People everywhere just wanna be free!

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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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Ever wonder what a Hope Tank looks like? Filmmaker Edwin Rutsch joined us recently for a discussion on empathy, and you can see it here! Thank you, Edwin, for the stimulating discussion, and for the video! For further resources on empathy, check out Edwin’s site.

And of course, the audio of the Hope Tank is here as usual, too!

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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?

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Michael, Pancho and Shannon discuss the recent student demonstrations at the University of California. Erika says nothing at all, which as it turns out is easily explained by an obscure Sanskrit text on linguistics.

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Recorded November 27, 2009

Thoughts and discussion on Obama’s Nobel Prize speech.

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30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. What would a nonviolent solution to that conflict look like?

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Gap? What gap? Michael and team discuss nothing less than how to move forward with a complete nonviolent transformation of society. How do we isolate the essence of Gandhi’s movement, and adapt his principles for today?

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Recorded November 13, 2009