Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and civilly disobedient bus rider Rosa Parks.
This post is a continuation of How To Accumulate (Non-Coercive) Power, Part II, in which I started to chip away at the non-trivial problem of how disempowered communities can regain power.
Certainly this qualifies as An Extremely Difficult Problem … in this case I’m taking the empirical approach. What has worked in the past? We can look to the specifics of Gandhi’s nonviolent revolution, MLK’s civil rights movement strategies, Nelson Mandela’s leadership in the anti-apartheid movement, how Cesar Chavez organized U.S. farm workers, and other examples of communities regaining power without the use of violence or other coercive tactics. Are there generalities that apply to all of these cases?