People Power: Resistance & Solidarity

November 18, 2009 19:00

Published: November 10, 2009 13:37 by Housmans Bookshop |

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Pluto Press Present...

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Housmans – radical booksellers since 1945
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Pluto Press present:
‘People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity’
with Howard Clark
Wednesday 18th November – 7pm to 8.30pm
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Across the world, nonviolent movements offer resistance against repressive states, imperial interventions and corporate abuses. However, it is often hard for sympathetic activists in other nations to know how best to assist such movements. Howard Clark seeks to situate nonviolent struggles within a global context in which international solidarity is a critical weapon that such movements can use to achieve their ends.

Howard Clark has edited the recently published Pluto Press title ‘People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity’. The contributors place nonviolent struggles in an international context where solidarity can play a crucial role. Yet they also warn that good intentions are not enough, solidarity has to listen to local movements. Examining movements from Zimbabwe to Burma and Palestine, the contributors assess various forms of solidarity, arguing that a central role of solidarity is to strengthen the counter-power of those resisting domination and oppression.

Howard Clark is a nonviolent activist and independent peace researcher living in Madrid. He has worked for Peace News and since 2008 has been chair of War Resisters’ International. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University and author of Civil Resistance in Kosovo (Pluto, 2000) and co-author with April Carter and Michael Randle of People and Power Protest Since 1945: A Bibliography of Nonviolent Action (2006).
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