Nonviolent Revolution Pioneer George Lakey Hand Signed 2X5 Card

  

"Nonviolent Revolution" George Lakey Hand Signed 2X5 Card. 1937 is an activist, sociologist, and writer who added academic. Underpinning to the concept of nonviolent revolution. Also refined the practice of experiential training for activists which he calls.

A Quaker, he has co-founded and led numerous organizations and. Campaigns for justice and peace.

He was born to Dora M. Lakey (a slate miner) in Bangor, Pennsylvania. [4] He was identified as a prospective child preacher for his church, and at age 12, he gave a. The will of God, although his sermon was not well-received at the time.

Studied at the University of Oslo. Norway, where he married Berit Mathiesen in 1960, and taught at an Oslo high.

He continued his sociology studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In the late 1950s, Lakey was active in the ban-the-bomb movement, then.

Participated in the civil rights movement, in. 1963 being arrested in a sit-in.

The following year he was a trainer. Co-authored his first book, A Manual for Direct Action, which was.

Widely used in the South by the civil rights movement. 1966 he co-founded the national body A Quaker Action Group (AQAG).

Protest action in South Vietnam seeking. To give medical supplies to the anti-war Buddhist movement there. 1970, Lakey was active within AQAG in the successful direct action in the Puerto Rican struggle to stop the U. Navy from using the island of Culebra for target. In 1971 he helped found Movement for a New Society (MNS).

A network of autonomous groups working for a nonviolent revolution. Network featured living collectives and co-ops as well as participation in national movements of. The network's training program at the Philadelphia Life Center Association became.

Highly influential in the US and abroad in spreading Paulo Freire's Popular education and other participatory training. During the 1970s, he also gave national leadership to the Campaign.

To Stop the B-1 Bomber and. Promote Peace Conversion, which succeeded in persuading Congress and President Carter to de-fund this Air Force program.

1976 he co-organized Men Against Patriarchy, a pioneering anti-sexism movement for men. In 1982 he organized the Pennsylvania section of a national labor/community. Coalition named "Jobs with Peace" and directed that effort for seven. 1991, he co-founded with Philadelphia activist Barbara Smith, Training for Change (TfC). Training at the Martin Luther King Jr.

For Social Change and Movement for a New Society. Training for Change developed a new pedagogy called "Direct Education". For Change did trainings and consultations for activists and nongovernmental.

2009, Lakey co-founded Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT), to build a just and. Sustainable economy through nonviolent direct action campaigns. Its first campaign, forcing PNC Bank to stop financing mountaintop removal coal. In that campaign, while in his.

Seventies, Lakey was arrested and also led a 200-mile march.