Peaceful Protests

By Michael Douglas Carlin

Was it Mayan? Was it Incan? Was it Aztec? It was a ritual... a spiritual ritual. Civil disobedience is a rite of passage for any activist. The arrests were made with dignity. They were made with respect. The police were there doing their job. They didn't want to be called out into the heat – in full riot gear. They were there protecting the population from a threat. I never once saw a police officer with his or her hand on their gun. I never saw that salivation to escalate this protest into violence. I witnessed a true measured response. I witnessed activism. I witnessed people who moved the discussion forward by saying, “Wait! This is important. This is something that defines our community. This is something we don't agree with.”

Protesting is an art. This book is meant to inspire protests to be done peacefully and properly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Douglas Carlin
• Release date: Jan 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311977809

Michael Douglas Carlin

"Our work will not be finished until every man, woman, and child alive has three square meals a day, a roof over their heads, access to quality health care, personal security, an education and a job." - Michael Douglas CarlinIt all began with the book "A Prescription For Peace" continued with "Peaceful Protests" and is developed further in "Rise a Knight." What if a billion people took an oath never to discriminate against any human for any reason? The world would be a better place for all of us. Rise a Knight empowers people everywhere to live a life of service. In the pages of Carlin's books you will find essays about the nuts and bolts of how we can have peace on earth.You can follow Michael Carlin into Border Mexico in the documentary film, American Federale, about the only American ever to serve as a Mexican Federale. The film is available on iTunes, Amazon, and GooglePlay.Recently Carlin spent two years with former LAPD Homicide Detective Russell Poole investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Russell, R.J. Bond, and Carlin wrote Tupac:187 an encyclopedia about the murders. Russell and Carlin continued to distill the information with the attempt to get law enforcement on board with reopening the cases. What they created can be seen in Chaos Merchants. Carlin set up a meeting through Sheriff Jim McDonnell for Russell to meet with a homicide investigator at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Poole and Carlin had uncovered some disturbing information related to the cases that implicated one or more of the Sheriff's in a related attempted murder. Poole felt that reopening the Tupac and Biggie cases would make the Sheriff's shine and avoid embarrassment. When Poole showed up to the meeting he was confronted by investigators into the attempted murder instead of just the promised homicide investigator interested in reopening the cases. Mysteriously Poole suffered a massive heart attack in the meeting and perished before he left the room. Learn what Poole and Carlin discovered in Chaos Merchants that cost Russell Poole his life.You can reach Michael Carlin at [e-mail]

Book preview

Peaceful Protests

By Michael Douglas Carlin

Published by Michael Douglas Carlin at Smashwords

© 2016 Michael Douglas Carlin.

All Rights Reserved.

Discover other titles published by Michael Douglas Carlin

https://www.smashwords.com

See documentary American Federale on iTunes, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

CONTENTS

Dedication

Chapter One: A More Perfect Union

Chapter Two: Freedom of Speech

Chapter Three: Anarchy is not the Answer

Chapter Four: Strength in Numbers

Chapter Five: America's Declaration

Chapter Six: I Signed My Own Declaration

Chapter Seven: Protests Lead to Change

Chapter Eight: Small Company Protests

Chapter Nine: Champion a Cause

Chapter Ten: Outrage

Chapter Eleven: Civil Disobedience Ritual

Chapter Twelve: Ripples of Hope

Chapter Thirteen: Protest Methods

Other Works

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to every visionary in the world who saw something that wasn’t right and worked hard to correct it. From our founding fathers, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and the myriad of others that championed causes to make the world a better place. Many of them ended up paying the ultimate sacrifice by losing their life to improve the condition of humanity. Key to the bright future for humanity is the ability to have an opinion and to share it with others. From this exchange we will all gain insight into our own lives and the lives of others. Organizing people around a common message and then stopping the entire world for a brief time in protest to mark significance and demand change is what moves humanity closer to our ultimate destiny.

I hope that future protesters can find inspiration from the content of this iBook.

Michael Douglas Carlin - 2012

CHAPTER ONE

A MORE PERFECT UNION

We have heard the saying, practice makes perfect. There is no such thing as perfect but practice does make us better. Continuously striving to improve ourselves, families, communities, and nation is leading humanity in the right direction. Protests lead to that improvement. Protests make our union more perfect. Protests make humanity better.

I recently re-read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I love America. I see in these two documents the ultimate prescription for peace. The Constitution begins with the words, We the People, in Order to form a more perfect Union. They realized that their world was far from perfect so they created a government with the ability to morph and reinvent itself. Each iteration of the United States of America ebbs and flows but the tide is constantly moving us toward that ultimate, Perfect Union.

I was able to recently witness protests. I watched in awe as citizens exercised their rights to call attention to issues they didn’t agree with. I learned that in Los Angeles, Rocky Delgadillo created a system where protesters who are arrested appear before an Assistant City Attorney and they receive a hand slap as punishment for being civilly disobedient. The procedure is worked out ahead of time with the Los Angeles Police Department as to who will be arrested and any activist considers this his or her rite of passage.

In America, if we don’t agree with something we have the right to protest. If we don’t agree with something we have the right to get signers on petitions, we have the right to vote for candidates that want to change what we don’t agree with, we have the right to file lawsuits, if we don’t agree with the court’s decision we have the right to appeal, we have the right to appeal as high as the Supreme Court, if we are not satisfied there we have the right to attempt to get a Constitutional Amendment passed, and if we are not satisfied there we can convene a Constitutional Convention. The beauty in our system is that all of this can happen peacefully.

Is this a perfect Union? Clearly, it is not. As the People get involved in the Government of the United States it becomes more perfect.

CHAPTER TWO

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

We don’t always agree with the messages but every American has the right to an opinion and to share that opinion with others. Free speech is the foundation of a free society. Take it away and you take away freedom.