Movement for a New Society: Nonviolent Action Training, Strategy
“An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.” – M.K. Gandhi
ChooseDemocracy.US and WagingNonviolence.org
offer the best resources, information and links
to resist the U.S. ‘administrative coup‘
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Find the
latest news, actions & analysis at
ActivistTools.org & StephenZunes.org
RECOMMENDED LINKS & RESOURCES:
- Associated sites: ActivistTools.org & ActivistTraining.org
- Swarthmore Peace Collection archive of all MNS records
- Waging Nonviolence: With 800 contributors in 90 countries
- Nonviolence International (NVI), Database, archive, webinars, interns
- United for a Fair Economy: Toolkit, workshops, guides, reports, events
- Beautiful Trouble: Creative tactics & trainings; more resources
- Ukraine & Nonviolent Resistance
- How to Rig an Election: The RACIST History of the 1876
Contest for President: Tom Hanks’/Washington Post (7-min.) - The Movement and the ‘Madman‘: Free, as broadcast on PBS;
How activists used strategic nonviolent action to build a
movement & thwart Nixon’s plan to nuclear bomb Vietnam - How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements, free booklet
- More Books, Videos & Resources from Movement for a New Society
Get George Lakey’s 2023 memoir, books, videos, and “Citizen George,” the 2024 film bio about his six decades of leadership, strategy, training for nonviolent change. |
Chuck Collins’ intriguing and inspiring 2023 novel addresses challenges facing climate change and justice activists. Also see his 5-min. video interview and review. Buy now. |
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Download Free: How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements by Steve Chase (2022, 45 pages), from Solidarity 2020 and Beyond and ICNC Press. Or order the paperback or e-book copies. See George Lakey’s review in WagingNonviolence.org. |
About MNS
This site presents the many vital impacts of Movement for a New Society: Nonviolent Action Training, Analysis, Vision, Strategy. Indeed, from 1971-1988, MNS was a global training and action network of local and transnational groups. That’s how MNS successfully developed and “spread tools, skills and consciousness for effective nonviolent social change.” Moreover, MNSers trained, inspired and empowered thousands of progressive activists and organizations on all continents. So many have gone on to continue to lead and develop numerous subsequent campaigns and groups. MORE
Authors & Books
MNS members have published thousands of articles, books and videos fostering Movement for a New Society’s “analysis, training, strategy” worldwide. In addition to founders and top strategists George Lakey and Bill Moyer, over a dozen other MNS leaders have also collectively founded and/or dramatically developed scores of organizations, campaigns and projects. These include two activist publishing houses: New Society Publishers and Common Courage Press. MORE
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Read “Oppose and Propose: Lessons from MNS.”
Strategy & Tactics
“For every thousand hacking at the branches of evil, there’s only one digging at its roots.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Veteran organizers from the Civil Rights, anti-war, peace and other movements for nonviolent progressive social change of the 1950s-60s, founded MNS in 1971. Its leaders fostered and further developed the “hands-on” and “in-the-streets” experience, teachings, strategies and tactics pioneered by Gandhi, King and others. Thus they successfully integrated these with theories and findings of experts and academics such as Dr. Gene Sharp.
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Training
“Be the change you wish to see.” – M.K. Gandhi
MNS established and ran activist training centers through the 1970s and 1980s in Philadelphia and other cities across North America, until formally disbanding in 1988. However, in that year, George Lakey and Barbara Smith co-founded TRAINING FOR CHANGE. Moreover, MNS alums Betsy Raasch-Gilman, Erika Thorne and Nancy Brigham were its chief co-developers. So find links to its website, resources and opportunities for Nonviolent Action Training, Analysis, Vision, Strategy, at ActivistTraining.org
Find more at ActivistTraining.org,
ActivistTools.org & MNS 50th Reunion.
See George Lakey’s strategy video Polarization & “How We Win” (30-min.),
2024 film bio, “Citizen George”, 2023 Memoir and other books and videos.
Also Bill Moyer’s final training video; and MNSers playing “Rainstorm,”
a 2-minute “light-and-lively” (ice-breaker game) in 2009.
Movement for a New Society: Training, Vision, Strategy
ABOUT | AUTHORS+BOOKS | FILMS | HOME | STRATEGY | TRAINING
MNS 50TH VIDEOS+RESOURCES | Rainstorm Video | Oppose & Propose
MNS records archive is at Swarthmore Peace Collection | Privacy
More MNS-inspired tools at ActivistTools.org and ActivistTraining.org
CONTACT: MNS (AT) MovementforaNewSociety.org
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