ACTIVISM NEWSLETTER #7

OMNI NEWSLETTER ON ACTIVISM,  ACTIONS FOR PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY #7, September 15, 2013.   Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace,   (#2: June 23, 2011; #3 1-1-2012; #4 April 9, 2012; #5 Nov. 27, 2012; #6, March 24, 2013)

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Most of OMNI’s newsletters could be filed under ACTIVISM:  Gandhi, MLKJr, nonviolence, et al. etc.  The stories and arguments cover a broad range of striving for world peace, justice, and environmental preservation. The only restriction is the rejection of violence.  See the newsletter on Nonviolence.

APATHY

“Nonviolence, of course, does not mean that we shouldn’t take action in the world.  Nonviolence is not passivity; it is not inaction.  Nonviolence denounces apathy.   In fact, apathy is one of the greatest threats to peace.”    Scott Hunt, The Future of Peace, p. 336.

“WELL-INFORMED FUTILITY” SYNDROME? 

     I heard a speaker refer to this state of mind to explain why she was so determined to work for peace, justice, and the environment.   She said it was a widespread mentality among educated and inquiring people.  Many gave up on their ideals regarding the government (bi-partisan empire and permanent war, corporate/money/war party takeover of Congress and many state legislators by narrow, callous Tea Party faithful), and devoted their lives to play or to local betterment.   May be true.  Recently two friends who had spent much of their lives helping national and international projects said they were working locally in the future.   

     What does this mean?   The Platonic/Socratic tradition through the Renaissance and modern Humanism trusted knowledge as the foundation for right direction in the pursuit of the Good.  Is the “well-informed futility” syndrome a repudiation of this tradition of education, knowledge, reason?  And the alternative?  Intensity, passion, violence? 

Here is the link to all OMNI newsletters: http://www.omnicenter.org/newsletter-archive/   For a knowledge-based peace, justice, and ecology movement and an informed citizenry to recreate the world.  

Nos. 3 and 4 at end

Contents of #5 (in roughly chronological order of subjects)

Franklin Folsom, the Unemployed  Organized

Bollinger and Tran, From Tecumseh to Harvey Milk

Folsom, Peace March 1986

Film about Brian Willson

Thich Nhat Hanh, Love in Action

Berlowe, Compassionate Rebel 2002, Anger and Love

Berlowe, Compassionate Rebel 2

Zinn, Collected Speeches

Goodman and Moynihan, Resisters Today

Post-Nov. 6, 2012 Election Movement Building

Amy Goodman

Dreier and Cohen

Contents #6

Anti-War Film

Protest, Social Change Film: Let Fury Have the Hour

Rights of Disabled Campaign: Learning Hardball

Critical Thinking

ThisCantBeHappening

Mann, Progressive Organizing

Split This Rock Poetry Festival

RESIST: Funding for Change

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Contents #7  September 15, 2013

Tomgram, Solnit: Occupy Anniversary

Dick:  Moyers and Co., Successful Organizing 

   Sandra Steingraber vs. Epidemic Toxic Trespass in US
   Marshall Ganz, Madeline Janis, and Rachel Laforest—  

Mindful Occupation Booklet, Successful Organizing
Levine:  Get Up, Stand Up Against the Corporations

YES! Magazine.  A news magazine of notes and short articles    about pje changers.

Andrew Boyd, A Toolbox for Revolution

Adam Kahane, Power and Love…for Social Change

Alperovitz, What Do?  Long-range Organizing for Change.

Michelle Deakin.  UU Social Action Heroes

Salsa: Guide for Nonprofits

September 15, 2013 Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Victories Come in All Sizes I was electrified, and my own trajectory in life changed, by the antiwar movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.  That experience, those years, mobilized me.  They shocked me -- quite literally -- about what my country was capable of.  They destroyed my rather idealistic urge to be a part of the government.  I had long dreamed of becoming a diplomat, and at one point in the 1960s even applied for a job at the United States Information Agency.  In the years when I was growing up, the thought that I should and could find some way to represent my country proudly to the world was a powerful and motivating one for me.  In it lay a citizenly urge to serve.  What I learned in the anti-Vietnam movement stripped me of that urge or, at least, of the urge to apply it to the U.S. government.  Even when that movement died out and great effort in the popular sphere went into turning the dismal, disastrous, and deeply destructive war that called it up into a “noble cause” and the movement I had been a part of into so many “hippies” who “spit on” the returning troops, I never forgot.  Nor, by the way, did I, or anyone I knew in those years, ever see any antiwar activist spit on returning troops.  My life then had, in fact, been thoroughly entangled with Vietnam vets who had come back from the war in a state of protest and G.I.s still in the military who were antiwar and happy to say so.  Even in the decades after, when I demobilized and my most active work was simply putting good books into the world as an editor at the edge of mainstream publishing, I remained a changed person, primed for I had no idea what.  After 9/11, the urge to serve manifested itself powerfully once again and what the antiwar movement had taught me decades earlier helped organize and mobilize me to create TomDispatch.com, which has been the obsession of my later life.  Today, I feel that, thanks to what a movement now half-forgotten did to my life and sense of self, I do in some modest way finally represent my country -- the best of it and the worst of it -- to the world (and to us as well).  Still, if you had looked at my life in the 1980s or 1990s, you might have been hard-pressed to know just what, if any, effect those antiwar years had on me.  You might well have said: none at all. Similarly, as TomDispatch regular Rebecca Solnit points out -- in a piece adapted from her introduction to Nathan Schneider’s Thank You, Anarchy -- we tend to want to measure the importance of any oppositional movement by its instant results, not by the seeds it may plant in its participants that sometimes don’t sprout for years or decades. Tom  Click here to read more of this dispatch.

Joy Arises, Rules Fall Apart  Thoughts for the Second Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street  By Rebecca Solnit I would have liked to know what the drummer hoped and what she expected. We’ll never know why she decided to take a drum to the central markets of Paris on October 5, 1789, and why, that day, the tinder was so ready to catch fire and a drumbeat was one of the sparks. To the beat of that drum, the working women of the marketplace marched all the way to the Palace of Versailles, a dozen miles away, occupied the seat of French royal power, forced the king back to Paris, and got the French Revolution rolling. Far more than with the storming of the Bastille almost three months earlier, it was then that the revolution was really launched -- though both were mysterious moments when citizens felt impelled to act and acted together, becoming in the process that mystical body, civil society, the colossus who writes history with her feet and crumples governments with her bare hands. She strode out of the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City during which parts of the central city collapsed, and so did the credibility and power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI that had ruled Mexico for 70 years. She woke up almost three years ago in North Africa, in what was called the Arab Spring, and became a succession of revolutions and revolts still unfolding across the region. Such transformative moments have happened in many times and many places -- sometimes as celebratory revolution, sometimes as terrible calamity, sometimes as both, and they are sometimes reenacted as festivals and carnivals. In these moments, the old order is shattered, governments and elites tremble, and in that rupture civil society is born -- or reborn. Click here to read more of this dispatch. Consider supporting TomDispatch by making a donation. Click here.

BILL MOYERS

MOYERS & CO. Sample Programs.  I recommend Moyers strongly.   The films cost only $20 to show to friends or good gifts.

SANDRA STEINGRABER

Author of new book Raising Elijah.

Interviewed Moyers & Co. April 21, 2013.

Strong opponent of fracking gas and methane and other acts of “toxic trespass” in our land.  Moyers pressed her with dozens of hard questions, which she answered well, out of her long experience and study.  She offered much scientific information, exposed numerous harms in our presently underregulated society, but she was equally good in suggesting how we might avoid the “well-informed futility” syndrome by taking action.    I warmly recommend the film, $20, from Moyers & Co.--Dick 

May 12, 2013 Interview

Another excellent program in two parts about organizing for successful political and social change.

Marshall Ganz, civil rights organizer, discussed the Freedom Democratic Party’s confrontation with the Dem. Party in the 60s, and urged the motto Polarize to Mobilize, that Democracy is conflict for a better world.  Ganz also emphasized the importance of the story and the urgent need to overthrow the dominance of the “free market” narrative that determines value by price and replace it with one of cooperation and collaboration.

Madeline Janis and Rachel Laforest, two organizers of 

successful campaigns of change for poor people.   One by Janis was the Living Wage Campaign for hotel workers in ?Long Beach.   One by Laforest centered on housing and making the American Dream not home ownership but affordable housing for all.

All three reject the business/corporate/Chamber of Commerce propaganda (narrative) that the market solves all our problems.  A hopeful, exhilarating program (no wishful thinking but real achievements from struggle), as usual. --Dick

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Welcome to the web home of the Mindful Occupation booklet!

Last year, a group of us who have years of experience practicing peer-based community mental health support got together to compile a manual for organizers and participants in the #occupy movement. This is what came out of our work.

We believe that there is an urgent need to talk publicly about the relationship between social injustice and our mental health. We believe that we need to start redefining what it actually means to be mentally healthy, not just on an individual level, but on collective, communal, and global levels.

We know that many people at Occupy sites around the country are struggling to figure out how to build spaces of support and healing. We also know that police violence and the stresses of street protest can have very real mental, emotional, and energetic effects that are all too often not taken seriously.

Our aim with this booklet is to stimulate discussion, raise awareness, provide support, contribute to maintaining a more sustainable movement, and lay the foundation for the next stage of the movement. We want it to be a living document: open to revisions and remakes. We also hope this helps start conversations. Many people are doing amazing healing work within and around the Occupy movement – street medics, health professionals, bodyworkers, herbalists, energetic medicine practitioners, radical therapists and social workers, and others. We want to facilitate more discussions and get the word out about more good practices and techniques.

We have released our booklet under a Creative Commons license and our working draft is now available digitally. Our first large print run is on its way, set for late May 2012.

Lastly, a next step many of us envision for some of this material is a multi-day training intended for those that identify as doing support or healing work within the activist community. If you are interested in being part of that discussion, please let us know!

[A similar version published in Win Magazine (vol. 28, no. 4).   It gives these links: theicarusproject.net, mindfuloccupation.org, mindgulliberation.wordpress.com  --Dick]

Chelsea Green Bookstore : Politics & Social Justice : Get Up, Stand Up Get Up, Stand Up Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite by Bruce E. Levine "We are living in a land in which corporate power buys as many politicians as it needs, unjust laws shovel money to the rich, and media substitute entertainment for information. Yet Bruce Levine dares to show how we can reclaim our deadened souls, regain integrity and passion, and begin to change a political system we have let numb us into resigned helplessness." —Rev. Davidson Loehr, author of America, Fascism, and God Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and appear resigned to powerlessness. In Get Up, Stand Up, Bruce Levine offers an original and convincing explanation for this passivity. Many Americans are deeply demoralized by decades of oppressive elitism, and they have lost confidence that genuine democracy is possible. Drawing on phenomena such as learned helplessness, the abuse syndrome, and other psychological principles and techniques for pacifying a population, Levine explains how major US institutions have created fatalism. When such fatalism and defeatism set in, truths about social and economic injustices are not enough to set people free. However, the situation is not truly hopeless. History tells us that for democratic movements to get off the ground, individuals must recover self-respect, and a people must regain collective confidence that they can succeed at eliminating top-down controls. Get Up, Stand Up describes how we can recover dignity, confidence, and the energy to do battle. That achievement fills in the missing piece that, until now, has undermined so many efforts to energize genuine democracy. Get Up, Stand Up details those strategies and tactics that oppressed peoples have successfully employed to gain power. We the People can unite, gain strength, wisely do battle, and wrest power away from the ruling corporate-government partnership (the "corporatocracy"). Get Up, Stand Up explains how. About the Author Bruce E. Levine Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and has been in private practice since 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His most recent book is Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy. He is also the author of Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy and has authored a chapter for Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry. Dr. Levine has been a regular contributor toAlterNet, Z Magazine, and The Huffington Post and his articles and interviews have been published in Adbusters, The Ecologist, High Times and ... View Bruce E.'s full profile page >

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BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE: A Toolbox for Revolution

Prank websites. Militant carnivals. Flash Mobs. Virtual sit-ins. Guerrilla musicals. Social activism has a creative new edge that is melding prank and PR, and blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, direct action protest and pop art. Until recently these audacious actions were the preserve of a bold and zany few, but the “beautiful trouble” of creative activism is spreading.

Beautiful Trouble is not another how-to manual; it’s a how-to-think manual. We gathered artists and activists together (often with the assistance of much alcohol) to tease out a core set of interlocking design principles—what the design field would call a “pattern language“—so that this collective wisdom can become useful to the next generation of change-makers. It’s a widely collaborative effort that was written–in a somewhat novel fashion–in the Google cloud, with me serving less as head writer and more as Editor and Wrangler-in-Chief.

The book is published by O/R Books, and available now at BeautifulTrouble.org.

If you’re a real aficionado, take a look at the precursor manual, the Activist C

How to Balance Power and Love

Scenario planning and social change expert Adam Kahane suggests that to master large and difficult challenges, leaders need to learn to act and empathize simultaneously.

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Adam Kahane’s book Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change(Berrett-Koehler, 2010) opens with a quote from one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speeches, his last presidential speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. “Power without love,” said King, “is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.”

This is a concept that business leaders need to understand, because in times of crisis (and afterward), the people of an enterprise are put under a great deal of stress. Many people in major corporations today are still wondering if they will lose their jobs. A system that follows only the impulses of compassion and solidarity (which Kahane calls love) will lose its competitiveness; a system that follows only the impulses of resolve and purposefulness (which he calls power) will sacrifice its people heedlessly and risk its capability for growth and recovery. A mix of power and love, however, becomes a stance that a leader can hold, and this stance may, in the end, be the single most important factor in enabling a leader to accomplish great things.

Kahane is a partner in the small global consulting firm Reos Partners. He has a background in both business and the not-for-profit world, generally in leading multi-stakeholder groups as they work together on complex, intractable problems. For example, he has led projects involving warring Israeli and Palestinian factions, siloed organizations in the global food system, and antagonistic Canadian stakeholders wrestling with climate change. Originally trained as a physicist, economist, and energy policy expert, he worked for years at Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s renowned group planning department — the part of the company that developed much of the current-day practice of scenario planning. In 1991, Kahane was recruited to facilitate a seemingly quixotic conversation among 22 representatives of the diverse multiracial factions involved in the transition away from apartheid in South Africa: If they were going to make this epoch-defining move peacefully, how would they organize the economy? The storylines they developed are known today as the Mont Fleur Scenarios (named after the conference center in Cape Town where the discussions took place in 1991 and 1992). One of them, “flight of the flamingoes,” depicted all parts of the population gradually rising together in mutual economic advancement. This became a core theme of the economic policy of Nelson Mandela’s government. Kahane’s first book, Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities (Berrett-Koehler, 2004), recounts the stories of Mont Fleur and other similar efforts around the world, both successes and failures.

Despite the success of his South African efforts, many participants at Mont Fleur, and in the discussions that followed, found the premise of basing policy on harmony naive. As one African National Congress leader put it, “The only birds that matter here are [not ostriches and flamingoes but] hawks and sparrows!” It turned out that love-oriented solutions are almost impossible to sustain in the predatory atmosphere of any political or competitive power structure. To really make change happen, you need to balance love and power. During the following years, Kahane came to recognize the tension underlying this reality, and to develop some ways to resolve it. That is the basis of the courses he teaches on social change — for example, at the Alia Institute’s annual summer Authentic Leadership in Action program, where he and I are both on the faculty. Kahane sat down with me at last year’s institute, in June 2010 in Halifax, Nova Scotia; he is repeating the course this summer, at the 2011 Alia Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

Chelsea Green Bookstore : Politics & Social Justice :  Like this book? Digg it!      What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution by Gar Alperovitz "Alperovitz revives the tradition of political economy and spells out the institutional requirements and historical likelihood of moving the United States in the direction of a democratic community. An insightful and accessible book." —Herman Daly, author of Ecological Economics Democratizing wealth and building a community-sustaining economy from the ground up Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new economy—and, if we act upon it, a new system—are forming. What is that next system? It’s not corporate capitalism, not state socialism, but something else—something entirely American. In What Then Must We Do?, Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about why the time is right for a revolutionary new economy movement, what it means to democratize the ownership of wealth, what it will take to build a new system to replace the decaying one—and how to strengthen our communities through cooperatives, worker-owned companies, neighborhood corporations, small and medium-size independent businesses, and publicly owned enterprises. For the growing group of Americans pacing at the edge of confidence in the old system, or already among its detractors, What Then Must We Do? offers an evolutionary, common-sense solution for moving from despair and anger to strategy and action. About the Author Gar Alperovitz Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is cofounder of The Democracy Collaborative. He is a former fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard and of King's College at Cambridge University, where he received his PhD in political economy. He has served as a legislative director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a special assistant in the Department of State. Earlier he was president of the Center for Community Economic Development, Codirector of The Cambridge Institute, and president of the Center for the Study of Public ... View Gar's full profile page >
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Z Magazine January 2012

Yes! Fifteen Activists

New Book:  Becoming the Leaders We Need

New Book: Save the Humans?

New Book: Dream of a Nation

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