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Pacifism AlterLinks Topic Index American Power and the New Mandarins Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project. Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century, Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class. Anarcho-pacifism Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A form of anarchism which completely rejects the use of violence in any form for any purpose. Christian pacifism Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith. Comfort, Alex Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. (1920-2000). Critique of Nonviolent Politics From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic." Designing Pacifist Films Resource Type: Article Published: 1961 Doukhobors Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada. Doukhobors Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada. Drawing the Line The Political Essays of Paul Goodman Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Goodman stresses that massive, uncentered governments and huge, sprawling communities alientate the individual and force people to conform to the status quo rather than to what they are or might become. Duckworth, Muriel Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada Resource Type: Article Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009). Duckworth, Muriel Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009). Excerpts from Endgame: Pacifism Part 1 of 3 Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Derrick Jensen looks at the main arguments normally presented by pacifists and examines them to see if they make any sense. Gandhi, Mohandas Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The pre-eminent political and spritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. (1869-1948). Gandhi Today A Report on Mahatma Gandhi's Successors Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Activists in India who are attempting to follow Gandhi's path. George Orwell: A Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 A biography of George Orwell. Goodman, Paul Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972). The Handbook of Non-Violence Including Aldous Huxley's An Encyclopedia of Pacifism Resource Type: Book Aldous Huxley's An Encyclopedia of Pacifism, one of the key documents of the thirties peace movement in England known as the Peace Pledge Union, is here reprinted as the opening segment of this book. Seeley has added a whole series of new entries designed to define what has happened in the realm of war and peace since Huxley wrote his book, including Hiroshima, Indochina, the Cold War, the Holocaust, and Star Wars. Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Kneen describes his book as his “political theological autobiography.” The book is a personal life-story with a focus on the 1950s and '60s, coming from someone who was active in the peace and social justice movements in the USA and Canada over the past 5 decades or so. It starts with an inside story of the New Left and the peace and Civil Rights movements in North America, and the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, and continues with his life as a farmer and writer in Canada. The Life of Bertrand Russell Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician. Mahatma Gandhi An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Tackles some of the myths of about Gandhi, such as the idea that he was a "saint", or the idea that non-violence is the same as passivity, or that non-violence may have worked in India but wouldn't work anywhere else. Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths Resource Type: Book Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken The Case of India Resource Type: Article Published: 1990 One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail. Ossietzky, Carl von Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article German radical pacifist. (1889-1938). Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015 Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016 International Women's Day Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world. We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it. This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement. Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence. Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures. Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism. Our Generation Volume 2 Number 4 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1963 Our Generation Volume 7 Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1970 Pacifism Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. Peace Utopias Resource Type: Article Published: 1911 What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts. People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it. A Persistent Peace One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Jesuit priest John Dear ministers to the needy at the margins of society. He is a pacifist and anti-war activist who has spoken out against the Pentagon and the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. His views about Christ's teachings on nonviolence have also made him a rebel in the Catholic Church. The Post- Industrial Utopians Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US. A Prophet in Politics A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth Resource Type: Book Published: 1959 A biography of the Canadian socialist who became the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Revolutionary Nonviolence Essays by Dave Dellinger Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives. The Social Passion Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28 Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself Resource Type: Article Questions radical peace groups need to consider. Twentieth Century Pacifism Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 The Ursula Franklin Reader Pacifism as a Map Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals Resource Type: Book Published: 1962 Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes. What is Nonviolence Anyhow? Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?

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