2013/01/01 by April Carter · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #German History and Society
paper · pdf · doi:10.5771/0175-274x-2013-3-145
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narmed resistance to repressive governments and occupying powers has a long history, even before Gandhi developed his strategy of 'satyagraha' in South Africa and during the Indian independence movement. But it has become much more common in recent decades for major popular movements to adopt nonviolent methods in order to secure fundamental political change. Since the overthrow of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986, the label often attached to these popular unarmed uprisings is 'people power'. People power is better understood than the term 'civil resistance' now often used in the specialized literature; and it is more appropriate than 'nonviolent resistance' to describe all the unarmed anti regime movements since 1980. Whilst some movements have stressed nonviolence (for example the 198386 mainstream resistance, in which the Catholic Church was prominent, to the Marcos regime), others have included defensive violence (on the Tahrir Square, January 2011), minor force to occupy parliament and the TV building (Belgrade, October 2000), and throwing stones (as often in Palestinian protests).