Post NYC Climate March, the effects of symbolic movement and what happens next. by Mercedes Mack About 400,000 people marched in the largest Climate March in history on Sunday September 21, 2014 in New York and other locations around the world, in a collective call to action as world leaders converged for the UN Climate… read more
Tag Archives: Nonviolence
Peace and Conflict Studies 164-c Session 4
Topic: Gandhi and Satyagraha (next course is on constructive programme) Resource: Names, books, films mentioned in this lecture. Video: (nb, some canine friends come to join the course at the beginning…) … read more
Peace Paradigm Radio: The Music Episode
A great mix of conscious, peace themed music to increase your positivity and person power! We are joined in the studio by DJ Lukasbadukas to talk about these songs and some nonviolence in the news. A fun, smart show with your friends at Metta! http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Peace-Paradigm-Radio-S192014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS… read more
PACS 164-c Session 2
The second session of our 8 week Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS 164-c) at the Metta Center with Professor Michael Nagler. Topic: What is nonviolence? On the scapegoating system and some thoughts on pre-history. Resource: Names, books, films mentioned in this lecture. Resource: Topics in course, time-stamped Video: Audio below: http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PACS%20Sesssion2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS… read more
Where the Spiritual and Political Meet
In this blog-series accompanying our project of updating the Peace and Conflict Studies lectures (we call it PACS 164-c), Kimberlyn David reviews some of the key material of the course from a personal lens in an effort to generate personal reflection and the application of course content. That Western yoga and spiritual practitioners often… read more
Begin Everywhere: A Sketch of the Territory
by Janet Gray The institutional locations of peace studies programs vary widely in ways that shape how the practitioners in any particular location construct the mission and goals of their program, define what constitutes a comprehensive approach to the field for their site, and ease or constrain the program’s capacity for integrating women and gender… read more
PACS 164-c Session 1
The first session of our 8 week Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS 164-c) at the Metta Center with Professor Michael Nagler. Topic: The New Story: Wisdom Traditions and Science Resource: Names, books, films mentioned in this lecture. Video: Or Audio. http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Peace-and-Conflict-Studies-164c-Session-1-.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS… read more
Empathy, Compassion and Nonviolent Intervention – Podcast
“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” –Maya Angelou (Botticelli’s La primavera is set in a bitter orange grove. . . What does this have to do with our show? Read below…) Empathy and compassion are essential to personal well-being. They are also skills we can develop that help… read more
Ferguson: this is what losing democracy looks like
(orig. posted in Tikkun online) by: Michael N. Nagler on August 21st, 2014 Some time back in the early fifties the U.S. Navy conducted an “exercise” to test bacterial warfare…in San Francisco! They sprayed bacterial agents into the fog over the Bay to “see what would happen.” Sure enough, some people got sick, and one elderly gentleman died. … read more
A Cuppa Tea and Fundraiser in San Rafael, September 21 (International Day of Peace)
A Generosi-Tea party and fun(d)raiser to celebrate nonviolence in our world and what we can all do to be the change. ~Some additional information~ Metta’s Mission: Our mission is to promote the transition to a nonviolent future by making the logic, history, and yet-unexplored potential of nonviolence more accessible to activists and agents of cultural change… read more
