The Failure of Nonviolence 28 February, 2014 – open salon – Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy By Peter Gelderloos (2013 Left Bank Books) Book Review You occasionally read a totally mind bending book that opens up a whole new world for you. The Failure of Nonviolence more »
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No Love for the Black Power Movement, Misrepresenting the Civil Rights Movement
No Love for the Black Power Movement, Misrepresenting the Civil Rights Movement 26 August 2013 – by Lawrence Brown How far have we really come? As we sit on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the magnificent March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (MOW), I am struck by a peculiar phenomenon: the Black more »
The Use of Guns in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Deacons for Defense and Justice The Use of Guns in the Civil Rights Movement By Ben Garrett The thought of guns during America’s Civil Rights movement generally conjures up images of acts of violence perpetrated against African-Americans and civil rights workers in the South. But guns also played a significant role in dissuading violence, primarily more »
Reconciling the role of armed resistance in the midst of MLKs "nonviolent" movement
Deacons for Defense and Justice Wikipedia The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed self-defense African-American civil rights organization in the U.S. Southern states during the 1960s. Historically, the organization practiced self-defense methods in the face of racist oppression that was carried out under the Jim Crow Laws by local/state government officials and racist more »