THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION FORMAL STATEMENTS Public speeches Letters of opposition or support Declarations by organizations and institutions Signed public declarations Declarations of indictment and intention Group or mass petitions COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE Slogans, caricatures, and symbols Banners, posters, and displayed communications Leaflets, pamphlets, and books Newspapers and journals Records, radio, and television Skywriting and earthwriting GROUP REPRESENTATIONS Deputations Mock awards Group lobbying Picketing Mock elections SYMBOLIC PUBLIC ACTS Displays of flags and symbolic colours Wearing of symbols Prayer and worship Delivering symbolic objects Protest disrobings Destruction of own property Symbolic lights Display...
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UC Davis Pepper Spraying officer, Lt. John Pike. Please be respectful in your condemnation of this act of brutality. Lieutenant John Pike Records Unit Manager Phone: 530-752-3989 Cell: 530-979-0184 japikeiii@ucdavis.edu Address: 4005 Cowell Blvd, Apt 616. Davis, CA 95618-6017 Skype: japike3 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-pike/18/a76/879 Pike has received 2 Meritorious Service Awards from UC Davis File formal complaint against UC Davis police officer here: (pdf)...
Read moreI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. - Thomas Jefferson
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In support of Occupy Providence I've created a subreddit dedicated to archiving all local, regional, and national news articles that I find online that are about or mention Occupy Providence. To visit r/OccupyProvidence on reddit.com click here.
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by Henry David Thoreau I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments ...
Read moreTHE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION FORMAL STATEMENTS
Public speeches
Letters of opposition or support
Declarations by organizations and institutions
Signed public declarations
Declarations of indictment and intention
Group or mass petitions Continue reading
UC Davis Pepper Spraying officer, Lt. John Pike. Please be respectful in your condemnation of this act of brutality.
Lieutenant John Pike
Records Unit Manager
Phone: 530-752-3989
Cell: 530-979-0184
japikeiii@ucdavis.edu
Address: 4005 Cowell Blvd, Apt 616. Davis, CA 95618-6017
Skype: japike3
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-pike/18/a76/879 Continue reading
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
- Thomas Jefferson
by Henry David Thoreau
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best
which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up
to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally
amounts to this, which also I believe–”That government is
best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared
for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments
are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. Continue reading
We live in a diverse world that cannot be viewed in narrow-minded black and white terms like Good or Evil, Right or Wrong. To do so is to only see the extreme in every situation and contrary to the definition of humanity. We are all one people and thus we are all of these things. We, as a people, are Black, white, American, Arab, Jew, Christian, Pagan, good, evil, right, and wrong. We are so many things which is precisely why we can’t view the world in those extremes. When we view the world this way we create division and at the same time we take our own diversity out of the solution to the problem of violence. By viewing the world in extremes, we begin assuming that one thing is better than another. This is flawed. For example, what right do we have to say that Christianity is any better than Islam? What right? In a world full of diversity division is fatal. It leads to anger. It leads to violence. It leads to fear. It leads to apathy. It leads to ignorance. We can no longer afford to think in these terms. Continue reading
