#resisting oppression

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

Enslaved Africans were property, and one way that many resisted the dehumanizing effects of slavery was by re-creating African notions of family as extended kin units. Bloodlines carefully monitered in Western African societies were replaced by a notion of "blood" whereby enslaved Africans drew upon notions of family to redefine themselves as part of a Black community consisting of their enslaved "brothers" and "sisters." This slave community stood in opposition to a White male-controlled public sphere of the capitalist political economy.

Patricia Hill Collins: Black Feminist Thought

[chikabika]

198 Methods of Non-Violent Action

by Gene Sharp

You'll observe that protesters in Ferguson are already using a number of these. (I can't copy from it, but it can be printed and the pdf is still available)

"Gene Sharp researched and catalogued these 198 methods and provided a rich selection of historical examples in his seminal work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 Vols.)"