Direct Action: Strategy, recruitment and creativity with Tom Hastings

 

imagesTom Hastings is a journalist, a professor in the Conflict Resolution Dept. at Portland State, a long-time activist, and expert nonviolent strategist and theorist. In this short podcast in our Variations on Direct Action series, Hastings discusses the infinite creative potential of nonviolence, the power and necessity of a well-planned strategy, and discusses the interrelated issues of recruitment and a movement’s relationship to the police.