Free DC made clear, “No single event or protest will fix this. What works is disciplined, connected organizing.” And they are already showing the way forward. Here are some lessons from #FreeDC’s rapid response:
1. Plan ahead..

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/free-dc-models-effective-resistance-to-trumps-takeover/
#NonViolenceTraining #GrassRootsOrganizing #WagingNonViolence

#resist #nonviolence #WagingNonviolence

From THIS NONVIOLENT LIFE

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

"The greatest challenge of the day is: How to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us."

—Dorothy Day

I live far from Los Angeles and choose when and how to receive my news, so I’m grateful for the e-newsletter #WagingNonViolence bc it lifts up stories and experiences that the US media doesn’t tell us; WNV challenges their “news-brought-to-you-by-billionaires” narrative

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/los-angeles-protests-are-far-more-than-youve-been-told

> The workbook we created was in the final editing stage when Trump started exaggerating property destruction at anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles to justify his own illegal power-grab. As Daniel writes in the introduction, “When dictators want to crack down on people speaking out, they hope for chaos. They want to make us look dangerous. They win when the story is about broken windows instead of broken systems.”...
> Some peacekeepers need to be reminded that it’s not their job to convince anyone, just defuse situations that could undermine the action’s goals.

wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/…
#WagingNonViolence #BrokenSystems #BrokenWindows #PeaceKeepers

❝ In 1983, Dr. Sharp founded the Albert Einstein Institution, a nonprofit organization that supports research and policy studies on strategic nonviolent action …

His more recent works include: Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential (2005), and How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013)… Dictionary of Power and Struggle (2011)… ❞

Our Story — AEI/ Empowering Humankind
https://www.aeinstein.org/our-history

related:
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114548364274471412

#antifa #wagingNonviolence

> ... the diversification of resistance methods puts the United States on a similar trajectory to many democracy movements of the past. In anti-authoritarian movements of the 20th century, economic noncooperation — more so than protest alone — was the coordinated activity that split elites and made way for democratic breakthroughs.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/
#WagingNonviolence #USAResistance