11/14/22 WFS 2022: Session Five: Ukrainian and Iranian Nonviolent Civil Resistance with Michael Beer

 Session Five: Ukrainian and Iranian Nonviolent Civil Resistance with Michael Beer

 Music: "Miss Sarajevo," Brian Eno, Bono, The Edge, & Luciano Pavarotti Link to Site

 

Essential Questions:

• What NVDA is happening international today?

• What NVDA strategies are currently happening in Ukraine, Russia and Iran?

• How does NVDA work against authoritarian regimes?

• What are other examples where NVDA is operating in the world?

 

Welcome and Introductions

 

Agenda Preview: 

 

Rick’s Rap: (homework, News of the day, community sharing)

 

Speaker, Michael Beer, Executive Director, Nonviolence International       

                        

Readings:

• Rivera Sun, " 96 Thrilling Wins Towards Better World," Nonviolence  News, posted 1/18/22 Link to Site

• Rivera Sun, "101 Victories for Earth," Nonviolence  News, posted 1/5/22 Link to Site

• Rivera Sun,  "80 Racial Justice Gains," Nonviolence  News, posted 1/1/22 Link to Site

•  Rivera Sun, " 48 Wins for Workers and & Wages,"Nonviolence  News, posted 12/26/21Link to Site

• Isaac Chotiner, "Iranian Feminism and "All These Different Kinds of Veils," New Yorker, 11/2/22 Link to Site

• Felip Daza Sierra, "Ukranian Nonviolent Civil Resistance in the Face of War, Link to Site

• Robin Wright, "Iran's Protests are the First Counter-Revolution Led By Women," New Yorker, 10/9/22 Link to Site

• George Lakey, "Ukraine Doesn't Need to match Russia's Military Might to Defend Against Invasion, Waging Nonviolence, 2/25/22 Link to Site

• David Cortright, "Defections are Crucial to Ending Putin's War-Russian Soldiers Looking for a Way Out Need Support,"Waging Nonviolence, April 22, 2022 Link to Site

Resources:

• Nonviolence International Link to Site

• Max Fisher, "Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide are Failing at Record Rates," NYTimes, 9/30/22 Link to Site

•  Eli McCarthy, " 5 Ways to Support Courageous Nonviolent Resistance in Ukraine," Waging Nonviolence, March 23, 2022 Link to Site

• "Bringing Down a Dictator," A Force More Powerful Link to Site

• "The Ukraine Crisis: An Opportunity to Teach on Nonviolent Resistance,"Teaching the Costs of War, Watson Institute, Brown University, 2022 Link to Site

• "No to War in Ukraine,"International Institute for Nonviolent Action, March 2022 Link to Site

• Michael Beer, "Civil Resistance Tactics in the 21st Century," Link to Site 2020 

 • Nilofar Sakhi, "What the Historic Women's Uprising in Iran Teaches US About Resisting Authoritarianism, IPRA Peace Search, 10/6/22 Link to Site

If you want to end the war then instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of ending soldiers, send teachers.

                    Malala Yousafzai, UN Messenger of Peace

 

 Nonviolence is the constant awareness of the dignity and the humanity of oneself and others; it seeks truth and justice; it renounces violence both in method and in attitude; it is a courageous acceptance of active love and goodwill as the instrument with which to overcome evil and transform both oneself and to others, It is the willingness to undergo suffering rather than inflict it. It excludes retaliation and flight.    

                                          Wally Nelson, civil rights activist, conscientious objector and tax resister