Introduction
When injustice or oppression occurs there are only two choices; to act or do nothing. Once a decision to act is made there are countless possibilities. Of these possibilities there are two main categories of gaining power- violent-based or non-violent-based. This Catalog of Nonviolent Weaponry is dedicated to the increasingly viable and strategic use of nonviolent tactics that have been identified and systematized over the last several decades by the work of Dr. Gene Sharp and currently under the auspices of the Albert Einstein Institution.
The catalog entries were created by the seventh and eighth grade students of Rio Gallinas School in Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA. As an Expeditionary Learning School, this product represents a five-month study of the tactics and strategies of nonviolent actions around the world. The stories were harvested from the United World College where 200 International Baccalaureate students represent 90 countries.
“Nonviolent action is a means of combat, as is war… Nonviolent action is just what it says: action which is nonviolent, not inaction. This technique consists, not simply of words, but of active protest, noncooperation, and intervention. Overwhelmingly, it is a group or mass action.”
Dr. Gene Sharp
Rio Gallinas School in Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA:
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