Participate in Non-violent Direct Action

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass, 1857

Civil disobedience..non-violent direct action...satya graha...

It goes by many names and has a long history.

Today, Peace Action Montgomery considers non-violent direct action to still be a powerful tool of witness and resistance, especially in an era where we are arrested for gathering peacefully on a sidewalk in groups larger than 25, for speaking out at Congressional Hearings, for carrying signs that speak truth to power and messages that don't match the Adminstration's.

Now, more than ever, we celebrate deliberate voices and actions for peace:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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