Non-Violence

Code of Conduct: Non-Violence

This site and every action organized under it operates under an absolute, non-negotiable commitment to non-violence.

This is not a tactical choice. It is not a temporary position subject to revision when circumstances change. It is a foundational principle.

What This Means

  1. No physical violence against any person, under any circumstances, for any reason.
  2. No threats of violence — explicit, implicit, or coded.
  3. No property destruction. No vandalism, no arson, no sabotage.
  4. No doxxing that could foreseeably lead to physical harm.
  5. No incitement. Nothing published here is designed to provoke others to violence.
  6. No weapons. No action organized through this site involves weapons of any kind.

Why Non-Violence

Non-violence is not weakness. It is the strategic tradition of every movement celebrated on this site:

  • The thirteen border guards on Snake Island did not fire on the Moskva. They spoke.
  • Gandhi did not raise a hand at Dharasana. The marchers walked into the clubs. Webb Miller wrote it down. The British Empire lost India. [1]
  • Rosa Parks did not fight the bus driver. She sat.
  • The Freedom Riders did not strike back when they were beaten. Photographers were there.
  • The man in Tiananmen Square did not throw a Molotov cocktail. He stood in front of a tank with a shopping bag.

The pattern is consistent across centuries: the powerful need you to be violent so they can justify the violence they want to use against you. Non-violence removes their justification and exposes their force as what it is.

Martin Luther King Jr. stated the principle: “The nonviolent resister must often express his protest through noncooperation or boycotts, but noncooperation and boycotts are not ends themselves; they are merely means to awaken a sense of moral shame in the opponent.” [2]

Enforcement

Anyone who advocates violence in connection with this site or its actions will be immediately and permanently disassociated. There is no appeals process for this.

Bibliography

[1] mkgandhi.org. “Salt Satya — Dandi March and Salt Satyagraha.” National Gandhi Museum, Rajghat, New Delhi. https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/salt_satya.php

[2] King, Martin Luther Jr. “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.” 1958.