#SayYesSat To stop the madness http://ow.ly/177JE Nuclear Proliferation is this year’s Inconvenient Truth http://ow.ly/177Gk @YesMagazine # Students as Spies? http://ow.ly/16TDy Old paradigm tactics to undermine movements. Antidote: Love Over Fear. #Ahimsa # Dan Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America. Trailer http://ow.ly/16BOX & interview http://ow.ly/16BNs in @Democracy_Now #PentagonPapers # The New Feature of @MettaCenter: #NonviolenceStories.… read more
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Nonviolence wins with patience
I was in E. Germany in 1976 talking with a nonviolent activist. We were sitting on the porch of his apartment on the 2nd story overlooking Dresden. He said, and he felt depressed and discouraged, heartsick: “There aren’t 30 people in Dresden now willing to oppose this evil regime.” Given the violence of the E.… read more
Peace Pilgrim, You Are Still Walking
For any of you who are looking for more inspiration from those who have walked the inner path of nonviolence ahead of us: if you have not heard of Peace Pilgrim, you would do well to learn of her life. She touched the heart of Naomi Shihab Nye, the author of the following poem (provided… read more
What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence
Hey Metta Readers — Check out this super post by Peace Academic-Activist Randall Amster that was just posted on Truthout, his article “What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence.” This is the kind of information and reminder we need to get out, again and again, in a world that often confuses nonviolence with… read more
Spies to Undermine Movements: Love over Fear.
After I got an email, which was sent to a listserv, from a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley with the subject: Students as Spies: The Deep Politics of U.S.-Colombian Relations, I wrote this (edited)message, with the very valuable input from a few satyagrahis, and sent it to some students and workers… read more
Nonviolence is Seeing Oneself in the Other
For two years I ran job readiness group for 10 teenagers in Rochester, NY. During one of my last meetings formal meetings with the group my favorite moment of those two years took place. For me, it was the most amazing of all of our times together. My youth were usually pretty wild and would… read more
Conscientious Objectors Slow a War Effort
David Chomsky, brother of Noam, was married to a woman who gave military legal counseling to sailors of the USS Nitro, docked at Sandy Hook, NJ to pick up fragmentation bombs for the Vietnam War. Annie LaBois of France was there in Leonardo, NJ with me as advance liaison for the Stone House community of… read more
Burma VJ
Burma VJ Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their… read more
Next Station: Rise Up! – Satyagraha and Howard Zinn
You can’t be neutral in a moving train. That’s the title of Howard Zinn’s autobiography (1994) and the title only says it all. If we are on board of the train of greed, privatization and ignorance, aren’t we part of the ride? The time to stop the totalitarian-corporate-capitalistic train has come, and if it is… read more
A Letter to K-12 Parents: California Public Schools in Crises
“Self-control, fearlessness and independence of thinking, these are the three tests of education. Only that country is educated where these three qualities find expression.” –Vinoba Bhave This is a letter landed in many of our inboxes this morning. The movement to not save, but to transform public education is getting stronger. It is necessary to… read more
