How Presence Stopped a Riot

It was during the second presidential inauguration of George Bush. We were a group of over 5,000 “protestors” named Turn Your Back on Bush. When Bush’s motorcade would go by the huge parade of people, we would literally turn our backs – a symbolic action that gained international media attention. My role was to train the street teams that would

When Nonviolent Intervention Meets Terrorism: Which Side Wins?

Lee McLenon/ February 28, 2017/ Campaign Strategy, Tactics, Uncategorized/ 0 comments

When armed insurgents in Iraq abducted four members of Christian Peacemaker Teams two weeks ago, something was clearly wrong. Like other hostage situations in Iraq, a shadowy insurgent group took responsibility, The Swords of Truth Brigade. It made a tape of the hostage. They threatened to kill them if their demands – the release of Iraqi prisoners – were not