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MNS Authors & Books: 1971-2023
[Find more recent publications by MNS alums
2024 to present & on the
Middle East Crisis]

See Many MNS Historic Documents and Publications at page bottom.*

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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 AltartoanEruptingSunAltar to an Erupting Sun

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.

Visit Professor Stephen Zunes’ site for his many articles, interviews, videos and books, including: Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution; Nonviolent Social Movements; Tinderbox and more. Also see his videos and other alums’ plus best nonviolence resources from the MNS 50th Anniversary.

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.

 

International Center for Nonviolent Conflict releases Civil Resistance Tactics in the 21st Century, by Michael Beer, veteran activist, organizer, and executive director of Nonviolence International[Download it free.] In their 108-page “monograph,” Beer and colleagues  painstakingly identified360 tactics or “methods” of nonviolent action, expanding on 198 Dr. Gene Sharp described in his three-volume 1973 “The Politics of Nonviolent Action.” Beer’s publication adds scores more tactics and proposes helpful new categories, and is available as a 1-MB free download. See the webinar below.

Former MNS members have published scores of books and hundreds of articles and pamphlets
addressing and fostering Movement for a New Society: Training, vision, strategy more. Here are a few of the more prominent MNS authors, theorists and strategists.Find  many more on our MNS 50th Anniversary page. Click each name to find their writings, bios and photos, or on any cover image above or below:

David H. Albert (books), Michael Beer (NonviolenceInternational.net), Steve Chase (Solidarity 2020 and Beyond), Chuck Collins (IPS-DC.org), George Lakey, Robert A. Irwin ( Building a Peace System ; digital searchable), Barbara JensenJerry Koch-Gonzalez, Pamela Haines, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Peter Woodrow, Stephen Zunes. Prolific MNS writers now deceased include: MNS co-founders Bill Moyer, Lynne Shivers, Lillian and George Willoughby, plus George Fischer, Judith Lashof, Pat Parkman, and Felice Yeskel.

Bill Moyer (1933-2002) developed the widely acclaimed “Movement Action Plan”

Doing Democracy, and Paul & Mark Engler’s follow-up,
This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the 21st Century.]
See Bill’s others’ best training resources at ActivistTraining.org:

Moyer was a globally acclaimed organizer, strategist, writer, educator and trainer in nonviolent social movements, active in a dozen countries for forty years. He was SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) staff for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the American Friends Service Committee, Movement For A New Society, Keystone Safe Energy Alliance, and Executive Director of the Social Movement Empowerment Project in San Francisco. (See his wiki page.)

MACRO-ANALYSIS SEMINARS

Perhaps no process MNSers developed has been more ambitious or used than “Macro-analysis” study groups, in which participants prepare presentations summarizing select readings so all may discuss and benefit from a wide range of articles on each week’s topic. Alumni are now updating both the process and readings, but meanwhile, please
Download and use free these 4 editions of the Guide:
1973, 1976 Pages 1-42 & Pages 43-106, 1981 and
START 2014
(i.e., Study Think Act Respond Together).

MORE BOOKS BY OR ABOUT MNS ALUMNI

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Members also established two activist publishing houses, New Society Publishers and Common Courage Press. Former MNSers founded and/or contribute frequently to other news and activist sites, including: Institute for Policy Studies and WagingNonviolence.org, whose writers have appeared on the BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera and Democracy Now!  Many larger outlets have republished their movement coverage, including: The Guardian, The Nation, In These Times, Salon, Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine and OpenDemocracy.org . Some have been cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Vox and Peace News (UK).

Find more key and historic MNS documents in the Swarthmore Library Peace Collection.
For a critique of MNS and why it disbanded, read “Oppose and Propose: Lessons from MNS

* More historic MNS documents and theory

And by George Lakey:

Borrow/Download Great Books, Articles & Videos Free!

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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.

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