Our friends at PopularResistance.org join us on Peace Paradigm Radio with the Resistance Report: news, views and activisms happening all around the world– a Metta Center Exclusive! For more information, please visit www.popularresistance.org. Enjoy the segment! (Click here to listen or else click on the grey arrow below) [audio:http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Resistance-Report-12-13-13.mp3] To listen to the entire show for… read more
Posts by Stephanie Van Hook
Nonviolence in the News: 2nd Week of December ’13
This week on nonviolence in the news with Michael Nagler, a feature of Peace Paradigm Radio: Click here to listen (or right click link in order to download it). Or, click directly on the grey arrow below to listen on this page. [audio:http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Nonviolence-in-News-12-13-13.mp3] Please help us share the message of nonviolence by sharing this segment.… read more
December 13-13 Full Show
Nonviolence is not passivity or inaction. It is active, courageous, and requires skill and strategy. Intrigued? Join us for another episode of Peace Paradigm Radio for all the nonviolence that’s not fit to print, including nonviolence in the news, a resistance report, and a conversation with author of the Dandelion Insurrection, Rivera Sun. To… read more
Nonviolence and the New Paradigm
Michael Nagler speaks at the Sonoma State War and Peace Lecture Series in November, 2013. … read more
Nonviolence for the Holiday Season–Nov 29
A great show to prepare you for the holiday season. We have Michael Nagler in the Nonviolence News corner for a great analysis of news from a nonviolence angle, some inspiration from Eknath Easwaran’s book, Patience, and joining us in the studio is Miki Kashtan, co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication to talk about the nonviolence behind… read more
A Movement of Meaning: Peasants Struggle for Land and Dignity in Brazil
(FROM CAL PEACE POWER: VOL 3 ISSUE 2 2007) BY Jerlina Love Printable Version: Download as PDF Children at an MST camp, in the state of Minas Gerais. (Photo by Joshua Thayer) The Landless Laborers’ Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Terra or MST) is the most important new social movement in contemporary Latin America with over… read more
Peace Paradigm Radio November 15– Full Show
We have an entertaining show for you today. We will get our Resistance Report from our friends over at Popular Resistance.org; then, we’ll listen to an EXCLUSIVE interview with musician and activist Eve SILBER, who was gracious enough not only to talk to us, but to share some of her movement songs, and even a… read more
Nonviolence in the News for November 15: Guest John Lindsay-Poland of FOR
In this segment of Peace Paradigm Radio for November 15, 2013, Michael Nagler gives some analysis on the worldwide nonviolence movement with some interesting emerging examples of nonviolence in action. Joining him in the studio is John Lindsay-Poland, research director and southwestern regional coordinator of the interfaith pacifist organization Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)… read more
PPR Weekly Resistance Report Nov. 15, PopularResistance.org
Our friends at PopularResistance.org have started a new segment on Peace Paradigm Radio called the Resistance Report with news, views and activisms happening all around the world– a Metta Center Exclusive! For more information, please visit www.popularresistance.org. Enjoy the segment! (Click here to listen or else click on the grey arrow below) [audio:http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Resistance-Report-November-15.mp3] “I… read more
Can unarmed peacekeeping work in Syria? It has in South Sudan
By Stephanie Van Hook, from Waging Nonviolence Kenyan Nonviolent Peaceforce worker Peters Nyawanda in Sri Lanka. (Flickr/Nonviolent Peaceforce) Over the past few months there have been many discussions about alternatives to war and armed military intervention in light of the ongoing crisis in Syria. Those opposing military force have made alternative proposals that have included the… read more
