Just wanted to let you know about our action for Jan. 20th, www.TurnYourBackOnBush.org. I have found that some radicals don't get what we are doing and the potential force of the action when we are confronted with the mob of Bush supporters who will want us to react. Do you have specific examples of silent and powerful actions in history-from India, to Civil rights, antiwar. Including examples that led to violence being perpetrated against the actionists?
Just wanted to let you know about our action for Jan. 20th, www.TurnYourBackOnBush.org. I have found that some radicals don't get what we are doing and the potential force of the action when we are confronted with the mob of Bush supporters who will want us to react. Do you have specific examples of silent and powerful actions in history-from India, to Civil rights, antiwar. Including examples that led to violence being perpetrated against the actionists?
Here are just a few examples of silent actions throughout history...
The Silent Protest parade organized by Harlem religious and civic
leaders and the NAACP, 1917
The Technique of Nonviolent Action
Link
Gene Sharp
This document gives two examples of protesters "turning their backs"
as a form of protest (on page 9-10). One example in the Untied
States, 1771, and the other in East Germany, 1953.