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Bringing Nonviolence Back to School: Teacher Resources from the Metta Center
If you are a teacher, you are probably wondering where the summer went (they always go by so fast!) and are also in the process of finalizing your curriculum for the 2013-14 school year. As you start your lesson planning, now is a great time to think about how to integrate nonviolence into your teaching!… read more
Nonviolence Currents: Talking About Trayvon
Nonviolence Currents – Bridging Nonviolence and Current Events in the Classroom A service of the Metta Center for Nonviolence It’s summertime, and your school may not be in session, but right now, whether you are an educator or parent, you have probably been giving a lot of thought to Trayvon Martin, and your students or… read more
Nonviolence Currents: Exploring the Taksim Square Protests (Turkey)
Nonviolence Currents – Bridging Nonviolence and Current Events in the Classroom A service of the Metta Center for Nonviolence LESSON PLAN #6 PolicyMic Article: Taksim Square Protest: Turkey Isn’t Egypt Or Libya, and Occupy Gezi Isn’t the Arab Spring Themes: Democracy, Occupy & activism, International Current Events, Target age group: Ages 15 & up Subject… read more
Nonviolence Currents: The Power of Comics
Nonviolence Currents – Bridging Nonviolence and Current Events in the Classroom A service of the Metta Center for Nonviolence LESSON PLAN #5 Waging Nonviolence Article: Zip! Zapf! Pow! – that’s the power of comics by Nadine Bloch Themes: Activism, art, media literacy Target age group: Ages 14 & up Subject areas: Art, English Language Arts, Social Studies… read more
Nonviolence Currents: adapted from “Why Telling the Stories of Solutions is a Revolutionary Act”
Nonviolence Currents – Bridging Nonviolence and Current Events in the Classroom A service of the Metta Center for Nonviolence LESSON PLAN #3 YES! Magazine Article: Why Telling the Stories of Solutions is a Revolutionary Act by Frances Moore Lappe Themes: media literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, writing for media Target age group: Ages 14 & up… read more
PPR March 22, 2013: Nonviolence, a lifelong commitment
Listen to the show by clicking the link below. PPR March 22, 2013 Nonviolence in the news 3-22-2013 Michael Nagler discusses the nonviolence movement in and outside of Syria. For the listener’s reference: A Special Report on the Syrian Uprising to date just released by Friends for a Nonviolent World. Our guest for this show is Lorin… read more
Nonviolence Radio
The Beat of an Unstoppable Movement Hosted by the Metta Center’s Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler, Nonviolence Radio airs every other Friday at 9:00 am PST, broadcasting live from community radio station KWMR, at 90.5 Point Reyes and syndicated via the Pacifica Network, iTunes, Spotify, and beyond. Listeners tune in from around the world.… read more
Nonviolence Benefits Everyone…
When Gandhi was writing regularly in his newspaper Young India during the Indian Freedom Struggle, he would often receive letters from critics which would be somewhat insulting. His response to these critics would typically begin, “This letter seems to be intended as an insult. However I choose not to take it as such,” and he would… read more
Teaching Nonviolence by Building Community in the First Week of School
It’s time to go back to school! As Dr. Gabor Mate explains, “Educators should be in the emotional attachment business before they are in the academics business.” Before you can even think about teaching your students, you have to give them a reason to appreciate your class. In other words, students won’t care about what you teach until you… read more
Nonviolence
Introduction Commonly Posed Objections Person Power Constructive Programme Satyagraha New Story Pledge of Nonviolence Glossary… read more
