AN EVENING WITH SHON MECKFESSEL
Sunday, March 12th
7:00pm
Sons of Haiti Lodge- 3503 N. Mississippi Ave at Fremont
FREE EVENT- Donations to the Sons of Haiti Lodge gratefully accepted.
Join us for a very special evening with writer, scholar and activist Shon Meckfessel. He will discuss topics covered
in his most recent book, Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance.
US social movements face many challenges. One of their most troublesome involves the question of nonviolence.
Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many struggles in the US since the Civil Rights era, but
conditions have changed. Corporate media has consolidated, the police have militarized, dissent has been largely
co-opted and institutionalized, but the strategic tools radicals employ haven’t necessarily kept pace.
Our narratives, borrowed from movements of the past, are falling short.
Meckfessel's book Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be maps emerging, more militant approaches that are developing to fill
the gap, from Occupy to Black Lives Matter. It offers new angles on a seemingly intractable debate, introducing ideas that
carve out a larger middle-ground between camps in order to chart an effective path forward.
Sunday, March 12th
7:00pm
Sons of Haiti Lodge- 3503 N. Mississippi Ave at Fremont
FREE EVENT- Donations to the Sons of Haiti Lodge gratefully accepted.
Join us for a very special evening with writer, scholar and activist Shon Meckfessel. He will discuss topics covered
in his most recent book, Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance.
US social movements face many challenges. One of their most troublesome involves the question of nonviolence.
Civil disobedience and symbolic protest have characterized many struggles in the US since the Civil Rights era, but
conditions have changed. Corporate media has consolidated, the police have militarized, dissent has been largely
co-opted and institutionalized, but the strategic tools radicals employ haven’t necessarily kept pace.
Our narratives, borrowed from movements of the past, are falling short.
Meckfessel's book Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used to Be maps emerging, more militant approaches that are developing to fill
the gap, from Occupy to Black Lives Matter. It offers new angles on a seemingly intractable debate, introducing ideas that
carve out a larger middle-ground between camps in order to chart an effective path forward.