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READING ROOM:

  • Mother Jones Article on Pro Democracy

  • Gene Sharp's Work

  • Freedom Trainers - Non Cooperation Library

Materials That Are Highly Recommended Reading and Viewing:

Mother Jones Article: Serbian revolutionary Srdja Popvic talks about how to mobilize massive nonviolent movements.

He Advised Pro-Democracy Activists in 50 Countries. Here’s His Advice for Americans. Serbian revolutionary Srdja Popvic talks about how omobilize massive nonviolent movements. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/srdja-popovic-democracy-movement-trump/

Gene Sharp (January 21, 1928 – January 28, 2018) was an American political scientist. He was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.[2] He was known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which have influenced numerous anti-government resistance movements around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp

The works of Gene Sharp are available for free:

Albert Einstein Institution is to advance the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. The Institution is committed to:

  • Defending democratic freedoms and institutions

  • Opposing oppression, dictatorship and genocide

  • Reducing reliance on violence as an instrument of policy

Albert Einstein Institute Library https://www.aeinstein.org/digital-library

Recommended reading to start are:

198 Methods of NonViolent Action

From Dictatorship to Democracy (seminal work) https://bit.ly/4iAWIj0 (There are many languages available)

Audio Version ON LIBRVOX

Videos:

Gene Sharp How to Start A Revolution YouTube video, 2011

How to Start a Revolution is a BAFTA Award-winning British documentary film about Nobel Peace Prize nominee and political theorist Gene Sharp, described as the world's foremost scholar on nonviolent revolution.

MLTalks: Building a Toolbox for Nonviolent Resistance with Jamila Raqib
Host: Joi Ito
https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/ml-talks-2017-01-25-1/

Freedom Trainers -https://freedomtrainers.net/noncooperation-library/

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Thank you Ken for the notice: Robert Reich (Labor Secretary under Clinton) is retiring from teaching and has created a film titled "The Last Class," about his final semester teaching a class on Wealth & Poverty at Berkeley. The film will be shown tonight on YouTube at 8:30PM. You can find a link to the showing at Inequality Media.

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