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There was a time when a half a million people demonstrating in the streets would have an impact on policy and policy makers. That time seems to have passed.
Traditional Nonviolent tactics have been studied and marginalized by our opponents. Our marches and speeches are ignored by the corporate-owned media. Our letters are ignored and our emails are deleted. We are even forced into “free speech zones” where we can be more easily ignored and controlled.
But Nonviolence isn’t just holding up signs in protest on weekends and then going back to life as usual. In order for Nonviolence to work, it must have strategy, planning and a real effect that will bring about change in the opponent or replace the unjust system entirely.
Nonviolence United advocates a form of Nonviolence that is built on strategy and has a direct effect regardless of the opponent’s conscience or their willingness to change -- Nonviolence as a way of life. We can build a world reflective of our values only when we consume consciously and live our lives consistently with our values. It’s that simple.
We're not saying demonstrations and protests don't have a place. We're simply suggesting more thought to what their place is in a complete strategy. We thought the cover story of the Utne Reader "Protest Is Dead. Long Live Protest." did a good job explaining this point.
We'd like to know what you think.
Leaders Are Readers: "Solutions To Violence” By Colman McCarthy
“If we don’t teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.” - Colman McCarthy
Colman McCarthy is a veteran peace activist, animal advocate and Nonviolence educator who founded and directs the Center for Teaching Peace, a nonprofit organization that helps schools begin or expand academic programs in peace studies. He was a columnist for The Washington Post from 1969 to 1997. For over 25 years he has been teaching courses on Nonviolence and peace and has reached more than 7,000 students.
Colman (as he encouraged us to call him) has written countless articles as well as several books on Nonviolence, peace and peace literature. We’d like to encourage you to pick up his two anthologies, Solutions to Violence and Strength Through Peace: the Ideas and People of Nonviolence. Contact the Center for Teaching Peace, 450l Van Ness St. NW, Washington, DC 20016. Telephone: 202.537.1372. When we bought ours last year they each cost $25 plus $3 for shipping.
Or you can engage in his Solutions to Violence as an online course called "Class of Nonviolence." This powerful online course is packed full of essays, articles and quotes from some of the key Nonviolence leaders.
Remember, if you want to order other books by Colman McCarthy, consider buying them from your local bookstore or online with BookSense.com -- your online source for local bookstores. And consider a copy for your local library.
Practicing Nonviolence: Ten Billion Of You
What if everyone on Earth lived exactly like you do? The world population may soon reach 10 billion. If everyone traveled the same way; ate the same kinds of foods; wore the same kinds of clothes; lived in the same size of home; consumed the way you do -- would it really be sustainable? Could planet Earth handle it? Would it build a better world? Would it make life better for people, for the planet and for the animals?
You have an impact. You are making a difference. What kind of difference do you want to make?
Every word, every action, every bite of food and every bit of consumption have built the world we now live in. And all of those things a billion times over each and every day are building the future.
Here's an interesting snapshot of the world in which you live (from worldometers.info). Have a look and then ask yourself, "What can I do to make a difference... for good?"
Words To Live By: "Change Your Life, Change The World."
"The first things to be disrupted by our commitment to Nonviolence will not be the system but our own lives." - Jim Douglass, American author and Nonviolence activist
In this issue …
1. Lookin' Good... The New NonviolenceUnited.org
2. Article: Protest Is Dead. Long Live Protest.
3. Leaders Are Readers: "Solutions To Violence" by Colman McCarthy
4. Practicing Nonviolence: Ten Billion Of You
5. Words To Live By: "Change Your Life, Change The World."
About Nonviolence United.
Our mission is to see the world become a just home for all -- no more wars, no more hunger, no more suffering of one for the greed of another.
It can be done. And there is a remarkable way to make it happen. A way that builds rather than tears down. A way that allows you to live your ethics rather than selling your soul. A way where everyone is loved and no one is hated. A way that fills you with hope. A way that cannot be stopped and can never be destroyed.
Nonviolence. With Nonviolence you can build a better life for you and a better world for everyone.
Live Your Life Connected.
We and everything are connected. Nonviolence is living your life with deep respect for those connections.
Our Strategy.
Nonviolence can be a way of life. And Nonviolence can be a strategy. But for powerful, long-lasting change, Nonviolence as a way of life is the strategy.
- Teach people that we can build a world reflective of our values only when we buy consciously and live our lives consistently with our values -- connection is the essence of Nonviolence
- Organize and unite the social justice movements within the strategy of living a life connected
- Quickly spread this strategy to the people via the social justice movements
Thank you!
Nonviolence United exists through the kindness and generosity of caring people like you. Please support our ongoing efforts to promote Nonviolence as a way of life and as a way of social change.
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