In this discussion about Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael Nagler gives some examples about the way that restorative justice begins in our minds. He emphasizes that what we tell ourselves about ourselves matters more than we know. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched… read more
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Eyes on the Prize: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video!
Here, Michael Nagler discusses some successful ways that people around the world have instituted restorative justice. We need to “keep our eyes on the prize,” he tells us, by seeing the good hidden in the heart of every person. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director,… read more
Restorative Justice is the Key: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video
In this video, Michael Nagler makes a case for restorative justice as a key to making nonviolence a part of our culture. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share Gandhi’s spiritual wisdom and experiments with nonviolence.… read more
A Deeper Purpose: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video
In this video, Michael Nagler explores how and why people attest that nonviolence gave a meaning to their lives that they had not found in anything else. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share Gandhi’s spiritual… read more
A Big Claim about Nonviolence: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video
In this video, Michael Nagler makes the claim that nonviolence can stop not only drug addiction–it can solve all of our problems. Hear him out–and find out more. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share Gandhi’s… read more
Predicting nonviolence and violence: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video!
In this video, Michael discusses what we can and cannot be predicted about violence and nonviolence to further explain the concept of “work” vs. work. Violence, he concludes is much more predictable than nonviolence. Find out why… Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily… read more
The Time for Silence is Over
Grasping the Reality of Nonviolence The Background: With a rainbow pin on his lapel, signifying–on that day at least–the most recent gun massacre in the United States, Congressman John Lewis made an impassioned cri de coeur before members of Congress and the people of this country: the time for silence is over. “Sometimes,” he said,… read more
Symbols and Nonviolence: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video
In this video, Michael Nagler continues onward in Search for a Nonviolent Future, exploring the general principle behind symbolic action. He articulates his definition of symbolic action, reviews it in Gandhi’s campaigns, and concludes that symbols alone are not enough. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive… read more
Le Chambon and Prague Spring: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video
In this video, Michael wraps up Chapter 4 of Search for a Nonviolent Future, “Work” vs. Work, with two stories: Le Chambon and Prague Spring. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share Gandhi’s spiritual wisdom and… read more
Civil Disobedience Made Legal: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video
Nonviolence can work from any direction, including from governments. In a town in PA, civil disobedience has been made legal, protecting protestors from crackdown while defending their community from large corporations. (Read more about it here) Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta… read more
