Building the World We Want

By Michael Nagler
 
The spinning wheel, and the spinning wheel alone, will solve the problem of the deepening poverty of India.    –Mahatma Gandhi
 
 

 
Corporate domination of the world, or “globalization from above,” has done two things for us.  It raised consciousness of world unity; inadvertently awakening “globalization from below,” and by progressively releasing all constraints on [...]

January 8, 2012: Conversation Cafe

Aqus Community and the Metta Center Present a Conversation Cafe:
Nonviolence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution in our Community
Sunday Jan 8, 2012
from 5-6pm
at
Aqus Cafe
Foundry Wharf
189 H Street
Petaluma
707.778.6060
 
 

Militarization in academe

by Michael Nagler | Originally published at Waging Nonviolence, November 29, 2011

The day after Mothers’ Day, May 14, 1961, the front-page picture of a Greyhound bus engulfed in flames galvanized the American public. It was Anniston, Alabama, and Klansmen had fully intended to burn the freedom riders alive. For the first time many Americans realized the full [...]

How would Gandhi lead the leaderless?

by Michael Nagler | Edited and posted at Waging Nonviolence on November 23, 2011

In the spring of 2005 I stood on the roof of the Student Union building in Berkeley, overlooking Sproul Plaza, where I had lived through the exhilaration of the Free Speech Movement four-plus decades earlier. Milling about behind me were about thirty or so [...]

Violence and Evolution: Where Do We Stand?

by Michael Nagler, edited by Tom Hastings at Peace Voice on December 20, 2011
 
How do we measure violence?

The question has come up because of recent studies by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, featured on TED among other venues, which seem to show that, contrary to common opinion, violence has been steadily decreasing by a number of [...]