Matthew is back today for more with Ben Case: profiling Gene Sharp and the (non)politics of strategic nonviolence, plus his strange funding sources. Also: why did Erica Chenoweth speak out against antifascist Trump protesters in January of 2017, and suggest their research proved that property damage and scuffles with the police would ruin any opposition movement to Trump? Also: where does the funding come from for all this bad research? Gene Sharp worked for the Department of Defense, and today, Bill Ackerman is a top funder of strategic nonviolence research. 

Case is a retired professional Muaythai fighter, an organizer, educator, and writer. He is a researcher at the Center for Work and Democracy and a fellow at the Resistance Studies Initiative. 

Show Notes

Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence | Case

Why Civil Resistance Works | Columbia University Press 

Why Not Riot? Interview with Author Ben Case - CounterPunch.org  

Change Agent: Gene Sharp’s Neoliberal Nonviolence (Part One) – Nonsite.org 

Have Repertoire, Will Travel: Nonviolence as Global Contentious Performance 

Violence Will Only Hurt the Trump Resistance | The New Republic

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