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[https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/09/non-violence-uses-love-as-force/ by Richard Moser 9/2/18 COUNTERPUNCH] | [https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/09/non-violence-uses-love-as-force/ by Richard Moser 9/2/18 COUNTERPUNCH] | ||
“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored…there is a type of of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. | “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored…there is a type of of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. | ||
=====Nonviolence or Nonexistence===== | |||
[https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/05/nonviolence-or-nonexistence by Robert C. Koehler 5/5/19 common dreams] | |||
One of the people working tirelessly to make this happen is Mel Duncan, co-founder of Nonviolent Peaceforce. Just over a month ago, he did his best to bring some peace consciousness to a House Appropriations subcommittee, in an effort to get funding for a global lifesaving program that's in place in some of the most conflict-ravaged regions of the world. It's called, simply enough, Unarmed Civilian Protection, but there's nothing simple about what it is or how it works. | |||
