Nonviolence Radio

The Beat of an Unstoppable Movement

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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.

Nonviolence Radio is a 60-minute program featuring news about nonviolence culture and movements around the world. The show also includes inspiring discussions with nonviolence practitioners and movement-builders.

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Show Archives

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Direct Action: Challenging U.S. Militarism in the Heartland

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  Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, (www.vcnv.org) a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. In this podcast on Direct Action, she offers an in-depth analysis and overview of a campaign she was involved in in the 1980s to challenge the U.S. military and inform the public of nuclear weapons in the Heartland.… read more

Nonviolence News, Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Direct Action

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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… read more

Direct Action: Homelessness is not a crime

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Direct action to change the San Francisco Matrix Policy and the challenge of the criminalization of homelessness  Subscribe to our podcast here.    Ken Butigan of Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence talks to the Metta Center about how he was a part of a direct action campaign that used creativity to change a dehumanizing… read more

Direct Action: Jeju, South Korea

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New at Peace Paradigm Radio…This is the first interview in a series the Metta Center is conducting entitled “Variations on Direct Action.” Subscribe to our podcast here.  Listen to Joyakgol from Seoul, South Korea, talk to the Metta Center about the direct action activities used in the nonviolent struggle on Jeju Island, South Korea, to obstruct… read more

Gandhi, Montessori and Nonviolence in Early Childhood

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“The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.”   “Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.” –Maria Montessori “It is perfectly true, I must admit it in all humility, that however indifferently it… read more

Nonviolence news, humor and the meaning of life

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“Nonviolence is the greatest power at the disposal of humankind.” M.K. Gandhi   subscribe to our itunes podcast here In this week’s Peace Paradigm Radio, you will get your regular, delicious dose of nonviolence in the news with Michael Nagler to start you off. Then, we dip into the discussion of the power of humor–what… read more

Students United for Restorative Justice (Feb 21–Full Show)

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All the nonviolence that’s not fit to print… Want to listen to us on iTunes? Subscribe to our iTunes Podcast here! *********************************************************************************** Full Show Listen Here or click on the grey arrow below. [audio:http://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/PPR-Santa-Rosa-High-fullshow.mp3] Peace Paradigm Radio features a news segment on nonviolence in the news and this week’s is particularly interesting as our news anchor, Michael… read more