Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Six Principles of Nonviolence
Where actual nonviolence says “violence would be justifiable in this situation, but here we are practicing nonviolence in order to highlight the cruelty of our enemies and challenge them on a moral level,” false nonviolence says “the violence of the status quo is more justified than the violence of those who fight it.”
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Without the Awful Roar of Its Many Waters
I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret. Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest.
A protest is an invitation to a
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