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=====Wikipedia Nonviolence===== | =====Wikipedia Nonviolence===== | ||
[https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php/Nonviolence by Wikipedia] | [https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php/Nonviolence by Wikipedia] | ||
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[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/05/archives/nonviolence-making-quiet-gains-in-us-despite-disorders-nonviolence.html by John Herbers 5/4/1970 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/05/archives/nonviolence-making-quiet-gains-in-us-despite-disorders-nonviolence.html by John Herbers 5/4/1970 The New York Times] | ||
HAVERFORD, Pa., April 3— Two years after the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence as a tech nique for social change, al though widely rejected, is making quiet gains across the nation. | HAVERFORD, Pa., April 3— Two years after the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., nonviolence as a tech nique for social change, al though widely rejected, is making quiet gains across the nation. | ||
=====Why Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence matters now more than ever===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/27/us/king-center-mlk-nonviolence-strategy by Eliott C. McLaughlin 27/2/22 CNN] | |||
The discipline made sense in the 1950s and 1960s when peaceful protesters were met by “Bull” Connor or Sheriff Jim Clark, who unleashed the full venom of law enforcement. Protesters’ nonviolent response to dogs, billy clubs and water cannons painted a necessary contrast for the North and the world: Here are the oppressors; there are the oppressed. | |||
=====DR. KING STRESSES NONVIOLENCE ROLE; Tells Oslo Students Nations Should Try to ‘Sacrifice’ to Achieve World Peace===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/12/archives/dr-king-stresses-nonviolence-role-tells-oslo-students-nations.html by The New York Times] | |||
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, addressing students at Oslo University, said the “freedom movement is spreading in the [widest liberation in history.” In its vanguard, he said, is the spirit of nonviolence. | |||
=====Tag: Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/tag/nonviolence/ by PBS] | |||
“The lure of the political” changed Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a pastor and theologian. He prayed with the conspirators to assassinate Hitler, and he conferred blessings on the various coup attempts. Watch our interview with Charles Marsh, author of “Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” | |||
=====NON-VIOLENCE -- POWERFUL RIGHTS WEAPON===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/28/archives/nonviolence-powerful-rights-weapon.html by John Herbersspecial To the New York Times 28/2/1965 The New York Times] | |||
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 27— On the morning of Feb. 3, Malcolm X showed up unexpectedly in Selma, Ala., where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a non-violent movement against the area's restrictions on Negro voting. Dr. King was, by his own design, in jail. | |||
=====Breaking news alert: People are inherently good, nonviolent===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/11/health/nonviolence-good-wisdom-project by David G. Allan 11/12/18 CNN] | |||
It matters how you personally respond when you hear news of violence. The way you process and frame it has real mental and physical impacts. | |||
Mass shootings, deadly hate crimes, terror, murder, gun violence and war all have their particular details, but each story revives age-old, yet urgent, questions about who we are as a species. | |||
=====How to topple dictators and transform society===== | |||
[https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/1/3/21048121/ezra-klein-erica-chenoweth-nonviolence-topple-dictators by Ezra Klein 3/1/20 Vox] | |||
Nonviolent resistance scholar Erica Chenoweth explains the key ingredients of successful social movements. | |||
=====A Distinguished French General Is Now a Man of Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/29/archives/a-distinguished-french-general-is-now-a-man-of-nonviolence.html by Nan Robertson Special to The New York Times 29/8/1973 The New York Times] | |||
Two weeks ago the Government struck General de Bollardiere from the army reserve list for actively opposing the current French atomic bomb tests in the atmosphere over Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific. The French Navy forcibly removed him from an American yacht that had gone near the forbidden nuclear site as a protest gesture. | |||
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