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Bill Moyer (September 17, 1933 – October 21, 2002) was aUnited States social change activist who was a principal organizer in the 1966Chicago Open Housing Movement. He was an author, and a founding member of theMovement for a New Society.

Initially trained as an engineer, Moyer was introduced to the philosophy and practice ofnonviolence byQuaker friends, and completed a degree in social work. He became involved in campaigns forcivil rights and open housingintegration, working and organizing in the early and mid-1960s with the Chicago branch of the Quaker-basedAmerican Friends Service Committee along with Kale Williams, civil rights activistBernard Lafayette, and others. Then, in 1966, he joined withJames Bevel,Martin Luther King Jr. and the other leaders of theSouthern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during theChicago Movement.

James Bevel, who strategized and directed that action, credits Moyer with influencing him to center the Chicago Movement on open housing.

Over the next decade, Moyer was involved in the SCLC's 1969Poor People's Campaign inWashington, D.C., nonviolent blockades of arms shipments toBangladesh (1971) and toVietnam (1972), support for theAmerican Indian Movement occupation atWounded Knee,South Dakota (1973), and a nuclear power plant blockade atSeabrook, New Hampshire (1977).

It was during the nonviolent blockade of theSeabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, which involved the arrest of 1,414 individuals (most charges were later dropped),^{[citation needed]} that Moyer recognised the need for social change activists to understand the dynamics behind movement success. In particular, the need to openly address the contradiction that activists often perceive the normal signs of campaign progress as signs of failure.^{[citation needed]}

Moyer developed theMovement Action Plan (MAP) to achieve this end.^[1][2][3] Since its development it has been used to train hundreds of activists, most notably in theUnited States,Australia,Canada andEurope.^{[citation needed]}

After the fall of theBerlin wall in 1989, Moyer participated in many workshops inEastern Europe about nonviolence and social change. In the mid-1980s, he moved toSan Francisco, California, where he began to exploreTranspersonal psychology and continued his participation in the Friends meeting there. He also developed a workshop called "Creating Peaceful Relationships" based on his realizations regardingdominator cultures.^{[citation needed]}

Moyer's bookDoing Democracy (New Society Publishers), co-authored byJoAnn McAllister,Mary Lou Finley andSteven Soifer, summarises his theories of social change with case studies from theCivil Rights Movement,anti-nuclear,gay and lesbian,breast cancer andGlobal Justice movements.

• "Doing Democracy In the 21st Century"
• Doing Democracy
• The Movement Action Plan
• The Movement Action Plan
• The Moyer Model
• Memorial Statement

• 1933 births
• 2002 deaths
• American Quakers
• American pacifists
• American nonviolence advocates
• Poor People's Campaign
• Chicago Freedom Movement

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