Rev. Osagyefo Sekou and Lisa Fithian: Militant Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2020-08-13

Join us in the park for as we sit in on a militant nonviolent civil disobedience training with Rev. Osagyefo Sekou.  You will be needing it soon.  We learn how to dodge bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, protect yourself from batons and what to do if you are arrested.  After this we go a little deeper into mass resistance theory with a segment from Lisa Fithian’s training session given last November 30th at the WTO Plus 30 event at Seattle Town Hall.

The noted activist, theologian, author, documentary filmmaker, and musician, Rev Osagyefo Sekou is the leader of an awesome R&B Gospel band called Rev. Sekou & the Holy Ghost. He has 3 albums, “The Revolution Has Come”- 2016, "In Times Like These” - 2017, and a new live album, “When We Fight We Win”.  Rev. Sekou has written two collections of essays.  "Urbansouls: Meditations on Youth, Hip Hop, and Religion" and "Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the Future of Democracy". He is the author of the forthcoming "Riot Music: Race, Hip Hop and the Meaning of the London Riots 2011".

Rev. Sekou was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Education and Research Institute at the time of Michael Brown Jr.’s killing, and traveled to Ferguson in mid-August 2014 on behalf of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (the country’s oldest interfaith peace organization) to organize alongside local and national groups.

Lisa Fithian is an anti-racist organizer who has worked for justice since the 1970s. Using creative, strategic nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience, she has won many battles and trained tens of thousands of activists while participating in a range of movements and mobilizations, including Occupy Wall Street, anti-WTO and corporate globalization protests all over the world, the climate justice movement, and more.  Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Fithian has been involved in nearly every major protest event for the past four decades.
Recorded 7/29/20



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