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This chapter looks at creating change from below — by ordinary people — the nonviolent grassroots approach. It does not discount the great change that can occur from above, and ideally the two types of action should occur together. But faith in the ‘top-down’ approach only is disempowering. Often it is passing the buck onto some-one else, an attitude that goes to the very top. We need to take back our power from governments and corporations — idea power, economic power, physical power and political power. The chapter begins by looking at how to create a nonviolent campaign, before moving on to a ‘constructive programme’ for combating global warming.
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Branagan, M. (2013). Creating Campaigns and Constructive Programmes. In: Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010100_7
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