Film Series & Discussion
Monday, November 10, Part Two, 7 pm
Frontier café+cinema+gallery, Fort Andross, Brunswick

EPISODE TWO

In April, 1940, German military forces invaded Denmark. Danish leaders adopted a strategy of “resistance disguised as collaboration”—undermining German objectives by negotiating, delaying, and obstructing Nazi demands. Underground resistance organized sabotage and strikes, and rescued all but a handful of Denmark’s seven thousand Jews.

In 1980, striking workers in Poland demanded independent unions. Using their leverage to negotiate unprecedented rights in a system where there was no power separate from the communist party, they created a union, Solidarity. Driven underground by a government crackdown in 1981, Solidarity re-emerged in 1989 as Poland’s governing political party.

In 1983, Chilean workers initiated a wave of nonviolent protests against the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Severe repression failed to stop the protests, and violent opposition failed to dislodge the dictatorship—until the democratic opposition organized to defeat Pinochet in a 1988 referendum.

To learn more about nonviolent conflict,
visit www.aforcemorepowerful.org
and www.nonviolent-conflict.org

To obtain a free study guide for the series, contact Miriam Zimmerman at (202) 337-3291 or
mzimmerman [at] yorkzim [dot] com