{"id":4004,"date":"2016-11-02T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2016-11-02T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:02:07","slug":"new-book-nonviolence-aint-what-it-used-to-be-the-unarmed-insurrection-and-the-rhetoric-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2016\/11\/02\/new-book-nonviolence-aint-what-it-used-to-be-the-unarmed-insurrection-and-the-rhetoric-of-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used To Be: The Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used To Be:
\nThe\u00a0Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance<\/a><\/b>
\nShon Meckfessel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many struggles in the US since the Civil Rights era, but conditions have changed. Corporate media has consolidated, the police have militarized, dissent has been largely co-opted and institutionalized, but the strategic tools radicals employ haven\u2019t necessarily kept pace. Our narratives, borrowed from movements of the past, are falling short.\u00a0Nonviolence Ain\u2019t What It Used to Be<\/em>\u00a0maps emerging, more militant approaches that are developing to fill the gap. It offers new angles on a seemingly intractable debate, introducing ideas that carve out a larger middle-ground between camps in order to chart an effective path forward.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTaking us beyond the ahistorical, magical thinking so common in contemporary discourse, Meckfessel constructs a dialogue that looks clearly at the nature of twenty-first century power dynamics and the role of riots, property destruction, police clashes, and more. Without sectarian bias, he reviews the quasi-religious fervor with which too many approach nonviolence.\u2026 A soon-to-be classic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Matt Meyer<\/strong>, International Peace Research Association
\n\u201cShon Meckfessel\u2019s book explores how contemporary movements have moved beyond respectability politics and other flawed political frameworks, while also examining what has worked historically and how movements have evolved.\u2026 It clarifies the reasoning behind, and the importance of, social and political defiance and disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NEW BOOK AVAILABLE NOW! Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used To Be: The\u00a0Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance Shon Meckfessel Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many struggles in the US since the Civil Rights era, but conditions have changed. Corporate media has consolidated, the police have militarized, dissent has been largely co-opted and … <\/p>\n

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