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The Social Movement Study Network's
Boston Bombing Study Guide
What Policymakers, Journalists, and All of Us Need to Know
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Roger Griffin, 2012,
Terrorist's Creed:
Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Listen to an Audio Interview with Griffin Recorded on May 7, 2013
This is an interview with Roger Griffin, Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, who has turned his expertise in modelling the dynamics of fascist support to understanding the psychological mechanisms which drive terrors fanaticism. In this interview he explains the phenomenon of what he calls 'heroic doubling' which can turn a 'normal' individual into someone who carries out acts of fanatical violence which may make no sense to the victims or the media-spectators to whom it is supposed to act as as a message. His analysis has a direct bearing on the 'inexplicable' acts of the Boston Marathon Bombers:
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Don't let terrorism stampede us into further eroding civil liberties in the United States. Expanding freedom is the best payback. Resistance is not futile.
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Social Movement Theory
for Activists
The Movement Action Plan (MAP)
The Practical Strategist
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Featured Social Movement Organization
Spirit House Project uses the arts, research, education, action, and spirituality to bring diverse peoples together to work for racial, economic, and social justice, as well as for spiritual maturity.
Featured Physical Archives
Marquette University has acquired a large collection of FBI files on US right-wing organizations and individuals. The files were released under the federal Freedom of Information Act to researcher Ernie Lazar. The Lazar Collection is also ONLINE!
Emory University: Neighbor's Network (Atlanta, Ga.) 1987-1998)
Featured Multimedia
Anti-Nazi lithograph cartoons by a survivor of the the genocide.
Why this Webpage? The goal of the website is to provide online linkages to a variety of existing and new transatlantic resources for the study of social movements that seek to expand or restrict access to full democratic human rights for all people. The mission is to illuminate the relationship of hierarchies of race, gender, and class to societal conflicts, especially those involving social movement organizations and their specific ideologies, frames, and narratives.
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This website is sponsored by a group of scholars in the United States and Europe for the purpose of providing reliable resources for scholars, researchers, students, journalists, and organizers for human rights as defined by various international documents and United Nations declarations.
The Social Movement Study Website is an independent collaborative non-profit endeavor that receives no funding from governments or partisan political organizations.
Advisory Board
(in formation)
Cynthia Burack (US)
James Danky (US)
Alex DiBranco (US)
Martin Durham (UK)
Matthew Feldman (UK)
Paul Jackson (UK)
Angelia R. Wilson (UK)
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The global human rights movement challenges the
systems, structures, and institutions that create, defend, and extend
oppression and repression in a society.
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“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
--Frederick Douglass
“There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions.”
--Audre Lorde
"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
-- Molly Ivins
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Democracy is not a specific set of institutions but a process that requires dissent.
Democracy is a process that assumes the majority of people,
over time, given enough accurate information, the ability to participate in a free and open public debate,
and can vote without intimidation, reach constructive decisions that benefit the whole of society, and
preserve liberty, protect our freedoms, extend equality, and defend democracy.
Without dissent there is no progress in a society: Dissent is Essential
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