Nonviolence 2-Pack
Program #CHEE001-GANA002.
Arun Gandhi - Gandhian Nonviolence Today
As protests and demonstrations continue around the world, once again the relevance of the strategies and tactics of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance arise. What are we to do when faced with injustice? Look away? Or resist? Are sit-ins, blockades and boycotts viable tools of resistance? Do people risk arrest and incarceration? Thoreau, who was an influence on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., went to jail for refusing to pay taxes. He was a principled opponent to slavery and the U.S. war on Mexico. As the story goes, his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him in jail. Emerson asked Thoreau, What are you doing in there? To which Thoreau replied, “What are you doing out there?” Going against power is not easy. Gandhi, who went to jail many times said, “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”
Erica Chenoweth - Nonviolence Works
No single event nor charismatic leader changes history. History changes when large groups organize around common goals. Events and leaders can help galvanize forces. But people power has a great track record. And, movements that rely on principles of nonviolence seem to succeed more often and create more lasting change than those engaged in armed struggle. In the U.S., the Civil Rights, Free Speech and Anti-War Movements of the 1960s, the Women’s Movement, and the Gay Rights Movement all shifted the political and cultural landscape. More recently Occupy had an impact. Internationally there was the overthrow of Marcos in the Philippines, Tiananmen Square. Some might say the Indonesian election in 2014 represents another nonviolent regime change – a victory of the ballot over the bullet. And who can forget what happened in South Africa?
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