BLOCKADE: A Guide to Nonviolent InterventionWipf and Stock Publishers, 2013 M04 5 - 192 pages During the summer and fall of 1971, the U.S. government supported the Pakistani military dictatorship while it massacred the people of East Bengal. But a group of Americans challenged this policy, tied up East Coast ports to Pakistani shipping, and had a major influence on changing U.S. policy. Blockade is the story of the "non-violent fleet" of canoes and kayaks that attempted to turn around the U.S. govenment. |
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