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 Universitys 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 - Womens 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. Johns 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 - Kings 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