In recent years, the worldwide struggle for democracy has gained increased prominence in international affairs. In the last three decades, dozens of corrupt, authoritarian, autocratic, one-party, and military regimes have fallen. As empires, multinational states, and colonial systems have receded, new states have emerged. Dictatorships collapse and new states and new democracies arise by a variety of means.
As this study shows, far more often than is generally understood, the change agent is broad-based, nonviolent civic resistance—which employs tactics such as boycotts, mass protests, blockades, strikes, and civil disobedience to de-legitimate authoritarian rulers and erode their sources of support, including the loyalty of their armed defenders.
Police may be violent at nonviolent actions for various reasons. In my experience, the most important ones are because police are directed to use violence as a form of political repression and because police are afraid of what to expect. Thus, in addition to considering the many other aspects of any nonviolent strategy, the planning process might consider ways in which any action can be made less vulnerable to police repression (or, for that matter, violence by provocateurs).
Editor's Note: Over the past few years, the Iranian workers from the private and public sectors have seen their financial and huamn rights violated, and protesting not only has not led to action on the part of government, but led to the imprisonment and persecution. These events occur while many countries and global institutions throughout the world are respecting workers' rights more and more as human rights, and works and unions use nonviolent strategies and tactics to defend those rights. Because of this, we are adding two important documents that are produced by the International Transport Workers Federation to our library. Globalizing Solidarity is one of them.
Editor's Note: Over the past few years, the Iranian workers from the private and public sectors have seen their financial and huamn rights violated, and protesting not only has not led to action on the part of government, but led to the imprisonment and persecution. These events occur while many countries and global institutions throughout the world are respecting workers' rights more and more as human rights, and works and unions use nonviolent strategies and tactics to defend those rights. Because of this, we are adding two important documents that are produced by the International Transport Workers Federation to our library. Workers' Rights are Human Rights is one of them.
Many examples can inspire our creativity, including some from Iran’s Green Movement. When people chant Islamic slogans at protests or carry pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini while protesting Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, they make it harder for the security forces to label them as anti-Islamic.
Facing an unprecedented popular uprising against his autocratic rule and his apparently fraudulent re-election, Iran's right-wing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attempted to blame the United States. The sordid history of U.S. intervention in Iran has made it easy for that country's hard-line theocratic leadership to blame the United States for the unrest.
Despite this record of intervention, the United States has had nothing to do with the massive unarmed insurrection against the Iranian regime.
"A group of French psychologists recently recruited 80 volunteers for what they claimed was a pilot for a new TV show. The game involved posing questions to another "player" -- in reality, an actor -- who was purportedly tortured with as much as 460 volts of electricity for each wrong answer as a roaring crowd screamed "Punishment!" Of the 80 volunteers, only 16 refused to participate and walked out. Many historians have referred to these experiments in explaining the atrocities committed by rank-and-file Nazi soldiers. The current situation in Iran provides another real world example."
History tells us that social movements have played a key role in bringing about significant social change. However, social activists often believe that their movement is failing, even when their campaigns are moving through the normal stages to success.
This research takes an in-depth look at the history of Iranian women's struggles through the lens of nonviolent action and strategy, from one hundred years ago until now. The goal of this paper is to analyze various women's movements in Iran based on the social and theoretical concepts of nonviolent defense.
In recent years, the worldwide struggle for democracy has gained increased prominence in international affairs. In the last three decades, dozens of corrupt, authoritarian, autocratic, one-party, and military regimes have fallen. As empires, multinational states, and colonial systems have receded, new states have emerged. Dictatorships collapse and new states and new democracies arise by a variety of means.
Police may be violent at nonviolent actions for various reasons. In my experience, the most important ones are because police are directed to use violence as a form of political repression and because police are afraid of what to expect. Thus, in addition to considering the many other aspects of any nonviolent strategy, the planning process might consider ways in which any action can be made less vulnerable to police repression (or, for that matter, violence by provocateurs).
Editor's Note: Over the past few years, the Iranian workers from the private and public sectors have seen their financial and huamn rights violated, and protesting not only has not led to action on the part of government, but led to the imprisonment and persecution. These events occur while many countries and global institutions throughout the world are respecting workers' rights more and more as human rights, and works and unions use nonviolent strategies and tactics to defend those rights. Because of this, we are adding two important documents that are produced by the International Transport Workers Federation to our library. Workers' Rights are Human Rights is one of them.
Facing an unprecedented popular uprising against his autocratic rule and his apparently fraudulent re-election, Iran's right-wing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attempted to blame the United States. The sordid history of U.S. intervention in Iran has made it easy for that country's hard-line theocratic leadership to blame the United States for the unrest. 
"A group of French psychologists recently recruited 80 volunteers for what they claimed was a pilot for a new TV show. The game involved posing questions to another "player" -- in reality, an actor -- who was purportedly tortured with as much as 460 volts of electricity for each wrong answer as a roaring crowd screamed "Punishment!" Of the 80 volunteers, only 16 refused to participate and walked out. Many historians have referred to these experiments in explaining the atrocities committed by rank-and-file Nazi soldiers. The current situation in Iran provides another real world example."
History tells us that social movements have played a key role in bringing about significant social change. However, social activists often believe that their movement is failing, even when their campaigns are moving through the normal stages to success..jpg)
This research takes an in-depth look at the history of Iranian women's struggles through the lens of nonviolent action and strategy, from one hundred years ago until now. The goal of this paper is to analyze various women's movements in Iran based on the social and theoretical concepts of nonviolent defense.