Why today's non-violent activists are really mostly just pussies.

I was having a discussion with my boss the other day, trying to explain to him why I felt that non-violent protest no longer had any relevance in America. I couldn't articulate it, until I stumbled upon an interview with a man named Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado. Here's an excerpt from the interview entitled Dismantling the Politics of Comfort: The Satya Interview with Ward Churchill

Nonviolent action can be effectual when harnessed in a way that is absolutely unacceptable to the state: if you actually clog the freeways or occupy sites or whatever to disrupt state functioning with the idea of ultimately making it impossible for the state to function at all, and are willing to incur the consequences of that. That’s very different from people standing with little signs, making a statement. Statements don’t do it. If [they] did, we would have transformed society in this country more than a century ago.

[ read the full interview with Ward Churchill from Satya Magazine ]

[ Ward Churchill's Homepage at Zmag.org ]