Voices for Creative Nonviolence continues its resistance to the prolonged occupation of Iraq with its Seasons of Discontent: a Presidential Occupation Project (SODaPOP). For updates, visit their website.… read more
Posts by Metta Center
Successful EFNV Conference Concluded
Thanks to all the beautiful people who came! We’ve uploaded the program and resources so that you may put them to good use. We’ll have video content up soon!… read more
Slow Down, Slow Science
The Challenge of Education for a New Generation: Converting Swords into Plowshares “Where ignorance is your master, there is no possibility of peace.” The XIV Dalai Lama. The scientific contributions of Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman were fundamental for the construction of the atomic bomb. Today, their reflections on the subject are also fundamental… read more
Educators for Nonviolence 2008
Join us for the Third Annual Educators for Nonviolence Conference! July 18-19, Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, CA Teaching Hope: The Nonviolent Classroom Featuring Michael Nagler, Rachel McNair, Azim Khamisa, Joseph Marshall and many others. • Curricula and practical tools for teaching nonviolence in the classroom • Working with traumatized children • Nonviolent communication •… read more
Matching Grant Opportunity
Two good friends of Metta have offered us matching funds totaling $30,000 to help with the many new projects coming our way. Any and all donations received after June, 2008 are being doubled in value for Metta. A great time to give! Many thanks.… read more
Nonviolence
Nonviolence is a force in human consciousness that Gandhi called a “living power” and a scientist today would likely call a form of “subtle energy.” It can be engaged, with suitable training, by individuals or groups of individuals to exert positive changes on people and society, including epochal changes like dislodging a dictator or (as… read more
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The Metta Center has just created our first “Love-in-Action” newsletter. If you want us to send it to you send us an email at info@mettacenter.org with you mailing address and we will add you to our mailing list.… read more
Interested in Volunteering?
The Metta Center for Non-Violence Education is currently looking for volunteers for our many projects over the summer. Please call at 510-548-5550 or email us at info@mettacenter.org.… read more
Translating “Steps of Nonviolence”
Michael Nagler’s booklet, Steps of Nonviolence, is being translated into German, Burmese, and Spanish, that latter for use in the recent nonviolent struggles in Burma and Mexico.… read more
Thousands of Monks Peacefully Confront Military in Burma
Students of principled nonviolence have long upheld Aung San Suu Kyi, Buddhist and leader of Burma’s democracy movement, as a luminary of nonviolent social change. On Saturday, the Burmese military junta allowed 500 monks to visit Suu Kyi at her home-prison, yielding to the recent massive nonviolent demonstrations by monks, students, and civic leaders. It… read more
