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		<title>The Lonely Scholar Who Became a Nonviolent Warrior: Gene Sharp (1928-2018)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey Once again I rang the bell at the brick row house in East Boston where Gene Sharp lived. When he opened the door I said proudly, “Today I drove here instead of taking the T.” “You drove?” he said in mock horror. “Man, are you trying to get yourself killed? Haven’t you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Nonviolent Campaigns, Not Protests, Succeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey How do we figure out how to amplify our power and maximize the chance of winning victories? We can start by freeing up the energy devoted to one-off protests, rallies, and demonstrations. When I look back on the one-off protests I’ve joined over the years, I don’t remember a single one that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Start a Nonviolent Direct Action Group to Make MLK Proud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 07:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey Some people feel inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. to do service projects. But the U.S. civil rights movement that he led was not about days of service; it was about days of confrontational action. Think about the hundreds of action groups that sprang up in the North as well as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Suffragettes and the Effectiveness of Property Destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 08:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey  Suffragette is a 2015 British film directed by Sarah Gavron. It tells a gripping story drawn from the direct action wing of Britain’s woman suffrage movement. Because it spotlights one tactic — property destruction — the film raises the question of effectiveness. Leader Emmeline Pankhurst’s (1858–1928) argument for escalating with arson and explosions was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: A Guide to Civil Resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey I first encountered Gene Sharp when he was a young man in jeans and sneakers, working in a research institute affiliated with the University of Oslo. Not guessing that he would become a mentor of mine, I met him because one of my Norwegian professors sent me to him. Gene had already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonviolent Peace Training as a Means of Linking Research and Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 08:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey Editor’s Preface: This previously unpublished essay was a paper presented at the International Conference of Peace Researchers and Peace Activists (Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, July 1-6 1975), and is another in our series of important discoveries from the War Resisters’ International archive. Please see the notes at the end for archival information, and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 15:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey Editor’s Preface: The Manifesto, originally published in 1976 as a complete issue of the War Resisters League magazine WIN, continues our series of important historical documents that have helped shape our current understanding of the meaning and uses of nonviolence and nonviolent civil resistance.  Along with Lakey’s “Strategizing for a Living Revolution”, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategizing for a Living Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Lakey Otpur (“Resistance” in Serbian) began as hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of young people took to the streets to rid their country of dictator Slobadan Milosevic. Impatient with the cautious ways of many of their pro-democracy elders, the youths organized in coffee bars and schools, posted graffiti almost everywhere, and used their street [...]]]></description>
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