“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action…. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit… Continue Reading
Martin Luther King Jr. & Thích Nhất Hạnh, Chicago 31-5-1966; Edward Kitch | Credit: AP; Creative Commons Prior to June 1965, Dr. King had occasionally expressed concern about the war in Vietnam, but he had done so publicly only in a tentative… Continue Reading
Today, October 11, we celebrate the 95th birthday of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, affectionately known as Thay. At age sixteen, in 1942, Thay entered Tu Hieu Temple, in Hue city, as a novice monk. His life has… Continue Reading
Today, October 2 is the birthday of Mohandas K. Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi. In India, Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated as a national holiday. Honoring Gandhi’s legacy, in June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 2 as… Continue Reading
Photo from The Algebra Project website, https://algebra.org/wp/bob-moses/ Yesterday, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a private memorial service was held to honor Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021). Bob Moses was an immense leader of the Black Freedom Movement… Continue Reading
David Hartsough, cover photograph by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, from the cover of David’s memoir, Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist (PM Press, 2014); https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/academics/pcs/2014/09/25/waging-peace-hartsough/ The Clarence B. Jones Award in Kingian Nonviolence is given annually by the USF… Continue Reading
An Afghan boy looks on, as U.S. soldiers serving with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne, patrol a village in the Giro district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, May 8, 2012. (U.S. Army photo… Continue Reading
Prisoners in protest, Attica Prison, 1971; photo courtesy of The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College This week is the 50th anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising. Overshadowed by the 20th Anniversary 2011 terrorists attack on the World… Continue Reading
Robert Parris Moses was a great hero of America, an exceptionally gifted and dedicated community organizer, a catalyst of social and political transformation, and a person of extraordinary courage. The news of Bob Moses’s death last week was heartbreaking to… Continue Reading
Fr. Barwendé Sané sends this message to all supporters of the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Throughout the past weeks, Fr. Sané has trained 130 civic leaders, in multiple small-group workshops, so that they… Continue Reading
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. Earlier today, the IPCC published an important report regarding the latest assessment from global scientists on the physical science of climate… Continue Reading
