“But the most important thing for us was to be able to justify it to the neighborhood, to be able to tell them why we are doing this and how it is going to turn out to be something social, something for everyone.”
Geran from Turkey, who is involved in the squatters movement in Europe, gives some inside tips on what to do and not to do when occupying a building.
Source: www.everydayrebellion.net
Extremely interesting and important read, made by CANVAS: nonviolent struggle, 50 crucial points.
The co-author of this document, Srdja Popovic, is also cofounder and key figure of the Serbian resistance movement “Otpor!”. Otpor had a huge contribution to helping topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia in 2000. Popovic became member of the Serbian National Assembly for three years until CANVAS was created (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies). With a transfer of strategic knowledge and tips on nonviolent resistance, in the form of books and workshops, Popovic and CANVAS support democratic nonviolent movements worldwide. Popovic also translated literature about nonviolent resistance, amongst others Gene Sharp’s work “From Dictatorship to Democracy”.
CANVAS has worked with the movement of the 6th April in Egypt and also with other nonviolent revolutionary movements in the Middle East. This manual, “Nonviolent Struggle, 50 Crucial Points”, has been translated into 16 languages and has been downloaded about 17.000 times during the protests in Iran in 2009.
for more information check www.everydayrebellion.net & http://www.canvasopedia.org/.
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Source: everydayrebellion.net
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