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Slide2Slide3Slide4Neoliberalism
Cutting public expenditure for social services
Deregulation.
Privatization.
Eliminating the concept of "the public good" or "community
"
Slide5Myth of American Exceptionalism
Americanism – the American mythology that we embody liberty, equality, individualism, democracy and free market economics.
2. The idea that the US has a unique mission to transform the world for democracy
3. The United States' history and mission give it a
superiority over other nations.
Slide6Slide7Slide8Three major issues that threaten the whole world
Collapse of the globalization of the neo-liberal economy
Environmental global climate change
Threat of nuclear war
Slide91. Hyper-nationalism
2. Militarism
3. Glorification of violence and readiness to use it in politics
4.
Fetishization
of youth5. Fetishization of masculinity6. Leader cult7. Leader cult8. Self-definition by opposition9. Mass mobilization and mass party10Hierarchical party structure and tendency to purge the disloyal11Theatricality
FASCISM IN THE MAKING
Slide10There is an immanent and transcendent Absolute Ground of all Being. This Divine Truth is one, timeless, universal.
2. In the human soul there is something
similar to, or even identical with, the
Divine Reality.
3. The purpose of human existence is to
achieve union with the Ground of
Being.
In this Awakening, we become nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
1% - 2% of the world population achieves this level.
The Perennial Philosophy
Slide11Slide12Milky
Way
Galaxy
Slide13Slide14List of indigenous rights organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indigenous_rights_organizations
United Kingdom
Forest Peoples
Programme (FPP)Mapuche International Link (MIL)
Minority Rights Group International
(MRG)
Rainforest Foundation UK
Survival International
United States
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)Amazon WatchCenter for International Environmental Law (CIEL)Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)Cultural Survival
Indigenous Peoples Council on
Biocolonialism
(IPCB)
Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program
(IPLP)International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)Mexica MovementRainforest Foundation USRights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
Regional
Regions Africa Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)Amazon Basin Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA)Americas See also: Indigenous Movements in the AmericasArctic Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)Saami CouncilAsia Asia Indigenous Peoples PactHokkaido Utari AssociationKuki InpiAnarchists Against The WallCountries Australia
Kimberley Land Council
(KLC)
Reconciliation Australia
Bolivia
Confederación
de Pueblos
Indígenas
de Bolivia
(CIDOB)
Slide15Canada
Assembly of First Nations
(AFN)
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
(CAP)
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN)Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
(ITK)
Native Women's Association of Canada
(NWAC)
Nunavut
Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI)
PauktuutitRAVEN (Respecting Aboriginal Values & Environmental Needs)Colombia Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia
(ONIC)
Chile
Coordinadora
Arauco-Malleco (CAM)Ecuador Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE)
Confederación
de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana (CONFENIAE)Confederación de Pueblos de la Nacionalidad Kichuas del Ecuador (ECUARUNARI)Indonesia Yayasan Merah Putih (YMP)Mexico Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magón" (CIPO-RFM)Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)Namibia NamrightsNigeria Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)
Norway
Norske
Samers
Riksforbund
(NSR)
Samenes
Folkeforbund
Peru
Asociación
Interétnica
de
Desarrollo
de la
Selva
Peruana
(AIDESEP)
Peru Support Group
(PSG)
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Council of Indigenous Peoples
Russia
Association of Sámi in Murmansk Oblast
Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North
(RAIPON)
United States
Alaska Federation of Natives
American Indian Defense Association
(AIDA)
Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
(GLIFWC)
Honor the Earth
Indigenous Environmental Network
(IEN)
International Indian Treaty Council
(IITC)
Inter-Tribal Environmental Council
(ITEC)
National Congress of American Indians
(NCAI)
National Indian Youth Council
(NIYC)
Native American Rights Fund
(NARF)
White Earth Land Recovery Project
(WELRP)
Women's National Indian Association
Slide16Peru
Asociación
Interétnica
de
Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (AIDESEP)Peru Support Group
(PSG)
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Council of Indigenous Peoples
Russia
Association of Sámi in Murmansk Oblast
Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON)United States Alaska Federation of NativesAmerican Indian Defense Association (AIDA)Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC)
Honor the Earth
Indigenous Environmental Network
(IEN)
International Indian Treaty Council
(IITC)Inter-Tribal Environmental Council (ITEC)National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)National Indian Youth Council (NIYC)Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
White Earth Land Recovery Project
(WELRP)Women's National Indian AssociationIndigenous Association of the Republic of Argentina (AIRA)National Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Argentina (ONPIA)BelizeBelize Indigenous Training InstituteCaribbean Organization of Indigenous Peoples (COIP)BoliviaConfederation of Indigenous people of Bolivia, previously known as Indigenous Confederation of the East, Chaco, and Bolivian Amazon (CIDOB)Sole Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB)National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qollasuyu (CONAMAQ)Organization of Aymara Women of KollasuyoBrazilCoordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB)Coordinating Council of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Brazil (CAPOIB)
[1]
Indianist Missionary Council (CIMI)
Indigenous Council of Roraima
Pro-Yanomami Commission (CCPY)
Union of Indigenous Nations of Acre and South of the Amazon (UNI-AC)
Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of the South Region -
Arpin
-South
[2]
Slide17A
Black Lives Matter
protest of police brutality in the rotunda of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota
Black Lives Matter
(
BLM
)
is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward Black people.
BLM regularly organizes protests around the deaths of black people in killings by law enforcement officers, and broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the U. S. criminal justice system.
Slide18Churches and faith-based organizations
Small service organizations (such as locally-based centers for day laborers, legal support offices, and ethnic organizations)
National organizations (such as Fair Immigration Reform Movement, the National Council of La Raza, and National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Countries)
State and city advocacy organizations (such as Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and Pueblo
Unidos
of New Mexico)
Trade unions and labor federations (including the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization], Change to Win, UNITE HERE [United Nettle work, Industrial, and Textile Employees Hotel and Restaurant Employees], SEIU [Service Employees International Union], UFCW [United Food and Commercial Workers], and UFW [United Farm Workers]
The US Immigrant Rights Movement
Slide19FIGHT FOR $15
The
Fight for $15
started with just a few hundred fast food workers in New York City, striking for $15 an hour and union rights.
Today, it is an international movement in over 300 cities on six continents of fast-food workers, home health aides, child care teachers, airport workers, adjunct professors, retail employees – and underpaid workers everywhere.
In February 2015 Walmart announced it was raising wages for 500,000 of its workers, after years of demonstrations.
Slide20In 2007 the U. N. adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
Advocates and supporters are forming the world’s first global civil rights movement.
The unifying issue facing Indigenous Peoples everywhere is how to protect their territories and stop the “asset stripping” that robs them of their livelihoods and the foundation of their cultures.
Methods in include court cases, public education, demonstrations and civil disobedience
.
Global Indigenous Peoples Movement
We can consider the potential role that indigenous peoples can play
in envisioning truly sustainable alternatives to capitalism.
Standing Rock, N. D. standoff
Over 100 tribes are resisting construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline
Thousands of Native Americans from hundreds of tribes converge to block construction.
Federal government followed by the White House halts construction
.
Slide21For MPT, the most important and
peline
, it will not make them whole again. This has been but a small battle in the greater struggle for them to regain their stability as a sovereign
natio
.
“LISTEN: I Will Never Submit To Any Pipeline To Go Through My Homeland
”
--Phyllis Young, Standing Rock Sioux Nation elder
STANDING ROCK: A NEW STORY OF EFFECTIVE NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE
“
Our Water Is Our Single Last Property
"
Slide22We're talking about holding up billions of
In response to an invitation by the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, we are here as a Meta Peace Team (MPT) International Exploratory Team.
Slide23The largest civil disobedience in 30 years
Took place at the White House in Washington D.C. in the summer of 2011
Against the Keystone XL Pipeline.
1,252 activists went to jail.
A few months later, President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. In November 2015 he definitively rejected the project.
Protect The Environment
Slide24Slide25Local Communities Affirm Solidarity
with Muslim Neighbors
Slide26Local Community as the Basis of a New World
Care for All – total sharing
Simplicity of life
Resiliency
Self-Sufficiency
Intermediate technology
Reaching out to other communities in need
Participation in Nonviolent Resistance
Nonviolent Peace Armies
Slide27NONVIOLENT
DIRECT
ACTION
Slide28Gene Sharp’s 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
5
FEB
FORMAL STATEMENTS
Public speeches
Letters of opposition or supportDeclarations by organizations and institutionsSigned public declarationsDeclarations of indictment and intention
Group or mass petitions
COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE
Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
Banners, posters, and displayed communications
Leaflets, pamphlets, and booksNewspapers and journals
Records, radio, and televisionSkywriting and earthwritingGROUP REPRESENTATIONSDeputationsMock awardsGroup lobbyingPicketingMock elections
SYMBOLIC PUBLIC ACTS
Displays of flags and symbolic
colours
Wearing of symbols
Prayer and worshipDelivering symbolic objectsProtest disrobingsDestruction of own propertySymbolic lightsDisplays of portraitsPaint as protestNew signs and namesSymbolic sounds
Symbolic reclamations
Rude gesturesPRESSURES ON INDIVIDUALS“Haunting” officialsTaunting officialsFraternizationVigilsDRAMA AND MUSICHumourous skits and pranksPerformances of plays and musicSingingPROCESSIONSMarchesParadesReligious processionsPilgrimagesMotorcadesHONOURING THE DEADPolitical mourningMock funeralsDemonstrative funeralsHomage at burial placesPUBLIC ASSEMBLIESAssemblies of protest or supportProtest meetingsCamouflaged meetings of protestTeach-insWITHDRAWAL AND RENUNCIATIONWalk-outsSilenceRenouncing
honours
Turning one’s back
SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION
OSTRACISM OF PERSONS
Social boycott
Selective social boycott
Lysistratic
nonaction
Excommunication
Interdict
SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION
Suspension of social and sports activities
Boycott of social affairs
Student strike
Social disobedience
Withdrawal from social institutions
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE SOCIAL SYSTEM
Stay-at-home
Total personal noncooperation
“Flight” of workers
Sanctuary
Collective disappearance
Protest emigration (
hijrat
)
ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: BOYCOTTS
ACTION BY CONSUMERS
Consumers’ boycott
Nonconsumption
of boycotted goods
Policy of austerity
Rent withholding
Refusal to rent
National consumers’ boycott
International consumers’ boycottACTION BY WORKERS AND PRODUCERSWorkers’ boycottProducers’ boycott
Slide29ACTION BY MIDDLEMEN
Suppliers’ and handlers’ boycott
ACTION BY OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
Traders’ boycott
Refusal to let or sell property
LockoutRefusal of industrial assistanceMerchants’ “general strike”ACTION BY HOLDERS OF FINANCIAL RESOURCESWithdrawal of bank deposits
Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
Refusal to pay debts or interest
Severance of funds and credit
Revenue refusal
Refusal of a government’s moneyACTION BY GOVERNMENTSDomestic embargo
Blacklisting of tradersInternational sellers’ embargoInternational buyers’ embargoInternational trade embargoECONOMIC NONCOOOPERATION: STRIKESSYMBOLIC STRIKESProtest strikeQuickie walkout (lightning strike)
AGRICULTURAL STRIKES
Peasant strike
Farm workers’ strike
STRIKES BY SPECIAL GROUPS
Refusal of impressed labourPrisoners’ strikeCraft strikeProfessional strikeORDINARY INDUSTRIAL STRIKESEstablishment strikeIndustry strikeSympathy strikeRESTRICTED STRIKES
Detailed strike
Bumper strikeSlowdown strikeWorking-to-rule strikeReporting “sick” (sick-in)Strike by resignationLimited strikeSelective strikeMULTI-INDUSTRY STRIKESGeneralised strikeGeneral strikeCOMBINATION OF STRIKES AND ECONOMIC CLOSURESHartalEconomic shutdownPOLITICAL NONCOOPERATIONREJECTION OF AUTHORITYWithholding or withdrawal of allegianceRefusal of public supportLiterature and speeches advocating resistanceNONCOOPERATION WITH GOVERNMENTBoycott of legislative bodiesBoycott of electionsBoycott of government employment and positionsBoycott of government departments, agencies, and other bodiesWithdrawal from governmental educational institutionsBoycott of government-supported institutionsRefusal of assistance to enforcement agentsRemoval of own signs and
placemarks
Refusal to accept appointed officials
Refusal to dissolve existing institutions
CITIZENS’ ALTERNATIVES TO OBEDIENCE
Reluctant and slow compliance
Nonobedience
in absence of direct supervision
Popular
nonobedience
Disguised disobedience
Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
Sitdown
Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
Hiding, escape, and false identities
Civil disobedience of “illegitimate” laws
ACTION BY GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL
Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
Blocking of lines of command and information
Stalling and obstruction
General administrative noncooperation
Judicial noncooperation
Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
Mutiny
DOMESTIC GOVERNMENTAL ACTION
Quasi-legal evasions and delays
Noncooperation by constituent governmental units
INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ACTION
Changes in diplomatic and other representation
Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
Withholding of diplomatic recognition
Severance of diplomatic relations
Withdrawal from international
organisations
Refusal of membership in international bodies
Expulsion from international
organisations
Slide30NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
Self-exposure to the elements
The fast
Fast of moral pressure
Hunger strikeSatyagrahic fastReverse trialNonviolent harassmentPHYSICAL INTERVENTION
Sit-in
Stand-in
Ride-in
Wade-in
Mill-inPray-inNonviolent raidsNonviolent air raids
Nonviolent invasionNonviolent interjectionNonviolent obstructionNonviolent occupationSOCIAL INTERVENTION
Establishing new social patterns
Overloading of facilities
Stall-in
Speak-in
Guerrilla theatreAlternative social institutionsAlternative communication systemECONOMIC INTERVENTIONReverse strikeStay-in strikeNonviolent land seizureDefiance of blockadesPolitically motivated counterfeitingPreclusive purchasing
Seizure of assets
DumpingSelective patronageAlternative marketsAlternative transportation systemsAlternative economic institutionsPOLITICAL INTERVENTIONOverloading of administrative systemsDisclosing identities of secret agentsSeeking imprisonmentCivil disobedience of “neutral” lawsWork-on without collaborationDual sovereignty and parallel government
Slide31SOLIDARITY MARCH
ON THE STATE CAPITAL LANSING
1:00PM – 3:00PM
____________________
Meta/Michigan Peace Team
needs volunteers for the peace team
Peace Team Orientation 11:00
Peace Team at Capital
12:30pm – 3:00pm
Contact Peter Dougherty
Slide32What is to be done?
First we must try to tell the truth and a condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak. For 40 years, neoliberals lived in a world of denial and indifference to the suffering of poor and working people and obsessed with the spectacle of success.
Second we must bear witness to justice. We must ground our truth-telling in a willingness to suffer and sacrifice as we resist domination.
Third we must remember courageous exemplars like Martin Luther King Jr, who provide moral and spiritual inspiration as we build multiracial alliances to combat
poverty and xenophobia, Wall Street crimes
and war crimes, global warming and police abuse – and to protect precious rights and liberties.
--Cornell West
Slide33WHAT CAN YOU DO?
GET INVOLVED!
GET INVOLVED!
GET
GET
INVOLVED!
Slide34Slide35Slide36Slide37Local Community as the Basis of a Humanized Earth-friendly World.
A covenant of Human Rights for all and the Sacredness of the Earth and all things.
The community learns and grows together in understanding and living a nonviolent way of life grounded in the sacred
interconnectedness of all life.
The Welfare of all in the community - Everyone is guaranteed enough to have a decent human life.
The community is everyone’s social security.
The community works by consensus to the extent possible, and makes direct democracy decisions about individuals given local power. Vigilance is exercised to see that those prone to take control and dominance are not given leadership roles.
All land is held in common. No one “owns” the earth, air, water, sky. Individuals/families own their home and belongings.
Simplicity of life – no one can steal the resources by “getting rich.” Eventually, money and profit is eliminated.
Everyone works and contributes to the good of the whole, according to their abilities and limitations in being differently abled. The accent is on service.
The local community is as self-sufficient as possible. Circles of local communities work together for needs that require wider cooperation. The local community grows its own food, makes its own clothing, builds with local materials, lives in harmony with the local environment. The community relies on Intermediate Technology. Choices are made based on needs, preserving community, and being earth-friendly and care to not be addicted or trapped by making technology a god. Eventually, people choose to not have nation states.
Vigilance is exercised to see that bigness does not interfere with direct human relationships. No corporations.
Education is a life-long learning, and is grounded in accepting conflict as an ordinary part of life, and teaching ways of creative nonviolent conflict resolution. Education is focused on the purpose of life – growing to one’s full human potential to become self-actualized, enlightened human beings.
Children learn to participate in creating their curriculum, and learn in the community as well as in classrooms.
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