{"id":26093,"date":"2013-03-04T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=26093"},"modified":"2013-03-13T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:44:28","slug":"the-idinthakarai-experience-best-practices-in-peaceful-and-nonviolent-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/03\/the-idinthakarai-experience-best-practices-in-peaceful-and-nonviolent-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idinthakarai Experience: Best Practices in Peaceful and Nonviolent Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indefinite hunger strike of a huge group of people including women and youth<br \/>\nRelay hunger strike \u2013 every single day 10 am to 5 pm<br \/>\nInviting a prominent political, religious or cultural leaders for day-long hunger strikes<\/p>\n<p>Meeting officials and submitting memorandums<br \/>\nDialogue with government officials, scientists and others<br \/>\nOrganizing seminars on nonviolence, democracy, development, etc.<br \/>\nOrganizing massive conferences<br \/>\nOrganizing all party meets<br \/>\nHaving political leaders meet with the Chief Minister, Prime Minister etc.<br \/>\nInviting supporters from all over the country for solidarity public meetings, hunger strikes<br \/>\nReaching out nearby villagers and youth with outside volunteers and campaigners<br \/>\nDistrict-wide teach-ins<br \/>\nState-wide agitations<br \/>\nNation-wide campaigns<\/p>\n<p>Sending back voter identity cards<br \/>\nBoycotting elections<br \/>\nSupporting a specific party\/candidate in the elections<br \/>\nAsking the local MP, MLA to resign and facilitate by-elections<br \/>\nObserving Independence Day as Black Day<br \/>\nRefusing to accept government schemes<br \/>\nRefusing to let government officials into our villages<\/p>\n<p>Laying siege in front of the nuclear plant entrance<br \/>\nPreventing workers from entering the workplace<br \/>\nLaying siege to harbors<br \/>\nLaying siege to the State Assembly<br \/>\nBlocking trains<br \/>\nBlocking roads<br \/>\nOrganizing continuous agitations of various types for a week\/month<br \/>\nBurning national flags of visiting international leaders\u2019 countries<br \/>\nBurning effigies of visiting leaders<br \/>\nBandh all over the district\/state (future plan)<\/p>\n<p>Agitations in distant towns and villages<br \/>\nBike rally through neighboring villages and towns<br \/>\nRallies to nearby towns and villages and agitations in those places<br \/>\nCongregating in a particular village and rallying to a nearby village or town<\/p>\n<p>Commemorating national and international leaders\u2019 births and deaths<br \/>\nRemembering activists\u2019 deaths and sacrifices<br \/>\nRinging Church\/Temple bells and congregating people<br \/>\nAll night religious vigils<br \/>\nOrganizing yagnas and special poojas<br \/>\nPrayer meetings<br \/>\nCandle light processions<br \/>\nCelebrations such as \u201cAsserting Freedom, Celebrating Resistance\u201d<br \/>\nCelebrating religious festivals<br \/>\nCelebrating cultural festivals<br \/>\nComposing and singing struggle songs<br \/>\nPoetry recitals<br \/>\nGuarding the village entrances<br \/>\nGuarding the struggle leaders\u2019 residence<\/p>\n<p>Collecting signatures on petitions<br \/>\nWriting letters to embassies<br \/>\nWriting letters to human rights organizations<br \/>\nWriting letters to international organizations<br \/>\nFloating letters on the sea<br \/>\nSending \u2018Thank You\u2019 letters to international supporters<\/p>\n<p>Non-cooperation movement<br \/>\nRefusing to let rooms and houses to nuclear plant workers<br \/>\nRefusing to sell food stuff to nuclear plant workers<br \/>\nCongregating on the sea<br \/>\nSinging and dancing on the beach<br \/>\nMarching on the seashore<br \/>\nHuman chain on the seashore<br \/>\nBoycotting fishing<br \/>\nJal-satyagraha (striking in neck-deep waters)<br \/>\nBurying ourselves in the sand<br \/>\nLiving in cemeteries<br \/>\nShaving heads off<br \/>\nWearing black shirts and\/or black ribbons<br \/>\nDeserting the village temporarily (future plan)<br \/>\nBurying \u201ctime\/history capsules\u201d all over the state (future plan)<\/p>\n<p>Women canvassing support in villages and towns<br \/>\nWomen leaders travelling to distant places all over the country<br \/>\nWomen speakers speaking in public meetings and campaigns<br \/>\nWomen braking alcohol bottles and driving away bootleggers<br \/>\nWomen abstaining from sex and pregnancy to convince their menfolk<br \/>\nWomen meeting District Collector and submitting memorandums<br \/>\nWomen holding press meet<\/p>\n<p>Sending children on marches and rallies<br \/>\nChildren writing thousands of postcards to authorities<br \/>\nChildren meeting District Collector and submitting memorandums<br \/>\nChildren submitting memorandum to the Chief Minister at the Secretariat<br \/>\nChildren visiting foreign embassies and submitting memorandums<br \/>\nChildren holding press meet<br \/>\nChildren boycotting school<\/p>\n<p>Youth organizing cultural programs<br \/>\nYouth organizing colleagues in neighboring villages<br \/>\nYouth guarding the village, roads, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Empowering women with newspaper and book reading during hunger strikes<br \/>\nPublishing Newsletters<br \/>\nPublishing handbills, pamphlets, booklets, books<br \/>\nOrganizing photo exhibitions<br \/>\nPainting walls with specific protest messages<br \/>\nPasting posters<br \/>\nEmail campaigns<br \/>\nSocial Media campaigns and canvassing<br \/>\nForming social media friends\u2019 circles<br \/>\nInternet-based streamlining, live telecast, documentaries etc.<br \/>\nTV interviews<br \/>\nRadio interviews<br \/>\nMagazine interviews<br \/>\nRegular Press Releases and Updates<\/p>\n<p>Filing cases with the High Court<br \/>\nFiling cases with the Supreme Court<br \/>\nFiling cases with the National Green Tribunal<br \/>\nUsing court appearances of prisoners for campaigns<br \/>\nLegal education campaigns<\/p>\n<p>Organizing blood donation camps<br \/>\nOrganizing food donations<br \/>\nServing meals for campaigners<\/p>\n<p>Replacing round bulbs with CFL bulbs<br \/>\nSupporting \u2018New Energy\u2019 schemes<br \/>\nPromoting solar panels<br \/>\nPromoting windmills<\/p>\n<p>3P Principle: Purity, Patience, Perseverance<br \/>\n3H Policy: Never Hurt, Harm or Homicide<br \/>\n3T Formula: Things Take Time<br \/>\n3O Strategy: Organize, Organize, Organize<\/p>\n<p><em>February 26, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. &#8211; Tamil Nadu, India:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>* SACCER-South Asian Community Center for Education and Research (promoting life-long, life-wide and life-deep education)<br \/>\n* TRANSCEND Network, South Asia Convener (TSA) (For Rethinking South Asia)<br \/>\n* People&#8217;s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)<br \/>\n* National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) (For a Nuclear-Free India that has No Deals, No Mines, No Reactors, No Dumps, and No Bombs)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indefinite hunger strike of a huge group of people including women and youth<br \/>\nRelay hunger strike \u2013 every single day 10 am to 5 pm<br \/>\nInviting a prominent political, religious or cultural leaders for day-long hunger strikes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,59,45,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members","category-nonviolence","category-activism","category-kudankulam-anti-nuclear-satyagraha-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}