My organizing partner and I have been planning a nonviolent direct action campaign against the new development project, but we keep getting stuck on whether we should accept the developer's offer to meet and negotiate or hold firm to our original plan of sustained civil disobedience. She thinks we're being offered a real chance to engage in dialogue and find common ground, but I worry we're being co-opted and that meeting with them now undermines the moral authority of our position.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to nonviolent resistance are discovering that principled action requires navigating the tension between dialogue and sustained moral pressure.
“Where Are You with Gandhian satyagraha and nonviolent resistance?”
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