Tag Archives: non-violence

Inside/Outside Strategy Revisited

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Richard Moser

What is Strategy? Strategy is a plan — a proposed course of action. Strategy demands the analysis of current conditions and statements of desired goals. But, the primary focus of strategy is “how.” How do we work the transition between … Continue reading →

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One Winning Way to Build the Peace Movement And One Losing Way

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Richard Moser

Q. What cloaks the empire and turns a mighty movement into a mirage? A. Narrow partisan politics. When anti-war activism plays second-fiddle to “follow the leader,” the chosen champion and the opposing villain loom so large that they become the … Continue reading →

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Soldiers and Veterans are Anti-War Leaders. Could This Be The Peace Movement of Our Time?

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Richard Moser

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: My own government.” — Martin Luther King If you want to stop the wars, challenge the empire and deal with climate crisis then support our anti-war soldiers and veterans. Soldiers and veterans carry … Continue reading →

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A Different War Story: The Soldier and Veteran Resistance Against the War in Vietnam

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Richard Moser

The battle over American war stories began during the peak of the last revolution. Millions of Americans and tens of thousands of veterans and soldiers opposed the war in Vietnam. In the war’s moral outrages, crimes and betrayals, many saw the … Continue reading →

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The People Made the First New Deal. Can the People Make Another?

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Richard Moser

Also find this article at Counterpunch. Massive Protest and Organizing Created the New Deal The kind of electoral victories we need will take far more than standard electioneering and Facebook debates. Let’s look at what it took to create the New … Continue reading →

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The Young Patriots, The Original Rainbow Coalition and Rising Up Angry

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Richard Moser

Seventh in the Series: Organize the White Working Class! Young Patriots* In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the social movements crossed over into revolutionary territory. The victories and the failures of the civil rights movement, massive urban rebellions, the … Continue reading →

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Jobs or Income Now!: JOIN and White Working Class Leadership

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Richard Moser

Sixth in the Series: Organize the White Working Class! Yes, that is Harry Belafonte visiting JOIN in 1965. Peggy Terry is on far right. JOIN and Emergence of White Working Class Leadership. Jobs or Income Now (JOIN) was a Chicago … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock: Challenge to the Establishment, School for the Social Movements

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Richard Moser

This article also appeared in Counterpunch Standing Rock: Challenge to the Establishment, School for the Social Movements. Opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline began in October 2014. Young warriors of the Standing Rock Sioux established the Sacred Stone Camp in … Continue reading →

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A New Revolutionary Strategy

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Richard Moser

Seventh in a series of ten posts on MLK. The Revolution in Revolutionary Strategy “The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, … Continue reading →

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Non-Violence as Strategy: Love as Politics

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Richard Moser

Second in a series of ten posts on the strategies of MLK. Nonviolent Strategy 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 … Continue reading →

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