George Lakey

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George Lakey - Activist & Author

For over 50 years, George Lakey has pursued radical nonviolence with determination, imagination and a wondrously creative intelligence. Toward a Living Revolution, one of his most powerful works, provides invaluable tools for understanding the scale of the task that faces us as we pursue radical social change, and creates an inclusive framework for activists of different persuasions to develop our next steps together.

He is a columnist for WagingNonviolence.org where he often shares lessons learned from leading over 1500 social change workshops on five continents.

* Why Protest Is Usually A Waste Of Time [Article; online]

https://bit.ly/protest-waste-time [Dropbox download; PDF]

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* "Towards A Living Revolution - A five-stage framework for creating radical social change." [Book]

Lakey proposes a stage-by-stage developmental framework to get better, more transformational results. Still incorporating the nonviolent coercive force that has brought down dictators, Lakey uses historical "best practices" from movements to show how people can grow a revolution that roots itself even while it confronts. The five stages begin with consciousness change, lifting an intersectional vision that inspires and provides the basis for a critical mass to join the movement as it pushes through each developmental stage. Lakey shows how to reconcile pre-figurative alternative institutions with confrontive direct action teams, making the most of inherent synergistic potentials. With actual stories from confrontation with violent authorities he describes what works best for unifying and building the movement to the point where it can carry out the mass noncooperation that opens a power vacuum. Earlier democratic organizing structures--growing as the strategy unfolds--can then fill the vacuum. This stage prevents a relapse into the old oppression and defends the new society against counterrevolutionary forces. Although focused on how each society can realize its own revolution, this book acknowledges the context of global power and proposes a vision for transformed world institutions that are on the side of peace and justice. The principles in the book have particular application in the climate crisis humanity now faces, which is why the book describes a living revolution.

Download: http://bit.ly/talr-5 [Dropbox]

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* How We Win - A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning (George Lakey) [Book]

A lifetime of activist experience from a civil rights legend informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns

In an era of massive worldwide protests for racial and economic justice, it is important to remember that marching is only one way to take to the streets.

Protest must be supplemented with the sustained direct action campaigns that are crucial to winning major reforms.

Beginning as a trainer in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, George Lakey has spent decades helping direct action tactics flourish and succeed on the front lines of social change.

Now, in this timely and down-to-earth guide, he passes the torch to a new generation of activists.

Lakey looks to successful campaigns across the world to help us see what has worked, what hasn’t, and why: from choosing the right target to designing a creative campaign; from avoiding burnout within your group to building a movement of movements to achieve real progressive victories.

Drawing on the experiences of a diverse set of ambitious change-makers, How We Win shows us the way to justice, peace, and a sustainable economy. This is what democracy looks like.

Download: https://cutt.ly/howwewin

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1917 the Nonviolent Russian Revolution
The Grassroots Working-Class Revolution that Lenin Crushed

Making Nonviolent Revolution - Howard Clark

The Success Of Nonviolent Civil Resistance (Erica Chenoweth)

"Towards A Living Revolution - A five-stage framework for creating radical social change." (George Lakey)
The Blueprint For Revolution - Srdja Popovic

Why Protests Are Usually A Waste Of Time

Against the Logic of the Guillotine

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