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
An Interview With Jonathan Schell How Empires Fall (Including the American One) by ANDY KROLL March 1, 2012 Tom Dispatch When Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World, a meditation on the history and power of nonviolent action, was published in 2003, the timing could not have been worse. Americans were at war — and More
The Satyagraha protest> Occupy Culture December 02, 2011 Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUXI3O8SAaQ&w=560&h=315] As promised, Philip Glass spoke at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at Lincoln Center tonight, after a performance of Satyagraha at the Met. The protest, which was directed not at the opera itself but at a certain disparity between its lofty moral More
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Pledging Change by Ken Butigan | October 6, 2011, 8:32 am Waging Nonviolence Responding to the accelerating challenges of our time—endless war, environmental destruction, and a financial system that works for fewer and fewer of us—a global movement for fundamental change is gaining momentum. Quickened by the Arab Spring, the ongoing May 15 movement in Spain, the More
Alliant Action conducted their annual Gandhi Birthday celebration at the soon-to-be-closed Eden Prairie headquarters of ATK. [blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/hrI9gtboBQI width="480" height="302"]
Gandhi’s Lessons for Today Gandhi’s Birthday is October 2> he was born 142 years ago. Kathy Kelly, Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence Posted: 10/1/11 07:25 PM ET Hufflington Post Kathy Kelly: Afghanistan and the Arab Spring. Monday, October 3, 7:00 p.m. Macalester Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln Avenue (adjacent to Macalester College), St. Paul. In a soon-to-be More
