Civic Movements for Reform and Liberation: The Historical Model
Remarks by Jack DuVall. Focuses on refuting the idea that “ordinary people cannot engineer meaningful change, and that only some external agency can do it for them.” Instead, DuVall argues, civil resistance can shift our perceptions to the true reality, which is that “Democratic power is not contrived or seized by a few, it is summoned from the many.”
Presented in a workshop entitled “Democratic Transitions in Europe and Latin America: What Relevance for the Arab World?”
Workshop hosted by FRIDE — Fundacion Para Relaciones Internacionales Y El Dialogo Exterior
Madrid — March 24, 2006
