2015 needs WIN. Not just this year, not just the very magazine you hold in your hands (or are reading online). Our overall moment in history, in the adolescence of the 21st century, needs the politics of revolutionary nonviolence. That politics is proclaimed on the cover of this unique publication, often described within its pages,…
Revolutionary Violence and Romanticizing the Sixties Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity By Dan Berger 2006, AK Press, 450 pages $20.00, paperback Almost as pervasive as the denial, ignoring, or misinterpretation of the concept of revolutionary nonviolence is the rhetorical and romantic notion ascribed to armed struggle by much of…
What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage by Normal Finkelstein Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action by Dennis Dalton Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened Indiaby Gail Omveldt Revolutionary Gandhi by Pannalal Dasgupta Reviewed by Matt Meyer It’s as simple as making social change more effective. Growing global movements are looking beyond their own borders and…
In her diary on October 19, 1923, the 48-year-old New York City educator Jessie Wallace Hughan (1875-1955) wrote, “Tracy [Mygatt] to dinner—had hair done—organized real War Resisters League …” Hughan was describing the formal founding of WRL as the successor organization to the Anti-Enlistment League, which had opposed armed forces enlistment during World War I….
Revolutionary Nonviolence and the Critiquing of David Dellinger David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary By Andrew E. Hunt 2006, New York University Press; 346 pages. $34.95, hardcover As catchphrases go, “revolutionary nonviolence” has not exactly caught the imagination of many activists. Full of rhetoric and apparently contradictory meanings, those two words…
How Nonviolence Protects the State By Peter Gelderloos South End Press, 2007, 182 pages, $10 The Logic of Political Violence: Lessons in Reform and Revolution By Craig Rosebraugh Arissa Media Group, 2003, 288 pages, $17.95 Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America By Ward Churchill Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 1998,…
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond By David Gilbert 2011, PM Press, 384 pages, $22 Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times By Amy Sonnie and James Tracy 2011, Melville House, 256 pages, $16.95 Diary of a Heartland Radical By Harry Targ…
Resistance in Brooklyn (RnB), a 20-year-old anti-racist, anti-imperialist collective rooted in the 1970s/80s movements in solidarity with struggles of communities and nations of color, is awed by the creativity, tenacity, and commitment of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. RnB has been working with Occupy since early October, focusing most of our energies…
And the New American Revolution Though we may not like to admit it, the U.S. commitment to publicly supported teachers and students is coming to an abrupt end. The global corporate penchant for privatization, commoditization, and enclosure is having chilling effects on policies that scholar Henry Giroux suggests “seek nothing less than the total destruction…
Poetry and Human Rights: Poems by Dennis Brutus from the Dennis Brutus Collection (Third edition) Edited by Ken Gibbs and Wayne Kamin Worcester State College Press, 2010, 100 pages, Free download at www.worcester.edu/dbrutus When the War Resisters League decided to honor South African poet Dennis Brutus, among others, with our annual peace award at the…
The Not-So-Hidden Connection “We must work together to set free those who are bound, to turn our swords and spears into plowshares.” When Argentine Nobel Peace prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel lent his words to the foreword of my recently published Let Freedom Ring: Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, he did…
Linda Thurston is a founding member of International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, coordinated the New England and National Criminal Justice Programs of the American Friends Service Committee, and has worked with Boston and New York Jericho and with Critical Resistance. Linda is the office coordinator at the War Resisters League national office….
Make Levees, Not War! “I like the War Resisters League,” proclaimed Grammy Award-winning folk-country icon Steve Earle at the WRL’s 2008 annual peace award event, “because you’re about constant vigilance against any war, for any reason … anywhere in the world!” Earle headlined an all-star concert at Brooklyn’s Lyceum on December 12, 2008, in an…
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