Got Strategy? Tips for Making Effective Nonviolent Change w/ Rivera Sun and Sherri Mitchell

Love (and Revolution) Radio

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're taking a moment for reflection and exploration, covering strategy for nonviolent movements, and a few key dynamics, practices and understandings you can use in your work to make change. Powerful tools and startling insights! Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun teach strategy for nonviolent movements across the country . . . and in this week's episode, we're bringing this knowledge to your ears!
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Related Links:
Contact us about nonviolent action workshops! (We love to teach them!)
Sherri Mitchell smitchel815(at)gmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/
Rivera Sun http://www.riverasun.com/workshops/
Also check out Rivera Sun's study guide to The Dandelion Insurrection which has sections on the 198 Methods of Nonviolent Actions, Campaign Design, Constructive Program, and much more! http://www.riverasun.com/online-store/the-dandelion-insurrection-study-guide-making-change-through-nonviolent-action/
Deganawida, The Great Peacemaker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peacemaker
Gayanashagowa or The Great Law of Peace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace
Gandhian Constructive Programme
http://mettacenter.org/definitions/constructive-program/
War Resisters' International Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns
http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook
The Interest Convergence Theory by Derrick Bell, Civil Rights Scholar http://professorderrickbell.com/scholarship/
The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w
Awakening the Movement of Movements by Rivera Sun
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/35079-awakening-the-movement-of-movements
Gene Sharp and Civil Resistance
http://www.aeinstein.org/
Music By:
"Love and Revolution" and "Walls Fall Down" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org
About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline
Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/