Successful Non-Violence Campaigns

Cary Donham

LIBERIAN WOMEN PEACEFULLY BRING A BRUTAL CIVIL WAR TO AN END (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)

In the Greek play “Lysistrata,” first acted in 411 BCE, Aristophanes’ character, Lysistrata, leads a group of women to refuse to have sex...

Cary Donham

MONTGOMERY ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)

The June 29, 2023, Supreme Court decision inStudents for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, hearkens...

Cary Donham

NONVIOLENCE IN THE BALTIC STATES HELPED THEM BREAKAWAY FROM THE SOVIET UNION

I hadn’t associated the three European Baltic nations—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—with nonviolent movements. However, from 1986-1991,...

Cary Donham

THE GANDHI-LED GREAT SALT MARCH: WORLD RECOGNITION OF SATYGHARA (Successful Non-Violence Campaigns)

Anyone willing to make a 241-mile march in boiling heat under constant threat of government violence to protest a tax on salt is a tower...

Cary Donham

FAITH AND PATIENCE: HOW WOMEN WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE U.S. (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)

When the Declaration of Independence said that all men were created equal, it meant white men who owned property. Women, even white...

Cary Donham

NONVIOLENCE CAN WORK (Successful Non-violence Campaigns)

Nonviolence is not for the weak. Nor are nonviolent movements doomed to failure. History taught in high schools, most undergraduate...

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