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WE THE RESISTANCE
Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States
Edited by Michael G. Long
Foreword by Chris Hedges
Afterword by Dolores Huerta
City Lights Books | San Francisco
Copyright 2019 by Michael G. Long
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Long, Michael G., editor.
Title: We the resistance : documenting a history of nonviolent protest in the United States / edited by Michael G. Long ; foreword by Chris Hedges ; afterword by Dolores Huerta.
Description: San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018031526 | ISBN 9780872867567
Subjects: LCSH: Protest movementsUnited StatesHistory. | Social reformersUnited StatesHistory. | Government, Resistance toUnited StatesHistory. | NonviolenceUnited StatesHistory.
Classification: LCC HN57 .W3595 2018 | DDC 303.48/40973dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031526
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Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
For Karin and the Resisters Long
CONTENTS
Chris Hedges
Michael G. Long
Edward Hart
George Keith
Anonymous Slave
Loron Sauguaarum
Jonathan Mayhew
George Hewes
Isaac Backus
Job Scott
James Forten
Angelina Grimke
Daniel Drayton
Henry David Thoreau
Jermaine Wesley Loguen
Frederick Douglass
Elizabeth Jennings
William Lloyd Garrison
Theodore Frelinghuysen
Chief John Ross
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Chief Joseph
Queen Liliuokalani
Colored National Labor Union
Albert Parsons
African American Waterfront Workers of Savannah
James Coxey
Mother Jones
Committee of Defense, Brotherhood of Timber Workers
Textile Workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Others
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Emma Goldman
Anna Howard Shaw
Mary Church Terrell
Kate Richards OHare
Helen Keller
A.Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen
Roger N. Baldwin
W. E. B. Du Bois
A. Philip Randolph
A.J. Muste
Yip Harburg and Bonus Marchers
Rose Pesotta
League of the Physically Handicapped
United Auto Workers
Elaine Ellis
Frank Murphy
A.Philip Randolph
Robert Lowell
Thurgood Marshall
Fred Korematsu and Frank Murphy
The Voice of the Nisei
Leo Szilard
Dorothy Day
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Charles Martin and the Negro Silent Protest Parade
W. E. B. Du Bois
Baltimore Afro-American and Jackie Robinson
Bayard Rustin
Thurgood Marshall
George Grant
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Southern Negro Leaders Conference
Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Jim Zwerg
Bayard Rustin
Fannie Lou Hamer
Mario Savio
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Marjorie Swann
The Civil Defense Protest Committee
Women Strike for Peace
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Marcus Raskin and Arthur Waskow
Daniel Berrigan and the Catonsville Nine
Mayday Tribe
Janet McCloud and Robert Casey
Indians of All Tribes
American Indian Movement
Dolores Huerta
Chicano Students in East Los Angeles
Cesar Chavez
Young Lords Party
Amy Uyematsu
Asian Community Center
Janus Society
Frank Kameny
Gay Liberation Front
Jane
Redstockings
Johnnie Tillmon
Judy Heumann
Ed Roberts
Gaylord Nelson
Edward Abbey
Earth First
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Animal Liberation Front
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Sam Lovejoy
Clamshell Alliance
Randall Forsberg
Lower Colorado River Tribes
Lane Kirkland
South African Liberation Committee
United Mineworkers of America
Bay Area Sanctuary Movement
Pledge of Resistance Campaign
S. Brian Willson
Jeff Paterson
June Jordan
Michael Albert and Stephen Shalom
Audre Lorde
The March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
New York Lesbian Avengers
Phyllis Randolph Frye
Vito Russo
Michael Petrelis
Sonia Johnson
Anita Hill
Sarah Schuster and Jewel Jackson McCabe
Jesse Jackson
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
SOLE
Mobilization for Global Justice
Medea Benjam
Not in Our Name
Cindy Sheehan
Naureen Shah
Anti-Drone Activists
Greenpeace International
Appalachia Rising
Bill McKibben
Get EQUAL
Anthony Kennedy and James Obergefell
Mobilization for Health Care for All
Naomi Klein
William Barber II
Democracy Spring and Democracy Uprising
Angela Y. Davis
Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fountain
Black Lives Matter
Support Prisoner Resistance
Patricia A. Ford
Luis Gutierrez, Gloria Romero, and Others
United We Dream
John Lewis and Others
The Womens March and America Ferrera
Dave Archambault II
Susan Cox
Bill McKibben
ADAPT
Brendan Novak
Jennifer Peace
Khalid Qassim
Alison Harrington
Dina El-Rifai
Korina Iribe Romo
Patrick Northrup
Dulce Garcia
Tarana Burke
Dolores Huerta
ILLUSTRATIONS
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FOREWORD
Nonviolent Revolt
Chris Hedges
The ideas that sustain the corporate stateneoliberalism, the free market, globalizationhave lost their efficacy across the political spectrum. The ideas that are rising to take their place, however, are inchoate. The right has retreated into Christian fascism, xenophobia, racism, a dangerous hyper-individualism and a celebration of the gun culture. The left, knocked off balance by decades of fierce state repression in the name of anti-communism, is struggling to rebuild and define itself. Popular revulsion for the ruling elite, however, is nearly universal. It is a question of which ideas, which vision, will capture the publics imagination.