198 Methods of Nonviolent Action - get out your boobies against islam

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This came up in the Olympic boobies protest against Islam by the FEMEN:

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198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

These methods were compiled by Dr. Gene Sharp and first published in his 1973 book, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action. (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973). The book outlines each method and gives information about its historical use.

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THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION

Formal Statements
1. Public Speeches
2. Letters of opposition or support
3. Declarations by organizations and institutions
4. Signed public statements
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
6. Group or mass petitions

Communications with a Wider Audience
7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
10. Newspapers and journals
11. Records, radio, and television
12. Skywriting and earthwriting

Group Representations
13. Deputations
14. Mock awards
15. Group lobbying
16. Picketing
17. Mock elections

Symbolic Public Acts
18. Displays of flags and symbolic colors
19. Wearing of symbols
20. Prayer and worship
21. Delivering symbolic objects
22. Protest disrobings
23. Destruction of own property
24. Symbolic lights
25. Displays of portraits
26. Paint as protest
27. New signs and names
28. Symbolic sounds
29. Symbolic reclamations
30. Rude gestures

Pressures on Individuals
31. "Haunting" officials
32. Taunting officials
33. Fraternization
34. Vigils

Drama and Music
35. Humorous skits and pranks
36. Performances of plays and music
37. Singing

Processions
38. Marches
39. Parades
40. Religious processions
41. Pilgrimages
42. Motorcades

Honoring the Dead
43. Political mourning
44. Mock funerals
45. Demonstrative funerals
46. Homage at burial places

Public Assemblies
47. Assemblies of protest or support
48. Protest meetings
49. Camouflaged meetings of protest
50. Teach-ins

Withdrawal and Renunciation
51. Walk-outs
52. Silence
53. Renouncing honors
54. Turning one's back


THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION

Ostracism of Persons
55. Social boycott
56. Selective social boycott
57. Lysistratic nonaction
58. Excommunication
59. Interdict

Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions
60. Suspension of social and sports activities
61. Boycott of social affairs
62. Student strike
63. Social disobedience
64. Withdrawal from social institutions

Withdrawal from the Social System
65. Stay-at-home
66. Total personal noncooperation
67. "Flight" of workers
68. Sanctuary
69. Collective disappearance
70. Protest emigration (hijrat)


THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (1) ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS

Actions by Consumers
71. Consumers' boycott
72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
73. Policy of austerity
74. Rent withholding
75. Refusal to rent
76. National consumers' boycott
77. International consumers' boycott

Action by Workers and Producers
78. Workmen's boycott
79. Producers' boycott

Action by Middlemen
80. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott

Action by Owners and Management
81. Traders' boycott
82. Refusal to let or sell property
83. Lockout
84. Refusal of industrial assistance
85. Merchants' "general strike"

Action by Holders of Financial Resources
86. Withdrawal of bank deposits
87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
88. Refusal to pay debts or interest
89. Severance of funds and credit
90. Revenue refusal
91. Refusal of a government's money

Action by Governments
92. Domestic embargo
93. Blacklisting of traders
94. International sellers' embargo
95. International buyers' embargo
96. International trade embargo


THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (2)THE STRIKE

Symbolic Strikes
97. Protest strike
98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

Agricultural Strikes
99. Peasant strike
100. Farm Workers' strike

Strikes by Special Groups
101. Refusal of impressed labor
102. Prisoners' strike
103. Craft strike
104. Professional strike

Ordinary Industrial Strikes
105. Establishment strike
106. Industry strike
107. Sympathetic strike

Restricted Strikes
108. Detailed strike
109. Bumper strike
110. Slowdown strike
111. Working-to-rule strike
112. Reporting "sick" (sick-in)
113. Strike by resignation
114. Limited strike
115. Selective strike

Multi-Industry Strikes
116. Generalized strike
117. General strike

Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures
118. Hartal
119. Economic shutdown


THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION

Rejection of Authority
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
121. Refusal of public support
122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

Citizens' Noncooperation with Government
123. Boycott of legislative bodies
124. Boycott of elections
125. Boycott of government employment and positions
126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies
127. Withdrawal from government educational institutions
128. Boycott of government-supported organizations
129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
130. Removal of own signs and placemarks
131. Refusal to accept appointed officials
132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

Citizens' Alternatives to Obedience
133. Reluctant and slow compliance
134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
135. Popular nonobedience
136. Disguised disobedience
137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
138. Sitdown
139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
140. Hiding, escape, and false identities
141. Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws

Action by Government Personnel
142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
143. Blocking of lines of command and information
144. Stalling and obstruction
145. General administrative noncooperation
146. Judicial noncooperation
147. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
148. Mutiny

Domestic Governmental Action
149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units

International Governmental Action
151. Changes in diplomatic and other representations
152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition
154. Severance of diplomatic relations
155. Withdrawal from international organizations
156. Refusal of membership in international bodies
157. Expulsion from international organizations


THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION

Psychological Intervention
158. Self-exposure to the elements
159. The fast
a) Fast of moral pressure
b) Hunger strike
c) Satyagrahic fast
160. Reverse trial
161. Nonviolent harassment

Physical Intervention
162. Sit-in
163. Stand-in
164. Ride-in
165. Wade-in
166. Mill-in
167. Pray-in
168. Nonviolent raids
169. Nonviolent air raids
170. Nonviolent invasion
171. Nonviolent interjection
172. Nonviolent obstruction
173. Nonviolent occupation

Social Intervention
174. Establishing new social patterns
175. Overloading of facilities
176. Stall-in
177. Speak-in
178. Guerrilla theater
179. Alternative social institutions
180. Alternative communication system

Economic Intervention
181. Reverse strike
182. Stay-in strike
183. Nonviolent land seizure
184. Defiance of blockades
185. Politically motivated counterfeiting
186. Preclusive purchasing
187. Seizure of assets
188. Dumping
189. Selective patronage
190. Alternative markets
191. Alternative transportation systems
192. Alternative economic institutions

Political Intervention
193. Overloading of administrative systems
194. Disclosing identities of secret agents
195. Seeking imprisonment
196. Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws
197. Work-on without collaboration
198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government

Source: Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973).

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How to Start a (Wall Street-backed) Revolution

Documentary Whitewashes Wall Street's Global Blitzkrieg
by Tony Cartalucci

November 26, 2011 - Gene Sharp of the Albert Einstein Institution penned the book "From Dictatorship to Democracy," originally designated for the destabilization and recolonization of Myanmar, still called "Burma" throughout much of the West. Sharp's book would then be utilized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) throughout Eastern Europe, throughout Asia, and eventually, in 2011, for the US-engineered "Arab Spring."

According to Sharp's own Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) 2000-2004 annual report, AEI had been sponsored by the US government's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its funded subsidiary International Republican Institute (IRI) to train activists in Serbia (page 18) Zimbabwe (page 23) and Myanmar (page 26) to help overthrow their respective sovereign governments.


Image: Activating Human Rights & Peace (AHRP) 2008 proceedings, page 8. The .pdf has been taken down by the university, however it is available upon request from Land Destroyer. (click image to enlarge)

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Australia's Southern Cross University's "Activating Human Rights & Peace (AHRP)" conference had put out a revealing account of their 2008 proceedings illustrating that all of Gene Sharp's work, beyond what was even mentioned in his own institution's annual report, had been fully funded and in support of the US government and its global domineering agenda. Beginning on page 26, Sharp's affiliations, in particular with the National Endowment for Democracy, which is described as carrying out "a lot of work that was formerly undertaken by the CIA," as well as the Ford Foundation, and billionaire Wall Street patriarch George Soros' Open Society Institute are fleshed out in immense detail.

Gene Sharp Has Defenders

Despite this, there are still voices out there calling criticism of Gene Sharp's affiliations with the US government and the CIA "wild accusations" and "conspiracy theories." One of these voices is director and Sky News/freelance journalist Ruaridh Arrow of the UK. Arrow has a lot invested in his views, as he is the director of "How to Start a Revolution" and has invested a tremendous amount of time and effort attempting to portray Sharp as anything but an agent of US-funded sedition promoting corporate-fascist global hegemony.



Photo: Ruaridh Arrow in Egypt. He is the director of "How to Make a Revolution," a disingenuous take on the "Arab Spring," which sidesteps documented evidence and even overt admissions that foreign corporate-financier interests drove the unrest, not indigenous aspirations for "democracy."

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In one interview, Arrow even admits that upon seeing the Serbian Otpor revolution and the Ukrainian Orange Revolution unfold he suspected a CIA conspiracy, but then implies that the presence of Gene Sharp's book in the hands of these various groups, practicing similar tactics, was evidence otherwise. In a column afforded to Arrow by BBC titled, "Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook," he claimed that Sharp "has faced almost constant financial hardship and wild accusations of being a CIA front organisation." Such statements are in obvious contradiction with even Sharp's own AEI annual report.

Also included in Arrow's BBC article was mention of his visit with Srdja Popvic of CANVAS, whose own website claims US government agencies such as Freedom House, United States Institute for Peace, and the International Republican Institute, as well as Soros' New Tactics (page 6) as "partners." Also mentioned as a partner was of course Sharp's AEI. Either Arrow was negligent in his research, or negligent in full disclosure as to the nature and affiliations of the groups training these "revolutionaries."

Any remaining doubt surrounding the true nature of these protests is cast aside when considering the 2008 inaugural Alliance for Youth Movements summit, sponsored by the US State Department in New York City and hosting CANVAS' future Egyptian "April 6 Youth Movement" proteges. After receiving training in New York by AYM, then training in Serbia with US-funded CANVAS, April 6 would join yet another cog in the Wall Street-London conspiracy to overthrow the Egyptian government, Mohammed ElBaradei. ElBaradei much like Gene Sharp and CANVAS has an endless parade of apologists espousing his good intentions along with a Nobel Peace Prize draped around his neck for added "credibility." In reality, ElBaradei is a member of the US corporate-funded think-tank International Crisis Group, funded in part by Soros' Open Society Institute, with Soros himself sitting on the board of trustees, along with funding from Chevron, Shell, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and many others.

ElBaradei would return to Egypt a full year before the "Arab Spring" began to the open arms of April 6 activists literally waiting for him at the airport in Cairo. Together they began building the "National Front for Change." A year later, after making preparations with the help of April 6 and Wael Ghonim of Google, ElBaradei would lead what would be disingenuously portrayed by the complicit corporate-media as a "spontaneous" protest "inspired" by the equally disingenuous, entirely preplanned "revolution" that had just unseated the Tunisian government.

The "Arab Spring" is Fake

Clearly, the "revolution" in Egypt was entirely misrepresented by the corporate-media, and likewise by filmmaker Ruaridh Arrow. The "Arab Spring" was not spontaneous, nor was it indigenous. Rather it was a was a premeditated geopolitical plot engineered by US corporate-financier interests years in advance. The New York Times in its article, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," clearly stated as much when it reported, "a number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington."

Further confirming this were public statements made by the US State Department-sponsored "Alliance for Youth Movements" (AYM) counting Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement among its above mentioned inaugural AYM summit attendees in New York City as far back as 2008. Foreign Policy magazine admited that April 6 received further training from CANVAS in Serbia, before fomenting unrest in Egypt. FP magazine would also report that "CANVAS has worked with dissidents from almost every country in the Middle East; the region contains one of CANVAS's biggest successes, Lebanon, and one of its most disappointing failures, Iran."

The destabilization in Iran, of course, was drawn up by corporate-funded Brookings Institution, as articulated in its "Which Path to Persia?" report, with the actual mechanics of organizing the foreign-funded revolution subcontracted to organizations like US-funded CANVAS, NED and its subsidiaries.

In an April 2011 AFP report, Michael Posner, the assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor, stated that the "US government has budgeted $50 million in the last two years to develop new technologies to help activists protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments." The report went on to explain that the US "organized training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of the world. A session held in the Middle East about six weeks ago gathered activists from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon who returned to their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there." Posner would add, "They went back and there's a ripple effect." The ripple effect Posner is talking about is of course the "spontaneous" "Arab Spring" and bears a striking resemblance to the campaign of destabilization Gene Sharp and AEI perpetuated throughout Eastern Europe as described in detail in the above mentioned AHRP report.

Mr. Arrow Stands by His Work

In a recent exchange, Mr. Arrow brushed aside all of this evidence in favor of his emotional documentary portraying Gene Sharp as an unsung hero and aging father of a global wave of genuine "democratic revolution." He labeled the June 13, 2011 article "Fake Revolutions" as a "conspiracy theory." He insists that "his research" has brought him to "different" conclusions and stands by his work. While he agreed that Wall Street is a dictatorship, the irony apparently escaped him that his film is about Wall Street literally overrunning the planet with semi-covert revolutions from Tunisia to Thailand.

Whether it is pride, ignorance, or duplicity that drives Mr. Arrow and his wayward message, contradicted by documents emanating from the very man and his organization he set out to portray in a positive light, his documentary has been picked up, supported, and promoted by the very same willful liars that foisted the "Arab Spring" upon an unsuspecting world. On Arrow's own website, under "Special Thanks," is listed "Every Human Has Rights" a campaign of the Gates, Ford Foundation, Soros Open Society, European Commision, and UK Department for International Development (DFID)-funded CIVICUS alliance.

Also mentioned is the Stilwell Fund for the Visual Arts, founded by Kim Taipale of the World Policy Institute, funded by the Carnegie Corporation (mentioned in the above AHRP report as complicit in funding the projection of US foreign policy under the guise of "democratic revolutions") as well as the "US Connect Fund" which is a collaborative fund created by George Soros' Open Society, the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ploughshares Fund (a sponsor of the above mentioned International Crisis Group upon which Egyptian "Arab Spring" leader ElBareadei sits as a trustee).

Indeed - somewhere along the line, though to what extent Arrow is not forthcoming - the very organizations engineering, supporting, funding, training, and in some cases arming the "Arab Spring" conflagration consuming Northern Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, had lent Mr. Arrow a hand in his disingenuous, whitewashing of their dirty deeds. Mr. Arrow refuses to acknowledge this glaring conflict of interest, the apparent immense impropriety his "documentary" is in the middle of, or the implications they may have on his future credibility or the future of the countries he has helped play a small part in destabilizing and ultimately destroying.

Country by Country - Wall Street is There

Below is a list of nations most of which are on record receiving Gene Sharp's "humanitarian" advice and training. Documented in depth are also the recipient opposition groups' ties directly to Wall Street-London corporate-financier interests. Indeed, Arrow's film, "How to Make a Revolution" shows one in reality of how to best serve Wall Street's interests by dividing and destroying your nation, while installing a puppet of the West's choosing amidst the chaos, because that is exactly what Gene Sharp's pupils have been doing for decades now in each and every case.

Tunisia
Libya
Egypt
Syria
Iran
Belarus
Myanmar (Burma)
Thailand
Malaysia

No real revolution of any kind will take place until people both understand the balance of power currently held in the world today and how to change it pragmatically rather than politically. Wall Street, a global tyranny of unprecedented proportions, will remain intact until we see them, not petty local tyrants or street hooligans and dupes as the true enemy, and the systematic boycotting and replacing of their degenerate, global domineering system implemented in full as the solution.

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These broads need a better hobby.

[Hugh]

No real revolution of any kind will take place until people both understand the balance of power currently held in the world today and how to change it pragmatically rather than politically. Wall Street, a global tyranny of unprecedented proportions, will remain intact until we see them, not petty local tyrants or street hooligans and dupes as the true enemy, and the systematic boycotting and replacing of their degenerate, global domineering system implemented in full as the solution.

And yet they miss the point entirely.

There are only two ways to change a regime that cannot be changed at the ballot box, and that is illegally and violently or legally and non-violently.

WN are not in a position to change regimes violently and illegally, and these ways never work out for the better.
Thus WN are only left with non-violent, legal means of changing regimes.

The article argues against using these methods, then proceeds to advocate using these exact methods via strikes, boycotts and sanctions, the most effective way of bringing down regimes. When the US invaded Iraq the first time, it killed roughly 400 000 Iraquis, lost 300 000 Us troops to DU poisoning.
The second time, they killed around 650 000 people, and so far have lost effectively 400 000 US troops and contractors as casualties mostly cancer related.
Under sanctions, they killed 2.5 million Iraquis, with no US casualties.
WN need to understand this is a brutal, harsh business.

His strategies and methods actually work, and are being used, successfully.
What has been done before, can be done again, using those very same strategies and methods. They replace regimes. They do not determine what sort of regime the replacement regime will be and unless WN are able to form replacement governments, replacement governments will not be WN governments.

They omit to mention that Gene Sharp did not invent these methods, he studied regime changes around the world, and compiled/collated what they done, analysed it and came to his conclusions. He explicitly states again and again, they are not pacifist, they are to use his words "techniques of combat". Their advantage is that they are scalable, in a way violent illegal methods are not, and that they cause less harm to those using them.

Like so many points the article artfully avoids, the article fails to mention what life was like under the governments that were overthrown.

As unpleasant as life may be in those countries today, Poland and Ukraine etc have taken off like a rocket since the previous regimes were removed.

There are two options, do we want anti-Western or pro-Western governments in place in areas that Whites depend upon for our resources and trade?

We are not the only players on the board, and if/when we come to power, we will need governments we control in place, or the Chinese, Russians, Muslims, Japanese etc will.

The crucial point the article avoids, is that these strategies and methods work, so can start being used, by us.
Nowhere do they advocate actually doing anything to remove unwanted regimes.

People have never understood the balance of power, the masses have never acted, it's always been a tiny "revolutionary majority" that changes things, the critical mass which reaches the tipping point, at which stage regime change takes place.

That they set conditions for acting that they know have never existed, and will never exist, indicates that the authors of the article, whilst pretending to be anti the current system, do not advocate doing anything, and recommend doing nothing, so are pro the current system. There are no examples in human history of governments being changed pragmatically and not politically, so they are advocating allowing the current system to continue indefinitely.

Nationalism is about establishing and strengthening countries for white people.
Replacing regimes is one of its core functions.

These are tried and tested tools that have been and are used to replace regimes, no different to Sun Tzu's Art of War, or Machiavelli's "The Prince".

Politics is not nice, and is not for nice people.

Nationalism is just about the most dangerous form of political activity there is, and methods and strategies that reduce the casualty rate on our side but still achieve the same result, are not to be sneezed at.

Like a hammer, these tools can be used to build a paradise or a prison, it all depends upon the hand that wields them. Nobody said nationalism was easy, or safe. One has only to look at the often horrific fates of the signers of the declaration of independence, or of those who have waged nationalist struggles through all of history, to see that nationalism carries an often fearful price.
Much is said of the 300 Spartans, but many people tend to forget, they did not return.
Tens of millions of nationalists died in WW 1 and 2, tens of millions more died under the Jews and communists, often horrifically.
We thus need varying methods of activity, so that people with different risk appetites can still be active.

Contrary to Hollywood, struggles are not fought by brave men striding forward. They are fought by men hidden and camouflaged, by deception, by ambush and attack from oblique angles, at the opponents weakest points, and wen they are at their most helpless. Such men who defeat those who went striding boldly forward.

To quote Bilbo and Gandalf from "the Hobbitt"
Bilbo : Can you promise that I will come back?
Gandalf : No, and if you do, you will not be the same.

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Contrary to Hollywood, struggles are not fought by brave men striding forward. They are fought by men hidden and camouflaged, by deception, by ambush and attack from oblique angles, at the opponents weakest points, and when they are at their most helpless. Such men who defeat those who went striding boldly forward.

To quote Bilbo and Gandalf from "the Hobbitt"
Bilbo : Can you promise that I will come back?
Gandalf : No, and if you do, you will not be the same.

An outstanding post, Hugh. We have become the "outsider" looking in to an alien establishment which has supplanted us. We must adapt to the strategy which proved so very successful for the Jews.

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Originally Posted by Hugh

There are only two ways to change a regime that cannot be changed at the ballot box, and that is illegally and violently or legally and non-violently.

When the government no longer commands the allegiance of it's enforcers, the regime will lose it's legitimacy. Yet, another war for the benefit of Israel, just may sway military opinion against the current regime. Hopefully, the military is beginning to realize that they are being used to serve a foreign master and the tide will turn against their overlords.