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Written By: Puck Arks Civil Disobedience Pt. 4: ONLINE DISOBEDIENCE or Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD)   I n its simplest form civil disobedience involves defying the law for a good cause and it has taken the Internet by storm. The Internet is used for every conceivable form of communication and it is therefore only natural that it should be used as an infrastructure even for protest and civil disobedience.  P rotest activities carried out online are new form of political activism. The goal of this is to inform people of the various methods and techniques currently being utilized. Unsolicited email- otherwise known as spam is sent as a mass mailing to huge numbers of recipients at a time without consent.  E mail bombing- consists of sending huge volumes of email to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox or overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack. H acking- also known as hacktivism i

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 Written By: Puck Arks Civil Disobedience: The Series Utilizing Social Media Make smart, consistent use of whatever tools you have available to start using social media The true effectiveness of street movements is how they break through the mass media’s messages and make real people have real conversations. Don’t waste your time fighting with trolls, but instead look for opportunities to cultivate dialogue. In my opinion, it’s better to master a few social networks rather than to push to be on them all. Anonymous has spread effectively onto Facebook, Twitter much to some dismay and beyond by playing to the strengths of each site. Pinterest may be the hottest new thing, but if all you’re going to do is cross-post links to your Facebook page then you might want to wait. Don’t overlook old fashioned methods like flyer-ing or street art. Devote your resources to the areas where you can focus and then see if you can build coalitions with existing activis

Written By: Puck Arks How can we raise our levels of revolutionary consciousness, organization and struggle?   Raise Consciousness 1) Raise consciousness with the purpose of building organization and raising the level of struggle. 2) Investigate before forming opinions. Research how the world and the system function.   3) Read foundational and historical works about revolution, by those who have participated in and led them.   4) Analyze the system’s current condition and trajectory.   5) Learn about the resistance, uprisings and revolutions going on in the world today.   6) Read the material that currently active groups are issuing and discussing.   7) Continuously develop, elaborate upon and refine principles, theories and strategies for our movement.   8) Raise our voices. Articulate revolutionary ideas, and give them a public presence.   9) Listen and speak in the spirit of mutual clarification.   10) Participate in discussion, to develop our ideas and hone ou

 Written By: George Lennox Aka Puck Arks Protection from Police Tactics Protection from Electrical Weapons F or every attack, a defense. Since stun guns have found their way into common usage, people have discussed how to successfully defend oneself from them. The answer isn’t quite as complicated as it might seem. The basic premise is: you allow the electric prongs to complete their circuit before the electricity goes into your skin.  W ith the newer TASERs, at least, you can’t just allow the prongs to not penetrate into your skin because of their “shaped pulses” that somehow shock you through clothing. Further, it’s been suggested that you can’t just complete the prongs circuit, be- cause if the prongs are in you, you’ll get shocked and/or burned.  W hile we’ve found no information on DIY methods being tested, we did run across the commercial product announced early in 2008, a fabric called Thor Shield, manufactured by G2 Consulting and distrib

Written By: Puck Arks Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of "nonviolent weapons" at their disposal. Listed below are 200 of them. Formal Statements 1. Public Speeches 2. Letters of opposition or support, mass emails, Text Resist to 50409, faxes, twitter storms 3. Declarations by organizations and institutions 4. Signed public statements 5. Declarations of indictment and intention 6. Group or mass petitions Communications with a Wider Audience 7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols 8. Banners, posters, memes and displayed communications 9. Websites, pamphlets, books, leaflets, videos 10. Newspapers, journals, fanzines, social media, press releases 11. Internet, radio, and television 12. Skywriting, earthwriting, chalk   Group Representations 13. Deputations 14. Mock awards 15. Group lobbying 16. Picketing 17. Mock elections Symbolic Public Acts 18. Displays of flags and symbolic colors 19. Wearing of symbols 20. Pr

  Photo Credit: Survivors Standing Strong     Written By: Hugo Omar Aghosta L et me start with a basic truth and I preface it all by saying, I am a Buddhist-trained atheist with no belief in god or an afterlife. It is here, right now, that we can make a difference. ” I n one sense all Buddhists are courageous warriors. They do fight, but not with weapons and bombs. They do kill, but not innocent men, women and children. With whom and with what do they fight? Whom do they mercilessly kill? They fight with themselves, for man is the worst enemy of man. Mind is his worst foe and best friend. Ruthlessly they kill the passions of lust, hatred and ignorance that reside in this mind by morality, concentration and wisdom.  T hose who prefer to battle with passions alone in solitude are perfectly free to do so. Bhikkhus who live in seclusion are noteworthy examples. To those contended ones, solitude is happiness. Those who seek delight in battling with life's pro