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Power-Under can be downloaded at no cost in its entirety from this website, in PDF and PRC formats. Power-Under is strikingly relevant to a post-September 11 world in which we need to mount resistance to chain reactions of violence. Strategies including nonviolent self-protection, humanizing the oppressor, and a new politics of compassion are proposed for mobilizing traumatic rage toward progressive ends. Because large numbers of traumatized people are both oppressors and oppressed, understanding internalized powerlessness is critically important for our ability to build effective social change movements. Analyzing connections between oppression, trauma, and internalized powerlessness, this book shows how trauma is a link in complex chains of domination. Power-Under offers important new insights that can help us to break cycles of violence.

From the Foreword by Aurora Levins Morales, Ph.D., Power-Under is an act of walking forward, of imagining us into a state of wholeness, of opening a way.” How shall we carry our wounds? How should we remember? Like the policies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, Wineman seeks first to acknowledge the devastating nature of the wounds, and then to direct the rage of the traumatized, by conscious choice, into an assertion of humanity, into the deliberate decision that the cycle stops with us. “What is groundbreaking about Power-Under is the passion and intelligence with which Steve Wineman gathers together stories and insights about the nature of our wounding and the power of our choices and from them attempts to forge a set of strategies for changing the world in which we have all been so brutalized. Power-Under: Trauma and Nonviolent Social Change

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