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Hope Tank — April 29, 2011

Erika — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:06:51 +0000

A very brief hope tank about Vinoba Bhave. (See some video clips on Vinoba.)

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Hope Tank — April 22, 2011

Erika — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:59:20 +0000

Burmese monk U Pyinya Zawta, a leader in the 2007 Saffron Revolution, now in exile, joins the hope tank.

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Hope Tank — April 14, 2011

Erika — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:49:27 +0000

Suzanne Ross and Adam Ericksen from the Raven Foundation join us for a discussion on scapegoating.

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Hope Tank — January 7, 2011

Erika — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:39:46 +0000

Hope Tank with Jenni Williams of Women of Zimbabwe Arise.

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Hope Tank – Oct 1, 2010

Erika — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:43:12 +0000

How’re we all going to make ends meet, both in the work we are doing, and at home, with the economic changes that are going on? How can we use nonviolence principles to in addressing these challenges?

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Hope Tank – Sept 24, 2010

Erika — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:43:09 +0000

Capital punishment and the sanctity of life. What is it in our culture that allows us to kill, as long as it is done by the State? And how can we use nonviolence to change it?

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Hope Tank – Sept 17, 2010

Erika — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:43:05 +0000

More civil disobedience and Arizona, and questions for the secular spiritual perspective on nonviolence.

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Hope Tank – September 10, 2010

Erika — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:02:08 +0000

More on Korea, stories of nonviolence, and the question of how we can take the negative tensions in society and turn them into a positive creative force.

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Hope Tank – September 3, 2010 – Civil Disobedience

Erika — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:01:55 +0000

Discussion of civil disobedience in the context of the immigration movement in Arizona.

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Hope Tank – Aug 27, 2010 – Nonviolence in Thailand and Korea

Erika — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:30:03 +0000

Back from a trip from Korea, Michael and Stephanie lead a discussion on what nonviolence could do for reunification. Also Lorin and team discuss nonviolence and the situation in Thailand.

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Hope Tank – Aug 20, 2010 – Decisions

Erika — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:01:47 +0000

How does one decide the right course of action?

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Hope Tank – Aug 10, 2010 – Back from Arizona

Erika — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:01:41 +0000

Pancho shares stories from his experiences in the immigration struggle in Arizona… how can we scale and adapt these lessons to other parts of the movement? (click here for a photo of the diagram that Pancho was drawing on the whiteboard.)

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Hope Tank – Aug 3, 2010

Erika — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:11:27 +0000

Summer Metta Mentees Joseph and Meaghan drop by for Hope Tank, and discuss the ego, education, race, and more.

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Hope Tank – Freedom from, or freedom to?

Erika — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:32:00 +0000

People everywhere just wanna be free!

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Hope Tank – Civil Rights in the Age of Climate Change

Erika — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:28:34 +0000

Hope Tank is joined by our special guest Pano Kroko to talk about a global civil rights movement for the age of climate change.

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