http://www.mettacenter.org for Nonviolence Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:27:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Beloved Community, Please join us at the Metta Center for another exciting and convivial Hope Tank (being in receptive silence from 730 to 830AM, then the potluck breakfast and discussion from 830AM to 11AM) this coming Friday, March 19, when activist, visionary and social entrepreneur Pano Kroko will be visiting ... http://www.mettacenter.org/announcements/human-rights-in-the-age-of-climate How can the student movement—how can any movement—forge a strong core based on principled nonviolence? How can nonviolent activists in a movement relate to those who have not committed themselves to nonviolence? [audio:2010_0312_HT.mp3] http://www.mettacenter.org/audiovideo/hopetank/hope-tank-rebuilding-the-movement-with-nonviolence This event took place at the Metta Center on Sunday, March 14, 2010. The  full audio of the workshop is now available here: [audio:2010_0314_RandallAmster.mp3] Please see the rest of the original event announcement, below, for more information and related resources! ------------------------- Dear Beloved Community, Please join us at the Metta Center for an exciting and ... http://www.mettacenter.org/announcements/anarchism-and-nonviolence-exploring-common-ground The survival of the kindest: Do kinder people have an evolutionary advantage? Yes. http://ow.ly/1eUqo /via @CharityFocus @MettaCenter # http://www.mettacenter.org/twitter/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07 The survival of the kindest: Do kinder people have an evolutionary advantage? Yes. http://ow.ly/1eUqo /via @CharityFocus @MettaCenter http://www.mettacenter.org/twitter/the-survival-of-the-kindest-d RT @thegreatturning: Jeff Milchen, co-founder of AMIBA http://bit.ly/d1v6hs, writes The Power of Local! http://bit.ly/aab9wX #localeconomy # RT @wagenonviolence: Ramachandran explains "Gandhi" neurons http://cli.gs/PZe2m #Ahimsa #Satyagraha # RT @yesmagazine: Mother Nature's School of Design — Janine Benyus, in YES! Magazine http://bit.ly/9cIqZr #biomimicry # RT @yesmagazine: Interview w/Paolo Lugari, founder of Las Gaviotas—a model of ... http://www.mettacenter.org/twitter/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-21 Dear Metta community, The Metta Center is happy to announce the call for applications for the 2010 Metta Mentors Nonviolence Immersion Program. Yes, to all of you who have been asking: it’s time to apply! On our website (you're already here!), you'll now find an entire section devoted to Metta Mentors, ... http://www.mettacenter.org/blog/metta-mentors-nonviolence-immersion-program-the-application-is-up #SayYesSat To stop the madness http://ow.ly/177JE Nuclear Proliferation is this year’s Inconvenient Truth http://ow.ly/177Gk @YesMagazine # Students as Spies? http://ow.ly/16TDy Old paradigm tactics to undermine movements. Antidote: Love Over Fear. #Ahimsa # Dan Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America. Trailer http://ow.ly/16BOX & interview http://ow.ly/16BNs in @Democracy_Now #PentagonPapers # The New Feature of ... http://www.mettacenter.org/twitter/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-14 For any of you who are looking for more inspiration from those who have walked the inner path of nonviolence ahead of us: if you have not heard of Peace Pilgrim, you would do well to learn of her life. She touched the heart of Naomi Shihab Nye, the author ... http://www.mettacenter.org/blog/peace-pilgrim-you-are-still-walking [caption id="attachment_3197" align="alignleft" width="238" caption="(Photo: Meanest Indian / Flickr)"][/caption] Hey Metta Readers -- Check out this super post by Peace Academic-Activist Randall Amster that was just posted on Truthout, his article "What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence." This is the kind of information and reminder we need to get ... http://www.mettacenter.org/blog/what-the-muslim-world-can-teach-us-about-nonviolence After I got an email, which was sent to a listserv, from a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley with the subject: Students as Spies: The Deep Politics of U.S.-Colombian Relations, I wrote this (edited)message, with the very valuable input from a few satyagrahis, and sent it ... http://www.mettacenter.org/blog/spies-to-undermine-movements-love-over-fear Bringing Down A Dictator documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience. Milosevic was strengthened by patriotic fervor when NATO bombed Yugoslavia in early 1999, but a ... http://www.mettacenter.org/films/bringing-down-a-dictator Orange Revolution Regime-controlled media claimed victory for Viktor Yanukovych, handpicked by the corrupt sitting president. But credible exit polls showed Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate, had won. It was shocking enough that Yushchenko had been poisoned -- and nearly killed-- while on the campaign trail. When reports came in of blatant ... http://www.mettacenter.org/films/orange-revolution Burma VJ Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the ... http://www.mettacenter.org/films/burma-vj Please 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 ... http://www.mettacenter.org/announcements/upcoming-talk-feb-15-at-la-pena-nonviolence-and-the-red-juvenil