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Radical Pacifism

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630036
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Radical Pacifism written by Scott H Bennett and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Radical Pacifism in Modern America

Author : Marian Mollin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202821
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Radical Pacifism in Modern America written by Marian Mollin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Pacifism in Modern America traces cycles of success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace movement, an egalitarian strain of pacifism that stood at the vanguard of antimilitarist organizing and American radical dissent from 1940 to 1970. Using traditional archival material and oral history sources, Marian Mollin examines how gender and race shaped and limited the political efforts of radical pacifist women and men, highlighting how activists linked pacifism to militant masculinity and privileged the priorities of its predominantly white members. In spite of the invisibility that this framework imposed on activist women, the history of this movement belies accounts that relegate women to the margins of American radicalism and mixed-sex political efforts. Motivated by a strong egalitarianism, radical pacifist women rejected separatist organizing strategies and, instead, worked alongside men at the front lines of the struggle to construct a new paradigm of social and political change. Their compelling examples of female militancy and leadership challenge the essentialist association of female pacifism with motherhood and expand the definition of political action to include women's political work in both the public and private spheres. Focusing on the vexed alliance between white peace activists and black civil rights workers, Mollin similarly details the difficulties that arose at the points where their movements overlapped and challenges the seemingly natural association between peace and civil rights. Emphasizing the actions undertaken by militant activists, Radical Pacifism in Modern America illuminates the complex relationship between gender, race, activism, and political culture, identifying critical factors that simultaneously hindered and facilitated grassroots efforts at social and political change.

Direct Action

Author : James Tracy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226811277
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Direct Action written by James Tracy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct Action tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists"—nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin—played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s. Coming together in the camps and prisons where conscientious objectors were placed during World War II, radical pacifists developed an experimental protest style that emphasized media-savvy, symbolic confrontation with institutions deemed oppressive. Due to their tactical commitment to nonviolent direct action, they became the principal interpreters of Gandhism on the American Left, and indelibly stamped postwar America with their methods and ethos. Genealogies of the Civil Rights, antiwar, and antinuclear movements in this period are incomplete without understanding the history of radical pacifism. Taking us through the Vietnam war protests, this detailed treatment of radical pacifism reveals the strengths and limitations of American individualism in the modern era.

Direct Action

Author : James Tracy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226811307
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Direct Action written by James Tracy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct Action tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists"—nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin—played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s. Coming together in the camps and prisons where conscientious objectors were placed during World War II, radical pacifists developed an experimental protest style that emphasized media-savvy, symbolic confrontation with institutions deemed oppressive. Due to their tactical commitment to nonviolent direct action, they became the principal interpreters of Gandhism on the American Left, and indelibly stamped postwar America with their methods and ethos. Genealogies of the Civil Rights, antiwar, and antinuclear movements in this period are incomplete without understanding the history of radical pacifism. Taking us through the Vietnam war protests, this detailed treatment of radical pacifism reveals the strengths and limitations of American individualism in the modern era.

New Wars for Old

Author : John Haynes Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New Wars for Old written by John Haynes Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087873X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America written by Peter Brock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected portions from Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Radical Chapters

Author : Michael Doyle
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815657293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Radical Chapters written by Michael Doyle and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler’s Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the San Francisco Bay Area store in 1955, he led the way as a pioneer in the "paperback revolution." He popularized the once radical idea of selling affordable books in an intellectually bracing coffeehouse atmosphere. Paperback selling was not the only revolution Kepler supported, however. In Radical Chapters, Doyle sheds light on Kepler’s remarkable contributions to pacifism and social change. He highlights Kepler’s achievements in advocating radical pacifism during World War II, antinuclear activism during the Cold War era, and antiwar activism during the Vietnam War. During those decades, Kepler played an integral role, creating a community and a space to exchange ideas for such notable figures as Jerry Garcia, Joan Baez, and Stewart Brand. Doyle’s fascinating chronicle captures the man who inspired that community and offers a moving tribute to his legacy. In a new foreword for this revised edition, Doyle updates Kepler’s story and assesses how the bookstore and the community it serves have remained socially engaged and commercially viable amid the tumult of the twenty-first century.

New Wars for Old

Author : John Haynes Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633918290
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book New Wars for Old written by John Haynes Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Haynes Holmes was born on November 29, 1879 in Philadelphia, although he spent much of his youth in the Boston area. He grew up within the Unitarian church, and was extremely close to his grandfather, John Haynes. While he initially planned to enter business, as his grandfather did, he ended up graduating from Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He married the same time he graduated from school, and he and his wife, Madeleine Baker, relocated to Dorchester, Massachusetts, for Holmes to take up a position at a church. However he and Madeleine were deeply interested in hymns, and the connection helped Holmes find a new role at the Church of the Messiah in New York City. There Holmes combined his love of religion with a genuine desire to improve society. He delivered and published sermons such as "Christianity and Socialism", where he found that Socialism was "the religion of Jesus, and of all the great prophets of God who have lived and died for men."Holmes went on to help found several powerful organizations seeking justice. In 1908, the Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice was founded by Holmes and twenty other people. Holmes also helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the American branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resistance League.Although some people had rebuked Holmes during World War I when he preached pacifism, he was still very popular and drew people to wherever he preached. His goal was to create a uniquely multicultural and religiously diverse congregation, which he successfully did through The Community Church of New York. Holmes has had a profoundly positive impact, not just on the Unitarian Church, but the fabric of the United States.

Radical Pacifism

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630289
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Radical Pacifism written by Scott H Bennett and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Soldiers of Peace

Author : Thomas F. Curran
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823222100
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of Peace written by Thomas F. Curran and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curran studies the "perfectionist pacifists," radical northerners who took an extreme pacifist stand during the Civil War. After the war, they created the Universal Peace Union (UPU) which worked throughout the rest of the century to abolish war and confront the shortcomings of both government and society.

New Wars for Old

Author : John Haynes Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book New Wars for Old written by John Haynes Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pacifism in the United States

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878373
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Pacifism in the United States written by Peter Brock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a pioneer work of the first importance" by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects-Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker -faced the challenges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular attention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reactions of these sects and societies to the Civil War, the neglect of pacifism in the postwar period, and the beginnings of a renewal in the years before the outbreak of war in Europe bring the book to a close. The emphasis on the institutional aspects of the movement is balanced throughout by a rich mine of accounts about the experiences of individual pacifists. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

New Wars for Old, Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force, Versus Non-Resistance

Author : John Haynes Holmes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330716519
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book New Wars for Old, Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force, Versus Non-Resistance written by John Haynes Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Wars for Old, Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force, Versus Non-Resistance: With Special Reference to the Facts and Problems of the Great War And yet it is in this hour of universal ruin, that the gospel of force is being preached with a vigour which has never been known before! On every side we are being told that, in the world of men as in the world of beasts, there is no security save in tooth and claw. Books and pamphlets are pouring from the presses in an endless ﬂood, to warn us of the perils of defense lessness, by which is meant a reliance upon interna tional goodwill which scorns the mailed fist and the clashing sword, and the need of preparation, by which is meant arming ourselves to the teeth against our neighbours. We have even been called upon to witness, during the last few months, the spectacle of a. Group of men, gathered self-consciously in Independence Hall, in the brave attempt to organise a movement for the establishment of peace by force! Obsessed with the idea that the security of the world is threatened by one nation, namely Germany, and that peace can be se cured by the destruction of one militaristic machine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Pacifism as Pathology

Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629633291
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Pacifism as Pathology written by Ward Churchill and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacifism as Pathology has long since emerged as a dissident classic. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay “Pacifism as Pathology” was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill’s frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing—and deliberately self-neutralizing—”hegemony of nonviolence” on the North American left. The essay’s publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan’s penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill’s premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white “progressives,” is inherently counterrevolutionary, adding up to little more than a manifestation of its proponents’ desire to maintain their relatively high degrees of socioeconomic privilege and thereby serving to stabilize rather than transform the prevailing relations of power. This short book challenges the pacifist movement’s heralded victories—Gandhi in India, 1960s antiwar activists, even Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement—suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. Churchill also examines the Jewish Holocaust, pointing out that the overwhelming response of Jews was nonviolent, but that when they did use violence they succeeded in inflicting significant damage to the nazi war machine and saving countless lives. As relevant today as when they first appeared, Churchill’s and Ryan’s trailblazing efforts were first published together in book form in 1998. Now, along with the preface to that volume by former participant in armed struggle/political prisoner Ed Mead, postscripts by both Churchill and Ryan, and a powerful new foreword by leading oppositionist intellectual Dylan Rodríguez, these vitally important essays are being released in a fresh edition.

The Struggle Against the Bomb

Author : Lawrence S. Wittner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721417
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle Against the Bomb written by Lawrence S. Wittner and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the opening volume in a comprehensive history of the global movement against the development, possession, and use of nuclear weapons.

Radical Chapters

Author : Michael Doyle
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650833
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Radical Chapters written by Michael Doyle and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler's Books and Magazines is one of the most well-known independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the store in 1955 he changed the book industry forever as a pioneer in the “paperback revolution.” The notion of selling texts in inexpensive paperbound volumes was revolutionary in the publishing trade and Kepler's focus on stocking these inexpensive books put him at the forefront of the movement. Paperback-selling was not the only revolution Kepler supported, however. In Radical Chapters, Doyle sheds light on Kepler’s remarkable contributions not only to the book industry but also to pacifism. Recalling the tumultuous politics of the last century, he highlights Kepler’s achievements in advocating radical pacifism during World War II, anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War era, and the anti-Vietnam War movement. During those decades, Kepler’s Books played an integral role, creating a community and space to exchange ideas for such notable figures as Jerry Garica, Joan Baez, and Stewart Brand. Doyle’s fascinating chronicle captures the man who inspired that community and offers a moving tribute to his legacy.

The Best Weapon for Peace

Author : Erica Moretti
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299333108
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Best Weapon for Peace written by Erica Moretti and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori is best known for the teaching method that bears her name, but historian Erica Moretti reframes Montessori's work, showing that pacifism was the foundation of her pioneering efforts in psychiatry and pedagogy.