#gene_sharp

U.S.-Financed Groups Had Supporting Role in Arab Uprisings - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?_r=0

As‘ad Abukhalil livre régulièrement des commentaires documentés et relativement longs sur des livres traitant du monde arabe. Pour le livre de Nicolas Beau et Jacques-Marie Bourget, Le Vilain petit Qatar, la mise à mort est… lapidaire.
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2013/05/le-vilain-petit-qatar.html

Let me say this: yes, Qatar is a leader of the Arab counter-revolution and heads with Saudi Arabia one of the most reactionary alliances in our contemporary history but the new French book, Le vilain petit: Qatar, is most silly and absurd in its theories about the Arab uprising. Let me just say that the authors subscribe to the theory of Gene Sharp, as the instigator of Arab uprising. When you read that, you know that the authors have nothing to say and are delusional.

#Prix_Nobel_alternatif — René HAMM
►http://www.legrandsoir.info/prix-nobel-alternatif.html

On peut évidemment contester le choix arrêté, le 12 octobre, par le comité norvégien, voire considérer que cette attribution s’apparente à une « farce grotesque » (2). Je ne gloserai pas ici sur les orientations politiques, diplomatiques et économiques du conglomérat. Je préfère évoquer une autre cérémonie, qui s’est déroulée, vendredi dernier, dans l’enceinte du Riksdag, la chambre des députés à Stockholm, et que les médias ont superbement ignorée : la remise du Right Livelihood Award, généralement qualifié de « Nobel alternatif », à trois personnes et un mouvement œuvrant réellement pour le bienfait de l’humanité.

L’essayiste et philatéliste suédois Jakob von Uexkull avait créé en 1980 cette distinction « pour un mode de vie juste », notion reposant sur l’idée que chaque être doit pouvoir exercer une activité honnête sans nuire à ses semblables et à la nature. Elle induit que nous nous sentions pleinement responsables de nos actes et que nous prélevions avec parcimonie les ressources de la planète pour la satisfaction de nos besoins. Le susnommé a tenu à mettre en évidence des domaines qui n’intéressent guère le jury officiel ainsi que le peu de femmes honorées par lui. Refusant les catégories figées, il a élargi les critères en couplant par exemple paix et désarmement, droits de l’Homme et justice sociale, jalons sur le chemin d’un monde meilleur.

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Hayrettin Karaca, le grand-père du mouvement écologiste turc, avait, dans le cadre de ses déplacements en tant que businessman du textile, constaté les dégradations de l’environnement, en particulier l’érosion des sols générée par une fertilisation excessive, le gaspillage de l’eau, l’épandage massif de pesticides. En 1980, il créa chez lui à Yalova , dans le nord-ouest du pays, un parc comprenant plus de 14 000 espèces et variétés d’arbres de même que 3800 plantes herbacées et vivaces.

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En 2012, Shuhada chapeaute 71 écoles en Afghanistan et 34 accueillant des réfugiés à Quetta. Durant le régime des talibans, les établissements sous l’égide de Shuhada furent les seuls à fonctionner quasiment en permanence. En sus des cours d’anglais, d’informatique et de littérature, l’association offre un abri aux femmes les plus vulnérable ; il ne s’agit pas seulement de les protéger, mais également de leur permettre de parfaire leur éducation. Elles y apprennent comment gérer au mieux leur quotidien et de conquérir une certaine autonomie.

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L’Américain Gene Sharp (84 ans) est avec le Norvégien Johan Galtung, lauréat du Prix en 1987, le théoricien de la non-violence le plus célèbre. Objecteur de conscience à 25 ans, il refusa de quitter son Ohio natal pour aller tuer des gens lors de la guerre de Corée (25 juin 1950 – 27 juillet 1953). L’admirateur du Mahatma Gandhi fut condamné à neuf mois sous les verrous. En 1983, il porta sur les fonds baptismaux à Boston l’Institut Albert Einstein, spécialisé dans l’étude des formes de résistance non-violentes. Il avait achoppé sur la portion congrue dévolue à celles-ci dans les livres d’histoire.

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À l’honneur également, la Campagne contre le commerce des armes, lancée en 1994 à Londres après le déclenchement de la guerre du Kippour au Moyen-Orient.

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Who is behind the violence in Syria? - Angry Arab
►http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/06/who-is-behind-violence-in-syria.html

Now this is the key question. I have been asking and talking and thinking and here are my conclusions:

1) The regime is the major and primary culprit of violence in Syria. There is no question about it. The notion that there are “criminal gangs” roaming the country and killing protesters and soldiers alike is a clear fabrication. It does not even make sense. Why would they do that? Who are they, and how did the regime allow them go grow and spread? There are civilians who are shooting and killing but they belong to the people. But the regime bears double responsibility for all the killing in Syria: this oppressive regime drew its legitimacy from its bragging about its ability to provide security to the people of Syria, and thus they are responsible for killing by opponents of the regime (if they are directed at the people as regime propaganda claims) too. 

2) Why do you assume that the Muslim Brotherhood is a peaceful organization? The rebellion of the Brothers back in the late 70s and early 80s was not peaceful and I dont expect them to have stumbled on the theories of the funny guy, Gene Sharp (who the New York Times believes inspired the Arab uprisings), and decided to suddenly shun violence. The Jordanian regime admitted in the early 80s that they have armed the Brothers and they also got weapons from Israel (through the Phalanges). Back then, the Brothers not only targeted regime armed men, but they went indiscriminate on innocent Alawites.  Their sectarian violent campaign only solidified Alawite ranks and turned even those `Alawites who were opposed to the regime in its favor. 

3) There are from what I am hearing Wahhabi and Salafite groups with money and weapons who have been active in Syria. I won’t be surprised if the Harirites are involved too. I find it very likely, in the service of Hariri agenda. A reliable informant of this blog in Syria tells me (I am translating from Arabic): "Yes, there are professional, trained, and organized gangs which are controlled by clerics who all have lived in Saudi Arabia, like Adnan Al-Arur, and they kill and use violence against other sects... In Latakia, there are professional elements which used to live a normal life like sleeper cells and they perpetrated acts of sabotage and sectarian sedition and I saw that myself as i was there then... In Tell Kalakh, there are splinter groups from Fath-Islam which are moved by Hariri money, and not Hariri men as spread by Syrian media.  In Banyas, it is said that there are officers from Saudi Arabia and UAE and a Mossad element who are now in custody of the security service.  There were booby traps there because it has a generator and an oil refinery and a pipe line from Iraq.  In Homs, there are extremist pockets from prior to Bath and it has been reactivated and is still strong with Saudi money. Now Idlib is all in flame and Turkey is supplying all with weapons and with fighters. Army is facing difficulty advancing because all passages and bridges have been booby trapped." This last passage is from my informant and I have no way of verifying the information. And as they used to end books of Islamic theology, I say: And Karl Marx is the all-knowing.

PS Nir Rosen added this: "There is also the Iraq and Zarqawi factor: Syria was a key staging area for Zarqawi types, they had safe houses in Damascus and Allepo, they had a network of facilitators, as the americans like to say and i’d love to know what’s happening in the border area with Iraq’s Anbar where families have close ties on both sides and where Zarqawi people had safe houses. The town of Abu Kamal for example, which borders the iraqi town of Husseiba in Al Qaim. The americans raided Abu Kamal a couple of years ago and killed some key Al Qaeda guy. Abu Kamal had an uprising against the regime a couple of weeks ago. I think the Zarqawi factor is an important one. These people always spoke about how the final battle will be in Sham".

Egypt : Gene Sharp Taught Us How To Revolt ! (Global Voices)
►http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/04/15/egypt-gene-sharp-taught-us-how-to-revolt

Last February, Sheryl Stolberg of The New York Times wrote an article about the political science professor, Gene Sharp, whose ideas were credited by her as being an inspiration for the Egyptian revolution, as well as many other uprisings in the region.

Hossam el-Hamalawy - PurePhoto
►http://elhamalawy.purephoto.com/#/image/1326/12429

Palestinian Resistance
Stickers, in my room at my family’s house where I grew up and lived till university years. Whenever I visit my family or stay over for the night, I’m reminded what politicized my generation and where our sources of inspiration came from... Sorry, it’s not Gene Sharp...

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Gene Sharp: Author of the #nonviolent #revolution rulebook
►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12522848

His most translated and distributed work, From #Dictatorship to Democracy was written for the Burmese democratic movement in 1993, after the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi.

en lien avec ►http://seenthis.net/messages/9175

Ruaridh Arrow’s #film, Gene Sharp: How to Start a Revolution, will be released in spring 2011

#geek_power

Revolution U - By Tina Rosenberg | Foreign Policy
►http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_u

Très intéressant ; la #non-violence comme tactique, ça ne s’improvise pas, mais ça peut s’enseigner ; on connaît les précurseurs, de Gandhi à la lutte anti-#apartheid, et les militants d’aujourd’hui (#Egypte...)

Les anciens d’Otpor (#Serbie) ont formé CANVAS :

Center for Applied NonViolent Action and Strategies, an organization run by young Serbs who had cut their teeth in the late 1990s student uprising against Slobodan Milosevic. After ousting him, they embarked on the ambitious project of figuring out how to translate their success to other countries.

Ils font maintenant des ateliers de formation pour des militants de 50 pays. L’article raconte par le menu un de ces ateliers en #Birmanie, mais cite aussi le #Liban, la #Georgie, etc.