NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE

The Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) has published three books to give activists around the world the tools and knowledge to build nonviolent movements and resist violent repression oppression.

Canvas Core Curriculum:
English | Arabic | Farsi | Slovak

Making Oppression Backfire: 
English

50 Crucial Points:
English | Spanish | French | Arabic | Farsi |Serbian

Pressing Your Case: Nonviolent Movements and the Media

This educational video series explores ways that nonviolent campaigns and movements can better relate to world media. It discusses best practices in enhancing the value of media coverage that campaigns receive through interviews with activists, resistance leaders and scholars.

Organizers and strategists of nonviolent movements often struggle in dealing with the mainstream news media. Some consider it their enemy, because coverage can be patchy or inaccurate. Others unrealistically expect the media to advocate for their causes.

Organizers and strategists of nonviolent movements often struggle in dealing with the mainstream news media. Some consider it their enemy, because coverage can be patchy or inaccurate. Others unrealistically expect the media to advocate for their causes.

Organizers and strategists of nonviolent movements often struggle in dealing with the mainstream news media. Some consider it their enemy, because coverage can be patchy or inaccurate. Others unrealistically expect the media to advocate for their causes.

Organizers and strategists of nonviolent movements often struggle in dealing with the mainstream news media. Some consider it their enemy, because coverage can be patchy or inaccurate. Others unrealistically expect the media to advocate for their causes.

Branding in Serbia:

Advertising for the Revolution

A short video on the importance of branding and marketing in any movement, taking the Otpor movement, which played a key role in the Bulldozer Revolution against Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, as a case-study.

On the importance of branding and marketing in any revolution movement.