Open Letter in Support of Gene Sharp and Strategic Nonviolent Action

Open Letter in Support of Gene Sharp and Strategic Nonviolent Action, distributed by Stephen Zunes in late 2008.

Signatories - organizations for identification purposes only


 * Howard Zinn - Author, historian
 * Noam Chomsky - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * George Lakey - Swarthmore College
 * Paul Ortiz - University of California - Santa Cruz
 * Mary Bull - Greenwood Earth Alliance
 * Richard Deats - Fellowship of Reconciliation
 * Mubarak Awad - Nonviolence International
 * Scott Kennedy - Resource Center for Nonviolence
 * Patrick Coy - Kent State University
 * David Hartsough - Peaceworkers
 * Stephen Zunes - University of San Francisco
 * Frida Berrigan - World Policy Institute
 * Bill Sutherland - Pan-Africanist activist
 * Greg Bates - Common Courage Press
 * Elizabeth McAllister - Jonah House
 * Sandino Gomez - Brown Berets
 * Matt Meyer - Peace & Justice Studies Association
 * Michael Beer - Nonviolence International
 * Seelan Palay - Artist & Activist
 * Clinton Fernandes - University of New South Wales
 * Daniel Hunter - Training for Change
 * Evan Weissman - Playwright, Nonviolence Teacher
 * Nanlouise Wolfe - Resource Center for Nonviolence
 * Kathleen S. Pearce - Private citizen
 * Howard Clark - War Resisters'' International
 * Daniel Ellsberg - Truth-telling Project
 * Bert Garskof - Quinnipiac University
 * Joseph J. Fahey - Manhattan College
 * Sam Diener - Co-Editor, Peacework Magazine, AFSC
 * Randy Schutt - Vernal Education Project
 * Marc Pilisuk - Saybrook Graduate School
 * David Finke - Peace & Civil Rights activist
 * Barry L. Gan - St. Bonaventure University
 * Esther Franklin - Retired Ed. Consultant
 * Jacob Freeze - http://jacobfreeze.com
 * Christine Schweitzer - Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation, Germany
 * Andrew Rigby - coventry university, uk
 * Jørgen Johansen - Coventry University
 * Martin Arnold - Arbeitsgruppe Guetekraft
 * Bob Manizza - citizen
 * Shel Horowitz - Business Ethics Pledge
 * Karen Monroe - vsyr
 * John Sniegocki - Xavier University - Cincinnati
 * James A. Joyce - retired professor of Peace and Justice studies.
 * Dan Clore - The Soylent Green Party
 * B. Allan Ross - United Gay Force
 * Stephen R. Shalom - William Paterson University
 * Galia Goodman - Galia Graphics
 * Herbert Standing - Iowa historian
 * Robert A. Irwin - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Jacqueline Haessly - Peacemaking Associates
 * George Willoughby & Lillian Willoughby - 60 years nonviolent social change activism
 * Steve Chase - Antioch University''s Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program
 * Patty Lyman - Seattle Labor Chorus
 * Frances Delahanty - Pace University
 * Fred V. Cook - Social Movement Empowerment Project
 * Martyn Lowe - Peace Activist & Information Worker
 * Alice Maes - Vinegar Lane Associates
 * Ellie Clement - Commonweal Collection, Bradford, UK
 * Emmett J. Murphy - Sarasota Friends Meeting
 * Detlef Beck - Trainer for constrctive conflict resolution and mediator
 * Martha Dickinson - Ellsworth (ME) Area Peace and Justice
 * John M. Miller - War Resisters League
 * Paul A. Olson - University of Nebraska
 * Herb Ettel - Activist Media
 * Joan H. Drake - Women''s International League for Peace & Freedom
 * Shodo Spring - Buddhist Peace Fellowship
 * Michael D. Adams - Swamp Fox Brigade - npcia@bellsouth.net
 * Gayle Davies
 * Matthew Rothschild - The Progressive magazine
 * John Feffer - Foreign Policy In Focus
 * Michael Randle - Writer & Researcher, formerly Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford Unversity, UK
 * Anne Wright
 * Paul Loeb - Author, Soul of a Citizen
 * Lynn Grasberg - Humor Relations Associates
 * Christian Büttner - Archiv Aktiv e.V.
 * Gerald W. Schlabach - University of St. Thomas (MN)
 * John Braxton - Philadelphia branch, US Labor Against the War
 * Paul Engler - The Center For the Working Poor
 * Larry Dansinger - Resources for Organizing and Social Change, Monroe, ME
 * Gordon Fellman - Brandeis University
 * Amentahru Wahlrab - Illinois State University
 * Ira Chernus - University of Colorado
 * Louis Kriesberg - Conflict resolution analyst
 * Leo R. Sandy - Plymouth State University
 * David Swanson - AfterDowningStreet.org
 * Parke Burgess - www.ourtragicflaw.com
 * Anthony Newkirk - American School of Kuwait
 * Dion Economopoulos - AGX
 * Lo Auer - Dandelion Salad blog
 * Tammy Murphy - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London & Arcadia University
 * Scott J. MacDonald - U.S.A.
 * Chris Hables Gray - The Union Institute and University
 * Greg Guma - Author, journalist
 * Kelly Rae Kraemer - College of St. Benedict/St. John''s University
 * B. Beth Cohen - Ithaca, NY
 * Michael Nagler - Metta Center
 * Michael Bass - SOA Watch
 * Frank Kolwicz - none
 * Leyre Alejaldre Biel - UNIS
 * Pete Perry - Washington Peace Center
 * Mark Lance - philosopher, activist
 * John W. Lango - Hunter College
 * Rene Wadlow - Association of World Citizens
 * Stellan Vinthagen - Senior Lecturer, School pf Global Studies
 * Nina Huizinga - United for Peace and Justice
 * Rubén Campos Palarea - Complutense University (Madrid-Spain)
 * Binesh Hassanpour - Univeristy of Toronto
 * Donald Grayston - Simon Fraser University
 * Philippe Duhamel - Via Strategia
 * Cynthia Boaz - Sonoma State University
 * Kurt Schock - Rutgers University - Newark
 * Catherine Morris - Peacemakers Trust
 * Janet Cherry - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
 * Nathan Stoltzfus - Florida State University
 * Peter R Neumann - King''s College London
 * David Hartsough - PEACEWROKERS
 * Carolyn Scarr - Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC
 * Jason C. Waite - United Aid |UA|
 * Jean Marichez - Ecole de la Paix Grenoble
 * Ray Torres - Witness for Peace
 * Theodor Ebert - Otto-Suhr Institut, Free University of Berlin
 * Ute Finckh - Bund für Soziale Verteidigung/Federation for Social Defense, Germany
 * Brian Martin - University of Wollongong
 * Kathrin Vogler - Federation for Social Defence - Germany
 * Veronique Dudouet - Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin
 * Anthony Kelly - Australian Nonviolence Network
 * Markley Morris - Activist
 * Lisa Clark - Blessed Are the Peacemakers
 * Charles Johnson - Molinari Institute
 * Daniel Buk - Manhattan College
 * Joseph Tonan - Private Individual
 * Clark Rieke - none
 * Metta Spencer - Peace Magazine
 * Ken Simons - Peace Magazine
 * Lee Smithey - Swarthmore College
 * Premraj Pushpakaran - Pranavam, Kotte canal rd, Kochi - 682018, Kerala, India, pranavam research
 * Jason MacLeod - the Change Agency
 * Leah Brennan-Magidson - Great River School
 * Jim Barton - Smith Mill Creek Institute
 * Jørgen Johansen - Networkers SouthNorth
 * Ross Hyman - Shomer Shalom
 * Stellan Vinthagen - University West and Gothenburg University
 * David Gallahan - Civilian-Based Defense Assoc
 * Paul Lacey - Chairperson, American Friends Service Committee
 * Paul Loeb - Author