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Seekers School of Christian Living
Tuesdays 7-9 pm June 20-July 8
at 276 Carroll St
In the context of viewing 4-5 documentaries of non-violent political action in the 20th century, we will share conversation about what violence is, what non-violence is, whether non-violence "works" and how we equip ourselves to respond non-violently to personal and political situations in the world.
In the 1960s, Gandhi's nonviolent weapons were taken up by black college students in Nashville, Tennessee. Disciplined and strictly nonviolent, they successfully desegregated Nashville's downtown lunch counters in five months, becoming a model for the entire civil rights movement.
(Choices are Gandhi's Salt campaign, Anti-apartheid activity in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Solidarity movement in Poland, Danish resistance against the Nazis and resistance to Pinochet in Chile). We may watch films starting at 7 this one evening.
This video documents the overthrow of Slobedon Milosevich by a youth organization, OTPOR (resistance). From a web review: " What is so astonishing about OTPOR is that after its founding by only a dozen Serbian students in 1998, it would succeed in its goal of bringing democracy to Yugoslavia in only two years. In the beginning the group simply improvised, using good instincts. Later, they studied nonviolent strategy, primarily through the writings of American scholar Gene Sharp. They immediately adopted Sharp's ideas as the basis for their training manuals, combining them with a clever flair for both humor and courage."
From the web: " [This video] reveals a South Africa trying to forge a lasting peace after 40 years of government by the most notorious system of racial segregation since Nazi Germany. The documentary studies South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the post-apartheid, democratic government to consider amnesty for perpetrators of crimes committed under apartheid's reign."
Come to one, two three or all four of these evenings as we collectively study and explore the realities and possibilities of non-violence.
Hosted by Jeanne Marcus and Trish Nemore
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