Direct Nonviolent Action
(see also Gandhi, Civil Rights Movement, Nonviolence Movement, Christian Pacifism, Anti-Nuclear Movement, Anti-War Movements Past, Anti-War Movement Today, Anti-Globalization Movement & School of the Americas)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Center for Nonviolent Communication.
Nonviolent Action Handbook. Sanderson Beck (n.d.)
Direct Action. Martin Kelley, Nonviolent Web (n.d.)
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Epstein, Barbara. "The culture of direct action: Livermore Action Group & the peace movement," Socialist Review 82/83 (1985):31-61.
Thoreau, Henry D. "Civil disobedience," in W. Harding (ed.) The Selected Works of Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bakshi, Shiri Ram. Gandhi & Civil Disobedience Movement (New Delhi: Gitanjali, 1985).
Bay, Christian & Charles C. Walker. Civil Disobedience: Theory & Practice (Montreal: Black Rose, 1975).
Berrigan, Daniel (ed.) For Swords into Plowshares, the Hammer Has to Fall (Highland Park NJ: Plowshares, 1984).
Bleiker, Roland. Popular Dissent, Human Agency, & Global Politics (NY: Cambridge, 2000).
Block, Gay & Malka Drucker. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Change in the Holocaust (NY: Monthly Review, 1992).
Bondurant, Joan. Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (Berkeley: U. California, 1964).
Brown, Judith M. Gandhi & Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics, 1928-34 (Cambridge: Cambridge, 1977).
Childress, James F. Civil Disobedience & Political Obligation: A Study in Christian Social Ethics (New Haven: Yale, 1971).
Cohen, Carl. Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, & the Law (NY: Columbia U, 1971).
Cooney, Robert & Helen Michalowski (eds.) The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the US [1977] (Philadelphia: New Society, 1986). History of nonviolent movement through the Vietnam War.
Dear, John. The Sacrament of Civil Disobedience (Baltimore: Fortkamp, 1994).
Durland, William. Conscience & the Law (Colorado Springs: National Center on Law & Pacifism, 1983).
Ellison, Sharon. Taking the War Out of Our Words: The Art of Powerful Non-Defensive Communication (Berkeley CA: Bay Tree, 200?).
Epstein, Barbara. Political Protest & Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s & 80s (Berkeley: U. of California, 1991).
Gandhi, Mohandas K. Nonviolent Resistance (NY: Schocken, 1962).
Gans, Chaim. Philosophical Anarchism & Political Disobedience (NY: Cambridge, 1992).
Gowan, Susanne & others. Moving Toward a New Society (Philadelphia:New Society, 1976).
Hall, Robert Tom. The Morality of Civil Disobedience (NY: Harper & Row, 1971).
Herngren, Per. Path of Resistance: The Practice of Civil Disobedience (Philadelphia: New Society, 1993).
Kelly, Kathy. Other Lands, Other Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison (Petrolia CA: CounterPunch, 2005).
King, Casey & Linda Barrett Osborne. Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made it Happen (NY: Knopf, 1997).
Laffin, Arthur J. & Anne Montgomery (eds.) Swords into Plowshares: Nonviolent Direct Action for Disarmament (NY: Harper & Row, 1987).
Lakey, George. Strategy for a Living Revolution (NY: Grossman, 1976).
Lynd, Staughton. Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History (NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966).
McCarthy, Ronald M. Nonviolent Action: A Research Guide (NY: Garland, 1997).
Noel, Chuck & Bob Levering. Crisis: Nonviolent Direct Action as a Strategy for Social Change (Nyack NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 19??)
Sharp, Gene. The Politics of Nonviolent Action (Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973).
__________. Gandhi as a Political Strategist: With Essays on Ethics & Politics (Boston: P. Sargent, 1979).
__________. Social Power & Political Freedom (Boston: P. Sargent, 1980).
__________. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle (Cambridge MA: Albert Einstein Institution, 1990).
Taylor, Richard K. Blockade: A Guide to Nonviolent Intervention (Maryknoll NY: Orbis, 1977).
Walker, Charles E. (ed.) Training for Nonviolent Action (Haverford PA: Center for Nonviolent Conflict Resolution, 197?).
Weber, David R. (ed.) Civil Disobedience in America: A Documentary History (Ithaca: Cornell, 1978).
Willson, S. Brian. On Third World Legs (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1992).
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"Where there is Hatred" [1990], dir. ?, 57m. From Video Project.