• 我們的使命,我們的視野。

    我們 connecters,消費者教育,提醒我們都是相互聯繫的的。

    這個網站的目的是啟動一個世界革命的同情​​和個人責任的基礎上。

    我們的願景是與生俱來的善良的人民和他們的價值觀和其他人的正義,善良,同情,對地球和動物,帶動世界。

幾年前,我會問觀眾,“他認為,公司對我們的政府的控制,我們的生活太多?”也許 1 / 2會慢慢舉手,我必須解釋我的意思。

今天在房間裡的每一個的手射擊 ... ...有些人站起來歡呼!

“為什麼這些大公司有這麼大的權力?”我問。

“他們所有的錢!”有人罵。

“他們從哪裡得到的錢?”...

沉默。

“哦... ...我們。”

世界的狀態是不是正在做,這是由我們做。 我們有能力把它周圍。 消費自覺。 在每一個你生活的一部分。 你吃什麼,購買,消費,閱讀,看... ...

問題不在於,“可以一個人真正有所作為?”你已經是一個區別。 問題是,“你想要什麼樣的區別呢?”你會一直存在的問題的一部分;或將您的解決方案的一部分。 是的,你的問題。 電源是在你的手中。

評論 1條評論

美國馬丁路德金郵票 這是一個簡短的回答問題發送到NonviolenceUnited.org(謝謝你的問題!)

問:“危害社會的暴力行為”什麼是暴力和一些例子是什麼

答:我們對所有的連接。 越來越多的人開始重新認識這之間的相互聯繫 - 我們的選擇和行動的影響不僅是我們的生命,但其他人的生命 - 即使是在地球的另一端,即使是那些我們永遠不會滿足。 我們所有連接。 暴力,概括地說 ... ...是什麼,對自然之間的相互聯繫 - 這是一個斷線的表達。

小馬丁路德金解釋說:“我們是在單服裝的命運綁在了一起... ...一些奇怪的原因,我永遠不能我應該是什麼,直到你是什麼你應該。 你可以永遠不會是你應該直到我什麼我應該。“為了實現我們的潛力,我們必須彼此互相支持。

和危害社會的暴力行為呢? 最後,任何形式的暴力危害社會的,因為它的工作原理,解開一個相互依存的社會結構。 但是,暴力行為有多種形式。 我們沉浸在徹底的身體暴力(戰爭,恐怖活動由國家和個人,家庭暴力,虐待兒童,搶劫,強姦,謀殺,毒品戰爭,等等等等),有時我們可能無法識別其他暴力猖獗種族主義軍國主義物種歧視貧困唯物主義 (本,我的意思是個人過度消費以及公司化的宣傳和政策驅動它)。 正如甘地,當我們用比我們更需要,我們從別人偷。

因此,危害社會的暴力行為基本上是“othering”(國際社會或其他較小的社區)在社區內。 它是創造一個“其他”實際上是一個美國的一部分,我們在連接到現實是有人出。 Othering是不合理,不必要的,當然傷害的信念,在我們的國際社會(所有人類和非人類的動物 ... ...甚至自然本身)的人都莫名其妙地從自己單獨。

我提到我們所有連接嗎? :)

所有一,

:)M

評論 沒有評論

OK,這張貼是太長了,我知道了。 對不起 ... ...有點。 但我有這麼多問題,因為佔據運動水浸 - 我喜歡稱之為“覺醒”:)我希望你能得到的好東西,並將其發送給你的朋友和家人在運動。 一如往常,我們在這裡幫助,所以如果我們能夠給一個抱怨。

... ... ... ...

給我的朋友,姐妹,兄弟#佔據運動激起的行動,首先,謝謝你! 正如你的心臟和頭腦已經開到一個公正的世界的可能性,你是喚醒數以百萬計的心靈,可能是數十億美元。 ,這是個不小的壯舉和不小的運動。

眼下,重點是那些在街頭的行動 - 這是畢竟更容易為市民包裝的集體心態左右。 它更容易通過媒體包。 邊緣化也容易得多,但我們會得到... ...

請了解,在街頭的行動僅僅是一個戰略的一小部分 - 這一小部分是很重要的,但它不是運動。 你們中許多人都在問,“戰略? 什麼樣的戰略?是此消息的目的。 我們每個人都適合到這一日益嚴重的運動? 為什麼必須非暴力的基礎。

而不是漫無邊際的,失去你,我試著回​​答朋友對我到NonviolenceUnited.org的幾個問題。 我希望這會有所幫助。 我希望它是在它提供的精神收到的。

問:如果非暴力的作品,為什麼沒有我沒有聽說過嗎
答:YES! 我們為什麼不聽非暴力的勝利 - “人民力量”翻滾壓迫人民的政權呢? 為什麼我們不聽到在捷克斯洛伐克的“天鵝絨革命”,烏克蘭的“橙色革命”在蘇聯,在菲律賓的壓迫拉下馬,在東德,拉脫維亞,立陶宛,拆除在拉丁美洲, ?

遍布世界的持久,積極的變化是不萬億美元的軍隊,但非暴力的人的權力的結果。 為什麼我們不聽到這些顯著的革命? 信息封鎖是沒有意外。 也許我們並不了解非暴力的革命,因為 ... 它的作品!

非暴力的人的權力,可以改變世界。 這是一個可怕的思想微乎其微掛親愛的生活執掌權力的少數。

為一組留在權力,沒有代表人民的真實意願,他們必須保持權力操縱和武力 - 武力 - 一個世界性的警察國家。 這就是為什麼一些最的觸摸和世界頭重腳輕政府必須維護和使用武力過度的TOP SHOW。

如果秘密了嗎? 如果人們知道,非暴力的作品嗎? 如果他們知道,他們並不需要大肌肉和槍支和不人道的使用它們呢? 如果人們停止給他們的權力壓迫者? 如果電源突然轉向回的人呢?

這將意味著創造的世界,反映人民的價值觀。 在大多數情況下,這些值真理,正義,自由,善良,同情,走向人民的商譽對地球和對動物等,都不錯。 一個驚人的世界,這可能是... ...,它可能發生幾乎在一夜之間,環顧我們的價值觀組織。

問:但是,我們需要一個“戰術的多樣性”是有效的
答:可能有一些人仍然懷疑非暴力。 他們可能還不明白其權力或它的核心原則,一個連接的社會是一個公正的社會。 也許他們認為暴力可能急於順水推舟。 有些人甚至認為,“當然,你做的非暴力,我會做暴力... ...我們一起會是一支偉大的球隊,因為人會怕我,那麼他們就會與你談判。”

它不工作的方式。 當你被視為一個運動的一部分,你是暴力,運動是被作為暴力的比例,以非暴力的暴力,無論。

非暴力認為像一杯乾淨的水。 即使一滴血(暴力),使得所有的水血腥。 一旦你血淋淋的水花費巨額無需任何額外的血液,希望以後再有乾淨的水,乾淨的水。 即使如此,它永遠不會是完全乾淨的。

為什麼暴力不會在長期運行工作的原因有很多:

  • 非暴力走向共享的社會與和解;暴力不支持這一目標。 暴力總是一個失敗者,人會感到疏遠和尋求推翻其他儘早。
  • 非暴力的工程,贏得了人民和社會的支持,我們希望人們加入我們的行列。 鑑於暴力具有相反的效果 - 大多數人不希望他們生活中的暴力行為。
  • 非暴力組和暴力集團之間的衝突是一種道德的說法,如果非暴力組可以使用暴力挑釁,暴力組獲勝。
  • 非暴力的群體往往故意滲透暴力反對派希望拆除運動的成員 這些滲透往往容易識別,因為它們將倡導和挑起暴力假裝暴力會導致司法,但知道它會導致社會把對運動。 當我們實踐非暴力的,我們很快就暴露了我們的對手。
  • 暴力是容易的,但它使每個人的工作更難。
  • 暴力簡單地分離和斷開永存 - 它使用的元素,我們希望消除。
  • 非暴力提倡愛心和同情心,暴力促進仇恨和恐懼。

問:我們為什麼要在街頭? 什麼目的? 這將如何帶來改變?
答:如果你讀過NonviolenceUnited.org在過去,你知道抗議嘲笑和權力精英忽略。 它們通常是短命的。 他們通常很容易被邊緣化媒體(淡化人參與的人數,我們只是一堆“嬉皮士”,提出“公正和平衡的”另類觀點 ... ...你知道的“新聞”的故事,我說的) 。 街頭抗議爭取很少關注和支持很少,通常會迅速死亡。

通常 ,這個運動是不是“一切如常。”但它不是在街上的人的數目,將使破企業的政治機器的區別,那就是人的覺醒和連接到其他人。 這是街頭抗議活動的目的。 相互連接,喚醒他人的困境和可能性,並形成一個統一的聲音,理念和目標,的。

問:目標是什麼?
答:我看到的目標是創建一種全新的方式做事-司法協作和資源共享轉變。 所有 - 人類,地球,和非人類動物的生命和自由平等的機會。 我們在此一起。 我們都高興地和含淚在生活的鬥爭交織在一起。 這是一個範式轉移。 目前範式(甚至沒有思考它做事的方式)是一個剝削 - 使用只要大家和一切為 *你*的個人(或個別公司)的財務成功。 道德被定罪。 美元崇拜。

新範式的尊重,我們都是一。 沒有你我,只有我們。 當我說“我們”,我在內的所有人民,所有的動物,所有的自然世界。 我們所有連接。 我會幫你不用擔心我自己。 這是一個相互支持,而不是永無止境的,最終兩敗俱傷的競爭制度。

問:什麼是非暴力做任何與本?
答:一切都連接 我希望我已經建立了這一點 - 如果你的空氣 /水的污染對地球的這一邊,你污染的空氣 /水那一邊。 如果您使用比你更多的份額,你偷別人的(人,地球,動物)和後代。 我們都之一。 保護這一聯網的過程中是非暴力的。 撕裂或忽視這個聯網的過程中的暴力行為。

能來這麼多形式的暴力 - 下降至15,000英尺的炸彈,我們的兄弟姐妹,澆在我們的食物和水進入我們的化學品,過度使用資源,浪費資源,忽視了我們的同情和體面感,提高動物作為食物,甚至媒體和貴國政府的謊言看似無害的東西,所有擔任斷開你... ...從自己,從自己的價值觀,並從對方(“你是一個民主主義者,你是共和黨人,你中產階級,你低下階層,你那場比賽,你那場比賽 ... ...現在打出去!“)。 它的瘋狂。 它的針對性斷線,誤延續當前的範式 - 暴力。

問:我們要反擊... ...“他們”開始
答:你反擊非暴力是不是無所作為。。 它是行動! 你被攻擊的唯一原因是因為你是成功的。 勇於創新,足智多謀,在您的非暴力的不屈。 您將挑起由國家和挑釁,企圖以暴力反應的暴力行為,因為國家在暴力的互動總是在贏得廣大市民的眼睛(無論原因如何只是)。 我們是一個可怕的人類的動物和警方仍在大多數為保護。 請記住警察你。 他們的這種暴力的同一系統的受害者。 是的,這似乎是那些個別警察是讓你,但戰鬥與暴力辯護的國家暴力,而不是你的暴力(在國家的眼裡,警察,和廣大市民)。

問:財產真正暴力的破壞
答:不要緊,我認為(等待,讓我解釋一下!)。 重要的是,廣大市民看到的暴力破壞財產! 有關社會活動期間的財產的破壞有兩個點。 有一點已經與非暴力的定義。 另一點,更重要的活動家,是戰略之一。

首先,定義非暴力作為一種哲學。 一個非暴力的基本原則是,我們所有的連接。 非暴力是這個聯網的積極支持和保護。 非暴力是積極的,功能強大,故意。 非暴力的工程,為建設一個社會的地方,而我們仍然會同意和討論,我們將所有的生活和工作互相支持和互相尊重的合作和共同理解。 非暴力是不是從單獨的目標;非暴力行為的積木 - 兩端的手段。 所以,雖然你可能仍然認為破壞財產是不是“暴力”是不是“非暴力”。換言之,“非暴力”是不一樣的“非暴力。”

OK,足夠的理念 - 務實,為什麼會這樣?
最重要的是戰略,這種非暴力的消息:

一個成功的社會運動(如佔據)依賴於實現增加市民的支持,如果我們要達到我們的目標,在社會文化的轉變。 當我們這樣做非暴力的行動,我們希望鼓勵越來越多的人加入我們! 不能運行或在恐懼反沖。

當談到非暴力的戰略,有什麼比活動家認為更重要的是廣大市民認為! 毀壞財產,不論任何活動家可能會認為它的,不是一般市民認為值得支持的一部分(他們想加入我們嗎?)的東西。 我不是說這一定是合法的,我要說的是考慮戰略的根本。 財產的破壞很可能將不帶入運動的群眾,甚至可能嚇跑大多數人 - “來保護人民”最終貸款支持的國家

戰略性思考,規劃時,社會行動!

問:警方的行動讓我們感到驚訝... ...有人會已經在我們沒有以同樣的方式(暴力)回應
答:你感到驚訝嗎? 你沒有準備呢? 你沒想到警察的暴行? 真的嗎? 我再說一遍,你會被挑起暴力行為。 你是爭奪最為激烈的暴力系統的歷史系統。 如果你想一分鐘你不打算與暴力面臨的最猛烈的系統 ... ...好吧,我們已經得到了比這要聰明。

事實上,不是嚇唬你,但請解決,運動變得越成功,我們將看到更多的暴力。 我們必須確保它是片面的。 我們必須拒絕發揮致命的遊戲,延續了現行的制度。 當前的系統將不會停止提供和挑起暴力良知。 甚至出壞良心的事。 暴力正是本系統的“生命” - 這是其存在的全部原因。 這不是不可想像的,在此之前已經結束了,許多無辜的生命將採取。 示威者將被殺害。 壓迫者是不是要交出權力 - 直到壓迫者的員工意識到自己的問題,壓迫的一部分,他們拒絕再提供任何。 然後將贏得這場戰鬥。

你感到驚訝嗎?! 我們已經做好準備。 我們只能作出適當的反應,並有力地時,我們準備(在我們的心中,在我們的頭腦),直到非暴力成為我們一切工作的的指導原則。 我們需要承擔個人責任,培養自己的培訓 /告知他人。 我們需要立即和有效的非暴力教育/培訓;我們需要更深刻的理解和承諾(見 www.NonviolenceUnited.org);我們需要手頭上白天和黑夜的非暴力專家,我們需要非暴力,成為每一個人在的生活口頭禪街道。 當非暴力的動作只有一個戰略,是我們生命的承諾 - 這是範式轉變!

問:有關上述的想法,“警察是99%的部分”哎呀-他們應該放棄自己的角色,辭掉了工作,並與我們(非暴力)武器
答:本聲明/問題是缺少的是,警方正趕上在破碎系統,並根據目前的範式訓練的人的理解。 許多警務人員可能真正要保護公眾,並已導致認為這是最好的辦法做到這一點。

正如在每一個對抗,我們不能假設那些攻擊我們一定的所有信息。 事實上,他們沒有或不會做他們正在做什麼(保護系統而不是人)。 他們沒有做傷害你,因為他們恨你,因為它們是天生不好的人或系統的無人駕駛飛機。 他們的暴力亞文化在世界上前所未有的最暴力的文化產品。 其中任何(許多?)可以達到非暴力和人類尊嚴的證明。

他們認為,學生(你教師有)。 這不是他們的錯,他們還不了解。 沒有責任,是教給他們,不給他們我們。 看到大家,即使是那些攻擊你的家庭 - 你會反擊,試圖傷害,甚至殺死你的家人或心愛的人呢? 可能是你第一次嘗試改變他們的想法,並贏得你看待事物的方式。 看到您分開,為“敵人”警察是另一種形式的非人化 - 這正是我們正在打擊部分斷線。

除此之外,如果你不能找到它在你的心,只是還沒有看到人與個人的生命和到達心中的警務人員,至少要考慮戰略! 如果你打受傷的警務人員,無論怎樣的權利,你可能會認為你是,你將失去在廣大市民的眼睛。 您將丟失。 您也將在公眾對您和您的任何進一步的暴力同胞非暴力革命家的眼睛“合法化”。 你,我們的世界,每一個生活在這個星球上(甚至地球!)需要你足夠強大,認識到作為一個戰略和正義作為我們的目標非暴力的力量。

問:OK,你說是在街上的運動的一個部分 還有什麼可以/應該做的嗎
答:我已經說過了之前在此NonviolenceUnited.org ,所以請探索(和/或見下面的鏈接) -我們在這裡幫助:

這是一個消費革命。 世界的狀態是不給我們;它是由我們所做的一切。 解決方案是我們之外,它不是在未來的政治救世主,這是不是在華爾街。 每一位消費者的選擇我們每個人都在建我們今天生活的世界的過去,我們把當權者今天誰當權。 我們污染了,我們被奴役,我們殺死,我們付出這一切。 這不是邪惡的公司,它的沒頭沒腦的消費。

現在,單從這一刻開始的每一個選擇,將建設明天的世界。 SHIFT這個權力! 如果你消耗的自覺只有善良,正義和同情你的價值觀相一致的東西 ... ...這是你將建立的世界。 如果沒有,同樣的期望 - 世界失控,我們主張反對一切扭曲。 這是我們偉大的力量,這是我們偉大的的責任。

認識到,你已經擁有的權力。 你總是有。 政治家都不會改變這種狀況。 公司不打算改變這種狀況。 您的問題,你有所作為。

這是非常重要的的把握,因為這是運動。 每個人,每一個單個的人是消費者。 我不是指“店,直到你放棄”消費(雖然很多是因為我們的消費下降)。 我的意思是,我們必須消耗(吃,喝,打扮自己,尋​​找住房等)的生存。 這些簡單的消費者的選擇並非如此簡單,他們不是個人的選擇 - 你使你周圍的世界上的影響,大家對一切的每一個選擇。 我們一直在不假思索的消費者選擇通過:

  • 我們的食物選擇(浪費資源,殺害動物,污染/破壞地球,奴隸勞動)
  • 服裝(配套奴役和監獄勞動,無污染,經常殺死動物)
  • 住房(摧毀的星球,使用非再生資源,從後代偷)

而剩下的只是東西,我們甚至不需要! 我們是什麼思想呢? 答:我們沒有。 好了,現在我們! 現在,我們必須!

如果你在街頭抗議(即使你),你還是這項運動的一部分。 每個人都是這個運動的一部分。 每一個消費者 /人類走向一個新的司法系統正在建設或助長了剝削制度。 它真的就是這麼簡單。

你讓每一位消費者的選擇,一切您購買或決定不買,要么是問題的解決方案或部分的一部分。 協作的新範式的一部分,它是在你正積極對抗的暴力剝削範式的直接支持。

“Talk是便宜,我們如何組織和生活我們的生活,說我們的主張。” -塞薩爾查韋斯

即使你是在的街道“什麼是正確的戰鬥” - 如果你是購買 /穿著您的Nike奴隸勞動化學浸泡動物皮膚鞋,吃了一個麥當勞漢堡的任何動物產品,Hershey的奴隸勞動奶牛的奶零食巧克力,駕駛您的新的天然氣動力車,想知道你的401K可能會做,而不是它在做什麼(甚至不知道你投資什麼)... ...你真的解決方案的一部分嗎? 你真的是新範式的一部分嗎? 或者你只是在浪費你的時間 - 釘運行馬拉松比賽之前,一隻腳在地板上。

這是運動。 這是一個自覺的消費革命。 它是一種個人責任的運動,個人良知,勇敢的步驟如何才能方式的局限和舒適。

問:不要,我們需要一個領導者要取得成功 我們的領導人在哪裡
答:如果你有興趣看“自治的社會運動” -這就是我們要找的-一個新興的新社會運動的想法,而不是由一個領導者帶領。 有領導中心(Marting小馬丁路德金,在60年代就是一個例子SCLC)的團體和有組中心或理念/理想為中心的領導(在60年代甚至女權運動,環保運動 SNCC的,或動物解放運動今天的例子)。

的想法/理想為中心的運動實際上更強大,從長遠來看 - 理念/理想為中心的運動的個別與會者呼籲要親自負責。 此外,它變得越來越反對拍攝,當每個人都是一個領導者的信使(名副其實)更加困難。

“領頭羊”(思想或理想我們走向工作 - 協作正義)處於領先地位。 它在我們的頭腦,並在我們的心中。 它不能被暗殺。 佔據運動有一些工作要做 - 在實地抗議這樣一個整體運動的一小部分。 但功率會當每個人,每個人都意識到美國每個人都有被部分問題和美國的每一個都可以解決部分問題。

我們的美元(形式在我們的日常消費的選擇 - 從我們使用的銀行,信用卡,我們消費的每一件小事,甚至我們的稅款)是建我們今天生活的世界。 從這一刻起我們的選擇將建設明天的世界。 現場,並與你的價值觀相一致的選擇和改變世界。 如果不連接你的生活,使不知情的消費者的選擇,你仍然可以改變世界,而是將繼續惡化,感到斷開從共享的價值觀和其他人的正義,善良,同情,地球,非人類的動物。

問:但是非暴力的是混亂的,很難,我沒有得到它,等等。
答:我理解的慾望與暴力反應。 小馬丁路德金,認識到暴力是聞所未聞的聲音。 當人們感到沮喪,他們有時會轉向暴力。 我在這裡告訴你,你聽到了! 有更好,更有效的方式使自己聆訊(約每美元讀取更是一 http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/tag/every-dollar-is-a-vote/) 。

非暴力,積極非暴力是像一個身體和精神的武術。 你將要行使你永遠不知道你有情緒和勇氣。 你將要學習戰略理論。 弄疼。 就像啟動一個新的例行演習。 這將是很難! 你會落在你的臉扁了幾十倍。 你會覺得自己放棄。 我保證你會覺得這種方式... ...,直到突然,你讓它山頂 - 哦,你會看到的東西!!

感覺與大家和一切相互關聯的 - 你會是最強大,最有力,最活著,你曾經感覺。 你所做的一切,每一次呼吸你採取的是更大的整體的一部分。 你是運動。 每個人是你,你是每個人(每個人,每個動物,每一個有生命的東西)。

這是不是新agey胡說,這是務實的事實。 我們所有的連接,你做什麼的事項。 它總是有它總是會。

不要給予其易於使用暴力,其方便性,其相對舒適的誘惑,或者因為你的理解。 內的鬥爭將是值得,並把這種內心的鬥爭形式直接非暴力行動的街道... ...這是世界上從來沒有見過一個喜歡的運動 ...迫切需要。

對於其他意見,希望有助於佔據運動,請參閱:

http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/2011/10/protest-is-dead/

謝謝你!

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:)N!

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美國總統奧巴馬紗羅顯示昨晚說,“人們感到沮喪”,他把對行業的“領頭羊”的責任,以展示的方式#佔據運動。 他建議(大家在破碎系統的掌舵),我們要做的是購買更多的東西,給人們的工作,使他們能夠購買更多的東西,保持忙碌,買更多的東西,保持忙碌,買更多的東西 ... ...

他只是沒有得到它(這麼多的水平上) - 或更可能的是,他*不*得到它,並鋪設破碎機的基礎。 這不是人是“失意” - 這是人們已經覺醒。 顧名思義,“失意”,意味著人都感到憤怒,因為自己沒有能力改變或實現的東西。 人們並不沮喪,他們知道如何作出改變 - 停止給錢 /破碎系統的電源 - 他們正在促成這件事情。

誰需要“領導者”向我們展示的方式呢? 我們知道的方式,它不是在自己的方向。 我們都是,我們每個人,領導者。 權力是在我們手中。

“買更多的東西”呢?! 真的嗎?! 什麼讓我們在這個爛攤子 - 沒頭沒腦的消費(包括戰爭 - 是它的一個賺錢的機器,飼料破碎系統)企業的政客歡呼。

破碎系統開始進行反擊。 看出來了。 它的困惑通過非暴力和將睫毛出來的唯一方式,知道如何 - 暴力和針對性斷線(暴力的命脈),以贏得回到公眾的支持和消費者的信心(另一種說法得到人來買更多的東西 - 這我覺得實際上是一個信心不足的跡象)。

知道,留強,保持積極 *非暴力。 在街上,看看更多的挑釁。 住戶將挑起。 會有在人群中的代理挑釁(假裝是佔領者,但真正被壓迫者的代理人)。 這是一個很常見的手法,用來取得任何成功的非暴力運動,運動,出現暴力,使公眾的注意力將被分散注意力抗議的目的,使公眾的支持變成壓迫者。 不給! 知道的要少得多準確的媒體報導,和更多的媒體關注假新聞報導來自世界各地,讓你分心,升級的戰爭等,以鼓起來的愛國主義。 堅持以未經過濾的新聞來源。

我們需要的是一個全新的思維方式,做一個整體的新方式,整個新的生活方式。 實時連接的生活。 住自己的價值觀,改變了世界。

一如往常,如果您有任何問題,我們在這裡如果我們能幫助。

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戰爭並不存在,因為一些道德困境,它的存在是因為有是有錢可掙。 因為一些道德困境,甚至不存在供人類食用無助的動物(動物農業企業)的使用和濫用,因為我們有吃他們的殺戮發生,因為那裡是有錢可掙。

油災害,一個沒頭沒腦的華爾街,全球氣候變暖,污染,從 /監獄勞動,工作的窮人,世界飢餓 - 這些不存在意外,他們的存在是因為有有錢可掙。 Wall Street gives new meaning to the idea of “making a killing.”

How do we stop it? Stop supporting it! Stop paying for it! It exists because WE, each of us, helped pay for and build it. WE, each of us, with every single consumer choice (using a credit card, using a corporate bank, the companies and products we buy/consume/support, the media we “consume” by paying attention to it, even the war tax we pay to our federal government without holding it accountable) — WE built the world we live in today. WE did this! And WE, with every choice from this moment forward, will build the world of tomorrow.

The good news is that WE (YOU!) can turn it around virtually overnight. There is humility and a great challenge in realizing that WE did this to ourselves and that each of us has the power to put a stop to it, to build a better world.

Take personal responsibility — consume less, and when you do consume (we must to survive) do it consciously, in an informed way, and in a way that is aligned with our shared values of justice, kindness, and compassion for other people, for the planet, and for the animals.

Live your values, change the world!

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There's seems to be a hunger for a social revolution in the air. Not a violent revolution, but a revolution of values, a call to the corporate world that enough is enough.

With that in mind, I'm reposting something I put up a few years ago along with the text to our “A Life Connected” brochure here. While protest can be powerful and has its place, personal protest (in the form of taking responsibility for the role each of us plays in building the world in which we live) will be the fuel of the revolution. The Nonviolence revolution.

From NonviolenceUnited.org 2007:


Click the image to read Tom Tomorrow's cartoon.

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.

For those of you who want to learn more about taking personal responsibility for the world we, each of us, is helping create, please read our brochure “A Life Connected” available online here or read the text here (below).

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ALifeConnected.org
Live A Life Connected!
A lot of us are asking the question, “What should I do with my life?” Perhaps the answer won't be found in one great thing… but in all the little things. Your everyday choices define who you are, what you stand for, and the world you want to see.

我們的選擇建立在過去我們今天生活的世界。 And each of our choices from this moment forward will build the world of tomorrow. If you're not living your values, whose life are you living… and what kind of world are you building?

Every Dollar Is A Vote.
Every dollar you spend or choose not to spend is a vote. You voted yesterday. You'll vote today — maybe hundreds of times. Will you vote for a world that respects human rights, protects the environment, and has compassion for animals? Or will you make choices that build a world you really don't believe in?

Your consumer choices act as the conscience of big business. Businesses have grown so disconnected that they often only respond to money, not to moral principles. They no longer hear our pleas for kindness and ethics. If profits increase even though a company is spewing toxic fumes, enslaving people, or hurting animals, the company still believes it is doing something right.

If your words which plead for humanity are drowned out by the clamor of your coins, you're saying to unthinking businesses, “Yes, keep doing what you're doing… and do it in my name!”

You help build a world reflective of our shared values of justice, kindness, and compassion when your everyday choices are aligned with those values.

It's that simple.

“Talk is cheap… it's how we organize and live our lives that tells what we believe in.”
– Cesar Chavez

Strategy for a Better World.
Traditional Nonviolence tactics have been studied and made less effective by those who control by force, disconnection, and violence. Marches and speeches are ignored by corporate-owned media. Letters from concerned citizens are disregarded and their emails deleted. People are even forced into “free speech zones” where they can be more easily ignored and controlled.

It's time to live smarter. A Life Connected is a method of Active Nonviolence built on strategy. It has a direct effect regardless of an “opponent's” conscience or willingness to change. It cannot be stopped by force. It builds rather than tears down. It replaces hate with love. And it is available to everyone.

All of us and everything are connected. Nonviolence offers you a way to live your life sincerely building, supporting, and defending these connections. Connect to your own values. Connect to other people, to the planet, and to animals. Connect to how your choices impact the world around you.

How To Live A Life Connected.
你出生連接你對人類和你生活於其中的世界 - 價值觀的正義,善良,和同情的值。 Reconnect to who you truly are. 你的同情,並付諸行動,使我們的世界變得更美好。

1。 與自己進行連接。 Become re-aware of your moral values.
2。 與他人建立聯繫。 了解成為你的日常選擇如何影響其他人,地球,動物。
3。 您選擇連接到你的價值觀。 If your choices are truly aligned with your values, stay on that path and find even more connections. 如果你的選擇是不對齊,使新的,更好,更連接的選擇。

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mohandas Gandhi

Build A Better World With Connected Choices.

Simplify. Imagine a world of billions of people living exactly as you do. Would it truly be fair and sustainable? Live simply so that others may simply live.

Fair Trade. Fair Trade ensures that farmers, artisans, and other producers get a fair price for their goods. It guarantees a living wage, encourages environmental responsibility, and reinvests in communities. Look for Fair Trade certified products.

Organic. Protect people, the planet, and precious wildlife. Organic products ensure that chemicals are not sprayed and dumped on farm workers, on the land, and in our water. Pesticides are poisons designed to kill living organisms. Promote health — including your own. And save energy. In the United States, more energy is used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to till, cultivate, and harvest all the crops.

Fair Labor. Sweatshops, child labor, and slave labor are a growing problem even in the United States. Clothing and other products like coffee, fruit, chocolate, and flowers are often produced under brutal working conditions. The cheapest products often come with the greatest human costs. Get to know more about how the products you purchase are made and make the most humane choices.

Renewable Energy. Wars are fought for resources. To build a world that is safe and secure and to preserve the planet for future generations, choose solar, wind, wave, geothermal, biofuels, and other renewable choices. If these choices aren't readily available to you, continue to conserve energy and consider buying renewable energy credits.

Car-Free. Take a bus, ride a train, or get on the subway. Better yet walk or ride a bike. Use your own energy to get around.

Local. Be the champion of local businesses. Buying local supports small businesses, creates local jobs, and keeps more money in your community. And when you support a local company, you then have the opportunity to make sure they treat people, the planet, and animals responsibly. Unlike giant national retailers, they are members of your community.

Vegan. Vegan foods are plant-based and contain no animal products (meat, eggs, and dairy). The reasons more and more people are choosing a Vegan lifestyle include bettering human health, ending farm worker and factory worker exploitation, ending industrial racism, saving family farms, protecting the environment, ending climate change, ending world hunger, using energy and resources more wisely, conserving land, protecting wildlife, preserving our oceans and waterways, and being kind to animals. A Vegan lifestyle expands your circle of compassion to include those who rely entirely on your kindness. Vegan choices are some of the most far-reaching personal, practical, and ethical choices you can make.

Recycled. Remember, when you throw something away, there is no such thing as “away.” Use less, reuse, and recycle. Choose used and recycled products whenever possible.

Tree-Free. Choose recycled lumber and paper products, consume products with less packaging, recycle what you use, and consider tree-free papers like kenaf and hemp.

Cruelty-Free. We have the compassion, intelligence and technology to move beyond hurting animals for the production of food, clothing, cleaning products, and personal products. Industries that make a profit by hurting others do so with the consent and support of those who buy their products. Make the kind choice, buy cruelty-free.

Yes, YOU Make A Difference!

The question isn't whether or not you, one person, can make a difference. You are making a difference. 但什麼樣的區別是你嗎? 你想什麼樣的區別?

The urgent problems that people, the planet and animals are facing stem from people forgetting who they truly are. A Life Connected works as a compass to help you be who you truly are, remember your values, choose your path, and live in a reconnected way.

Being aware and aligned with your values makes you conscious, complete, and more powerful. Millions of people are reconnecting to create a remarkable movement the likes of which the world has never seen — a movement led by the individual, by the people… by YOU!

About NonviolenceUnited.org. Building A Better World.
We envision a world driven by the innate goodness of people and their values of justice, kindness, and compassion for other people, for the planet, and for animals.

Our focus is reminding everyone that we are all connected and encouraging individuals to align their everyday choices with their values — to live A Life Connected.

It's a win-win way of living. Build a better life for you… and a better world for everyone.

Learn more and get connected at NonviolenceUnited.org.

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
- Henry David Thoreau

傳遞它。 Share the joy of living A Life Connected.

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This is a nice introduction to one of the best teachers of interconnection. Thich Nhat Hanh's words and work have influenced our work greatly.

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Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence leader Cesar Chavez was born near Yuma, Arizona, USA on March 31, 1927. This month would have marked his 84th birthday. He died in his sleep in 1993.

We honor Cesar Chavez because he bridged social justice mountaintops — dedicating his life to fight for the rights of people, for the preservation of the environment and for protection of animals. He recognized that the social justice movements are not separate but intimately tied to one another. He often remarked how violence is cut from the same cloth — whether it is violence against people, violence against the environment, or violence against animals.

Cesar advocated Nonviolence as a strategy and as a way of life. He encouraged people to stop talking and start walking — don't wait! — when you see injustice, put Nonviolence into action.

He was one of the first to remind us to live our lives consistently with our values. This includes consuming consciously — buying only fair-labor products, environmentally friendly products, and animal-friendly products (Cesar was vegan).

The future won't be just and bright simply because we want it badly enough. We must take personal action and responsibility to do the right thing. Cesar put it this way,

“Talk is cheap… it's how we organize and live our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.”

Celebrate Cesar Chavez's birthday with us by taking action — connect with the impact of your everyday choices. Every dollar you spend is a vote. Every time you choose not to buy something it's a vote. You voted yesterday. You'll vote today — maybe hundreds of times. Did you vote for human rights, the environment, compassion for animals, and Nonviolence? Or did you vote for greed, environmental destruction, cruelty, and violence? Are your choices in line with your values?

Take the opportunity to expand your circle of compassion and learn more about a social justice issue you may not visit regularly. Ask your new friends on those social justice mountaintops what you can do to support them — today and everyday. Yes, we can keep on talking, but let's start walking our talk, too.

Happy birthday, Cesar!

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We've posted this in the past, but sometimes it helps me to re-read it:

http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/2009/10/i-want-to-know-what-love-is/

:) m

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When I first started studying Nonviolence many years ago, I found that there were two ways of putting Nonviolence into action:

1。 Nonviolence as a way of life . This is called “principled Nonviolence” — working to align one's life with principles of Nonviolence like collaboration, kindness, and compassion

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2。 Nonviolence as a strategy . This is called “strategic Nonviolence” and includes actions like civil disobedience, etc. In using Nonviolence as a strategy, one may or may not feel “Nonviolent” in one's heart, and one may or may not live Nonviolence in one's everyday life, but one understand that to advance a particular cause, Nonviolence makes strategic sense.

There are not only two distinct ways of putting Nonviolence into action, the people who study and promote Nonviolence tend to divide themselves into one strategy over the other. There are of course notable exceptions like Mohandas Ghandi, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King, Jr. who tried to combine the two. And, in fact, Ghandi saw as his great failure his focus on Nonviolence as a tactic rather than as a way of life 1 . But, as far as I've been able to find, no one leader or movement has successfully combined the two methods of Nonviolence for the masses… until now. Enter Nonviolence United.

When founding Nonviolence United I was impressed by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s approach to problems. He tended to look at the elements of the different potential solutions to a problem. But he didn't just choose the one solution which he thought was superior to the other; rather, he tended to “cherry pick” the best elements from two conflicting solutions and put those pieces together to create a solution more powerful than either of the solutions would have been on their own. (This is a constant upward spiral process of improvement is called “the dialectic” for those who want to delve more deeply).

Excited by this “dialectic” approach, it dawned on me that, yes, Nonviolence can be approached as a way of life… and, yes, Nonviolence can be approached as a strategy. But these are not separate solutions nor are either of these the best solution. In order to create long-lasting, far-reaching, positive social change, Nonviolence as a way of life IS the strategy . Marrying the two strategies, we create an even more powerful strategy – one that can build a positive social movement the likes of which the world has never seen… and desperately needs.

This became the foundational tenet of Nonviolence United: Encouraging individuals (the living building blocks of society, after all) to LIVE Nonviolence as a real and effective STRATEGY for social change. Live “A Life Connected.”

Traditional tactics of “strategic” Nonviolence have been studied and systematically marginalized by those who control by force, disconnection, and violence:

Our marches and speeches are ignored and laughed off the world stage 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, it must have planning, and it must play a real and effective role in replacing the unjust system.

This isn't about working harder; it's about living smarter.

Nonviolence United is calling on each of us to live “A Life Connected.” This is a form of Nonviolence that is built on strategy and has a direct effect regardless of an opponent's (or a system's) conscience or their willingness to change. These connected choices are our values IN ACTION.

We actively are building the future. Every day with every choice we are having an impact on the world around us and upon the future. The question isn't can we make a difference; the question is what kind of difference do we want to make… what kind of future do we want to build?

We can choose to live connected and consciously build a future based on our values. OR we can continue to live disconnected and build an unthinking, unconscious future – a future that goes against our own values, a future of violence, pollution, systems of cruelty, war, profit over compassion – a future we'll continue to fight against. If this sounds familiar, it is because this is the unthinking present/future we've been building through our unthinking choices of the past. To not choose is to choose – if we don't live Nonviolence as a way of life, we'll build a violent, disconnected future.

Nonviolence United is breaking the dominance paradigm by reconnecting the disconnected. We're starting with the building blocks of our social existence — our everyday choices. And, on an even more fundamental level, to help ensure that we make connected choices, we are starting by awakening people of their own values.

Most people want clean air and clean water; they want to be kind to other people; they want to be kind to animals. Most of us care about the future and want to do our best to not cause pain and suffering to others yet to come. But, we've forgotten that our simple everyday choices have a profound affect on others. We've forgotten that we are all interconnected. We've forgotten that each of us OWNS THE POWER to do the right thing. By awakening and remembering this, by re-owning our own personal power and responsibility, by recognizing that what we do matters, that WE MATTER – we can, each of us, build a better lives for ourselves… and a better world for everyone.

Please remember, the state of the world isn't something being done TO; it is being done BY us. We will build a world reflective of our shared values of kindness, justice, and compassion ONLY when we make choices aligned with those values.

The formula is pretty simple:

To live “A Life Connected”…

1。 Become re-aware of your values.
2。 Become aware of how your choices impact other people, the planet, and animals.
3。 Align your choices to your values.

Consume consciously. Live “A Life Connected”. When we do, we are part of a conscious and creative future. And, when we do, we actively dismantle and repair and unconscious disconnected past.

Live your values, change the world. It's that simple.

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:) m

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