EAN: 9781419741111

WE ARE POWER - TODD HASAK-LOWY GEBUNDEN

A stirring look at nonviolent activism  from American suffragists to Civil Rights to the
Climate Change MovementWe Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used
nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent
resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before  when guns
seem to be everywhere  how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence
themselves? Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi  Alice Paul 
Martin Luther King  Cesar Chavez  and Václav Havel  this book discusses the components of
nonviolent resistance. It answers the question Why nonviolence? by showing how nonviolent
movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways  in all sorts of places  and
always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes  a bibliography  and an
index.

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