them to move they politely refused.
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They found that in over 320 conflicts between 1900 and 2006, nonviolent resistance was more than twice as effective as violent resistance in achieving change.
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An American academic who worked from his modest Boston home, Sharp studied and cataloged examples of nonviolent resistance, looking at why they succeeded or failed.
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Producing food, deepening his connection with the land, and inspiring farmers throughout Palestine to use farming as peaceful, nonviolent resistance gives him a sense of purpose.
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The teenagers huddled for a briefing on nonviolent resistance from a bearded left-wing activist; two of them turned to each other and began kissing passionately.
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She not only opposed the war, but openly picketed "Kaiser Wilson" in one of the first White House protests and an early example of nonviolent resistance.
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Characterized variously as the "Machiavelli of Nonviolence" and the "Clausewitz of Nonviolent Warfare," Mr. Sharp argued that nonviolent resistance draws its strength from basic human nature.
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So does some of the poetry, like Yusef Iman's sardonic 1966 comment on nonviolent resistance called "Love Your Enemy," recited by Ms. Sanchez in a video.
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The Charsadda university is named after Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a celebrated pre-independence leader known as "the frontier Gandhi" for advocating nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule.
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On the contrary, his commitment to nonviolent resistance as the only legitimate path to lasting change is the best hope of peace for Palestinians and Israelis alike.
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Young people had more faith in nonviolent resistance leading eventually to equal rights within a single state than in yet another aborted international peace initiative or aborted uprising.
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One of the enduring tensions in black liberation movements from the 18th century onwards has existed between those advocating for violent opposition and those who prescribe nonviolent resistance.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about Gene Sharp, a prominent advocate of nonviolent resistance, mistakenly listed a subtitle for his book "The Politics of Nonviolent Action," published in 1973.
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So, I thought it would be fitting to kick off 2020 by bringing Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard specializing in nonviolent resistance, on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Choose any of the following: I'm over 70 & a grandmother; I've been an activist for Palestine since the late 1960's; I've always been an ardent supporter of nonviolent resistance.
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The genesis of "March" can be traced back to "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," a 93-page, 10-cent comic book published in 1957, which advocated nonviolent resistance.
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Critic's Notebook Productions of Philip Glass's opera "Satyagraha," a meditation on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi and his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, always seem to arrive right on time.
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The lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi, inspired and taught effective nonviolent resistance to millions of people, including the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., who used those lessons to lead the American civil rights movement.
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Suu Kyi, a former Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance to the military junta that ruled Myanmar for decades, has also denied that ethnic cleansing is going on her country.
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But as the popular uprising that took place in July against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's measures in East Jerusalem showed, we have learned and we have mastered the power of nonviolent resistance.
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is a remarkable movie, both for how it brings life to a historical character and for how it demonstrates steadfast, nonviolent resistance, animated by religious and political conviction.
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Because nonviolent resistance does not physically threaten the opponent, it provides the opportunity for movements to clearly communicate their messages to potential sympathizers and fence sitters without violence distracting from the core intent.
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Tibetan Buddhism has not always been peaceful, and once the Dalai Lama dies, his directives for nonviolent resistance may also be silenced, enabling the fractures of Tibetan Buddhists sects to reemerge from history.
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"Nonviolent resistance is not the only game in town, but it is also not something to underestimate in terms of its ability to help us maintain and improve the democratic experiment," Chenoweth said.
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Whether you agree with or disapprove of the 1960s flavor of nonviolent resistance, the simple historical truth of the matter is that America is nowhere near the boiling point of a half-century ago.
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The books delve into the inner workings of the movement: the grueling training in nonviolent resistance, the harrowing bus rides through Klan-controlled towns, the humiliating fire hoses, the jail time, the tear gas.
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Many nonviolent resistance actions in recent years have been unsuccessful because the protests weren't significant enough (as with Belarus' Denim Revolution in 2006) or their central organization fell apart (as with the Arab Spring).
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Other Hamas figures have made the same argument in recent weeks, distinguishing between "nonviolent" resistance as pursued by Hamas and the "peaceful" strategy of the Palestinian Authority—which they associate with passivity and surrender.
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The threat of "the fire next time" — James Baldwin's warning of more violent resistance to white supremacy that would follow if nonviolent resistance failed — pushed lawmakers to work with King on civil rights legislation.
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Consider Gandhi's 24-day march from an ashram near Ahmedabad to the coastal town of Dandi to harvest sea salt in an act of nonviolent resistance against the salt monopoly imposed by India's British colonizers.
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A few years later, King abandoned self-defense in favor of complete nonviolent resistance, though some pro-gun rights activists have continued to use King's early attitude toward guns to advocate for the Second Amendment.
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But when I spoke to Chenoweth over the phone, she emphasized that her own research on how nonviolent resistance can topple governments suggests that it influenced people in positions of power to push back as well.
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" Dr. Raines was suddenly transformed from a beloved retired professor into an indelible historical footnote in a case that Ms. Medsger would write was "perhaps the most powerful single act of nonviolent resistance in American history.
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Illuminating Dr. King's sense of humor as well as his idealism, the play focuses on his relationship with Benjamin Mays, then the president of Morehouse, who helped introduce Dr. King to the concept of nonviolent resistance.
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Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard who's done extensive research on the power of nonviolent resistance, also emphasized the link between the early anti-Trump demonstrations and the 2018 midterms, as well as other trends.
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If ICE officers begin bursting into churches, however, the contemporary sanctuary movement could start to resemble the Civil Rights Movement, where it took violent state response to nonviolent resistance for white American lawmakers to begin changing policy.
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However, Bilin quickly became one of the most significant icons of the Palestinian nonviolent resistance movement when a group of global leaders (including Richard Branson and Jimmy Carter) called 'The Elders' brought the situation to international attention.
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Chenoweth's on-the-ground experience combined with a big-picture, academic view of nonviolent resistance makes her perspective essential for understanding one of the most important phenomena of the last decade — and, in all likelihood, the next one.
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But nonviolent resistance — that is, when unarmed civilians use a coordinated set of actions, such as protests, strikes, and noncooperation to directly confront opponents without harming or threatening to harm them — has actually been incredibly influential in this election.
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In places as diverse as Guatemala, Thailand, Ukraine, Tunisia, and Moldova, nonviolent resistance movements have been upending the status quo as more and more people realize the power of mass mobilization to challenge entrenched authorities and hold politicians accountable.
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The university attacked by the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday was named for a towering figure in Pakistani history — a nonviolent Pashtun activist who became known as the "Frontier Gandhi" for his advocacy of nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule.
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Just a few years ago, the onetime democracy activist, who serves as Myanmar's foreign minister and de facto civilian leader, visited the halls of power in Western Europe to preach the virtues of nonviolent resistance against a military dictatorship.
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Over the past decade, Otpor's tactics, which were street theater and pranks (pop-up actions, almost) to disrupt the social hegemony and galvanize people, have shaped modern social movements, for whom holding physical space has become central to nonviolent resistance.
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Non-violent direct action If conditions for fruitful dialogue become untenable, this norm orients the U.S. to rely on creative nonviolent resistance in collaboration with other actors and Iranian civil society leaders to shift power and create better conditions for dialogue.
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As for violence perpetrated by Palestinians, especially within Hamas but also, to some degree, among Palestinians living in the West Bank, in a world of hardened absolutes, King might, as others did, have come to doubt the virtues of nonviolent resistance.
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Mr. Melillo first saw "Satyagraha," Mr. Glass's opera about Mohandas K. Gandhi's use of nonviolent resistance in South Africa, as an audience member at BAM in 23 when Mr. Lichtenstein included it in his "The Next Wave/New Masters" series.
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Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth looked at 459 cases between 1900 and 2015 of violent insurgencies and nonviolent oppositions to authoritarian governments, and found that nonviolent resistance movements were more than twice as likely to succeed in their aims as violent ones.
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The Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC) and Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), two influential activist groups, responded with a series of strikes and "Operation Ghost Town" -- an instruction to all supporters to stay at home as a mode of nonviolent resistance.
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" Nelson Mandela referred to Gandhi as "the Sacred Warrior" and wrote, "His strategy of noncooperation, his assertion that we can be dominated only if we cooperate with our dominators, and his nonviolent resistance inspired anticolonial and antiracist movements internationally in our century.
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Op-Ed Contributor Issa Amro, a native of the city of Hebron and a prominent Palestinian advocate of nonviolent resistance, has been waiting now for nearly two months to find out when he can expect to face trial in an Israeli military courtroom.
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Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International have also already issued statements warning the state to deescalate the conflict, as increased force may pose real threats to the rights of Hawaiians and other protectors peacefully exercising their rights to nonviolent resistance.
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"After its theft of Palestinian land and culture, Israel is now trying to appropriate a symbol of our nonviolent resistance," said Alia Malak, of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which oversees the BDS movement's academic and cultural campaigns.
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"50% of all earnings from orders of Feminist As F*ck lipstick will go towards helping the Women's March and their commitment to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance, intersectional education, and the creation of entry points for grassroots activist organizers," Sones explains.
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Rohingya activists hoped she would use her moral authority as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate -- an award she won for her nonviolent resistance to the military junta that formerly ruled the country -- to take up the issue, despite its political unpopularity in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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Mr. Abbas says that violence does not serve the Palestinian cause and that he supports only nonviolent resistance, and yet all Palestinians who are killed in the conflict are honored in Palestinian society as "martyrs" and all those in jail in Israel are considered political prisoners.
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Which is the other problem with saying King's actions are evidence that "civility works better": King was only one voice within the push for black freedom; many other participants in that struggle saw nonviolent resistance as at best a useful tactic and at worst a useless one.
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News Analysis GAZA CITY — It was a striking tableau: Ismail Haniya, the political leader of Hamas, the Islamic militant group that has tried suicide bombs, rockets and attack tunnels in its long struggle with Israel, standing before portraits of the giants of nonviolent resistance — Mahatma Gandhi, the Rev.
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The thing is, tying your behavior to a vague metric based on pleasing or antagonizing some monolithic third party is not only a drastic over-simplification of the complexities of leading a movement, it also implicitly assumes that victory through nonviolent resistance is both foolproof and easily accomplished.
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There's a sense now of a lot of people who are much more liberal or moderate, who would not consider themselves as radicals of leftists or anything, in the landscape that I write about, who are embracing the broad legacy of nonviolent resistance movements right now out of urgency and desperation.
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While she was editing the novel "Ahimsa" by Supriya Kelkar, which takes place in 1942 India and centers on a young girl's involvement in the nonviolent resistance movement, Ms. Whitman hired a sensitivity reader who came from India's Dalit community, which was considered at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.
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Protest symbol The symbolism of a single person's nonviolent resistance against a large, heavily armed opposition is reminiscent of a handful of other famous photographs, including Marc Riboud's shot of a Vietnam war protester holding a flower in front of armed police, or the image of the lone protester confronting a tank in Tiananmen Square.
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As an active member of the Syrian National Coordination Committee for the Force of Democratic Change, a bloc of 13 left-wing political parties opposed to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Faris has spent the last four years speaking about nonviolent resistance and the importance of space missions as forms of intercultural and scientific exchange.
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Few in Hong Kong will believe that the demonstrations were riots, in part because they came on the heels of a mass protest in the city against the extradition bill three days ago, said Victoria Hui, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame who studies nonviolent resistance movements and Hong Kong politics.
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Choose any of the following: I'm over 70 & a grandmother; I've been an activist for Palestine since the late 1960's; I've always been an ardent supporter of nonviolent resistance; Ashrawi, who was educated in the U.S. and has family living in the country, argued she had been rejected for political reasons in a series of tweets.
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Kingsmill's daughter, Diana, who had a lifelong association with pacifist Quakers, took over Grindstone and turned it into a nonviolent resistance education center, staging legendary role-playing games that recreated the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment as a way to train the "prisoners" to fight oppression with noncooperation — a practice that ended after a disastrous fake "invasion" by a local biker gang retained for the purpose.
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