Monday, January 12
Paris, France
Resistance Reading Room
The Resistance is now. Join us twice-monthly as we share and discuss relevant readings for our moment in US politics, and what we can do from Paris — with eyes on helping Democrats taking back House and Senate in 2026. Brought to you by the Veterans and Military Families Caucus, the Diversity Caucus, and the Paris Chapter of DA France.
This is not homework, even if Resistance is work -- we will always feature a core text, an article, and a work of poetry or short fiction selected to guide our discussion but please read what you can, as you can. And if you can't get to it please join us anyway for a drink and good discussion. Hope to see you there!
This event is free and open to DA members. New members always welcome. To join Democrats Abroad go here: www.democratsabroad.org/join (Membership is free and open to US citizens 18 years of age or older and living abroad.)
Not based in Paris Centre, but interested in hosting a Reading Room near you? Please get in touch with Ada [email protected] for details.
Our 90-minute format will always include discussion of the texts (November & December readings will be announced at the Nov 10 meeting, RSVP or come back to this page for updates), we will always take a concrete action; and we will always have open discussion on what is happening and what we can do about it. See you there!
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Resistance Reading Room for January-February
Theme: Non-Violent Non-Cooperation and the Withdrawal of Consent
“How do we keep these very powerful men from being so abusive? I don’t think we’re going to stop them from being so abusive, so let’s stop them from being so powerful.”
— Rebecca Solnit
📜🖋 POEM: Macklin (Good), Renée Nicole. “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs.
📜🖋 POEM: Rukeyser, Muriel. “Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars).” Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars.
CORE TEXT: Sharp, Gene. The Politics of Nonviolent Action. 3 vols. Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973. See below for links to Parts One and Two, all three volumes can also be ordered from local independent booksellers in Paris such as The Red Wheelbarrow and Shakespeare and Company.
📖 Part One: Power and Struggle. Available at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/politicsofnonvio0000unse. (Log in for free to borrow from the digital library.)
“The most important single quality of any government, without which it would not exist, must be the obedience and submission of its subjects. Obedience is at the heart of political power.”
📖 Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action. Available at https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action — A list of 198 methods of nonviolent resistance.
“Economic boycotts strike at the financial foundations that allow policies to be executed.”
🗞️ ARTICLE: “Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.” The Nation, January 9, 2026. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-boycott-campaign.
"ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping."
WHEN
Monday, January 12, 2026 at 06:00 PM Paris Time
WHERE
Location available with RSVP
Paris 75006
France
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