Tape of MLK Interview Turns Up in an Attic

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 24, 2012 “ If one is truly nonviolent, that person has a loving spirit; he refuses to inflict injury upon the opponent because he, he loves the opponent,” the Rev Martin Luther King Jr says in a newly discovered tape of an interview made nearly three years before his "I Have a Dream" speech . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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How Empires Fall: An Interview With Jonathan Schell

By Andy Kroll, TomDispatch Mar 3, 2012 Since Occupy and the Arab Spring, the animating message of Schell's "Unconquerable World"—that, in the age of nuclear weaponry, nonviolent action is the mightiest of forces—has undergone a renaissance of sorts. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Mad, Passionate Love and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring

By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch Feb 22, 2012 Occupy had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 13, 2012 There is a recipe for breaking popular movements I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

More From Chris Hedges on Black Bloc

BLANK Feb 10, 2012 With his column “The Cancer in Occupy,” published earlier this week at Truthdig, Chris Hedges angered many on the radical left with his harsh criticism of the Black Bloc anarchists. Truthout’s J.A. Myerson, an activist and journalist involved in OWS since the occupation’s earliest days, got hold of Hedges by phone to press the issue. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Real Hope Is About Doing Something

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 29, 2010 Many of us will, after our rally in Lafayette Park, attempt to chain ourselves to the fence outside the White House It is a pretty good bet we will all spend a night in jail Hope, from now on, will look like thisWe will attempt to chain ourselves to the fence outside the White House. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Palestinians Turn to Gandhi, Dr. King

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2010 While armed militias get all the attention, some Palestinian organizers are embracing nonviolent strategies like peaceful marches and boycotts as a more effective avenue to peace. As one organizer quoted by The Christian Science Monitor put it: “It's not a war between two armies. By using non-violence, we take away the security excuse from the Israelis.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Palestinians, Israelis Unite to Save Village in ‘Budrus’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 8, 2009 This is the kind of story that offers some inspiring relief to the seemingly relentless bad news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The new documentary "Budrus" follows an unlikely alliance between feuding Palestinian groups and between Palestinians and Israelis, forged in the interest of saving a village through nonviolent protest. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )