Download - African Academy for Non-violent Activism
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We’ll kick your ass. Peacefully
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Those who make peaceful revolution
impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
JFK
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"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.“
Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist
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Promoting non-violent change Targeting existing activists -civil
society leaders veterans in their fights Transferring valuable knowledge to
where it is needed most increasing effectiveness of non-
violent struggles Creating the first in-Africa school for
non-violent resistance
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1. Theory of non-violent change2. Historical Lessons3. Field actions4. Communication5. E-activism
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Thoreau, Saul Alinsky, MK Gandhi, M.L.King etc.
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Orange revolutions, Jasmine revolutions Iran Arab spring revolutions etc.
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Effective demonstration techniques – marches, rallies, sit-ins, picketing, blockades etc.
Police violence, Demonstrations and the law, Police interrogations Handling court procedure.
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Maximizing use of media Communicating your message Controlling the framing of the issue Deflecting smear campaign Artivism
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Use of social media WWW Email communication Twitter Blogging Text messaging
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The African Academy of None-violent Activism (AANA) aims to be based in an African country
The long term goal is to build legitimacy to a new concept - civil disobedience in-country school.
As it is, African regimes are not likely to allow this, and the international community will not likely stand behind the concept.
But this can change, riding the wave of growing acceptance to none-violent resistance.
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Physical school Training large groups of selected
activists Two weeks program First stage – “train the trainers” -
using external experts to build local capacity for the African academy.
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The Academy’s content is not illegal Teaching in the Academy is not illegal No reproach is expected by
government (arrests, legal action)
School can be closed down by government
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Short term backup to the physical version
Online real-time courses, with trainers answering questions, passing exams etc.
By Webminar software Participation is controlled Trainers can be outside of Africa Participants are protected
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Locating volunteer trainers to build lesson plans for the program
Able to dedicate their time to teach parts of the program in front of the computer.