Get George Lakey’s 2023 memoir, books, videos, and “Citizen George,” the 2024 film bio about his six decades of leadership, strategy, training for nonviolent change.
Chuck Collins’s intriguing and inspiring 2023 novel addresses challenges facing climate change and justice activists. Also see his 5-min. video interview and review. Buy now.
International Center for Nonviolent Conflict releases Civil Resistance Tactics in the 21st Century,
by Michael Beer, veteran activist, organizer, and executive director of Nonviolence International
[Download it free.] In their 108-page “monograph,” Beer and colleagues painstakingly identified 360 tactics or “methods” of nonviolent action, expanding on 198 Dr. Gene Sharp described in his
three-volume 1973 “The Politics of Nonviolent Action.” Beer’s publication adds scores more tactics
and proposes helpful new categories, and is available as a 1-MB free download. See the webinar below.
Former MNS members have published scores of books and hundreds of articles and pamphlets addressing and fostering Movement for a New Society: Training, vision, strategy more. Here are a few of the more prominent MNS authors, theorists and strategists.Find many more on our MNS 50th Anniversary page.Click each name to find their writings, bios and photos, or on any cover image above or below:
Moyer was a globally acclaimed organizer, strategist, writer, educator and trainer in nonviolent social movements, active in a dozen countries for forty years. He was SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) staff for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the American Friends Service Committee, Movement For A New Society, Keystone Safe Energy Alliance, and Executive Director of the Social Movement Empowerment Project in San Francisco. (See his wiki page.)
MACRO-ANALYSIS SEMINARS
Perhaps no process MNSers developed has been more ambitious or used than “Macro-analysis” study groups, in which participants prepare presentations summarizing select readings so all may discuss and benefit from a wide range of articles on each week’s topic. Alumni are now updating both the process and readings, but meanwhile, please Download and use free these 4 editions of the Guide: 1973, 1976 Pages 1-42 & Pages 43-106, 1981 and START 2014 (i.e., Study Think Act Respond Together).
–
Public Libraries, most of which also subscribe to Kanopy.com,
where cardholders can view thousands of free films and videos
including 1,000 from The Great Courses— See if yours subscribes.
MACRO-ANALYSIS SEMINARS
Perhaps no process MNSers developed has been more ambitious or used than “Macroanalysis” study groups, in which participants prepare presentations summarizing select readings so all may discuss and benefit from a wide range of articles on each week’s topic. Alumni are now updating both the process and readings, but meanwhile, please Download and use free these 4 editions of the Guide (Creative Commons download): 1973, 1976 Pages 1-42 & Pages 43-106, 1981 and START 2014 (i.e., Study Think Act Respond Together)
