Posts by Erika

Bringing Down a Dictator

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Bringing Down A Dictator documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience. Milosevic was strengthened by patriotic fervor when NATO bombed Yugoslavia in early 1999, but a few months later, a… read more

Orange Revolution

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Orange Revolution Regime-controlled media claimed victory for Viktor Yanukovych, handpicked by the corrupt sitting president. But credible exit polls showed Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate, had won. It was shocking enough that Yushchenko had been poisoned — and nearly killed– while on the campaign trail. When reports came in of blatant voter intimidation and damaged… read more

Nonviolence and the Red Juvenil

Please join us on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:00pm at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley for a talk by Colombia’s courageous lawyer Adriana Castaño Roman, youth activist and human rights defender, activist with the Medellín Youth Network since 1996. The Medellín Youth Network (www.redjuvenil.org) is a youth organization that operates explicitly on principles… read more

Martin Luther King Day, 2010

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[audio:MLKMix.mp3] Some nourishment for the nonviolent soul on this MLK Day, 2010: The Drum Major Instinct, audio and text. Beyond Vietnam, audio and text. Nobel Prize acceptance speech, text and audio excerpt. Resources from the King Institute at Stanford. God Bless the Whole World: Spiritual Activism for the 21st Century (Created by Metta Center friend… read more