What do you do when the Commander in Chief of the world's largest military starts popping off about annexing your country? Especially when that military is 10 times the size of your own? Panic? Enlist? Appease? Or Focus? And focus on what has worked in the past to repel such aggression. In Ukraine, Czechia, Egypt, and other places a careful blend of Civil Defense and non-violent resistance has demonstrated forces so powerful that no government could suppress them. Civilian Defense, according to Richard Sandbrook may be what Canada, and other nations feeling U.S. aggression, need now more than ever before. What is it and why do we need it?
Richard Sandbrook is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto, the Vice-President of Science for Peace, and a blogger at the Progressive Futures blog. He has written or edited 14 books, about 50 scholarly articles, and numerous short, popular articles. Having specialized for 40 years in the political economy of international development, he has, in the past decade, turned his attention to policy and advocacy concerning nonviolent resistance and the politics of climate/ecological protection.
His latest piece in THE CONVERSATION suggests that Canada commit to Civilian Defense.
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