"Beginning Monday, a mosaic of all New Yorkers including artists, students, teachers, religious leaders and lawyers, will unite in a weeklong course of dedicated non-violent solidarity not only to disrupt, but actually move towards upending a system that condones police brutality and murder," the group announced.
"I think what's significant is either non-violent resistance or solidarity with those doing that.
To my Methodist brothers and sisters who oppose divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, I say: "I am sorry that you are not heeding the non-violent call for solidarity with the Palestinians, but you are also wrong in thinking that you are are acting in the interest of the Israeli people.
There was, running through the recruitment of members and the coded language they adopted, something approaching an underlying philosophy -- one that mixed notions of black solidarity, a violent pledge not to be victimized by other gangs and an elaborate punishment system for those who violated the Bloods' protocols.
Those sentiments were echoed in Occupy's founding principles -- "constituting ourselves as autonomous political beings engaged in non-violent civil disobedience and building solidarity based on mutual respect, acceptance, and love".
After three days of uneventful bureaucratic protocol, the National Energy Board hearings for Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline reversal erupted into a noisy but non-violent demonstration, as protesters in solidarity with Idle No More, and the now infamous Elsipogtog anti-fracking blockade that ended with Molotov cocktails and RCMP snipers, packed into the hearings and burst into chants, song, and dance.
Yet the movie is not a conventional liberal plea for prison rehab or for racial solidarity — it's too violent for that.
Muslim demonstrators gave interviews in which they denounced militant and violent manifestations of Islam and declared solidarity with the victims, not least the Jews who were killed at Hyper Cacher.
Now religious solidarity is taking a more violent turn in a country with a record of Islamist terrorism.
Like other religious leaders, she expressed solidarity with the demonstrators' non-violent methods and aim of economic justice.
A solidarity rally on Wednesday night turned violent when the police clashed with hooded demonstrators in scuffles that left at least three people injured.
