198 Methods of Non-Violent Action from Albert Einstein Institution

[emlev]

Thanks to DUer Graphixtech for bringing |this to my attention


THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION

Formal Statements
1. Public Speeches
2. Letters of opposition or support
3. Declarations by organizations and institutions
4. Signed public statements
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
6. Group or mass petitions

(snip)

12. Skywriting and earthwriting

Group Representations
13. Deputations
14. Mock awards
15. Group lobbying
16. Picketing
17. Mock elections

(snip)

Processions
38. Marches
39. Parades
40. Religious processions
41. Pilgrimages
42. Motorcades

Honoring the Dead
43. Political mourning
44. Mock funerals
45. Demonstrative funerals
46. Homage at burial places

(snip)

Withdrawal and Renunciation
51. Walk-outs
52. Silence
53. Renouncing honors
54. Turning one's back

(snip)

Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions
60. Suspension of social and sports activities
61. Boycott of social affairs
62. Student strike
63. Social disobedience
64. Withdrawal from social institutions

(snip)

Action by Holders of Financial Resources
86. Withdrawal of bank deposits
87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
88. Refusal to pay debts or interest
89. Severance of funds and credit
90. Revenue refusal
91. Refusal of a government's money

(snip)

THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION

Rejection of Authority
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
121. Refusal of public support
122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

Citizens' Noncooperation with Government
123. Boycott of legislative bodies
124. Boycott of elections
125. Boycott of government employment and positions
126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies
127. Withdrawal from government educational institutions
128. Boycott of government-supported organizations
129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
130. Removal of own signs and placemarks
131. Refusal to accept appointed officials
132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

Citizens' Alternatives to Obedience
133. Reluctant and slow compliance
134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
135. Popular nonobedience
136. Disguised disobedience
137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
138. Sitdown
139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
140. Hiding, escape, and false identities
141. Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws

(snip)

Domestic Governmental Action
149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units

(snip)

Physical Intervention
162. Sit-in
163. Stand-in
164. Ride-in
165. Wade-in
166. Mill-in
167. Pray-in
168. Nonviolent raids
169. Nonviolent air raids
170. Nonviolent invasion
171. Nonviolent interjection
172. Nonviolent obstruction
173. Nonviolent occupation

Social Intervention
174. Establishing new social patterns
175. Overloading of facilities
176. Stall-in
177. Speak-in
178. Guerrilla theater
179. Alternative social institutions
180. Alternative communication system

(snip)

Political Intervention
193. Overloading of administrative systems
194. Disclosing identities of secret agents
195. Seeking imprisonment
196. Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws
197. Work-on without collaboration
198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government

Source: Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973).

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Edited for link repair.

[Journeyman]

1. Do you have a link to the full list?. . .

thanks. . .

[emlev]

2. Yes, didn't come through at first but now it's in the OP. Thanks. n/t

[Gregorian]

3. Boycott of elections!!!!!!!!

Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?

Do you realize what we can accomplish if we, as Democrats, refuse to vote in the upcoming election? We demand paper ballots. We demand the troops come home.

I can see problems with it, but this post has given me something to think about.

[emlev]

4. Much has been written on this topic. Check out what's already out there.

None of it has convinced me that this is a good idea. Though I haven't ever heard discussion about boycott of primaries. If you find anything on that, I'd be particularly interested in hearing about it. In general, I think an election boycott--particularly the individual kind, meaning people just not voting--plays into the hands of the ruling elite.

[TahitiNut]

5. I support #22

:evilgrin:

[emlev]

6. of yourself or others?

;)

[TahitiNut]

7. Of others, of course. If I did that then people would run screaming and retching.

:dunce:

It's SOLELY based on my concerns and consideration for other human beings. Solely.

(Once upon a time I was able to do nude sunbathing without such concerns. No more.)

[emlev]

9. I think screaming and retching was going to be 199

And it could be helpful, in some circumstances.

May your self-image improve, my dear.

[TahitiNut]

11. Oh, there's nothing wrong with my self-image ... it's my mirror image that needs help.

:rofl:

[emlev]

12. lol n/t

[TomClash]

8. A great post nt

[NMMNG]

10. K&R

:applause:

A keeper.

[emlev]

13. #42 is capturing my imagination n/t

[EFerrari]

14. They even thought of couch potatoes.

#138. Sit down. :)

[emlev]

19. But(t)

Sitting down is only an "alternative to obedience" when people are told to stand up or move about. Given that our government is telling us to sit down (or go shopping, or "move along, there's nothing to see here"), I don't think it counts!

[EFerrari]

20. If I sit down instead of shopping, that counts.

I'm not sure that marching with Code Pink in Berkeley counts because everyone seemed to approve. Traffic stopped so we could cross the road and the cops waved.

lol

[emlev]

22. If you sit down in the mall! n/t

[EFerrari]

23. Can I sit in the Food Court?

That's actually the moment I knew we were in deep doodoo, when the resident moran told us to go shopping. Haven't been in a mall since, come to think of it, except once last year to prove I still could go to a mall.

[emlev]

24. Only if yer eatin' freedom fries

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. #5

:hi:

[Skidmore]

16. Okay, how do you do these?

Citizens' Noncooperation with Government
123. Boycott of legislative bodies
124. Boycott of elections
125. Boycott of government employment and positions
126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies
127. Withdrawal from government educational institutions
128. Boycott of government-supported organizations
129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
130. Removal of own signs and placemarks
131. Refusal to accept appointed officials
132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

[EFerrari]

18. Those who have never accepted Junior's residency have done 131.

[emlev]

21. The people of Bolinas, California have been doing #130 for years

They routinely take down the highway sign that points to their town so tourists can't find it! Haven't checked lately, but as far as I know, they're still doing it.

[Skidmore]

36. Seriously...

how do you boycott legislative bodies? Congress has boycotted the people.

[Poll_Blind]

17. Thank you for posting this! n/t

PB

[emlev]

25. Does anyone know if the book itself goes into more detail on these items?

Because I sure would like to know how to do many of 'em!

[emlev]

26. What do you think number 176 means?

Is it a pun?

Does it mean everyone goes out on the highway and stalls their cars?

Or what?

[emlev]

27. 63. Social disobedience. Thoughts?

[graphixtech]

28. # 159 – In mourning and solidarity

International period of fasts, in mourning and in
solidarity with the Buddhist monks and people of Burma.

Get publicity to pressure our governments for an
agreed upon specific objective.

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations103a.html
159. The fast
a) Fast of moral pressure
b) Hunger strike
c) Satyagrahic fast

Reading about the treatement of the Buddhist monks has made
this a difficult (in a sense, mourning) spiritual period
for millions of people across the planet.

[emlev]

29. 197. "work-on without collaboration"

What does that mean?

[tnlefty]

30. The Einstein Institute has produced some great documentaries

on peaceful resistance to authoritarian governments in different places around the globe in differing times in history. LinkTV ran some of them and I made certain that my kids watched them, and they were engrossed and took it in...not what they see in classes in school!

[emlev]

31. That thought led to my poking around and finding this

on their website:

The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
Einstein Institution Monograph Series #3
by Gene Sharp

"Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle. For more information click here. 19 pp. 1990, 1994

Looks very interesting and only $3.00.

I don't see their documentaries on the site, sadly.

Thanks for posting!

[tnlefty]

32. I looked in the "films" section in the site map, and 'A Force More

Powerful' is the closet that I could find to what we watched (twice) on LinkTV, but I don't think it is the same documentary. What we watched covered apartheid in S. Africa, Poland when the Nazi's invaded, Chile under Pinochet and some other places around the globe that aren't coming into my head right now, but it was great for my kids to see and for us to share. It wasn't just me spouting it out to them, they saw the black and white footage in some instances, and it was 'living history' for them.

I remember seeing einsteininstution.org being the major source of what we watched, as my oldest like his parents, are admirers of Einstein and his essays on peace, etc.

[emlev]

33. More info about that and their other film

A Force More Powerful

A Force More Powerful, a three-hour, two-part documentary series reveals one of the 20th century's most important but least understood stories how millions chose to battle the forces of brutality and oppression with nonviolent weapons and won....

Bringing Down a Dictator

Bringing Down A Dictator documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience....

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I just checked, and Netflix doesn't have either of these films. HOWEVER, since both are available on DEVELOPED it is possible to request that they carry them. I'm going to do that. If others would as well, perhaps they'd buy some copies. Both look very interesting.

Thanks for looking more carefully than I did!

[emlev]

34. kick

[emlev]

35. 57. Lysistratic nonaction

Let's not forget that one!

Lysistrata on Wikipedia

[emlev]

37. kick

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