Tag Archives: satyagraha
Integral Nonviolence Force @ Turtle Island
Beloveds, The (five)pages which follow are imperfect and incomplete. We hope you’ll also find them beautiful, as they capture first glimpses of a powerful, emerging vision. These five pages attempt to distill an enormous amount of input from a great … Continue reading
The Way of Harmonizing Energy
–by Mary Stein (Oct 21, 2016) About thirty years ago, still a few years from my fiftieth birthday, I read of a martial art that was described as nonviolent, resolving conflict through skillful relationship. It came from [the part of the Planet … Continue reading
4 Gifts for (R)evolutionaries
–by Madhu Suri Prakash (Nov 22, 2013) A (non) + Himsa (violence) = Ahimsa Gandhi lived Ahimsa as a daily practice, waging peace to stop war and violence. His lifelong “experiments” with truth proved that truth force is more powerful than brute force. Ahimsa reveals forms … Continue reading
Satyagraha: Disobeying With Great Love
–by Michael Nagler and Mahatma Gandhi (Sep 12, 2013) While the method that Gandhi worked out was not new —he was the first to insist it was ‘as old as the hills’— it fell to him to develop it systematically and apply it on … Continue reading
Open Letter to…
… Government Officials, Law Enforcement Employees, people of the University of California and Occupy The Farm Community. To all humanity in general. That we live now in an economy and society that are not sustainable is not the fault only … Continue reading
Cultivating Independent Opinion
“Governments [and corporations] create all this fear. They have constituted themselves protectors of the people, and the people are no longer self-reliant but depend upon the Government and expect it to protect them… Throughout the World today, the direction of education … Continue reading
Colorful Unity in Arizona: One Stroke at a Time
[I am writing this piece from El Barrio. This neighborhood was raided by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security) two years ago, arresting many undocumented people –a lot of them … Continue reading
Homes Not Jails
[The message that flowed through me during the Homes Not Jails direct action in San Francisco.] My family calls me Pancho and even though most of you don’t know me, I’d like you to know that I love you all. … Continue reading
Are We Brave Enough?
Right before the upcoming historic March 4th, 2010, a step into the Transformation of Public Education in California (and the Planet!), after the successful Rolling University, the direct action at Durant Hall and the much-more-covered-by-the-corporate-media riot on February 25th, I … Continue reading