Jamila Raqib Speaks on Strategic Nonviolent Action in Maine on November 11-13, 2014 Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Boston-based Albert Einstein Institution, will speak about strategic nonviolent action movements around the world in four locations in Maine on November 11-13, 2014. Raqib will speak on “How to Start a Revolution” on Tuesday, November 11 at 4:15 PM in Chase Hall at Bates College in Lewiston and at 7 PM at the Curtis Library in Brunswick. Raqib’s topic will be “The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle: Lessons from the Arab Spring, the Global Occupy Movement, and Beyond” on Wednesday, November 12 at 7:30 PM at Given Auditorium at Colby College, and on Thursday, November 13 at 12:30 PM in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union at the University of Maine in Orono. Raqib, who is originally from Afghanistan, has worked with noted researcher and writer Gene Sharp since 2002 in developing strategies that people throughout the world have used to create nonviolent revolutions against their autocratic or oppressive governments. She is also a co-author with Sharp of a book on nonviolent strategies and authored a chapter in another book on the Arab Spring revolution in Tunisia. Raqib has become a public face and speaker for strategies for citizen groups in organizing a successful nonviolent revolution in their country. Albert Einstein Institution publications, such as Sharp’s “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” have been used as guides to citizen groups who have created successful nonviolent revolutions in Serbia, the Ukraine (2004), the Republic of Georgia, Tunisia, and Egypt. Raqib will describe some of the strategies that have worked to bring democracy to these countries. “We need to know how people power revolutions can work so we can avoid the terrible tragedies in countries like Syria and Iraq and support people’s struggles for freedom and democracy around the world,” explained Larry Dansinger, an organizer of the four talks. All talks are free and open to the public. For more information about the talks and efforts to promote nonviolent strategies in Maine, contact Larry Dansinger, [email protected] or (207) 525-7776. Calendar listings: November 11: Jamila Raqib speaks on “How to Start a Revolution,” 4:15 PM, Chase Hall, Bates College, Lewiston. November 11: Jamila Raqib speaks on “How to Start a Revolution,” 7 PM, Curtis Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick. November 12: Jamila Raqib speaks on “The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle: Lessons from the Arab Spring, the Global Occupy Movement, and Beyond,” 7:30 PM, Given Auditorium, Colby College, Waterville. November 13: Jamila Raqib speaks on “The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle: Lessons from the Arab Spring, the Global Occupy Movement, and Beyond,” 12:30 PM, Bangor Room, Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono. For more information: Larry Dansinger, [email protected] or (207) 525-7776
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:04:56 +0000
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