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In reply to the discussion: Zuccotti Park has been re-occupied [View all]Sirveri
(4,517 posts)"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
If you never have the risk of violence, then there is no reason to pay attention to you. The boot will stomp you down with impunity, after all, you just keep taking it and you've stated you'll never retaliate. By declaring perpetual non-violence, you guarantee that the authorities will always use violence and you'll never progress. It also makes the movement look weak to the apparatus of power, which needs to be co opted in any 'non-violent' struggle.
It also depends on your definition of violence. Is challenging a person at the polls considered violence, is poverty financial violence, difficult to say. More to violence than just spilling blood.