Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance
As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
I interview Yurii Sheliazhenko live from Kiev. Yurii is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and a board member of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and World Beyond War.
If you find yourself in a room, zoom, plaza, or planet in which only more war is considered a sane policy, check quickly for two things.
Russia’s war in Ukraine — like the USA’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — should be understood as barbaric mass slaughter. For all their mutual hostility, the Kremlin and the White House are willing to rely on similar precepts: Might makes right.
How does civil resistance work and what can it achieve? This panel discussed how civilians are using strategic civil resistance to diminish the power and impact of the Russian military.
As the Ukraine war fills our screens and the risk of a war provoked with China rises, Australia seems automatically joined at the hip to US wars. A reform to the war powers law could be the only way to secure into the hands of the representatives of the Australian people the right to head that off.
Dr Alison Broinowski, AM, discusses the long proposed legislative reforms that would require parliamentary discussion prior to commitment of Australian forces to international deployment rather than the existing powers conferred solely on the prime minister and constitutionally on the governor general as commander in chief.
For decades, the U.S. public seemed largely indifferent to most of the horrible suffering of war. The corporate media outlets mostly avoided it, made war look like a video game, occasionally mentioned suffering U.S. troops, and rarely touched on the countless deaths of local civilians as if their killing were some sort of aberration.
Watch comedian, activist, writer, and creator Lee Camp’s discussion on ‘Russia’s Demands Are Clear – US & West Ignores Them’.
