Tag: antiwar
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Building a Successful Antiwar Movement
Four years ago today (January 27, 2007), United for Peace & Justice organized a mass protest in Washington DC to end the Iraq War. In the three weeks leading up to the event we were rushing to get our first publication—Building a Successful Antiwar Movement—to the printer in time to distribute at the rally. Jonathan…
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Activating Popular Participation | Building a Successful Antiwar Movement (Role3: Facilitation)
This is the fourth and final installment in a series written by Jonathan Matthew Smucker in collaboration with Madeline Gardner, originally published in 2007. Click here to read the previous essay, Articulating a Strategy Kinetic and Potential There is a tendency among people active in social movements (like the antiwar movement) to look at ourselves…
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Articulating a Strategy | Building a Successful Antiwar Movement (Role 2: Instructive)
This is the third installment in a four-part series written by Jonathan Matthew Smucker in collaboration with Madeline Gardner, originally published in 2007. Click here to read the previous essay, Speak the Truth, Tell a Story Context is the ground we build on. The second primary role of an antiwar core that we will discuss…
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Speak the Truth, Tell a Story | Building a Successful Antiwar Movement (Role 1: Interpretive)
This is the second installment in a four-part series written by Jonathan Matthew Smucker in collaboration with Madeline Gardner, originally published in 2007. Click here to read the previous essay, Three Roles of an Antiwar Core Interpretation The first primary role of an antiwar core that we will discuss is to attach meaning to unfolding…
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Three Roles of an Antiwar Core | Building a Successful Antiwar Movement (intro)
This is the first installment in a four-part series written by Jonathan Matthew Smucker in collaboration with Madeline Gardner, originally published in 2007. They won’t do it. It’s up to all of us to stop the war. It’s 2007, and the war continues. It is even escalating with Bush’s maddening “surge.” Equally maddening is the…
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Interview: Jose Vasquez on Antiwar Organizing & IVAW
originally published on September 30, 2010 Listen to the full interview with Jose Vasquez: http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=http://beyondthechoir.org/interviews/01_Jose_Vasquez.mp3 Jose Vasquez shares his journey from Army Staff Sergeant to Conscientious Objector to Executive Director of Iraq Veterans Against the War – and offers some reflections on organizing with veterans and GIs in today’s antiwar movement. To find out more…