Annie B. Bond’s article Martin Luther King Jr.’s 6 Facts About Non-Violent Resistance got me thinking about the practical tactics of non-violence. How may non-violence be used to further the struggle for human rights?   The non-viol...]]> Only a couple days before Christmas, a coal plant in Kingston, Tennessee, spilled sludge across an area larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdese spill. The Tennessee Valley Authority says that 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal sludge spilled out of a co...]]> On the Dec. 16 Democracy Now radio show, Bill McKibbon announced plans for a massive non-violent civil disobedience action against dirty coal. They're targetting the power plant that runs the Capitol. I can't believe it almost slipped by me! I was li...]]>   Many of us are deeply motivated to fight for the causes we believe in.  Our motivations lead us to take different types of action; some sign petitions, others donate money and still others protest in the streets.  Civil disobedience ...]]>