Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 18:02:32 -0800 From: Randy Schutt <•••@••.•••> Subject: Papers on Nonviolent Action and Cooperative Decision-Making Friends, As you probably know, I began facilitating free workshops to prepare people for nonviolent direct action with the Northern California Nonviolence Preparers Collective (part of the Abalone Alliance) in 1980. Soon after that, I also started facilitating workshops on cooperative decision-making and consensus. For these various workshops I found it useful to prepare sample agendas which I could then easily modify to suit the occasion. I also developed notes and handouts that included everything I had learned about these subjects. In addition, I have collected some papers developed by other people. From the beginning I have freely distributed these papers and encouraged other people to use them to facilitate workshops for progressive social change activists in their own area. I've finally put most of these papers -- the ones I usually distribute at workshops -- in Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) format on my new web site so that anyone can view them, download them, print them, and distribute them. Feel free to copy and distribute these papers however you see fit (as long as it is for non-commercial use). The papers are located here: <http://www.vernalproject.org/RPapers.shtml> Please pass this email message on to anyone you think might be interested in these papers. Also, I try to update these papers regularly with whatever I've learned since the last time, so please send me your additions, comments, and criticism. Thanks. --Randy P.S. I've sent this note to essentially everyone I know and everyone I think might be interested in these papers. I'm sorry for any duplicates or for clogging your email if this is something that does not interest you. ----------------------------------------------------------- Randy Schutt P.O. Box 60922, Palo Alto, CA 94306 <http://www.vernalproject.org> -----------------------------------------------------------
