Oliver’s Reviews > Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One: Building Movements and Fighting to Win > Status Update

“As Nelson Mandela said, the oppressor determines what tactics must be used to dislodge them.”
The amount of violence needed for a movement depends on the amount of violence used by those in power

In the 1930s, corporations were the biggest purchasers of tear gas and other chemical weapons because they used them against striking workers

I had to google ecofeminism and deep ecology. Big fan of deep ecology

I had to look up the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. I tried and failed to find a memoir about it

Middle class organizers were nonviolent because they wanted the sympathy of the middle class for legislative change; more militant groups had more experience with poverty and racial violence

Against violent opposition, nonviolent protest endangers those participating; however, the presence of militant groups such as the deacons for defense encouraged more people to nonviolently protest

Freedom riders wanted their actions to incite violence by racists so that the federal government would be forced to step in

It makes a lot of sense that BBC was banned from reporting on militant groups that helped gain India independence. Heaven forbid they give people ideas

I never realized that WWII was used as a distraction to win Indian independence. All their resources were being funneled elsewhere

If nonviolent protests lead to protestors being killed anyway, might as well violently protest