Closer to a Statement of Non-Violence

It might not be the answer you're looking for, but here is a posting from the nycanarchists listserv:

"10 MUTUAL ASSURANCES BETWEEN GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS PLANNING RNC RELATED
ACTIVITIES(1)

The undersigned groups and organizations planning RNC related activities agree:

1. To publicly support rights of free speech, the right to organize, and the right to dissent for all.

2. To maintain solidarity with and respect the guidelines of all permitted activities, recognizing that there are many individuals who seek a safe and
peaceful protest environment.

3. To support and participate in efforts to assure civil liberties for everyone in NYC, including the right to organize civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action without that organizing being criminalized or disrupted.

4. To speak out against any pre-emptive arrests, raids on activist spaces, or attacks on independent journalists and other media.

5. To be conscious of and speak out against police targeting and differential treatment of people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, accent, or appearance.

6. Not to turn people over to the police, or share information with the police about other groups.

7. Not to publicly criticize the tactics used by other parts or our movements or cooperate with media efforts to be divisive or portray good protester/bad protester.

8. To publicly condemn police repression and brutality.

9. To be conscious that if violence or property destruction does occur, we will do what we can to help prevent it from being blown out of proportion and dominating the media coverage.

10. To remember that, when all is said and done, our greatest win will be an activist community with a renewed sense of strength and unity.

SIGNATORS: www.rncnotwelcome.org, United for Peace and Justice, Not in Our Name, Action for Justice Committee of Community Church of New York, Times Up!, Billionaires For Bush, New York Common Ground, Nat’l Youth and Student Peace Coalition, Youmg Koreans United USA…

To add your group please email: tenmutualassurances@hotmail.com

(1) This document is modeled after the Civil Liberties Alert that went out from AFL, Community, NGO's, local and direct action groups prior to the Miami protests. The unity around basic democratic rights made a huge difference and we had a united front when we presented them to the Police and in numerous joint press conference calling for basic democratic rights."

--Matthew