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

How did I not make the connection that rich white europeans pitted poor white settlers against indigenous people the same way plantation owners pitted poor whites against black people

I hate being surprised by something evil the government did when I should have predicted it. Of course they hired organizers to suppress them and absorbed them into bureaucratic roles before fucking everyone over (even more) with little resistance

“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

Some grassroots organizations were against MLK-style tactics, which would incite racial violence to get attention of federal government and then left black residents of those towns to deal with 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