Michael G. Long 
We the Resistance [EPUB ebook] 
Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States

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‘A highly relevant, inclusive collection of voices from the roots of resistance. . . . Empowering words to challenge, confront, and defy.’–Kirkus Reviews

‘This book fights fascism. This books offers hope. We The Resistance is essential reading for those who wish to understand how popular movements built around nonviolence have changed the world and why they retain the power to do so again.’—Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life

‘This comprehensive documentary history of non-violent resisters and resistance movements is an inspiring antidote to any movement fatigue or pessimism about the value of protest. It tells us we can learn from the past as we confront the present and hope to shape the future. Read, enjoy and take courage knowing you are never alone in trying to create a more just world. Persevere and persist and win, but know that even losing is worth the fight and teaches lessons for later struggles.’—Mary Frances Berry, author of History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times

‘We the Resistance illustrates the deeply rooted, dynamic, and multicultural history of nonviolent resistance and progressive activism in North America and the United States.  With a truly comprehensive collection of primary sources, it becomes clear that dissent has always been a central feature of American political culture and that periods of quiescence and consensus are aberrant rather than the norm.  Indeed, the depth and breadth of resistant and discordant voices in this collection is simply outstanding.’—Leilah Danielson, author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of American Radicalism in the Twentieth Century 

While historical accounts of the United States typically focus on the nation’s military past, a rich and vibrant counterpoint remains basically unknown to most Americans. This alternate story of the formation of our nation—and its character—is one in which courageous individuals and movements have wielded the weapons of nonviolence to resist policies and practices they considered to be unjust, unfair, and immoral.
We the Resistance gives curious citizens and current resisters unfiltered access to the hearts and minds—the rational and passionate voices—of their activist predecessors. Beginning with the pre-Revolutionary era and continuing through the present day, readers will directly encounter the voices of protesters sharing instructive stories about their methods (from sit-ins to tree-sitting) and opponents (from Puritans to Wall Street bankers), as well as inspirational stories about their failures (from slave petitions to the fight for the ERA) and successes (from enfranchisement for women to today’s reform of police practices). Instruction and inspiration run throughout this captivating reader, generously illustrated with historic graphics and photographs of nonviolent protests throughout U.S. history.

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We the Resistance:

Documenting Our History of Nonviolent Protest


Introduced and Edited

by Michael G. Long

Introduction: Making America Resistant


ONE

The Roots of Resistance


Religious Oppression

We Cannot Condemn Quakers (1657)

Edward Hart

Redeemed of Wars (1672)

John Tilton and Others

I Felt a Scruple (1756)

Joshua Evans

Unjustly Taxed (1774)

Isaac Backus

Slavery

Buy Slaves to Free Them (1693)

George Keith

I am but a poor SLave (1723)

Anonymous Slave


Indian Removal and Extermination

I Have No King (1727)

Loron Sauguaarum

Not One Single Inch (1752)

Atiwaneto

Taxation Without Representation

The People Are the Proper Judge (1750)

Jonathan Mayhew

Tea Overboard (1773)

George Hewes

No Money for the Revolutionary War (1776, 1797)

Job Scott

Grant Us Relief from Taxation (1780)

John Cuffe and Others

TWO

Abolishing Slavery


Black Resistance

Like Sheep for Slaughter (1788)

Elizabeth Freeman and Prince Hall

They Do Not Consider Us as Men (1813)

John Fortren

Are We Men? (1829)

David Walker

The Fifth of July (1832)

Peter Osbourne

I Won’t Obey It! (1850)

Jermaine Wesley Loguen

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)

Frederick Douglass

He Took Hold of Me and I Took Hold of the Window Sash (1854)

Elizabeth Jennings

The Next Thing to Hell (1856)

Harriet Tubman

White Resistance

Women Overthrowing Slavery (1836)

Angelina Grimke

Escape on the Pearl (1848)

Donald Drayton

Resistance to Civil Government (1849)

Henry David Thoreau

Was John Brown Justified? (1859)

William Lloyd Garrison

THREE

Protesting Early Wars


The War of 1812 and the Civil War

A Manifestly Unjust War (1812)

Boston Committee

The Slavery of the Sword (1861)

Alfred Love


Indian Removal and White Man’s Wars

The Audacious Practices of Unprincipled Men (1836)

Chief John Ross

Kiss the Foot That Crushes Us? (1842)

Colored People’s Press

The Negro Will Be Exterminated Soon Enough (1898)

Henry Mc Neal Turner

Hypocrisy of the Most Sickening Kind (1899)

Lewis H. Douglass

FOUR

Striking Against Industrialists


Petition for a Ten-Hour Workday (1845)

Sarah Bagley

Petition Against Terrorism (1871)

Colored National Labor Union

Will You Organize? (1877)

Albert Parsons

We Have 4, 000 Men (1891)

Black Waterfront Workers of Savannah

A Petition in Boots (1894)

James Coxey

George Pullman, Ulcer on the Body Politic (1894)

Pullman Workers

The Wail of the Children (1903)

Mother Jones

The Uprising of the 20, 000 (1909)

Clara Lemlich

Wage Slavery (1912)

Textile Workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts


FIVE

The Early Fight for Women’s Rights


The Right to Vote

All Men and Women Are Created Equal (1848)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Others

Strong as Any Man (1851)

Sojourner Truth

I Return My Tax Bill (1858)

Lucy Stone

Amend the Constitution (1866)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Others

Robbed of Citizenship (1873)

Susan B. Anthony

Why Women Want to Vote (1913)

Anna Howard Shaw

The Paramount Political Issue (1915)

Women’s Voter Convention

The Lucretia Mott Amendment (1923)

Alice Paul

The Right to Sex and Love

Protest of Marriage (1855)

Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell

I Am a Free Lover (1871)

Victoria C. Woodhull

Sexual Love Is Not Exclusive (1878)

Ezra Heywood

A Rapture So Exquisite (1900)

Ida C. Craddock

Marriage and Love Have Nothing in Common (1910)

Emma Goldman

What Every Woman Needs to Know (1922)

Margaret Sanger

SIX

World War I

I Pledge Myself Against Enlistment (1915)

Tracy Mygatt and the Anti-Enlistment League

I Denounce the Governing Class (1915)

Kate Richards O’Hare

Strike Against War (1916)

Helen Keller

The Darker Races and Avaricious Capitalists (1917)

A.Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen

A Deliberate Violator (1918)

Roger N. Baldwin

The Children’s Crusade for Amnesty (1922)

Kate Richards O’Hare and Frank O’Hare

SEVEN

Battling the Great Depression


A Bolshevik Revolution in Lawrence? (1919)

A.J. Muste

The Usual Policy of Terrorism (1919)

William Z. Foster

Don’t Starve! Organize! (1932)

Ford Hunger Marchers

Camping for the Bonus Check (1932)

Bonus Army Veterans

We Poor Peoples Need You (1935)

Anonymous Sharecropper

Death Watch (1935)

League of the Physically Handicapped

The Flynt Sit-Down Strike (1937)

United Auto Workers

Cracking and Shelling and Striking (1938)

Emma Zepeda Tenayuca and the Texas Pecan Shellers Union

EIGHT

World War II


War Shall Be Illegal (1926)

Women’s Peace Union

Students Strike Against War (1935)

Joseph P. Lash

Jim Crow and National Defense (1941)

A.Philip Randolph

I Cannot Honorably Participate (1943)

Robert Lowell

I Must Resist (1943)

Bayard Rustin

The Internment of Japanese Citizens (1944)

Fred Korematsu and Frank Murphy

A Racist Charge of Mutiny (1944)

Thurgood Marshall

Against Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan (1945)

Leo Szilard

Judgment on Jubilation (1945)

Dorothy Day


NINE

The Civil Rights Movement


Preparing the Way

Human Holocaust Under the Stars and Stripes (1909)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

We March for the Butchered Dead (1917)

Charles Martin and the Negro Silent Protest Parade

We Return Fighting (1919)


  • E. B. Du Bois
  • We Demand Complete Control (1920)

    Marcus Garvey

    Communists for the Scottsboro Boys (1933)

    Thomas Stamm

    Jim Crow in the Armed Forces (1948)

    Bayard Rustin

    Another Historic Supreme Court Decision (1952)

    Thurgood Marshall and Others

    The Lynching of Emmett Till (1955)

    Paul Robeson

    Dogs, Cats, and Colored People (1955)

    George Grant

    From Rosa Parks to the Poor People’s Campaign

    Don’t Ride the Bus (1955)

    Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

    We Shall Have to Lead Our People to You (1957)

    Southern Negro Leaders Conference

    The Racist Policy of Apartheid (1957)

    George Houser and the American Committee on Africa

    More Than a Hamburger (1960)

    Ella Baker

    We’re Going to Keep Coming (1961)

    Jim Zwerg

    A Living Petition (1963)

    Bayard Rustin

    I Call Now for an Uprising (1963)

    Bayard Rustin

    I Didn’t Try to Register for You (1964)

    Fannie Lou Hamer

    Alabama Negroes Are “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired” (No Date)

    No Name

    The Right to Throw Off Such Government (1966)

    Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

    Economic and Social Bill of Rights (1968)

    Bayard Rustin

    TEN

    Atomic Bombs and the Vietnam War


    ICBMs and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Statement on Omaha Action (1955)

    Marjorie Swann

    An Appeal by Government Scientists (1958)

    Linus Pauling

    Openly Against Civil Defense (TBA)

    Women Strike for Peace

    President Kennedy, Be Careful (TBA)

    Women Strike for Peace

    Ring Around the Pentagon (1972)

    Women Strike for Peace

    Hell No, We Won’t Go

    March on Washington to End the Vietnam War (1965)

    Students for a Democratic Society

    A Draft for the Freedom Fight in the US (1965)

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority (1967)

    Marcus Raskin and Arthur Waskow

    Our Apologies, Good Friends (1968)

    Daniel Berrigan and the Catonsville Nine

    Stop Dow and Napalm (1969)

    University of Michigan Students

    For the People (1970)

    National Chicano Moratorium Committee

    If the Government Doesn’t Stop the War, We Will Stop the Government (1971)

    Mayday Tribe


    ELEVEN

    The Expanding Civil Rights Movement


    Red Power

    Fish-Ins (1964)

    Janet Mc Cloud

    The Occupation of Alcatraz (1969)

    Indians of All Tribes

    The Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1972)

    American Indian Movement

    The Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)

    Red Tide Students

    The Longest Walk (1978)

    American Indian Movement

    Chicano Power

    La Huelga and La Causa Is Our Cry (1966)

    Dolores Huerta

    BLOWOUTS—BABY—BLOWOUTS!! (1968)

    Chicano Students in East Los Angeles

    El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (1969)

    First National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference

    To Resist with Every Ounce (1969)

    Cesar Chavez

    Hasta Le Victoria Siempre! (1970)

    Young Lords

    Le Marcha de la Reconquista (1971)

    Rosalio Munoz and the Chicano Moratorium Committee

    Yellow Power

    The Yellow Power Movement (1969)

    Amy Uyematsu

    The Right to Assert Our Yellow Identity (1969)

    Asian American Political Alliance

    From Colonies to Communities (1969)

    Asian Community Center

    Gay Power

    Ejected from Dewey’s (1965)

    Janus Society

    Homosexuals March on the White House (1965)

    Frank Kameny

    Young Homos Picket Compton’s (1966)

    Vanguard

    Christopher Street Liberation Day (1970)

    Gay Liberation Front

    Women Power

    Underground Abortion (1969)

    Jane

    We Call on All Our Sisters (1969)

    Redstockings

    Women Power (1970)

    Bella Abzug and the Third World Alliance

    Welfare Is a Women’s Issue (1972)

    Johnnie Tilmon

    Speak-Out Against Sexual Harassment (1975)

    Working Women United and Others

    Disability Power

    Sitting Against Nixon (1972)

    Judy Heumann

    The Vegetables Are Rising (1977)

    Ed Roberts

    Deaf President Now (1988)

    Gallaudet Students

    TWELVE

    Environmental Justice and Animal Liberation


    Saving Earth

    Earth Day (1970)

    Gaylord Nelson

    I Can Find No Natural Balance with a Nuclear Plant (1975)

    Sam Lovejoy

    Oppose, Resist, Subvert (1981)

    Edward Abbey

    Occupy the Forest (1985)

    Earth Firsters

    Nuclear Waste on Our Homeland (1995)

    Lower Colorado River Tribes


    Freeing the Animals

    Rescuing the Monkeys (1981)

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

    A Necessary Fuss (1984)

    Animal Liberation Front

    Don’t Call Avon (1989)

    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

    The Hegins Pigeon Shoot (1996)

    Fund for Animals


    THIRTEEN

    The Nuclear Arms Race, Central America, and the Gulf War


    Anti-Nuclear Campaigns

    Declaration of Nuclear Resistance (1976)

    Clamshell Alliance

    Making the World Truly Safe (1979)

    Randall Forsberg

    Unity Statement (1980)

    Grace Paley

    The Wars in Central America

    We Join in Covenant to Provide Sanctuary (1982)

    Bay Area Sanctuary Movement

    Against the War in Central America (1983)

    David Cortright

    The Illegal Invasion of Panama (1989)

    Matthew Rothschild


    The Gulf War

    An Attack Against People of Color (1990)

    Azania Howse

    I Will Resist (1990)

    Jeff Paterson

    Unjustifiable Destruction (1991)

    Ramsey Clark


    FOURTEEN

    The Expanding Movement

    for Gay Rights and Women’s Rights


    Lesbian and Gay Rights

    I Am Proud to Raise My Voice Today (1979)

    Audre Lorde

    The Right to Lesbian and Gay Sex (1987)

    The March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

    We Take That Fire and Make It Our Own (1993)

    The Lesbian Avengers

    The AIDS Crisis

    You Could Be Dead in Five Years (1987)

    ACT UP

    Why We Fight (1988)

    Vito Russo


    Sexual Harassment, Abortion, and Black Women

    Clarence Thomas, Sexual Harasser (1991)

    Anita Hill

    March for Women’s Lives (1992)

    Patricia Ireland and Faye Wattleton

    The Million Woman March (1997)

    Phile Chionesu and Asia Coney

    FIFTEEN

    Defending Labor and Immigrants


    You Are Not Alone (1981)

    Lane Kirkland

    Boycotting Shell (1986)

    United Mineworkers of America

    Globalization Without Representation (1999)

    People for Fair Trade

    No Sweatshops (1999)

    SOLE

    Latino March on Washington (1996)

    Coordinadora 96


    SIXTEEN

    The War on Terror


    Isn’t This Really About Oil? (2002)

    Medea Benjamin

    Calling All Americans to Resist War and Repression (2002)

    Not in Our Name

    Let the Virtual March Begin (2003)

    Win Without War

    Bring Our Troops Home (2005)

    Cindy Sheehan

    Shut Down Creech (2016)

    Anti-Drone Activists

    SEVENTEEN

    Making the New Century Resistant

    Mining, Pipelines, and Climate Warming

    End Mountaintop Removal (2010)

    Appalachia Rising

    The Biggest Carbon Bomb in North America (2011)

    Tar Sands Action

    Together, We Rise (2017)

    Dave Archambault

    And So We Resist Climate Warming (2017)

    Bill Mc Kibben


    LGBT Rights to Serve and Marry

    Chained to Serve Openly (2010)

    Get EQUAL

    A Rogue Clerk and the Failed Defense of Marriage (2013)


  • Bruce Hanes and Anthony Kennedy
  • Shaking Booties for Mike Pence (2017)

    WERK for Peace

    Targeting Transgender Troops (2017)

    Human Rights Campaign


    Reasserting the Power of Women

    Every Feminist Is an Organizer (2004)

    Dolores Huerta

    Our Pussies Ain’t for Grabbin’ (2017)

    The Women’s March and America Ferrera

    Fearless Girl (2017)

    Susan Cox


    Occupying Wall Street and Washington

    Killing Big Insurance (2009)

    Mobilization for Health Care for All

    Occupy, I Love You (2011)

    Naomi Klein

    Moral Mondays (2013)

    William Barber II

    Time to Withdraw Big Money from Politics (2016)

    Democracy Spring and Democracy Uprising

    Freeing Slaves in Prison (2016)

    Support Prisoner Resistance

    Not Our President (2017)

    John Lewis and Others

    Dying for Health Care (2017)

    ADAPT


    Legalizing Immigrants

    We Want a Legalization Process (2006)

    Luis Gutierrez, Gloria Romero, and Others

    DREAMers Stop Deportation Bus (2013)

    United We Dream

    Protect the Rights of Immigrants (2017)

    American Civil Liberties Union

    We Pledge to Resist for Immigrants (2017)

    Alison Harrington

    Trump Seems to Have Made Me an Alien (2017)

    Mo Farah

    Black Lives Matter

    Our Son Is Your Son (2012)

    Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fountain

    Riding to Ferguson (2014)

    Black Lives Matter

    Murder in Charlottesville (2017)

    TBA

    March on Washington for Racial Justice (2017)

    TBA

    Conclusion: Where to Resist from Here?

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    Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked for civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice-president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100, 000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards, among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in l998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

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