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JDPriestly

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6. This is why, within the Occupy movement, everyone must agree to complete nonviolence in all actions.

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:00 PM

Feb 2012

The best thing would be to do as the LA group did and train everyone very carefully in the techniques of nonviolence.

Violent protest will just result in alienating rational people. Nonviolence is what won the day for Martin Luther King's movement.

In my opinion, the Black Panthers and other violent, radical groups helped to bring on 30 years of extreme right-wing government.

Violence frightens ordinary people. The moment any violence of any kind is allowed within the ranks of demonstrators for the Occupy movement, the movement will face repression and fail.

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