Dear Metta Family, Beloved Berkeley activist and dear member of the Metta family, Pancho Ramos-Stierle, has been arrested and jailed in Arizona in a direct action against Maricopa County sheriff Joseph Arpaio. Here is the text from a friend in AZ recounting what happened: Greetings fellow travelers, I wanted to let you know that our… read more
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25
#Budrus a nonviolent resistance movement led by women in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict http://ht.ly/2czyZ NYT article /via @CharityFocus #… read more
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
RT @charityfocus: Scientists have now proven that #meditation increases attention span: http://ht.ly/2c47M # RT @ONEworldcitizen: Beautiful Video/Song of the Human Responsibilities of Our Time: http://ow.ly/2bZlP #sb1070 #AltoArizona #Satyagraha # #Anarchism and #Nonviolence: Time for a ‘Complementarity of Tactics’ http://ow.ly/2bwxZ #Satyagraha #Gandhi #EmmaGoldman # Mutual Interdependence: http://ow.ly/29Tid Can we all get along? #OscarGrant #Mehserle @huffpo @commondreams… read more
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11
RT @OscarGrantTrial The family of Oscar Grant has requested that folks keep it peaceful in his honor. #mehserletrial #… read more
An Urgent Letter to President Obama
“I hold no title worthy of your attention other than that of a simple nonviolent activist who, for many long years, has tried to preserve the legacy bequeathed to us by Gandhi. I have the deep conviction that the fragile flame lit at one time by this Indian sage is the only hope which might… read more
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04
FREE BART! Oscar Grant & the Potential of Freedom: http://ow.ly/26yba #Mehserle Oakland #satyagraha # RT @ThinkOutTheBomb: Think Outside the Bomb launches Disarmament Summer Campaign http://tinyurl.com/32tjrp3 #nukes #nonviolence # Our Separate Struggles Are Really One: African American & Latino Histories: http://ow.ly/24yfm #sb1070 #AltoArizona #BoycottAZ @Truthout # Bring Down the Institutions of Empire? 5 Ways to Know… read more
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27
Survivor asks: How we, the defenders of the Mavi Marmara, are not the modern example of Gandhi’s essence? http://ow.ly/23IJg #flotilla # "Our Teachers in Nature": http://ow.ly/23rfT Time for humanity to have a mature cooperative phase. #ijouney @CharityFocus # "Soul food can’t be bought or sold, it must be prepared & given." http://ow.ly/21Dm6 @FreeFarmStand @CharityFocus #ijourney… read more
** Last minute! Direct action — refusing Israeli ship at the port of Oakland this afternoon!
To anyone who is available and interested: this morning a community picket line in combination with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union carried out an effective nonviolent action in support of the increasing movement to boycott Israeli goods after the recent flotilla attack . The Oakland dockworkers joined counterparts in South Africa, Norway, Sweden and Malaysia,… read more
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20
Good post on nonviolence: not a set of tactics, but an essential principle from which nv tactics can then arise. http://ow.ly/1ZVn6 # RT @RestoraCircles: Q&A How do mirror neurons play out in #Restorative Circles? http://4ms.me/avawCv #Ahimsa #Nonviolence #Justice # Mentee Jacob & all summer mentees working w/ @FreeFarmStand at the Free Farm http://ow.ly/1Yvy4 #Nonviolence #Permaculture… read more
With a Little Help from Our Friends…
When Siddhartha Gautama was a young man, he was outside with his cousin Devadatta when the latter shot a beautiful swan. When the bird fell to the ground young Siddhartha raced over and took it to be healed, much to the dismay of his cousin. They decided to bring in a third party and took… read more
