Media Skills For Activists: Effective Media Campaign Skills with Peter Phillips, Sonoma State professor and former director of Project Censored In this two-part workshop, participants will learn how to: organize a successful media campaign write a press release draft a public service announcement pen a letter to the editor strategize for media coverage Homework will… read more
The following legend was passed onto to us by a participant in our current Certificate in Nonviolence Studies Course. She had heard it from a motivational speaker, who had heard it from one of his Indian friends. That’s how legends work—they get passed on. And now we’d like to share this inspiring story with you.… read more
We’re telling a new story—a story about us. All of us. In this hopeful story, we’re all heroes: every one of us contributes to the making of a healthy society. Enrich your inner hero with our newsletter! Read the June 17, 2015 edition. Subscribe to our newsletter.… read more
Explore nonviolence in the news with Michael and Stephanie, including even some analysis of violence in our news (well, from a nonviolent angle!). Then, we are joined by Lauren Dalberth Hage from Weaving Earth, an organization she co-founded in 2007 to restore relationships at all levels: within ourselves, between ourselves and with the environment. A… read more
It’s important to take our work for peace very seriously—there’s no doubt about that. Yet if we take ourselves too seriously, we risk missing out on having fun along the way. In this latest edition of the newsletter, we weave together the wisdom of laughter with the wisdom of nonviolent action. May our nonviolent future… read more
The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today,” when a rising police state controlled by the corporate-political elite have plunged the nation into the grip of a hidden dictatorship.… read more
Yesterday, Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook joined Rivera Sun and David Geitgey Sierralupe on Occupy Radio for an exciting conversation about building alternatives and healthy communities. What if we recreate society from the bottom up, from within the culture we know? How can we loosen our dependencies on corporate structures and strive for self-sufficiency… read more
The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today,” when a rising police state controlled by the corporate-political elite have plunged the nation into the grip of a hidden dictatorship.… read more
To loosely paraphrase Gandhi, each of us holds a snippet of Truth. And yet we must also recognize how our loving truths can be distorted in a system that wildly benefits from much untruth. While corporate media are both beneficiaries and producers of mass untruth, none of us is powerless—our voices of nonviolence ring genuine… read more
The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today,” when a rising police state controlled by the corporate-political elite have plunged the nation into the grip of a hidden dictatorship.… read more
