Choosing Jail: Experimenting With Redemptive Suffering by Steve Clemens. June 11, 2012 Mennonista It was in reading Mohandas Gandhi that I first learned about his “experiments with truth” – a term he used in perfecting the tactics of nonviolent resistance to the apartheid regime in South Africa and the British colonial occupation of his More
Choosing Jail: Experimenting With Redemptive Suffering by Steve Clemens. June 11, 2012 Mennonista It was in reading Mohandas Gandhi that I first learned about his “experiments with truth” – a term he used in perfecting the tactics of nonviolent resistance to the apartheid regime in South Africa and the British colonial occupation of his More
Punished for Exercising Our Constitutional Rights? by Steve Clemens May 16, 2012 Mennonista Trial on May 14, 2012 of nonviolent protesters at Alliant Tech Systems, manufacturer of weapons and war profiteer. The contrast between the two Judges couldn’t have been starker. Judge Peter Cahill and Judge Ronald Abrams both serve on the Hennepin More
Punished for Exercising Our Constitutional Rights? by Steve Clemens May 16, 2012 Mennonista Trial on May 14, 2012 of nonviolent protesters at Alliant Tech Systems, manufacturer of weapons and war profiteer. The contrast between the two Judges couldn’t have been starker. Judge Peter Cahill and Judge Ronald Abrams both serve on the Hennepin More
Join AlliantACTION as We Celebrate the 142nd Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and the Power of Nonviolence Gather Sunday at 1 PM, October 2, 2011> Action at 1:30 Note below that ATK (a major weapons manufacturer) is moving to Arlington, VA. If you know of a group in the D.C. area that might be interested in continuing More
Mennonista Essays, articles, letters written by Steve Clemens, peace and justice activist from Minneapolis, MN The Accoutrements of Arrest by Steve Clemens. September 28, 2011 Posted by Steve Clemens at 7:45 AM 9/28/11 The Things I Carried To My Arrest Usually when I risk arrest in an action of nonviolent civil disobedience I try to only carry the bare More
