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Anarchism and Nonviolence: Exploring Common Ground

Posted by Metta Team on March 11, 2010


Dear community,

Please join us at the Metta Center for an exciting and timely workshop this coming Sunday, March 14, on a cool (and perhaps controversial) topic: Anarchism and Nonviolence.

We will be welcoming activist and socio-political scholar Randall Amster, who has generously offered to share his knowledge and expertise of Anarchism and Nonviolence with us, in the spirit of finding commonality and practical balance between these two important, grassroots-based, and often misunderstood philosophies. Randall is an author, activist, and educator in areas including peace, ecology, homelessness, and anarchism, and he puts on a great workshop — you will leave his talk entertained but also informed.

See below for event details, followed by the full announcement (including suggested readings). We hope to see you there — please help spread the word to anyone you think would benefit from this!

Event details:

What: Anarchism and Nonviolence: Exploring Common Ground

Where: Metta Center offices, 1730 MLK Way in Berkeley

When: Sunday, March 14, 5-7pm

RSVP: if you know you’ll be coming, please RSVP to this message from mettacenter@mettacenter.org. But if you’re not sure ahead of time, feel free to just show up, as always!

(Note: Randall will also be offering a workshop at UC Berkeley on Sunday morning entitled “Contemporary Anarchism: From Activism to the Academy.” He’ll be speaking at Dwinelle Hall from 10-11am. This is a public event, so all are welcome to attend. While the workshop at Metta will be focused in particular on the nonviolence aspects of anarchism, it will include coverage of the more basic aspects of anarchism, as well. So you can attend either or both events without getting too much overlap!)

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Upcoming Talk, Feb 15 at La Peña: Nonviolence and the Red Juvenil

Posted by Erika on February 4, 2010
redjuvenil_tnPlease join us on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:00pm at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley for a talk by Colombia’s courageous lawyer Adriana Castaño Roman, youth activist and human rights defender, activist with the Medellín Youth Network since 1996.
The Medellín Youth Network (www.redjuvenil.org) is a youth organization that operates explicitly on principles of nonviolence. Started in 1990 by young people who had lost loved ones to the armed conflict, the group trains youth in nonviolence and cooperative play, supports young men and women who refuse to serve with the police, military or illegal armed groups, and promotes respect for human rights and youth’s ideas in Colombian society.
Date: Monday, February 15, 2010
Time: 5:00pm
Admission free, donations appreciated.

Please see poster for details!


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Big News!

Posted by Shannon on December 30, 2009

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The Search for a Nonviolent Future has been published in Arabic! Soon to be distributed in Syria, Morocco, Jordan, and Lebanon. We are also working on connections in — yes — Iraq, through our friends in La’Onf, and Palestine.

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Orange Revolution Film Event, Dec 16 in SF

Posted by Erika on December 7, 2009


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On Wednesday, Dec. 16th, Metta is hosting a preview screening of The Orange Revolution, at the USF campus in San Francisco, (click here, or the image at right, for a larger view of the poster. More about the film here.) Please join us at 7pm in Cowell Hall room 133. After the (refreshments and) screening,  Michael Nagler, Political Scientist and Metta board member Cynthia Boaz, and Mideast expert Stephen Zunes will discuss this film and the event that it describes: the latest, but doubtless not the last “Velvet Revolution.”  Join us for a great film experience and lively discussion of how nonviolence, in the form of “people power,” is transforming our world.  Oh, and help spread the word!

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Last Week's Webcast Talks Now Up!

Posted by Erika on November 25, 2009

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Last week’s webcast of Metta’s Michael Nagler being interviewed by Bettina Grey of Spiritual Resources is now up on their website. They have fixed the technical problems that made the real-time webcast difficult to see and hear… we hope you enjoy it!

Also don’t miss the other radio interview that Michael also gave last week with Michael Stone, which has also been archived and is available here.

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