We’re talking about a revolution: A revolution is a sudden radical change from the status quo. Here is an illustration. It is an abrupt change of the clock hand from 12 o’clock to 6 o’clock. Gradualism could be on the same course from 12 to 6 but moving very slowly through seconds and minutes. But if you spin the hand in either direction you could bypass your goals and end up right where you started, advancing no change. The question is how do we move to our goals with a swift, direct, measured pace.
Can We Get Consensus On This
Organizations and community groups can share defined broad goals and objectives but tactics and leadership decisions should be based on their own agenda and left in the hands of the members of the specific organization, community or group.
The 14 Principles
I believe in justice for all
I believe in lifting up the disadvantaged
I believe in dismantling unjust criminalization systems
I believe in equal protection under the law
I believe in ending poverty
I believe in ending systematic racism
I believe in ending the war economy
I believe in ending ecological devastation
I believe in building unity across lines of devision
I believe in a moral negative that is concerned with how society treats the marginalized
I believe in transforming the political, economic, add moral structures of our society
I believe in working toward non-partisan goals
I believe in sustained moral direct action
I believe in nonviolence
Can we have your consensus on the 14 Principles above? Please click on “Leave a reply” at the bottom of the post then sign your name and email address in the Leave A Comment box appears.
Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of “nonviolent weapons” at their disposal. Listed below are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. A description and historical examples of each can be found in volume two of The Politics of Nonviolent Action, by Gene Sharp
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