Support the Gandhi Tour!

Michael will take six students (they’re also Metta volunteers) to India to tour Gandhian centers and ashrams and get a first-hand sense of how Gandhi’s work and values are alive in India today. A full report will be posted on this site. To help us defray the expenses for the students, just click [...]

“Saffron Revolution” Reaches Critical Stage in Burma

Burma and the Press

As of this writing (Thursday, September 27) a nonviolent movement is reaching its crisis in Burma. In 1988 over 3,000 students were killed — massacred would not be too strong a word — when they protested the military takeover of their country. Their courageous, charismatic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, though [...]

The Sad-Go-Round of Sexual Exploitation

The latest issue of the New Internationalist — a journal I read and recommend — featured an exposé of one of the most tragic and demoralizing — and growing — crimes of our world: trafficking women and girls for various kinds of exploitation. If ‘globalization from above’ describes [...]

“Saffron Revolution” unfolding in Burma!

Thousands of Monks Peacefully Confront Military in Burma

Students of principled nonviolence have long upheld Aung San Suu Kyi,
Buddhist and leader of Burma’s democracy movement, as a luminary of
nonviolent social change. On Saturday, the Burmese military junta
allowed 500 monks to visit Suu Kyi at her home-prison, yielding to the
recent massive nonviolent [...]

Nonviolent Peaceforce

The Network of Spiritual Progressives is a national interfaith organization dedicated to a fundamental shift from fear and domination to love and generosity in our institutions, public policies, and social practices. Our mission is to change the “bottom line” so that decisions are made not only based on the effect they will have on [...]