1. Campaign Nonviolence Skill-Building Webinar Series Module 2 Presented by Ken Butigan, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service and Campaign Nonviolence

2. “I have no doubt that the United States in the 21st Century will have nonviolent campaigns that will shatter all of our notions of nonviolence of the past.” -- Rev. James Lawson

3. The CNV Skill-Building Series: Module 1: The Vision of Campaign Nonviolence and Connecting the Dots Module 2: Creating Nonviolent Social Change Module 3: Building Nonviolent Action

4. Module 2 Objectives Explore how nonviolent social change works Explore strategies for nonviolent social change

5. Module 2 Agenda Opening The Challenges and Opportunities of this Webinar Lessons from Module 1 Nonviolent Social Change Concrete Steps Toward Change CNV Strategy Exercise: Celebrating and “Remembering” This Change Questions and responses Closing – and reminder about the next module

6. Campaign Nonviolence A long-term movement to build a culture of peace free from war, poverty, the climate crisis and the epidemic of violence by mainstreaming nonviolence, connecting the issues, and taking action. Launched last fall with 250 actions in all 50 states. 196 endorsing organizations. Hundreds of organizers and promoters. National conference August 6-9. Second Week of Nonviolent Actions September 20-27.

7. Nonviolence: The Love that Does Justice Nonviolence is a force for transformation, truth, justice, and the well-being of all that is neither violent nor passive. It is transforming power (Alternatives to Violence), cooperative power (Jonathan Schell), love in action (Dorothy Day), and the love that does justice (Martin Luther King, Jr.), It is an active form of resistance to systems of privilege and domination, a philosophy for liberation, an approach to movement building, a tactic of non-cooperation, and a practice we can employ to transform the world (War Resisters League).

8. Nonviolence: A Stand for Justice Liberating Nonviolence is a stand for justice and a method for helping to create it. It pursues this goal, not with passivity or retaliation, but with the third way of creative engagement and loving and determined resistance. Liberating Nonviolence has “two hands” that are in creative tension: noncooperation with injustice and steadfast regard for the opponent as a human being.

9. Methods of Nonviolent Change include: Exposing violence and injustice Demonstrating how violence and injustice violate deeply- held values Withdrawing the “pillars of support” that create and maintain violence and injustice Breaking the cycle of retaliatory violence Unleashing people-power by alerting, educating, winning and mobilizing the populace to withdraw consent for practices, policies and conditions of violence and injustice

11. Movement Action Plan (1) Social movements are collective actions in which the populace is alerted, educated, and mobilized, over years and decades, to challenge the powerholders and the whole society to redress social problems or grievances and restore critical social values.

12. Movement Action Plan (2) The power of movements is directly proportional to the forcefulness with which the grassroots exert their discontent and demand change. The central issue of social movements, therefore, is the struggle between the movement and the powerholders to win the hearts (sympathies), minds (public opinion), and active support of the great majority of the populace, which ultimately holds the power to either preserve the status quo or create change.

13. The Power Elite Model The Power Elite Model holds that society is organized in the form of a hierarchical pyramid, with powerful elites at the top and the relatively powerless mass populace at the bottom. In this model, power flows from the top to bottom. Since people are powerless, social change can be achieved only by appealing to the elites at the top to change their policies through normal channels and institutions, such as the electoral process, lobbying Congress, and use of the courts.

14. The People Power Model The People Power Model holds that power ultimately resides in the hands of the populace. Even in societies with strong power elites, the powerholder’s power is dependent on the cooperation, acquiescence, or support of the mass public. The movement's strategy is not only to use normal channels in an effort to persuade powerholders to change their minds, but also to alert, educate, and mobilize a discontented, impassioned, and determined grassroots population. This population creates change by “leading the leaders.”

15. The Primary Focus Is Winning Over Ordinary People, not Powerholders

17. Eight Stages of Successful Movements

26. Steps Toward Change Campaign Nonviolence has set a series of concrete policy changes that would provide important steps toward the long- term goals of creating a culture free from war, poverty and the climate crisis, including: An international treaty for swift, verifiable action to reverse climate change Ending the military drone program Establishing a $15 minimum wage for all, and K-12 nonviolence education everywhere

27. CNV Strategy Exercise: Celebrating and “Remembering” This Change

28. Some of Mohandas Gandhi’s Principles of Nonviolence (1) Seek the truth Love the enemy No cooperation with humiliation and injustice Work for the well-being of all Be fearless All life is one Difference without division

29. Some of Mohandas Gandhi’s Principles of Nonviolence (2) Each of us has a piece of the truth and a piece of the un-truth Resist “us” versus “them” thought and behavior Means must be consistent with the ends Human beings are more than the violence they commit

30. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people. Nonviolence holds that voluntary suffering can educate and transform. Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate. Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.

31. Module #3 Tuesday, May 26, 2015 5:00-6:30pm Pacific / 8:00-9:30pm Eastern US