{"id":28527,"date":"2012-02-18T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=28527"},"modified":"2012-02-18T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T00:59:25","slug":"99-spring-nonviolent-direct-action-training-for-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/99-spring-nonviolent-direct-action-training-for-100000\/","title":{"rendered":"99% Spring (Nonviolent Direct Action Training for 100,000!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nby Joshua Kahn Russel<\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s been an active few months for 350.org. We’ve been part of a broad-based movement that has stopped the Keystone XL twice – and we had so much fun doing it, that we’re in the middle of\u00a0round three<\/a>\u00a0after delivering 800,000 messages to congress in just 24 hours. Globally, we’ve been supporting movements fighting coal from\u00a0Kosovo to Borneo<\/a>, and supporting people in the Maldives\u00a0fighting to restore democracy<\/a>. But 2012 wouldn’t be such an engaged sprint for us if there wasn’t movement bursting from all around the globe – people are organizing and people-power is rising.<\/p>\n

In the United States, we’re part of an exciting initiative to make sure that all the energy here reaches its potential – alongside a lot of our friends, we’re calling for a\u00a099% Spring<\/a>. \u00a0Actually, we’re not calling for it. We’re organizing for it. The project is ambitious –\u00a0we want to train 100,000 people in Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) over the next 8 weeks.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0I’m not kidding.<\/p>\n

It’s increasingly clear that our country (and world) is at a historic crossroads – we can build a different economy that works for people and the planet – or we can continue to watch wealth get hoarded by the 1% while corporations trash our communities and climate. In order to win, we know we need millions of people working together across issues and movements, directly confronting corporate power with nonviolent action, from the boardrooms to the streets. The 99% Spring in an effort to help seed the ground for sustained ongoing action.<\/p>\n

Its also an exercise in\u00a0alignment between different movements<\/strong>\u00a0– Labor, Environment, Racial Justice, Housing, and many others. We want environmentalists and union members in the same room, sharing strategies, getting skilled in direct action and civil disobedience, and cross-pollenating from the ground-up. Here are some of the organizations who are on board:\u00a0Jobs With Justice,\u00a0United Auto Workers,\u00a0National Peoples Action,\u00a0National Domestic Workers Alliance,\u00a0MoveOn.org,\u00a0New Organizing Institute,\u00a0Movement Strategy Center,\u00a0The Other 98%,\u00a0Service Employees International Union,\u00a0Rebuild the Dream,\u00a0UNITE-HERE,\u00a0Greenpeace,\u00a0Institute for Policy Studies,\u00a0PICO National Network,\u00a0New Bottom Line,\u00a0United Steel Workers,\u00a0Working Families Party,\u00a0Communications Workers of America,\u00a0United States Student Association,\u00a0Rainforest Action Network,\u00a0American Federation of Teachers,\u00a0Leadership Center for the Common Good,\u00a0UNITY,\u00a0National Guestworker Alliance,\u00a0350.org,\u00a0The Ruckus Society,\u00a0Citizen Engagement Lab,\u00a0smartMeme Strategy & Training Project,\u00a0Right to the City Alliance,\u00a0Pushback Network,\u00a0Progressive Democrats of America,\u00a0Change to Win,\u00a0Grassroots Global Justice Alliance,\u00a0Campaign for America\u2019s Future,\u00a0Fuse Washington,\u00a0Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment,\u00a0Citizen Action of New York,\u00a0Engage,\u00a0United Electrical Workers Union,\u00a0National Day Laborers Organizing Network,\u00a0Alliance for a Just Society,\u00a0The Partnership for Working Families,\u00a0United Students Against Sweatshops. And the list is growing. Here’s a\u00a0letter from these groups<\/a>\u00a0with more of the vision for the project.<\/p>\n

Want to be a part of it?<\/strong>\u00a0We’re hoping the 350 network will jump in with both feet. Maybe you’ve been waiting for an introduction to nonviolence, and this is the time for you. Maybe you just want to share strategies with people in other movement sectors. Maybe you got arrested at the Keystone XL sit-ins, and are hungry to take your action skills to the next level. Maybe you want to lead trainings yourself.\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to sign up and get more info!<\/p>\n

This post originally appeared on 35o.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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