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Santino, Umberto, Nonviolenza, mafia e anti-mafia, Palermo, Centro Impastato, 2005

Santino analyses the Mafia organisation and social consensus. He sees in the latter a supportive element to mafia organisations as well as the ground on which it is possible to build forms of nonviolent education and practices that could lead to a change within the current system. He adopts a ‘paradigm of complexity’ at the foundation of the epistemological and methodological approach to the mafia phenomenon and identifies the limit of the military and repressive reaction against it. In so doing, he discusses what action civil society can undertake to sustain nonviolent forms of resistance against mafia.  

 

Retrievable at: http://www.centroimpastato.com/nonviolanza-mafia-eantimafia/

, Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice, ed. Lahai, John; Moyo, Khanyisela, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 , pp. 294

The authors challenge the (dominant) one-sided representations of gender in the discourses on human rights, and also transitional justice (involving new approaches to redressing recent major suffering and oppression). They examine how transitional justice and human rights institutions, as well as political institutions, impact the lives and experiences of women with references to Argentina, Bosnia, Egypt, Kenya, Peru, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka. They focus especially, in a variety of contexts, on the relationships between local and global forces.

Bin, Sun, Outcomes of Chinese Rural Protest: Analysis of the Wukan Protest, 59 3 2019 , pp. 429-450

The article provides a detailed analysis of the immediate and longer term results of a protest over loss of village land in Wukan, Guangdon, to reveal government responses designed to pacify protesters, and the impact on individuals, the local protest group and broader society. The aim is to shed light on the widespread phenomenon of protests over land.

Walker, Clare, COP Comes of Age, Dec-Jan 2015 , , pp. 32-33

Discussion, in light of lessons from the 2014 People's Climate March. of how to prepare for mobilization at the UN Paris Conference of the Parties on Climate Change 

See also: Worth, Jess, 'Climate Justice Comes to Copenhagen', New Internationalist, 16 December 2009  

https://newint.org/blog/editors/2009/12/16/climate-justice-invades

See also: Peoples Climate Movement 'To change everything, we need everyone', https://peoplesclimate.org/our-movement/

Sets out policy: to demand radical action on climate change, through mass mobilization and alignment with other movements for economic and racial justice. Provides very brief overview of campaigning since 2014 People's Climate March.

Stead, Rebecca, Remembering the Great March of Return, , pp. smaller than 0

Describes in some detail the first symbolic demonstration by 150 people on 29 March and the preparations for the major protests on March 30 and examines how the Great March and the Israeli reaction evolved.  

See also: Darweish and Rigby, Popular Protest in Palestine (E.V.A.3.)

James, C.I.R., Nkrumah 
and the Ghana Revolution, London, Alison and Busby, 1977 , pp. 227

Frequent references to strikes and nonviolent resistance. See especially ch. 7, ‘Positive action’.

Nikolayenko, Olena, Youth Movements in Post-Communist Societies: A Model of Nonviolent Resistance, Stanford CA, Center on Democracry and the Rule of Law (Stanford University), 2009 , pp. 50

Robinson, Pearl, The National Conference Phenomenon in Francophone Africa, 36 3 (July) 1994 , pp. 575-610

Begins with the Benin Conference in February 1990.

de Figueiredo, Antonio, Fifty Years of Dictatorship, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1975 , pp. 261

By journalist and political activist, who supported Delgado in his opposition to Salazar, was imprisoned in Portugal for his resistance to the regime, and campaigned against Portugal’s colonial abuses.

Olds, Kris, Urban Mega-Events, Evictions and Housing Rights: The Canadian Case, 1 1 1998 pp. smaller than 0

Article covers responses by community and legal groups to: Expo ‘86 in Vancouver; 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; and the rejected proposal for 1996 Summer Olympics in Toronto.

, States and Anti-Nuclear Movements, ed. Flam, Helena, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1994 , pp. 427

Deals with the anti-nuclear power movements and government responses to them and their demands in eight West European states – Austria, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and West Germany.

Bannan, John; Bannan, Rosemary, Law, Morality and Vietnam: The Peace Militants and the Courts, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1974 , pp. 241

Explores the conflict between law and morality, and case for civil disobedience, with reference mainly to six well known prosecutions, including: the Fort Hood Three (GIs who refused to be posted to Vietnam); Dr Spock and others in 1967-68 charged with conspiracy to violate draft laws; and Daniel and Philip Berrigan and five other who burnt draft files at Catonsville in 1968.

Lucas, Ian, OutRage! An Oral History, London, Continuum, 1998 , pp. 256

, Bolivia revolutionises the fight against femicide, , pp. smaller than 0

This short video shows Bolivian President, Evo Morales announcing the creation of a Defence Cabinet specialised in tackling violence against women and in supporting grassroots efforts. This video situates Bolivia’s move within the wider international context of governments integrating women’s liberation into the executive branch, taking inspiration from countries such as Cuba and Vietnam, which have done the same. In the video, RT producer, Cale Holmes, analyses how, despite an increase in femicide, violence against women and reactionary backlash in Bolivia, the government under Evo Morales was supporting women’s struggle.

Snochowska-Gonzalez, Claudia; Ramme, Claudia; Ramme, Jennifer, Solidarity despite and because of diversity. Activists of the Polish Women’s Strike, 30 2018 , pp. 75-100

This work comprises almost 100 interviews with local coordinators of Polish Women’s Strike (OSK) groups throughout the country designed to reveal the people behind a countrywide network that organized the successful 2016 protests against attempts to tighten the already restrictive abortion law. The authors also explore what drove them to activism and how they understood the concept of an ‘ordinary woman’.

Feng, Emily, China’s mixed message to working women, , pp. smaller than 0

Discusses how, despite having a well-educated female workforce, the high level of employment in China is imbued with patriarchal gender norms.

Barron, Dan, A Challenge to Trident, , , pp. 30-31

This brief, but informative, article focuses on the campaign by the Marshall Islands to arraign the UK before the International Court of Justice for failure to fulfill its legal and moral obligations under Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty: to negotiate for nuclear disarmament. Barron notes that the 70,000 inhabitants of the Marshall Islands suffered the effects of 67 US nuclear weapons tests from 1946-58, and as a UN Trust Territory only achieved independence from the US in 1990.

, Crimea: Conscription Violates International Law, Human Rights Watch, 2019

Highlights how Russian authorities are conscripting men in occupied Crimea to serve in the Russian armed forces, although humanitarian law explicitly forbids Russia to compel Crimean residents to serve in Russian forces.

Robinson, Jo, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1987 , pp. 208

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey, Student Protests in Twentieth Century China, Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1991

Hope, Marjorie; Young, James, The South African Churches in a Revolutionary Situation, New York, Orbis Books, 1981 , pp. 268

, Global Resistance to Fracking: Communities Rise Up to Fight Climate Crisis and Democratic Deficit, ed. Ridriguez, Samuel, Madrid, Libros en Accion, 2015 , pp. 153

This book, edited by the international coordinator of Ecologistas en Accion, covers 15 varied struggles against fracking around the world, and is intended to be a source of inspiration for continued resistance. Many are first person accounts, by those involved. Chapters cover personal opposition fracking in the courts or at the municipal level, resistance by local farmers to corporations backed by the government, as in Poland and Romania and the campaign for 'frack free' municipalities in the Basque territory of Spain. There are also accounts of resistance from Argentina, Algeria, South Africa, Australia, the UK (against drilling in Sussex) and Northern Ireland, and on the role of ATTA C in France. Includes a timeline and 'some snapshots' of the resistance, as well as some conclusions drawn by the editor.  

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