Osher 2020 Fall/Virtual Nonviolence - "Dealing with Dictators" #4

Session Four:  “Dealing with Dictators”

Music: "Miss Sarajevo," Bono, The Edge, Brian Eno, Pavarotti Link to Video

Essential Questions:
• What were the non violent techniques used by the Danes to resist the Germans?
• What do military and non violent campaigns have in common?
• How effective were the non violent techniques that the Danes used?

Rick's Rap

Gathering:  "One way that a dictator maintains power is.."

Video: “Denmark: Living with the Enemy,", from A Force More Powerful  , 2002 www.aforcemorepowerful.com
           • Debrief:

Closing: " Something I learned today was..."

Readings: 
1) Col. Robert Helvey, interview, “Bringing Down a Dictator”  Link to article
2) Hardy Merriman, "Lessons of Uprisings Around the World: The Present Moment, and Possible Future," ICNC Blog, 11/21/2019  Link to article


Resources
(1) Nathan Stoltzfus, “The Women’s Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Berlin,” http://www.rosenstrasse-protest.de/texte/texte_stoltzfus.html
(2)  Nadine Boch, “Wooden Legs, paper clips and ice fronts – resistance to the 3rd Reich,” Waging Non Violence, 4/19/13 http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/wooden-legs-paper-clips-and-ice-fronts-resistance-to-the-third-reich/
(3) "Bringing Down a Dictator," from a Force More Powerful, Link to video

"Power should be in the hands of the people, not people in the hands of power."
     graffiti on the  Prijedor, Bosnia town hall , 1998

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