People Power

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Across the world, nonviolent movements are at the forefront of resistance against repression, imperial aggression and corporate abuse. However, it is often difficult for activists in other countries to know how best to assist such movements.



The contributors to People Power place nonviolent struggles in an international context where solidarity can play a crucial role. Yet they also warn that good intentions are not enough, solidarity has to listen to local movements.



Examining movements from Zimbabwe to Burma and Palestine, the contributors assess various forms of solidarity, arguing that a central role of solidarity is to strengthen the counter-power of those resisting domination and oppression.
Foreword

Introduction, by Howard Clark

Section I: Resisting Repression, Civil War and Exploitation 2000-2008: Analyses of Unarmed Struggle

1. Serbia - Nonviolent struggle for democracy: the role of Otpor by Danijela Nenadic and Nenad Belcevic

1a. Serbia Eight Years Afterby Ivan Franovic

2. Burma - Dialogue with the Generals: the sound of one hand clapping by Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan

3. Zimbabwe - Unarmed resistance, civil society and the limits of international solidarity by Janet Cherry

4. Nonviolent Movement for Peace in Colombia and International Solidarity by Mauricio García Duran

5. India - MacroViolence and MicroResistance: Development Violence and Unarmed Grassroots Resistance by Anand Mazgaonkar

Section II: Nonviolent Citizens' Intervention Across Borders

6. Making Accompaniment Effective by Brian Martin

7. Developing Strategy for Accompaniment by Luis Enrique Eguren

7a. With Peace Brigades International in Colombia by Louise Winstanley

8. Civilian Peacekeeping: Providing Protection without sticks and carrots by Christine Schweitzer

8a. Making Peace Practical with Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka by Rita Webb

9. Cross-border Nonviolent Advocacy during the second Palestinian intifada: the International Solidarity Movement by Véronique Dudouet

9a. The work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)

by Ann Wright

9b. International Women's Peace Service in Palestine by Angie Zelter

10. Voices in the Wilderness: Campaigning against Sanctions on Iraq 1995-2005 by Kathy Kelly and Milan Raid

Section III: Bases of Solidarity: Shared Identities, Interests and Beliefs

11. Feminist solidarity: Women in Black against War by Cynthia Cockburn

12. Transnational solidarity and war resistance: the case of Turkey by Andreas Speck

13. Solidarity based on Sexual Orientation: Regional Organising in Africa by Chesterfield Samba

14. Diasporas: potential partners in struggle by Andrew Rigby

15. Global Movements and Local Struggles: The Case of World Social Forum by Stellan Vinthagen

16. Worker Solidarity and Civil Society cooperation: blocking the Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe, April 2008

Section IV: Controversies in transnational action

17. External Financing of Opposition Movements by Jorgen Johansen

18. Nonviolence Training and Charges of Western Imperialism: a Guide for Worried Activists by George Lakey

Afterword: the Chain of Nonviolence by Howard Clark

Works Cited

Index

Sujets

• Political Advocacy
• Political Process
• Political Science
• Peace
• Activism
• Paix

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• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 août 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783715558
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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People Power
People Power
Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity
Edited by HOWARD CLARK
First published 2009 by Pluto Press
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CONTENTS
List of photographs, figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Howard Clark Section I: Resisting Repression, Civil War and Exploitation, 2000-2008: Analyses of Unarmed Struggle Editorial introduction    1.   Serbia - Nonviolent struggle for democracy: The role of Otpor   Danijela Nenadi and Nenad Bel evi    1a.   Serbia eight years after   Ivana Franovi    2.   Burma - Dialogue with the Generals: The sound of one hand clapping   Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan    3.   Zimbabwe - Unarmed resistance, civil society and limits of international solidarity   Janet Cherry    4.   Colombia - Nonviolent movement for peace and international solidarity   Mauricio Garc a-Duran    5.   India - Macro violence and micro resistance: Development violence and unarmed grassroots resistance   Moses (Anand) Mazgaonkar Section II: Nonviolent Citizens Intervention across Borders Editorial introduction    6.   Making accompaniment effective   Brian Martin    7. Developing strategy for accompaniment   Luis Enrique Eguren    7a.   With Peace Brigades International in Colombia   Louise Winstanley    8.   Civilian peacekeeping: Providing protection without sticks and carrots?   Christine Schweitzer    8a.   Making peace practical: with Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka   Rita Webb    9.   Cross-border nonviolent advocacy during the second Palestinian intifada : The International Solidarity Movement   V ronique Dudouet    9a.   The work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)   Ann Wright    9b.   International Women s Peace Service in Palestine   Angie Zelter 10.   Voices in the wilderness: Campaigning against sanctions on Iraq, 1995-2005   Kathy Kelly and Milan Rai Section III: Bases of Solidarity: Shared Identities, Interests and Beliefs Editorial introduction 11.   Women in Black: The stony path to solidarity   Cynthia Cockburn 12.   Transnational solidarity and war resistance: The case of Turkey   Andreas Speck 13.   Solidarity based on sexual orientation: Regional organising in Africa   Chesterfield Samba 14.   Diasporas: Potential partners in struggle   Andrew Rigby 15.   Global movements and local struggles: The case of World Social Forum   Stellan Vinthagen 16.   Worker solidarity and civil society cooperation: Blocking the Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe, April 2008   April Carter and Janet Cherry Section IV: Controversies in Transnational Action Editorial introduction 17.   External financing of opposition movements   J rgen Johansen 18.   Nonviolence training and charges of Western imperialism: A guide for worried activists   George Lakey
Afterword: The chain of nonviolence
Howard Clark
Works cited
Notes on contributors
Index
LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS, FIGURES AND TABLES
Photographs 1   The Spirit of Humanity , one of the Free Gaza Boats taking aid to Gaza during the Israeli blockade. On board is Huwaida Arraf 1.1   ‘He’s finished’, says the Otpor poster calling for people to vote while in the background Milošević walks away 30 2.1   Monks march in Rangoon 3.1   Zimbabwean hot air balloon activists mark Robert Mugabe’s birthday before the 2008 elections 4.1   The Peace Community at San José de Apartadó 5.1   Adivasis (tribal peoples) march for land rights 7.1   PBI volunteer escorting workers for Justicia y Paz through territory controlled by hostile armed forces 8.1   Women’s protest in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, observed by Nonviolent Peaceforce 9.1   Women in the Palestinian nonviolent resistance in Budrus 11.1   A Belgrade Women in Black poster 12.1   ‘Mehmet loves peace’ – demonstration supporting Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan 15.1   A ‘human banner’ made by participants at the January 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil
Figures 4.1   Collective action for peace in Colombia, by strategies (1978–2005) 4.2   Dynamic of Strategy 5: Resisting (1995–2005) 7.1   Establishing international norms
Tables 4.1   Civic peace initiatives: thematic and geographical approach 8.1   Theodor Ebert’s stages of escalation 17.1   Mapping financial support
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book grew out of an international seminar, Unarmed Resistance: The Transnational Factor, organised at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, in July 2006. I am grateful to the Centre and its staff, Alan Hunter and Carol Rank, and especially its founding director, Andrew Rigby, for their support during this project and to Mousumi De for her work during and Charles Harlock for his work after the seminar. Jørgen Johansen and Christine Schweitzer, both researching their doctorates at the Centre, were involved in the early framing of the project. It is greatly to the credit of this Centre (founded in 1999) that it takes questions of nonviolent struggle and solidarity so seriously.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust deserve thanks not only for funding this seminar but for its supportive attitude towards applied research on nonviolence and its recognition of the need for meeting grounds between activism and research.
Naturally, I wish to thank all of the contributors to the book – some have been very patient in waiting for their paper to emerge in print, some have accepted considerable cuts in length, while one – Janet Cherry – has been wrestling with a situation unfolding as she wrote. I also wish to thank all those who participated in making the 2006 seminar such a rich event, including those who have not contributed to this book but whose presentations can be found on the website of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies or at www.civilresistance.info/urtf . One of these people needs to be singled out for special thanks. Without April Carter, I don’t know when this book would have seen the light of day. She has been a marvellous source of advice and encouragement, commenting on every contribution, editing several, firing off reminders when they were needed, and in general keeping this project on track. It is not to underestimate the assiduous help I received from my other editorial consultant, Andrew Rigby, to acknowledge that his best contribution was to suggest April for this role. I am very grateful to them both.
Many of the contributors to this book have some connection with either War Resisters’ International or with Peace News , now published monthly – a reflection on the continued stimulation I receive from these sources. I cannot thank everybody whose brains I picked but in addition to those mentioned elsewhere I would like to thank Michael Beer of Nonviolence International and Majken Søremsen.
I am very grateful to Robert Coles, Lou Dematteis and Gary Fields for contributing their photos, and to Mil Rai at Peace News , Ken Simons at Peace Magazine and Steve York at York-Zimmerman for help with picture research.
It has been a pleasure to cooperate with David Castle and his colleagues at Pluto Press, and on-the-ball copyeditor Matthew Seal. Long may such committed publishers thrive!
It is unusual to acknowledge computer software, but then most people do not use software that is itself an example of transnational solidarity in action. For nearly five years I have been using Ubuntu GNU-linux, an operating system that depends on the linux community whose solidarity allows non-geeks like me to resist Windows and the thrall of Microsoft. (‘Ubuntu’ is itself a concept much beloved of Desmond Tutu of humanity towards all.)
The close family always seem to come last in Acknowledgements, and sometimes they might feel that’s the case in life too. My children Ismael and Violeta enjoy meeting visitors from other countries and have fond memories of their two terms in Coventry, but they do wish that I didn’t spend quite so much time on my computer. Yolanda, thank you for so much – your work in Objeción Fiscal (war tax resistance) has always seemed to me a model of transnational solidarity, promoting social transformation at home combined with unconditional commitment to counterparts elsewhere.
ABBREVIATIONS AARI All-Africa Rights Initiative AEI Albert Einstein Institution AI Amnesty International ANC African National Congress (South Africa) ASCOBA Association of Communitarian Councils and Organisations of Bajo Atrato (Colombia) ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations ATTAC Association pour la Taxation des Transactions Financières pour l’Aide aux Citoyens (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens) BPT Balkan Peace Team (