Upcoming events
How can we rise up in the face of authoritarianism?
What lessons can we learn from people-powered movements around the world?
What power do we have to protect and advance our democracy?
Join us for an online learning session to explore these questions through examples from the resistance movement in Serbia and the work of Gene Sharp, a world-renowned expert on nonviolent civil action. We will watch a portion of the 2011 documentary about Dr. Sharp’s work, “How to Start a Revolution,” and discuss some methods of nonviolent action we can use in the U.S. today.
April 21 | 6-8pm ET, 5-7pm CT, 4-6pm MT, 3-5pm PT | register here
About the hosts:
Maureen White is a Boston-based facilitator, consultant, coach, and organizer. For over 25 years she has worked with and for nonprofits, community groups, campaigns, and social movements. She is committed to our collective learning in order to resist the current regime.
Mikayla (they) is a facilitator, coach, organizer, Quaker, and baker; they have always been anti-authoritarian by nature, and they’re eager to be part of building a broad, deep anti-authoritarian movement for our survival. Mikayla is white, class privileged (from a managerial class family, individually downwardly mobile), queer, and trans/nonbinary.
About Gene Sharp:
In an academic and professional career spanning more than six decades, Gene Sharp became a prominent political theorist who studied and advanced the cause of nonviolent action for social and political change. His ideas and writings, along with his close study of Gandhi and dictatorships, have informed nonviolent struggles for freedom around the world.