Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored… I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963
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After your regular serving of Nonviolence in the News (until around 15:00), we turn to an experienced expert in nonviolent power. In this episode we talk with Kathy Kelly, co-ordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence as we seek to analyze the dynamics of two specific instances she shares of nonviolent direct action.
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By: Stephanie Van Hook
Stephanie Van Hook is Executive Director of the Metta Center for Nonviolence.
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