Just a week after his 90th birthday Gene Sharp passed away. The journal New Statesman once described Gene Sharp as the “Machiavelli of Nonviolence” and Thomas Weber labelled him “the Clausewitz of Nonviolent Action.” Who was this man and what…
Eyewitness to the liberation of Aleppo Thoughts on Peace in Syria Jan Øberg, director of TFF – Transnational Foundation Litteraturhuset fredag 21 april 18:00 – 21:00 Jørgen Johansen fra FMK vil lede den etterfølgende debatt. Jan Öberg and TFF have…
35 Activists protesting the fatal shooting of a mentally ill woman by a Phoenix police sergeant last week carried her coffin to City Hall on Friday, demanding an independent investigation into her killing. Michelle Cusseaux’s family and other supporters…
From Santo Domingo, Pedro Franco is an organizer of social movements and mutual-aid cooperatives. He is also a member of CoopHabitat, which promotes housing coops. Previous theories of social transformation could be constructed based on the American Far West…
It Depends on How It’s Done and Who’s Doing It. I have so far chosen to follow the Keystone campaign from a safe distance. After staring into a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in West Virginia and barely escaping, I was pretty…
Spokeswoman says Swedish vessel ‘Estelle,’ carrying 17 pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian goods, was chosen to show that campaign is ‘not violent’ A Swedish ship with activists from several countries aboard sailed from Naples on Saturday in the latest bid to…
Disturbances following a student march to demand free, quality public education left 20 police injured and 250 protesters in custody, Chilean authorities said. «We had a day of violence, worrisome. We suffered an attack on one of our vans, we…
Innkallelse til neste styremøte i FMK. Dette er et åpent møte der alle medlemmer kan møte med talerett. Etter møtet, som starter kl 18.30, og som beregnes ta ca 1 time vil det bli en debatt innledet av Fredrik Heffermehl…
We are proud to announce that the world´s foremost thinker on nonviolence, Gene Sharp, is Human Rights Human Wrongs´ guest of honour during our festival 7th-12th of February. The screening of the film How To Start A Revolution, about…
