Notes on non violent civil disobedience.

ACT UP's essays on non violence here.

The wiki entry on nonviolence .

Alice Paul, the Quaker suffragette, and her use of nonviolence and the media - here.

Dr. King on the moral obligation of non-cooperation, and on not being an anarchist:


Characteristics of a nonviolent campaign from faslane365:

1. absolute respect for the opponent/everyone involved

2. care for everyone involved

3. refusal to harm, damage or degrade people

4. if suffering is inevitable, willingness to take it on yourself rather than inflict it on others

5. belief that everyone is capable of change

6. appeal to the opponents' humanity

7. recognition that no one has a monopoly of truth, so aims to bring together our 'truth' and the opponents' 'truth' understanding that the means are the ends in the making, so the means have to be consistent with the ends

8. preparation and training, so that our behaviour is nonviolent.