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Recent Posts:

  • Remembering Taylor
  • LIFE AMONG THE TREE-CREATURES: From Personal to Political
  • Women and Kids Form a “Living Petition” for Free Speech
  • LEGACY OF LITTLE ROCK
  • Women in Pretoria Shout “You Have Struck a Rock!”
  • Hiroshima’s Children Remember Sadako
  • Mother Jones Makes a Hot July Hotter
  • Ireland’s “Pill Train” X2
  • Swimming Together
  • Mary Dyer, Martyr for Religious Freedom
  • Not Your Mama’s Mother’s Day!
  • How the Mothers of the Plaza Fought a Police State
  • Women and Water
  • Lady Godiva: Tax Protester
  • Lucy Stone: Independent and Rational
  • Hubertine Auclert’s “TAX STRIKE” ~ Paris, 1880
  • Kusunose’s Tax Protest in Meiji Japan
  • The “Red Virgin,” France’s Revolutionary Teacher
  • International Women’s Day — Born in the U.S.A.
  • Toilets: Why Women Can’t Wait!
  • Saudi Women On the Road to Liberation
  • Saint Valentine and the Death Penalty
  • Black Women Led Sit-Ins in the 1940s
  • Women’s Workplace Takeovers: 2 Stories of Courage
  • “SELMA” ~ The Women
  • The People’s Library: From Dream to Dumpster
  • Lawbreaking Librarians: A Legacy of Courage
  • Die-Ins Breathe Life Into Antiracism Uprising
  • We Can’t Breathe
  • Women’s Pentagon Action
  • The Uprising of the 20,000
  • Women’s “Night of Terror”
  • Grille, Baby, Grille! Muriel Matters Acts for Justice
  • Women’s Strike for Peace
  • Icelandic Women Take a Day Off … and then Another!
  • The London Matchgirls’ Strike of 1888
  • Sex Strikes and Birth Boycotts — No Laughing Matter
  • A Woman’s Strike in Burkina Faso
  • Eco-Artists, Swoon & Aylon, Resist Climate Chaos
  • From Seven Seedlings, a Canopy of Hope
  • Honoring Women Who Hugged the Trees
  • One Crazy Summer
  • It All Began at the Fish Market …
  • The “What If” Antidote
  • “This Work Is our Whole Life”
  • Sleepless in the Cyber Age
  • The Trouble with History
  • What Do We Expect? Two Greetings and A Folktale
  • Remembering Kent State, Keeping a Promise
  • Visiting Barbara Deming, then Women with Guns
  • Pride Poem

Pam McAllister

In 1982, I edited the anthology Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence and then wrote two books about women’s use of resistance and action: You Can't Kill the Spirit and This River of Courage.

I've spent a lifetime compiling stories of courageous, creative actions, categorizing them (a la Gene Sharp), writing books and articles, speaking at university forums, church retreats, feminist conferences. I’ve also joined in the action -- antiwar protests in the '70s, Take Back the Night marches in the '80s, prison reform rallies in the '90s, and Occupy Wall Street actions in recent years.

I am currently researching more examples of nonviolent action for peace and justice around the world for two new books -- one for/about children and another about women (whose actions are still so often left out or overlooked).

Here I am with Barbara Deming, my mentor and friend, in Sugarloaf Key in the early ‘80s. The photo has faded, but the memories and love have not.

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Your Comments: I’m new at blogging. After I've had some time to learn how to do this, I will have a way for you to leave comments and be in dialogue with me. My Author's Guild website is at: http://pammcallisterauthor.com. Also, see my Facebook Author Page Global Nonviolence: Stories of Creative Action and My Amazon "Author Page".

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