S1E3 Violence and Nonviolence 5.14.17

Friendly Anarchism

anarchy .(2)........ jesus TW: Graphic depiction of violence We jumped into the debate surrounding violent vs. nonviolent protest tactics, and it led to discussions about the importance of intersectional feminism, sustaining good anti-authoritarian process, the Portland May Day "riots", and more! Here is a bibliography and reference guide for this episode: Mothers Day as an anti-war holiday http://annapolisvalley.quaker.ca/posts/the-radical-peace-roots-of-mothers-day/ Gene Sharp - From Dictatorship to Democracy... Gene Sharp has also written voluminously on non-violence including a strategies book with 198 nonviolent tactics which can be taken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy Mark & Paul Engler - This is an Uprising http://thisisanuprising.org/ Peter Gelderloos - How Nonviolence Protects The State http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381842.How_Nonviolence_Protects_the_State Shon Meckfessel - Nonviolence Ain't What it Used to be https://www.akpress.org/nonviolence-ain-t-what-it-used-to-be.html Jonathan Matthew Smucker - Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals https://www.akpress.org/hegemonyhowto.html Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness http://newjimcrow.com/about Audre Lorde - The Uses of Rage http://www.blackpast.org/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding-racism 'Texas Slim' - Hot Lead is Medicine: Thoughts on Whiteness, Privilege, & Violence: https://akuk.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=5878 Milo Yiannopoulos - bridge to the far right: http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-alt-right-fellow-traveller-milo-yiannopoulos-cracked-up-the-right Seattle Antifascist shot by supporter of Milo Yiannopoulos: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/shooting-milo-yiannopoulos-speech-seattle-charges Portland Protest May Day - in the news: http://www.kgw.com/news/politics/may-day-protests-expected-monday-in-portland-across-us/435436532 It's Going Down communique on Portland May Day Protests: https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-make-may-day-anarchist/ Daniel McGowan - served prison time for actions with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_G._McGowan Documentary: If a Tree Falls - A Story of the Earth Liberation Front: http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/ Riots in Greece - Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed by police and riots ensued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Greek_riots Valarie Kaur - Not the Darkness of the Tomb, but the Darkness of the Womb: http://www.today.com/video/what-if-this-is-not-the-darkness-of-the-tomb-but-the-darkness-of-the-womb-watch-valarie-kaur-s-speech-917892675740 Vocabulary: Intersectionality Socialist Vanguardism Diversity of Tactics Tankies: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Tankie#.WRnxzMllBnZ Insurrectionary Anarchism Greeks have many words for love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love