{"id":997,"date":"2011-11-10T19:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=997"},"modified":"2013-04-09T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:06:12","slug":"nonviolence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Nonviolence&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/oakland\/oakland.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/oakland\/oakland650w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a>After a decade of observing police thuggery against protests in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York City along with the recent police attacks on unarmed protesters at Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland, and comparing it against similar scenes I witnessed in video from Athens, Bahrain and Cairo, I can&#8217;t help but conclude that Nonviolence\u2122 is an ideological luxury affordable only to the cushy-living white middle-class activists of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/oakland\/oakland.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a><\/strong> 716kb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For your further  enjoyment:<\/strong><br \/>\nWard Churchill&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/zinelibrary.info\/files\/pap_imposed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pacifism As Pathology<\/a> (pdf download).<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/refugee\/2011\/04\/27\/pacificism-as-pathology-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><\/em><\/a><br \/>\nReview of Peter Gelderloos&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/Book-Review--How-Nonviole-by-Dr-Stuart-Jeanne-B-110501-443.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Nonviolence Protects The State,<\/a> <\/em>at OpEdNews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oakland police raid Occupy Oakland,<\/strong> 10.25.11, 5am:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8KwRiBge9r4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8KwRiBge9r4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oakland riot police turn Occupy Oakland scene<\/strong> into war zone:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O0LNm9lBAtY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O0LNm9lBAtY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More video of Oakland police attack on Occupy Oakland <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c54kxda\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a decade of observing police thuggery against protests in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York City along with the recent police attacks on unarmed protesters at Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland, and comparing it against similar scenes I witnessed in video from Athens, Bahrain and Cairo, I can&#8217;t help but conclude that Nonviolence\u2122 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,74,20,5,158,392],"tags":[391,393,1464,384,394],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-elections","category-environment","category-health-care","category-liberty","category-obamarama","category-occupy","tag-occupy-oakland","tag-nonviolence","tag-occupy","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-pacifism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}