nonviolent resistance
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Mahatma Gandhi urged and practiced nonviolent resistance during the efforts to win independence for India from Britain in the early twentieth century.
African-Americans in the civil rights movement often practiced nonviolent resistance in the South in the 1960s — for example, by sitting-in at segregated lunch counters to provoke arrest and draw attention to their cause. (See segregation and sit-ins.)
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But what we can do is call attention to the forms of nonviolent resistance that challenge our prevalent culture of rage and alienation.
From Salon
Wong, who spent decades teaching a doctrine of nonviolent resistance, died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 69, due to cardiopulmonary failure with complications from endocarditis.
From Los Angeles Times
Which brings me to the consent theory of power, a favorite of theorists and agitators from way back, updated by Gene Sharp, an advocate of nonviolent resistance.
From Salon
Los Angeles police arrested at least 25 people Tuesday night amid a curfew downtown as faith leaders made calls for “nonviolent resistance.”
From Los Angeles Times
His search led him to India, where he studied Mohandas K. Gandhi’s ideas about nonviolent resistance.
From Los Angeles Times
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