Boston Social Forum – ‘Preparing for Nonviolent Conflict’

Two MP3's, Mono, 64 kbps

Part One: 58:01 -- 27,199 KB

Part: Two: 49:43 -- 23,307 KB

ATTENTION BROADCASTERS: There is one known swear at 29:59 into the first MP3. Always keep an ear out for any that I may have missed.

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Boston Social Forum – ‘Preparing for Nonviolent Conflict’

This is a recording of a panel discussion about "Preparing for Nonviolent Conflict". The session took place at the Boston Social Forum, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, on July 23, 2004.

The presentation looked at several ways that people can organize to nonviolently end oppression or armed conflict. Participants discussed various approaches such as community defense, third-party intervention, and strategic nonviolence for social/political change. They also discussed possible citizen responses to another stolen election in the United States.

The session featured three panelists. Stephen Zunes is an associate professor of Politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. He is also the Middle East editor for _Foreign Policy in Focus_.

Donna Howard is a board member of Nonviolent Peaceforce, which organizes people from around the world to intervene nonviolently in current conflicts. She recently returned from Sri Lanka. Her background is as an activist with U.S. Ploughshares and the Catholic Worker Movement.

The third speaker was Bob Irwin, from the Movement for a New Society. He conducts training sessions in the Boston area for people who want to strategize about civil disobedience.

The session was hosted by Dave Lewitt of the Alliance for Democracy. He gave out his e-mail address toward the end, to spark further discussion of a public nonviolent response to another stolen Presidential election. That e-mail address is
dlewit at igc dot org.

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Stephen Zunes at AlterNet: http://www.alternet.org/authors/4636/
Foreign Policy in Focus: http://www.fpif.org

Nonviolent Peaceforce: http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org

"Why Nonviolence? Introduction to Theory and Strategy": http://www.vernalproject.org/OPapers/WhyNV/WhyNonviolence1.html

Training for Change: http://www.trainingforchange.org

Alliance for Democracy: http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org

The bibliography referred to by Bob Irwin is copied in a comment below.

Also, for a little more about post-Election Day demonstrations see another recording at:
http://radio.indymedia.org/node/2721