The power of the people: some defining strategies in the rich history of nonviolent action--and the people behind them.

New Internationalist | August 1, 2005 | Copyright
 
   Rise like lions after slumber 
  In unvanquishable number-- 
Shake your chains to earth like dew 
 Which in sleep had fallen on you-- 
   You are many--they are few. 

WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT

Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi and the people of India. (1) India--1930. Fewer than 100,000 British troops control 350 million Indians. Mohandas Gandhi identifies that the British 'have not taken India from us--we have given it to them'. At the beginning of what would be a 17-year campaign of non-cooperation to oust British colonial rule from India, the 60-year-old ...

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