The Ruckus Society [조사번역중]

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1. 단체명 : The Ruckus Society
2. 홈페이지 주소 : http://www.ruckus.org/

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Our Mission

The Ruckus Society provides environmental and human rights organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals.

Working with a broad range of communities, organizations, and movements - from high school students to professional organizations - Ruckus facilitates the sharing of information and expertise that strengthens the capacity to change our relationship with the environment and each other.

About the Ruckus Society

The Ruckus Society sees itself as a toolbox of experience, training, and skills. We provide instruction on the application of tactical and strategic tools to a growing number of organizations and individuals from around the world in skill shares and trainings that are designed to move a campaign forward. We do this work in strong collaboration with our partner organizations, working together to define and create the training agenda.

Additionally, the Ruckus Society is dedicated to fostering leadership of those most affected by the injustice and oppression we struggle against. Therefore, in all our initiatives, we aim to prioritize the voices and visions of youth, women, people of color, indigenous people and immigrants, poor and working class folks, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people, and other historically marginalized communities.

Ruckus has trained and assisted hundreds of activists in the use of nonviolent direct action. We either bring activists to us or we go to them. Our showcase venue is Action Camp. Through these trainings, we help people learn the skills they need to practice direct action safely and effectively. These trainings contain cerebral elements as well as physical, classroom-style instruction for action planning, communicating with the media, and nonviolent philosophy and practice.

Ruckus promotes and teaches:

1. Implementation of strategic nonviolent direct action against unjust institutions and policies;
2. Organized strategic development and coherent planning to advance campaign goals;
3. The establishment of broad coalitions with common objectives;
4. Effective methods of media outreach and Internet/Technology activism to inform the general public;
5. Respect for all living things and a commitment to the power of diversity.

History of the Ruckus Society

The Ruckus Society was formed in 1995, sparked by the intersection of the passage of a federal anti-environmental law, Greenpeace budget cuts, and two infamous direct action gurus. The Timber Salvage Rider, an anti-environment, pro-logging bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in the spring of 1995, the passage of this bill catalyzed a large, vocal, and well-organized response from environmentalists. Leading environmental organizations called for an all-out effort to stop timber sales and shut down the agencies that permitted them and forest activists took to the woods for blockades on the ground and in the air.

Greenpeace, who for years had sponsored week long direct action training camps had recently been forced to cut these trainings, thus creating a vacuum, which in the climate surrounding the passage of the Rider Bill, demanded to be filled.

In response to this convergence of events, Mike Roselle and Howard "Twilly" Cannon, two long time radical environmentalists, came up with the idea of a "Forest Action Camp", which they helped to organize in the summer of 1995 in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon. The camp was such a success that the two were inspired to organize another one. But they needed an organization and a name. The Ruckus Society was born.

In response to the increasing impacts of corporate globalization on all forms of life on this planet, the mission of Ruckus has since expanded to serve a broad range of campaigns on behalf of the environment and human rights. Ruckus continues to work with its allies in the forest movement and also aims to support the work of those struggling against human rights abuses, both internationally and here in the United States.

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