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, CO Update, War Resisters' International , 2020

This hundredth issue of CO Update (which brings together a number of news items already published by WRI in June 2020 as separate stories) begins by noting that the annual International Conscientious Objection Day on 15 May 2020 was celebrated round the world mostly by actions online. This issue includes the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement's condemnation of the new draconian bill designed to enforce conscription (referenced above), and the Council of Europe's reiterated appeal to Turkey to recognize conscientious objection (noted in the Introduction).  It also covers court cases to oppose EU financing of Eritrean development projects that employing conscript labour; the Azerbaijan government's parliamentary announcement about a prospective Alternative Service Law (promised to the Council of Europe in 2003 but not delivered); the suspicious death of a Turkish air force conscript; and two opposing bills in the US Congress: to extend draft registration to women, or to end draft registration. 

See also other monthly issues of CO update for detailed news from around the world.

Zinn, Howard, SNCC: the New Abolitionists, Boston, Beacon Press, 1964 , pp. 246

Wu, Ningkun, A Single Tear, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993 , pp. 367

Wu, a university teacher of English educated in the US, returned to China in 1951. This is a personal account of his experiences. The Hundred Flowers campaign is covered pp. 47-72.

, All, Here, and Now: Black Politics in South Africa in the 1980s, ed. Lodge, Tom; Nasson, Bill, London, Hurst, 1992 , pp. 400

Ogura, Kiyoko, Seeking State Power – The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Berlin, Berghof Foundation, 2008 , pp. 55

Chapter 4, ‘Transition to Peace and Nonviolent Politics in a Democratic State’, pp. 31-44.

Sanford, Victoria, Peacebuilding in a War Zone; The Case of Colombia Peace Communities, 10 2 1999 , pp. 107-108

Gosse, Van, The Movements of the New Left 1950-1975: A Brief History with Documents, New York, Bedford/St. Martins, 2004 , pp. 224

Uses a very broad definition of the New Left, and examines common features in Civil Rights, peace, anti-war, student, feminist and gay/lesbian movements in the USA.

Healey, Josh, Whose Streets? Our Streets!, Apr/May , , pp. 41-43

Examines Occupy Oakland, its potential and downside.

Bradshaw, Ross; Gould, Dennis; Jones, Chris, From Protest to Resistance, Nottingham, Mushroom, 1981 , pp. 64

Story of the rise of direct action against nuclear weapons in the British context. Includes diary of main protest in the 1957-1966 period, and interviews with those involved.

Gupta, Rahila, From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters, London, Zed Press, 2003 , pp. 301

Southall Black Sisters was founded by Asian women in 1982 to campaign about issues specific to women in racial minorities in Britain. Over the years it has become the focus for racial and ethnic minorities in Britain and gained an international profile. Issues tackled include: ‘honour’ killings, domestic violence, forced marriages and resistance to deportations. See also: SBS Collective, Against the Grain, London, Southall Black Sisters, 1990 ,: a collection of essays covering the first ten years, and available from SBS. For current activities: http://www.southallblacksisters.org.uk

Fearon, Kate, Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition: institutionalizing a political voice and ensuring representation, 13 2002 , pp. 78-81

(Accord is published by the London-based Conciliation Resources. Issue 13 was entitled ‘Owning the process: Public Participation in Peacemaking’, edited by Catherine Barnes.)

The Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition (NIWC) was initiated by women of various political affiliations, religious beliefs and occupations. It was institutionalized as a political party in 1996 so that its members would be eligible to take part in the all-party talks that culminated in the Good Friday Agreement. It also campaigned for the acceptance of the GFA in the referendums which followed its signing.

Bruckmiller, Aaron; Scholl, Franziska, 'Blockupy - Ziviler Ungehorsam als Solidaritaet, 29 1 2016 , pp. 76-82

Numerous protests took place round the world contemporaneously with the global economic crisis, but the left in Europe as a whole failed to organize. This gap should be filled by Blockupy, a European network of activists composed of trade unionists, political parties and different social movements. The article traces the history of this organization and assesses how far Blockupy has the power to create a new left movement in Germany.

Bruckert, Chris; Law, Tuullia, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada: An Intersectional Approach, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2018 , pp. 416

This book draws on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, to challenge the narrow idea that domestic violence and sexual assault are phenomena of interpersonal violence perpetrated by men. The authors highlight the diversity of women’s experience, discuss the role social structures play, and include discussions of workplace and state violence. The first section develops the conceptual and contextual framework, and the following three sections focus on types of victimization: interpersonal, in the workplace, and by the state. Accounts of individual experiences are used throughout to personalize the issues discussed.

HongFincher, Leta, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, London and New York, Verso, 2018 , pp. 248

Describing China’s feminist activists in relation to their political and historical circumstances, the author elucidates the development of China’s feminist movement and discusses China’s history from a feminist perspective.

Aharony, Michal, Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality, and Resistance, London, Routledge, 2015 , pp. 272

Arendt is one of the most eminent political philosophers often cited by theorists of nonviolent resistance, especially in relation to her 1963 book On Revolution, and also a major theorist of totalitarianism. This book contrasts Arendt's concept of total domination under totalitarianism with the testimonies of both well known and lesser known intellectuals and writers who survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, as well as those of unknown survivors of the holocaust. Aharony argues that Nazi domination was less total than Arendt posited (in her 1951 book On Totalitarianism), and that morality and individual choice exist even in the most extreme conditions.

Caretta, Martina; Zaragocin, Sofia, Women’s resistance against the extractive industry: embodied and water dimensions, 13 1 2020 pp. smaller than 0

This is a special issue on women’s organized resistance to the extraction of natural resources that has a damaging impact on their lives and environment. Articles cover movements in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico and also Ghana, focusing on the importance of water as a vital resource, and also on women’s embodied experience of suffering from water pollution and scarcity. The articles also discuss gendered critiques of extraction.

Sinno, Wael, How People Reclaimed Public Spaces in Beirut during the 2019 Lebanese Uprising, 5 1 2020 , pp. 193-228

In the context of discussing the importance of public spaces where citizens can protest and make public speeches, this article examines how the Lebanese demonstrators have used and reshaped multipupose public spaces such as streets, open public spaces such as gardens, and abandoned urban facilites such as a partially built cinema.

, The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi, ed. Brown, Judith; Parel, Anthony, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011 , pp. 296

Azcel, Tamas; Meray, Tibor, The Revolt of the Mind: A Case History of Intellectual Resistance behind the Iron Curtain, New York, Praeger, 1959 , pp. 449

Focuses on the Hungarian Writers’ Union from 1953-59.

, The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After, ed. Marat, Erica, Washington DC, The Jamestown Foundation, 2006 , pp. 151

Chronological collection of articles from Jamestown’s Eurasia Daily Monitor.

Oishi, Mikio, Creating a “Ripe moment” in the Burmese conflict through nonviolent action, 21 2 2002 , pp. 52-60

see also  Mikio Oishi, Nonviolent Struggle of the Burmese People for Democracy, Durban, South Africa, 1998 , a paper submitted to the 1998 International Peace Research Association Conference.

Klein, Naomi, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, London, Harper/Collins and Flamingo, 2002 , pp. 304

See ‘IMF: Go To Hell. The People of Argentina have tried the IMF Approach; Now they want to govern the country’, pp. 51-55.

Najjar, Sonja, Women’s Empowerment and Peace-Building under Occupation?, 17 3 & 4 2011 , pp. 59-66

Argues peacebuilding has to empower resilience and resistance to occupation.

Hirsch, Philip, The Politics of Environment: Opposition and Legitimacy, In Kevin Hewison, Political Change in Thailand: Democracy and Participation (E. II.10.a. Demanding Democracy 1973 and 1992) London, Routledge, 1997 , pp. 179-194

Examines growing significance of environmental movement in Thailand since the success in stopping proposed dam in 1988.

Boardman, Elizabeth, Taking a Stand: A Guide to Peace Teams and Accompaniment Projects, Philadelphia PA, New Society Publishers, 2005 , pp. 177

Chapters on Christian Peacemaker Team, Voices in the Wilderness project in Iraq, Peace Brigades International and the International Solidarity Movement. Descriptions by participants of work done by these groups, who runs them and what is involved in joining them.

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