Nonviolence Radio

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FM Radio Program out of our Mother Station KWMR, Point Reyes Station; syndicated; transcribed; and podcast across the usual suspects of podcast channels.

Hosted by Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler

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Nonviolence Radio is a 60-minute program featuring news about nonviolence culture and movements around the world. The show typically includes inspiring discussions with nonviolence practitioners and movement-builders and The Nonviolence Report with Michael Nagler, an analysis of nonviolence in the news from the week.

COMMUNITY RADIO BROADCASTERS: We can provide you with audio files that include Nonviolence Radio intros and outros for your station. You can also access our show files at AudioPort.orgContact us for more show info.

Building a Nonviolent World
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Building a Nonviolent World

In this week's episode of Nonviolence Radio, Michael and Stephanie speak with members of the Nonviolent Global Liberation community (NGL) about their collective and individual experiments in nonviolence, including the process of building and working within the NGL community.

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Nonviolence training can change the world
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Nonviolence training can change the world

In this episode, we hear from Kazu Haga from the East Point Peace Academy and Robin Wildman from Nonviolent Schools RI, exploring different aspects of nonviolent trainings to diminish the violence in our cultures.

In the Nonviolence Report, Michael Nagler begins with the importance of “Thou Shall Not Kill” in the cultures of the world, and how that message is critical to counter America’s rising violent gun culture.

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Do This in Memory of Me
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Do This in Memory of Me

This week, Nonviolence Radio broadcasts a talk by peace researcher and award-winning author, Maria Stephan. Maria is chief organizer and co-lead at the Horizons Project and collaborated with Erica Chenoweth on the book, Why Civil Resistance Works. In this episode, she explores how nonviolence might be effectively used in Ukraine – and the ways it already is.

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War is a Crime Against Humanity
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War is a Crime Against Humanity

A Conversation about the War in Ukraine and the Power of Revolutionary Nonviolence with Joanne Sheehan of the War Resisters League. 

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The Art of Being Peace
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The Art of Being Peace

We are pleased to be able to share with you, thanks to receiving permission from his monastery, Plum Village, this dharma talk by Thay, entitled The Art of Being Peace from May 13, 2008 at the 5th International Buddhist Conference. The talk includes chanting and a meditation at the end. 

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How listening to diverse experiences builds power
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How listening to diverse experiences builds power

Stephanie and Michael welcome three guests this week on Nonviolence Radio. First, they talk to Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh and Steve Chase about their work together in Solidarity 2020 and Beyond. Responding to the isolation and suffering caused by COVID, Solidarity 2020 and Beyond offers hope and support to grassroots activists and organizations, providing them opportunities to network, to learn from each other and to collaborate through webinars and trainings. Solidarity 2020 and Beyond draws on the power inherent in sharing experiences and using them to educate and increase solidarity amongst all those who are striving -- nonviolently -- to bring about change for good, wherever in the world they may be.

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How to Escalate Nonviolence
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How to Escalate Nonviolence

Robert Levering comes to Nonviolence Radio this week to talk to Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler about the film “The Boys Who Said No!” and the powerful draft resistance movement that helped to end the Vietnam War.

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Bearing Witness in Afghanistan
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Bearing Witness in Afghanistan

A discussion with Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and co-coordinator of the Ban Killer Drones Campaign on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Rooted in Nonviolence – Ela Gandhi
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Rooted in Nonviolence – Ela Gandhi

An interview with Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi about the importance of actively modeling compassion, decency and kindness, and the crucial Gandhian idea of constructive program

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No Greater Love? Moral Injury and Sacrifice
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No Greater Love? Moral Injury and Sacrifice

An interview with Kelly Denton-Borhaug who has written extensively on issues of war culture, moral injury and the ways that sacrifice can be used as a means to dehumanize and oppress marginalized people.

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