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Campaign Nonviolence Skill-Building Webinar
Series
Module 1
Presented by Ken Butigan,Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service and
Campaign Nonviolence
"There's nothing better than the tramp, tramp of marching feet in the streets.”
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The CNV Skill-Building Series:
Module 1: The Vision of Campaign Nonviolence and Connecting the Dots
Module 2: Creating Nonviolent Social Change
Module 3: Building Nonviolent Action
Module 1 Objectives
Gain greater familiarity with Campaign Nonviolence and its vision and strategy
Explore the power of active nonviolence
Explore building a “movement of movements”
Module 1 Agenda
Opening
The challenges and opportunities of this webinar
Logistics
Campaign Nonviolence: Vision and Strategy
Exploring Active Nonviolence
Connecting the Dots
Questions and Answers
Closing – and reminder about the next two modules
Campaign NonviolenceA long-term movement t o build a culture of peace free from war, poverty, the climate crisis and the epidemic of violence by mainstreaming nonviolence, connecting the issues, and taking action.
Launched last fall with 250 actions in all 50 states. 196 endorsing organizations.
Hundreds of organizers and promoters. National conference August 6-9. Second Week
of Nonviolent Actions September 20-27.
Violence:
Any physical, verbal, institutional, or structural behavior, attitude, policy or condition that
dominates, dehumanizes, disrespects, diminishes, or destroys ourselves, our fellow
beings, or our world
Traditional Scripts for Dealing with Conflict and Violence
Avoidance
Accommodation
Counter-Violence
Question:
What is our own script?
The Two Hands of Nonviolence
Nonviolence has “two hands” that are in creative tension:
Noncooperation with injustice
Steadfast regard for the opponent as a human being.
Nonviolence: The Love that Does Justice
Nonviolence is a force for transformation, truth, justice, and the well-being of all that is neither violent nor passive.
It is transforming power (Alternatives to Violence), cooperative power (Jonathan Schell), love in action (Dorothy Day), and the love that does justice (Martin Luther King, Jr.),
It is an active form of resistance to systems of privilege and domination, a philosophy for liberation, an approach to movement building, a tactic of non-cooperation, and a practice we can employ to transform the world (War Resisters League).
Conventional Attitudes Toward Nonviolence
passive, weak, utopian, naïve, ineffective, unpatriotic, marginal,
simplistic, impractical
Attributes of Nonviolence
powerful, creative, intentional,resilient, courageous, grounded, effective,
relentless, active
The Power of Nonviolent Change
New research shows that nonviolent strategies have been twice as successful as violent ones, as documented in Why Civil Resistance Works, a 2011 study by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan
(see You Tube clip)
A Growing Reality
Examples of successful nonviolent movements include pro-democracy movements in Spain and Portugal (1970s), the Philippines (1986), Chile (1980s), Argentina (1980s), Soviet bloc states, including the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, etc. (1989); the thwarted coup in the USSR (1991); South Africa (1980s-1990s); Indonesia (1998); East Timor (2000); Serbia (2000); Georgia (2003); Ukraine (2004); Liberia (2005); and Tunisia and Egypt (2011).
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence
Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.
Nonviolence holds that voluntary suffering can educate and transform.
Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
Connecting the Dots
Building a movement of movements
Mobilizing people power for enduring
monumental change
The “Connect the Dots” Exercise
WAR POVERTY CLIMATE CRISIS
Next Module
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
5:00-6:30pm Pacific / 8:00-9:30pm Eastern US