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Syllabus, Other Resources and Introduction ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Permission to reproduce these copyrighted materials has been obtained from the publishers for: Michael Nagler University of California,Berkeley PACS 164B Spring 2006 Any further reproduction is a violation of the amended Copyright Act of 1976. Civil and criminal penalties may be imposed for copyright infringement. IJJ pgs 1(W several articles From various sources , © Reproduced by permission of fair use . All Rights Reserved asreprinted in [IJ pgs 1·3 Introduction From Nonviolent Insurrection In El Salvador , Patricia Parkman © 1988 Reproduced by pennission of University of Arizona Press . All Rights Reserved asreprinted in ✓VVYVV✓VV •• [I] pgs 6-11 The Polish Case From Nonviolence & Israel-Palestine , Johan Galting © 1989 Reproduced by permission of unable to determine . 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Summer'03........... .................................. ... ......... ... ...... 25 Q&A with Nagler fromCalifornia Monthl y, December 2001......... ... ....... 27 Galtung, sel'n. fromch ap. 1.3 in Searching for Peace: The Road to Transcend, pp.101-2............................................. 33 Part Two: Freedom Struggles; .NV Insurrection Selection fromPatri cia Parkman,Nonviolent Insurrection in El Salvador........... 37 Se lection fromJohan Galtung, "NV against ExtremeOppression: Three Cases...... 40 Michael True, "The 1989 Democratic Uprising in China: Nonviolent Perspective".. 43 Kurt Schock, sel'n from Unarmed Insurrections [pp 6-23] ............................... 54 Ackerman/Duvall from Harvard Int'/. Review, Summer '05 ............................. 63 Part Three: Anti-Militarism and Related Struggles Excerptfrom Tom Regan, The Struggle for Animal Rights: "Civil Disobedience" ..... 73 Harry Mika and Howard Zehr, "\1/hatis Restorative Justice?" .............................74 Selection fromJim Consedine, Restorative Justice............... ...........................8 I Selections fromJames Tracy, Direct Action ......... ......... ..................................... 97 Selections fromCharles Walker, A World Peace Guard ... ............... ..................... 115 Selections fromL. Mahoneyand R. Eguren, Unarmed Bodyguards...................... 128 CliffKindy, "In prison forpeacemaking" ............................................ ........ 145 NGO Intervention List & Map .................................................................. 147 Tijn Touber, "Peace Armies Fight violence with nonviolence," fromOde Magazine.. 148 Moser-Puangsuwan, Chap. 7 ofHarak, Nonviolence for the Third Millennium ........ 149 Thien-Minh chapter fromReli gion for Peace ... ......... ......... ................................. 158 Part Four: "Globalization from Below:" Mountain Voices: Paradise (from Sing Out) ................................................. 163 Selection fromThomas Weber, Hugging the Trees ........................... ...... ......... ..... 164 Three articleson Tabasco ....................................................................... .179 Michelle Burkhart, "In Brazil: Creating a New Reality" ....................................187 Selections fromVandana Shiva,Stolen Harvest.. ... ........................................ 191 6 Article fromNorth BayPro gressive; Remata Brillinger, "Canadian Farmer Takeson Monsanto"......................................................................... 207 Article fromPeacework ; Luc Davidson Schuster, "Nonviolent Struggles Build Autonomous Zones in Chiapas"........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 208 Article from World Press Review; Juan Jesus Aznarez, "A Quechua Leader Speaks".. 209 FOR updates, 2004: Columbia............................................................... ... 211 Juan Forero, New York Times, "Colombia War Spills Into Indians' Peaceful World" ... 212 Letter from Amber Gallup, "Wbat democracy looks like".................................. 215 Part Five: Toward a Nonviolent Culture George Gerbner, "Saving our Cultural Environment". .................... 219 Documents of the From Violence to Wholeness Program.................. 223 Selection from Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication.......... 233 Selections fromAdbusters , "Nonviolent Revolution" ........................................ 242 Selections from Global Uprising: John Sellers, "Ruckus Society" .......................................................... 252 Kevin Danaher, "Changing Culture" ................................................... 255 Unanimous Consensus, "Organizing a New Generation of Activists" .............. 260 Grace Lee Boggs, "7 Great Ideas for Movement Builders"
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