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Meet Erika Thorne
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| |  SECOND IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS OF TRAINING ASSOCIATES: Nico Amador interviews Erika Thorne, progressive activist, writer, facilitator and cultural worker since 1974. Learn more about Erika and her stories of using Training for Change, and more...
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Into the Streets! Training as a Tactic
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| | When a civil disobedience campaign in Philadelphia needed a fresh way to prepare its members, a new tactic was born: the practice site occupation. At that event, training took on a whole new meaning and became an action unto itself.
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Meet Matt Guynn
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| |  FIRST IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS OF TRAINING ASSOCIATES: Nico Amador interviews Matt Guynn, an organizer and nonviolence trainer with over ten years of training experience. Learn more about Matt, his stories of using Training for Change, and more...
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Lessons from the Borders: Empowering Participants with Disabilities and Transgender Participants
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| | Read about the direct education approach's contrast to anti-oppression style trainings that exploit margins' experience for the mainstream or that create a laundry list of do's and don'ts for each experience. Two participants share their experiences from the 2006 Super-T to encourage increased awareness and greater inclusion of people with disabilities and transgender people in all types of workshops and trainings.
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Making Nonviolent Struggle More Powerful: Framing Strategies
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| | We live in a breakthrough period for "nonviolent struggle," when pro-democracy movements are using it to overthrow dictators and human rights advocates are using it to save lives during civil unrest. In this lecture, George Lakey talks about how can this social technology be made even more powerful for achieving justice, democracy and peace?
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How to Develop Peace Teams: the Light Bulb Theory
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| | The light bulb theory of development is that we need to know what we want to invent and how that is different from other (equally worthy) applications of nonviolent action. This paper by George Lakey describes the light bulb, and shows how it is different from a candle and from an oil lamp.
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Beyond Just Education: Why our approach to teaching makes all the difference in social change
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| | "We need to educate people," is one of the most common refrains from social change activists. But what does it really mean? The rise of popular education and insights from anti-oppression movements give us major insights into how to do meaningful education. Daniel Hunter examines how pedagogy influences our social change work. An extract from "Before You Enlist And After You Say No," a counter-recruitment manual co-written by Daniel Hunter.
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The Dilemma Demonstration
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| |  What are dilemma demonstrations? They are actions that move beyond telling people what we want and instead act it out now.
Activist/trainer Philippe Duhamel writes about how Operation SalAMI used dilemma demosntrations to place the Canadian government in a real dilemma regarding their position and actions in the negotiation process of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). It tells the little-known story of how the texts of the FTAA were made publicly, which eventually led to that free trade vs. fair trade round's defeat. A strategic feast!
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Christian Peace Teams in Iraq shows riskiness of nonviolent intervention: How should it be weighed?
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| | On April 3, 2006, WHYY's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane aired a discussion of Christian Peacemaker Teams and third-party nonviolent intervention with George Lakey. The archived broadcast is available online:
Listen to this show via Real Audio or mp3
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Crash and Class
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| | The controversial movie "Crash" is being touted for offering complexity about race. But often missing are the complex class implications in the movie. Read George Lakey's comments on this movie.
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Experimenters in Intervention: Putting Christian Pecemaking Teams in Context
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| | As thoughtful people sort out the lessons of the ongoing Iraq tragedy, some look for seeds of hope. Tom Fox and his fellow hostages from Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) represent one of those seeds. Three of those captives were freed last week...
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Reading the Signs of the Times
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| | In the most recent newsletter from On Earth Peace, editor and TFC training associate Matt Guynn writes to radical Christians about the current situation in the US. Contributing writer Daniel Hunter, also a TFC associate, writes about the current political situation in the US empire and what activists need to consider in the face of the decline of the US empire.
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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: lessons in time of empire
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| | Daniel Hunter writes to US activists about lessons to keep in mind in the midst of empire. Originally written for On Earth Peace's newsletter along with Matt Guynn's article on "Reading the Signs of the Times" speaking to Christian activists.
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An Open Letter to Anti-Oppression/Diversity Trainers
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| |  Daniel Hunter offers a challenge to anti-oppression trainers on accepting 2-hour and 1-hour workshops. He argues it often structures the idea that diversity work can done quickly and keeps people away from the deep emotional commitment that is needed. Along with comments from TFC training associates Judith Jones and Erika Thorne.
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A Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution
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| | As individuals we often feel our lack of power to affect the course of events or even our own environment. We sense the untapped potential in ourselves, the dimensions that go unrealized. We struggle to find meaning in a world of tarnished symbols and impoverished cultures...The manifesto includes a vision of a new society-its economy and ecology, its forms of conflict, its global dimensions. The manifesto also proposes a framework for strategy of struggle and change.
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Populism in Time of War
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| | From the author of "Class Matters," an article about building a mass movement in an era where activists are bombarbed by images that suggest we're a minority. But if peace activists take a class and economic analysis, we can become more effective as we re-align ourselves and gain new alliances.
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Trainer Challenges: some stories
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| | What to do when you can't find the right tool to help move the group forward? How to handle cross-cultural differences? How to get out of thinking of anti-oppression work as grim? TFC training associates Matt Guynn, Erika Thorne, Judith Jones, and Betsy Raasch-Gilman share training challenges and insights based on their experience of training around the world.
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La no-violencia como "espada sanadora"
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| | George Lakey's La no-violencia como "espada sanadora", crÌtica de "El pacifismo como patologÌa" de Ward Churchill (Sword That Heals translated into Spanish)
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Planificar una estrategia para una revoluciÛn vivente
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| | George Lakey's Planificar una estrategia para una revoluciÛn vivente (5 Stages of Strategy for a Living Revolution translated into Spanish)
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La spada che guarisce: una difesa della nonviolenza attiva
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| | George Lakey's La
spada che guarisce:
una difesa della nonviolenza attiva
(The Sword That Heals translated into Italian)
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A Espada Que Cura
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| | George Lakey's A Espada Que Cura: Em desafio a Ward Churchill, que escreveu “0
Pacifismo como Patologia.”
(Part of Sword that Heals translated in Portugese)
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Preparando una estrategia contra la guerra en Irak
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| | He aquí un método a incorporar inmediatamente a tu caja de herramientas tácticas, justo en el momento en que los activistas calientan motores para oponer resistencia a otra guerra de los Estados Unidos.
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Have Patience With Us
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| | An American activist speaks to Europeans, answering five key questions about the U.S. Peace Movement. (Read the Italian version: Siate Pazienti Con Noi)
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Siate Pazienti Con Noi
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| | Un attivista statunitense parla agli Europei, rispondendo a cinque domande chiave sul Movimento Pacifista negli Stati Uniti; di GEORGE LAKEY
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Globalize Liberation: 5 Stages for Social Movements
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| | George Lakey lays out his 5 stages of social movements, using case studies and examples. A strategy article for activists on how to create social change that is republished from Globalize Liberation.
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Where Do We Go From Here?
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| | There is life after the elections! No matter the outcome, activists and people interested in social change will need to continue the fight and move into creating smart strategy. We'll also need to do some reflection and relaxing after the intense push many groups are putting into the elections now.
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The Lizard Strategy: how to beat Bush without losing our souls
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| | US electoral politics are heating up in what some are hailing as one of the most important elections in US history. TFC's Strategy Project re-prints an article by Ricardo Levins Morales' on a strategic approach to the elections. Its unusual point of view includes transparency about strategic goals and objectives on a sophisticated level.
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Mass Action Since Seattle: 7 ways to make our protests more powerful
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| | Mass actions in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and L.A. have ignited controversy over tactics and strategy. Here are 7 ways we can make our protests more powerful and open up new options for future mass direct action scenarios.
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Walking our Talk: building empowerment through transformation
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| | To build movements
that can transform society – including its power relations
– requires transformational work in the training. We work
with movements whose activists are at very high risk of injury
and death from police and security forces. The very minimal
emotional risk we see in doing transformational work is worth
taking when seen in the context of what social movements around
the world do every day. The transformational opening, as we
see it, is to go beneath the surface of talk going on in a workshop.
The goal? Empowerment.
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Understanding Power-Over and Power-Within: an instructive training tool
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| | How can we organize against the multiple wars of the U.S. and at the same time plant the seeds for the future mass radical movement that's required to end the war system itself? Here's a training tool called the mattress game that helps to understand those relationships.
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Poetry Power
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| | How the art of poetry relates to social change, with three current examples (written by Martin Wiley)
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Strategizing Against the Iraq War
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| | Here's an approach to add immediately to your strategy tool kit, using a tool called spectrum of allies.
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Chaos Theory and Nonviolence
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| | Chaotic demonstrations are here to stay -- thank goodness! They are just the breath of fresh air that the nonviolence movement needed. But that very chaos has strong implications for those of us who design and lead nonviolence workshops before the actions.
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Nonviolent Action as the Sword that Heals
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| | When state-sponsored violence meets nonviolent people power, which one wins? As George Lakey shows in this passionate and well researched piece, it's nonviolence that tends to win hands down. Originally written as a rebuttal to the Ward Churchill screed "Pacifism as Pathology," this booklet is filled with recent real-world examples of nonviolent victories.
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Pushing Our Thinking About People Power: three applications of nonviolent action
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| | ZNet article written by George Lakey
How to use the three applications of nonviolent action (social change, social defense, and third-party nonviolent intervention) to understand strategy and our options as activists.
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Diversity of Tactics and Democracy
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| | Using examples from Yugoslavia and other experiences of succesful movements, George Lakey challenges the notion that "diversity of tactics" can be used in a pro-democracy movement.
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Reflection on R2K: Impatient Visionaries Struggled to Expand Political Space
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| | The young man was steamed as he confronted a protest leader during the Republican National Convention in August: "I needed to go downtown that day and I didn't because of all the disruption in the streets! If you were trying to get me on your side, you sure didn't do it!"
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More Power Than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence
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| | Catch this reprint of a classic, and still timely, article written by Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey
Masculine sexuality involves the oppression of women, competition among men, and homophobia (fear of homosexuality). Patriarchy, the systematic domination of women by men through unequal opportunities, rewards, punishments, and the internalization of unequal expectations through sex role differentiation, is the institution which organizes these behaviors. Patriarchy is men having more power, both personally and politically, than women of the same rank. This imbalance of power is the core of patriarchy, but definitely not the extent of it.
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Glossary: A list of terms we use
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| | Using words in a special way can be either confusing or helpful. We try to keep jargon to a minimum. The reason to use it at all is to be able to be able to make a precise point more quickly than giving a long explanation every time. Here are some of the common TFC terms!
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Why Training for Nonviolent Action?
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| | Question: What do some revolutionary soldiers in a Burmese jungle, Act Up members in New York, environmentalists in Germany, coal miners in West Virginia, and aboriginals in Taiwan have in common?
Answer: Participation in nonviolent action training workshops.
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