About NonviolenceUnited.

What Is Nonviolence?
__Nonviolence As A Way Of Life.
__Nonviolence As A Strategy.
__Why Nonviolence As A Way Of Life Is The Strategy.
__Why Now?
__What They Don't Want You To Know... Nonviolence Works!
What Is violence?
__violence Takes Many Forms.
__Examples Of violence Against Society.
__Why violence Doesn’t Lead To A Better Society.
Yes, YOU Make A Difference.
__You Can Build A World That Reflects Your Values.
__The Nonviolence Compass.
What Can I Do? How To Get Started.
__Every Dollar Is A Vote.
__Build The Positive.
__Tools You’ll Need.
__Build A Nonviolent World With These Nonviolent Choices.
Nonviolence For Social Justice Movements.
__The Social Justice Mountaintops.
__Nonviolence Unites Us.
__Work Smarter, Not Harder.
__Help Others, Help Yourself.
Resources.
__Newsletters.
__Links.
__The Nonviolence Resolution.

Build The Positive
Many people fight against what they oppose. That may be useful, but it can be more productive, more sustainable and more powerful to build the positive. Rethink what you are against and instead stand up for what you are for. Are you against war? Stand up for peace. Are you against cruelty to animals? Stand up for kindness to animals. Are you against slavery? Stand up for fair trade and fair labor.

How do you stand up? Nonviolence as a way of life. Gandhi said, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” What that means is that you must live your life as if the Nonviolent world you want was already here. Support only that world -- fair trade, organic, animal-friendly, sustainable, local products, etc. This will build the world you want while dismantling the world you want to change.

 

 

 

“…We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Even when we don’t ‘win’ there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope. An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.".”
- Howard Zinn

 

 

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Boulder, CO 80306
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