Holiday Message

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Dear Friends,

As the calendar year closes, we at the Metta Center continue to persevere to fulfill our mission to create beloved community on a healthy and sustainable planet through nonviolence and nonviolence education. As it is stated in the Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice in the 21st century, we at Metta also believe that we must reverse our priorities as a people and a culture by funding peace and nonviolence initiatives that are the cutting edge of what is possible for a nonviolent future–truly, we need them more than ever. Please make an investment in the work of the Metta Center for Nonviolence as a statement of your support for alternative solutions to violent conflict, for as we gather around our friends and families for this holiday vacation, we cannot forget that there are those fighting in two wars abroad. There are those dying at the hands of our government’s choice of means for security around the world. There are those in our country struggling for equality of conditions, pay and civil rights; struggling for restorative justice and fairness– for conscience. We are called, as Dr. Martin Luther King stated in his 1967 Christmas Sermon on Peace “to learn how to live together as people or perish together as fools.” Nonviolence is the right means to solving these conflicts so that we may truly be proud to be alive, working together for a better world.

Show your support of the Metta Center today by making a tax-deductible contribution on our site or by mailing a check today to our nonviolence resource center and office at 1730 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Berkeley, California 94709.

After you enjoy this short video with a holiday wish for you from Metta President Michael Nagler, we hope you will pass this holiday message on to those who will be eager to learn about our work.

Warm wishes,

Stephanie Van Hook
Metta Center Co-Director