Articles by Jake Olzen
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2012: The Year of Nonviolence?
Jake Olzen – Waging Nonviolence,
2 Jan 2012
If 2011 was the year of the protester, 2012 may prove to be the year of nonviolence. What’s the difference? It’s as great as between yes and no.
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Jake Olzen – Waging Nonviolence,
31 Oct 2011
Meet violence with nonviolence. Respond to police action and arrests with more civil disobedience and vigorous protest via the courts, petitions, sit-ins, and/or walk-outs. As the mainstream media tries to demonize the movement, do more outreach to labor, universities, churches and the ordinary citizens you now represent. As Frederick Douglass said, ‘Power concedes nothing without a struggle. It never has and it never will.’ And then finally – after that struggle – Occupy Everywhere will succeed.
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