Reading List on Non-violent Direct Action, from “Rebels with Causes”

Civics, Social Justice, and Nonviolent Direct Action:
Rebels with Causes

by
Hyung Nam (Wilson HS)
Sylvia McGauley (Reynolds HS)
Julie O’Neill (Lincoln HS)
Chris Buehler (Lincoln HS)
Alex Stegner (Lincoln HS)
Blair Valis Hennessy (Mt. Scott Learning Center)

Bibliography

Manuals on direct action
http://ruckus.org/downloads/RuckusActionStrategyGuide.pdf
http://files.meetup.com/1645756/99%25%20Spring%20Handbook.pdf
https://floodthesystem.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BOOKLET.ussf_.readingorder.pdf
http://www.salsa.net/peace/conv/classofnonviolence12jan.pdf
http://www.storybasedstrategy.org/ http://www.storybasedstrategy.org/tools-and-worksheets.html
http://organizingforpower.org/
http://beautifultrouble.org/all-modules/
http://earthfirstjournal.org/merch/product/earth-first-direct-action-manual-1st-edition/
http://peacefulschoolsinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/classofnonviolencecolmanmccarthy.pdf
http://www.strategicpractice.org/system/files/power_and_social_change.pdf
http://www.toolsforchange.net
http://seedsforchange.org.uk/resources
http://www.trainingforchange.org/tools
http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/How-Nonviolent-Struggle-Works.pdf
http://www.soaw.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=644
https://thedisorderofthings.com/2014/09/09/logistics-capitalist-circulation-chokepoints/

http://beautifultrouble.org/classroomresources/
http://beautifultrouble.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BT_StudyGuide_Interactive.pdf
GAME! https://beautifulrising.org/platforms/game

Other resources on social movements, direct action, power, etc.
https://news.littlesis.org/2018/02/20/mapping-the-power-in-2018/
https://news.littlesis.org/2017/12/14/who-rules-america-after-50-years-an-interview-with-professor-g-william-domhoff/
http://depts.washington.edu/moves/index.shtml
http://thisisanuprising.org/category/articles/
http://wagingnonviolence.org/author/markandpaul/
http://depts.washington.edu/moves/
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
http://watchdisobedience.com/?utm_medium=email
http://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/BeyondTheBus2015.pdf
http://www.handsupunited.org/blog/2015/2/12/activism-meet-the-badass-activist-collective-bringing-direct-action-back-to-black-communities
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC7e_NonviolenceInAmHist.htm
https://www.popularresistance.org/the-mother-of-non-violent-direct-action-lucy-parsons/
http://inthesetimes.com/article/17440/what_makes_protest_movements_explode
http://www.education4democracy.net/
http://www.everydayrebellion.net/the-project/
http://www.creativeresistance.org/category/poetry/
https://wetheeconomy.com/download-resources/
http://thischangeseverything.org/blog/
http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/
http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/
http://wagingnonviolence.org/
http://www.smart-csos.org/images/Documents/re.imagining_activism_guide.pdf
https://www.popularresistance.org/the-8-stages-of-successful-social-political-movements/
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/moyermap.html
https://www.popularresistance.org/category/strategize/
http://www.influencemapping.org/projects/

Books
Nonviolence in Theory and Practice
The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace
The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States
We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History

Updates and additional notes

POWER: (“Power” is a relational term. It can only be understood as a relationship between human beings in a specific historical, economic and social setting. It must be exercised to be visible.)
1. Power is control of, or access to, those institutions sanctioned by the state. (Definition by Barbara Major of People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, New Orleans)
2. Power is the ability to define reality and to convince other people that it is their definition. (Definition by Dr. Wade Nobles)
3. Power is ownership and control of the major resources of a state; and the capacity to make and enforce decisions based on this ownership and control; and (Alternative definition to #1)
4. Power is the capacity of a group of people to decide what they want and to act in an
Organized way to get it.
5. (In terms of an individual), power is the capacity to act.

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Aaron E. Camacho for Wisc. State Senate District 31 (Green Party) Q & A session April 11 2018

On Water Rights, the Public Trust Doctrine.  Whose water? Our water!

Frac-sand mines: Impacts on marginalized communities, Amish people.

Aaron Camacho for State Senate Insight 4
How can we assist small farms’ survival? Is hemp growing a solution?

Insights,part 5: Rural infrastructure problems, question on food quality, connecting small farmers with consumers

Insights, part 6: How do we hold police forces accountable? Why don’t native lives matter as much as others? Militarizing school life in America. Questioning an Israeli company being hired to train police forces.

Future of Environmentalism with Clint Jones, UWSP Philosophy

Full Lecture – Part 1

Here’s Clint Jones, UWSP Professor in Philosophy, on “green, white-ecology, deep ecology, dark ecology, and black ecology,” Lecture Part 1.

(it’s deep)

Lecture – Part 2
“Consider what it is to learn of the death of the last North African white rhinoceros. Where were you? What did you think? How did you feel? Can you really comprehend its extinction? More importantly: Can you empathize with a creature that just lost its being? It was you, after all, that died. It was you that went extinct.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBgHHvLvRbM

Question & Answer Session – 1

Question & Answer Session – 2
“The Black Ecologist is going to say something like this…” “You can’t solve a capitalist problem with a capitalist solution,” right? “It was the rhinoceros yesterday; it’ll be you, tomorrow.”

Question & Answer Session – 3

“…You want money, to access power, that’s exactly what you’re after, right? And you’ve been told that that’s success; having money, having power, that’s success. But if you take the profitability out of productivity, and you ask yourself if what you’re doing has value, that’s gonna change the way you think about how you ARE in the world. What you are becoming is what you should be worried about, not what you’re doing at the moment, right?”

“Black Ecology is revolutionary, but it’s not revolutionary, in the way you’ve been taught to think about it. It’s not, you know, in the streets, you know, fighting tear gas and trying to take The Man down by the throat while he’s trying to shoot you with rubber bullets, right? It’s re-thinking, how to co-exist. How to exist, not just interpersonally, right, but in a sort of intra-being sort of way, right? With other beings…”

Q & A part 4

“Most of our entertainment is apocalyptic. Most of the way you think about the world is apocalyptic, right? We always live on the precipice of the End Times…So how do you pull yourself back from the brink, right? I think it’s a lot of work.”

UWSP Student Govt Assoc-Katrina Shankland Listening Session

As promised, “Film at 11”

At tonight’s Listening Session with UWSP-SGA + Assembly Rep Shankland’s Listening Session at UWSP, regarding the “tech-schoolization” of UW-Stevens Point.**

Ivy Engwall gets Segment 1, because she’s an officer in UWSP College Green Party so I’m bias… (first 25 seconds are blurry because I’m not a videographer…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18wqS1LqrNg&feature=youtu.be

 

**”Tech-schoolization” is a project of the Grover Norquist-Scott Walker-WIsco GOP one-party regime in Wisconsin since elections 2010. It re-defines the mission of the UW system as serving the workforce needs of Wisco-corporations.

Segment 2 features Rick Christofferson, an active person in Portage County Democratic Party and progressive groups in central Wisconsin.

Subversion and Environment: Marx and the Community Gardens Movement

Some video clips from “Subversion and the Environment,” talks by Professor Clint Jones, UW-Stevens Point, given March 7, 2018 at UW-Stevens Point. Series sponsored by College Green Party at UW-SP.

Subversion and the Environment IIa – Religion, Capitalism, Dominating Nature

Clint Jones delves into the religious underpinnings of capitalism as an ideological pillar for systematic domination and subordination of the environment to the needs of the capitalists.

Subversion and Environment IIb Alienation, the Urban-Rural Divide, Marx’s Environmental blind Spot

Clint Jones considers Marx’s blind spot on natural and the environment, reconciling that with his idea that only by uniting urban and rural could real communal life be achieved, free from the dominance of Capital.

Subversion and Environment IIc Community Gardens, NeoMarxism, Eco Resistance

UW-Stevens Point Philosophy Professor Clint Jones uses the popular institution of community gardens as a hint of a post-capitalism future, informed by the ideas of Karl Marx and Greek philosopher Epicurus.

 

 

 

Resolution: Demand WI Legislature enable Regional Transit Authorities–for your County Board

Here’s a sample resolution you can provide to your County Board Supervisor for passage through one of the relevant committees dealing with mobility, aging-disability and low-income needs, environment and or “sustainability.”

Please contact greenpeoplesmedia@gmail.com to let us know how the resolution is received by your Supervisor, and if they will act upon it.

WHEREAS, In 2009 the Wisconsin Legislature passed legislation included in Act 28, enabling the formation of Regional Transit Authorities, complete with the power of taxation necessary to fund their start-up and operations;

WHEREAS, In 2011, as part of Act 32, the Wisconsin Legislature passed legislation disabling the same Regional Transit Authorities, with no rational explanation or narrative for undoing what had been done two years earlier;

WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Association of Mobility Managers (WAMM) said, introducing their 2016 Legislative Priorities, “Wisconsin is the only Midwest state without enabling legislation to create these authorities. Regional Transit Authorities (RTAs) are a quasi-governmental entity that provides a governance structure for a unified transportation system and has taxing authority, therefor offering a funding alternative to property taxes;”

WHEREAS, WAMM added, “Regional Transit Authorities allow for a regional and comprehensive look at transportation. They encourage connectivity and multimodal approaches since the planning takes place with one body for the whole region. A multimodal and coordinated system improves the mobility, connectedness, and quality of life for those who are unable to drive themselves, particularly older adults, individuals with disabilities and those with low incomes;

WHEREAS, WAMM further noted that “Medical centers, employers, job centers, educational facilities are very often regional in nature; why should transportation be any different? Developing transportation systems requires flexibility to create innovative services that can cross municipal and county borders and account for communities of different sizes. RTAs enable this to be done in a more efficient, effective and sustainable manner;”

Bombarier’s on-board electric-powered railcar. (No overhead wires, a clunky solution). Batteries included, LOL.

 

WHEREAS, WAMM concluded the 2016 document, “Transportation systems are a part of the infrastructure that helps people get to jobs, medical appointments, and remain active and engaged members of the community and local economy. Where there are strong systems and meaningful mobility choices, there are strong communities. People want to live and work in these communities and are seeking them out; and,

WHEREAS, This County places great importance on our system of mobility for the populations most in need of the services that a Regional Transit Authority could provide our residents, and residents of lower-income counties in our immediate region; and

WHEREAS, This County places high value on the principles of “sustainability,” and

WHEREAS, lack of mobility for low-income workers and retired persons is a factor contributing to their lack of “sustainability,” while Regional Transit would allow easier access to jobs, schools, health care, and basic needs;

THEREFORE, This County calls upon the Wisconsin Legislature to quickly craft and pass Legislation once again enabling Regional Transit Authorities in Wisconsin;

FURTHER, that there be no limitations placed on the number of such Authorities, barring duplication of services or geographic overlap;

FURTHER, that Legislative obstacles to proceeding with near-100% renewable energy power for such RTAs be removed, keeping in mind future tightening of petroleum and natural gas supplies; and,

FURTHER, that agencies and Legislative Committees charged with overseeing transportation needs, make the creation and link-up of these RTAs into one seamless working statewide system a top priority.

 

Turning Greenfields into Brownfields–Wisconsin under the Walkerists

The dark side of America’s so-called “shale revolution” in oil & gas should frequently be made known — and seen — by all Americans who live an utterly unsustainable life, but are gleeful at being able to motor around on relatively cheap petroleum.

Frac-sand mining in Wisconsin: The oil and gas industry, with the blessings of Wisconsin’s Ubercorporate Governor Walker and the Kochlegislature, looks like this: