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We don't know how to take effective action.
Most people associate this type of action with Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
But people have been using nonviolent action for thousands of years.
They said they'd already tried nonviolent action, and it hadn't worked.
My colleague and mentor, Gene Sharp, has identified 198 methods of nonviolent action.
I've been greatly inspired by the creativity and bravery of people using nonviolent action in nearly every country in the world.
But what most people don't know is that people have stood up to ISIS using nonviolent action.
It may be difficult to imagine defeating ISIS with action that is nonviolent.
Here's an idea worth spreading: let's learn more about where nonviolent action has worked and how we can make it more powerful, just like we do with other systems and technologies that are constantly being refined to better meet human needs.
It may be that we can improve nonviolent action to a point where it is increasingly used in place of war.
To illustrate these mindsets in action, I'm going to take you back to 19th-century France, where this innocuous-looking piece of paper launched one of the biggest political scandals in history.
And then we have to be sensitive about how this technology can be developed and put into action in those regions.
You have to turn your anger into action, your pain into power and your setback into a setup for what's next for your life.
Sometimes breaking the rules a little bit is where the action is.
They did this through networks of popular committees, and their use of direct action and communal self-help projects challenged Israel's very ability to continue ruling the West Bank and Gaza.
What could possibly explain an action like that?
So let's just take one political issue that's pretty hot, affirmative action.
So depending on your politics, you might think that affirmative action is either a wise or an unwise way to promote diversity in the workplace or the classroom.
But if you grow up in an area like this, you see affirmative action as a tool to hold people like you back.
When you sit down in a bar, in a coffee house, on a park bench, your ancient brain snaps into action like a sleeping cat awakened, and you smile and laugh and listen and parade the way our ancestors did 100,000 years ago.
When you face a compelling opportunity to take action, fear lulls you into inaction, enticing you to passively watch its prophecies fulfill themselves.
Sometimes not reacting instantly is, ironically, the best immediate course of action we can take.
And here's the action one more time, nice and slow.
Now ... as if walking in a city buzzing with drones, flying taxis, modular buses and suspended magnetic pods was not exotic enough, I think there is another force in action that will make urban traffic mesmerizing.
Listening to a sound with a lot less reverberation than the on-screen action is going to immediately signify to us that we're listening to a commentator, to an objective narrator that's not participating in the on-screen action.
But the court refused to allow Emma to put two causes of action together to tell her story because he believed that, by allowing her to do that, she would be able to have preferential treatment.
But the time now is to move from mourning and grief to action and transformation.
So folks, here's my call to action: it's your money.
Patrisse Cullors: Black Lives Matter is our call to action.
So in terms of action, I think that it is awesome to sit here and be able to listen to you all, and to have our minds open and shift, but that's not going to get black people free.
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