Power and Dissent Workshop
The Politics of Resistance
What is power and where does it come from? Who has it, why? What are the sources of power? How do dissenters/resisters become empowered?
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The full workshop series:
Optional reading: 'The Tyranny of Structurelessness'
Session # 1 Power and Dissent workshop
Stand alone workshop, but required for the fill workshop series.
Session # 2 - Understanding Political Action
What are the assumptions and beliefs we have about political action, and are they valid? In concrete terms, what are the mechanisms we use in undertaking political action? What is it we’re actually trying to do? Added bonus, 197 recipes for nonviolent revolution.
Session # 3 - Violence, Nonviolence & Satyagraha
What are violence, nonviolence & Satyagraha? Which is most effective? why?
Session # 4 - Struggle
Throughout history, and all over the planet people engage in “struggle”. In the industrialized West we are “active”. Is there a difference? If so, what? And why? Understanding the social dynamic of political action.
Session # 5 - Successful Social Movements and Campaigns
Why are some movements successful and others less so. Is it what they do, the issues they work on, the opposition they face? The Social Movement Empowerment Project, MAP, and Gamson.
Session # 6 - Goals and Roles as Activists
As individuals, what can we do? What do we need to be doing?
Session # 7 - Mar 9: Strategies for Resistance
As groups, how can we design our political action for maximum effectiveness?
Session # 8 - Resistance and the Law
What’s legal, what isn’t
Session # 9 - Civil Disobedience
Does civil disobedience work? If it works, why does it work? Tactical vs Pure nonviolent resistance. The pragmatics of designing and implementing a civil disobedience action.
Session # 10 - From Resolution to Revolution
Summary and Overview. Whatever outstanding questions, odds and ends that need to be dealt with.
Date and location coming soon
