Author: How Non-Violence Protects the State

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
by Gord Hill

June 3 2010
7:30pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

Author of the book, How Non-Violence Protects the State, Peter Gelderloos will be speaking to that very issue.

Nonviolence, the War on Terror, and Revolution: the role played first by nonviolence and now by the War on Terror to pacify social conflicts, and how people can recover the power to fight back.

*This presentation looks at how the practice of nonviolence and civic mentality prevalent in the antiglobalization and antiwar movements helped pacify and recuperate social struggles and paved the way for the intensification of the domestic War on Terror; how terrorism is replacing violence as a political category used by the state and media to delegitimize social struggles; and how we need to confront the domestic War on Terror in order to overcome the social isolation it imposes and legitimize direct attacks against the system to broader circles of people.