Power Dynamics and Nonviolent Protest

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Wednesday February 23, 2011 · 7:35 AM PST

2011/02/23 · 07:35

To resist corporate power and form “a more perfect Union,” we should study nonviolent lessons and strategies of pro-democracy movements worldwide. Meet Dr. Gene Sharp.

My last Evening Focus I spoke of Gandhian philosophy and technique . Afterward, I “got it” – the same colonial powers who had ruled India and ruled us before the American Revolution are at it again, with new tricks … dressed in suits and ties, and yes, even powdered wigs. It takes my breath away to think of it.

Republican strategists, well-paid agents of corporate colonialism, have working for 30 years to gain control of all the mechanisms of governance – from the school board to state and local boards and commissions, to the means of communication, to the mechanisms of elections, to the judiciary. And for 80 years they have ached to go back to the good old days, days before FDR.

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Monday February 21, 2011 · 5:24 AM PST

2011/02/21 · 05:24

Today's output from Blogistan Polytechnic Institute’s state-of-the-art HEMMED (High-Energy Meta Mojo Elucidation Detector) machine is ... please sit down for this ... some sensible Progressive wisdom from the Senate.

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Monday February 21, 2011 · 5:20 AM PST

2011/02/21 · 05:20

President Obama said, about the successful Egyptian pro-democracy movement, “It was the moral force of non-violence that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.” This calls to mind the life and work of India’s and South Africa’s Mohandas Gandhi.

Many scholars have documented and analyzed the Gandhi’s life and work; I cannot do it justice nor examine its rich roots in a few paragraphs. Still, there may be something to learn that would help us to better understand the genesis of the current nonviolent youth movements in the Middle East.

Mohandas Gandhi, born into a pious, educated, Hindu, merchant class family in colonized India on October 2, 1869. Do please follow me across the orange wash...

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Monday February 21, 2011 · 5:20 AM PST

2011/02/21 · 05:20

Today's output from Blogistan Polytechnic Institute’s state-of-the-art HEMMED (High-Energy Meta Mojo Elucidation Detector) machine is a dribble to the right, a dribble to the left, a swift kick...and some misdirection.

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Friday February 18, 2011 · 3:38 PM PST

2011/02/18 · 15:38

I don't know how long Wisconsin state senate Democrats can continue to hide out. I don't know if the protests in Madison, the state capitol, will slow down the assault on working people in Wisconsin and across the country.

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