Metta on the radio in Point Reyes KWMR

 
Stephanie and Michael of the Metta Center interviewed by Russ Faure Brac on KWMR out of Point Reyes on November 20, 2011 on nonviolent leadership, OWS, Gandhi and more!
 
A very entertaining one hour broadcast!
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Remembering the Palestinian Declaration of Independence

by Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook | Originally posted on November 15, 2011, at Waging Nonviolence

 
The Palestinian Declaration of Independence, written by Mahmoud Darwish, 1988
 

“We have triumphed over the plan to expel us from history.”

– Mahmoud Darwish
Twenty-three years ago today, on November 15, 1988, the Palestinian Declaration of Independence was presented by Yasser Arafat in Algiers on behalf [...]

Toolkit for Occupy Activists

Dear Friend, 
As a volunteer for the Metta Center, I have found and inquired a vast array of knowledge and wisdom that has allowed my journey within nonviolence to progress at an exponential rate. It is truly is a gift to have this source of information at our hands in a time that needs it the [...]

Building the World We Want:

 
A 1-Day Course with the Metta Center for Nonviolence on Gandhian ‘Constructive Programme’
“My real politics is constructive work.” 
–M.K. Gandhi 
What was “Constructive Programme?”  Why did Gandhi consider it the keystone of his campaign for India’s liberation and the overturning of colonialism (as it was then)?  How would it help us with the present struggle against globalization and corporate [...]

Is this the movement we’ve been waiting for?

by Michael Nagler | On Waging Nonviolence, November 9, 2011, 12:57 pm

Ever since Paul Hawken published Blessed Unrest(2007), it has been clear to many that the progressive world is a million projects in search of a movement. A movement, Hawken reminded us, has “leaders and ideologies; … people join movements study [their] tracts, and identify themselves with a [...]