12/19/22 WFS 2022: Session Ten: Course Wrap-up

  

 

 

Session Ten: Course wrap-up

 

Music: Elvis Costello & Larkin Poe, 

"What's so Funny About Peace,Love and Understanding?" Link to Site

 

Essential Questions:

• What are important take-aways from this course?

• How relevant is nonviolence today"

• What is the future of nonviolence?

• What additional questions remain about nonviolence?

• What additional learnings are desired?

 

Welcome and Introductions: (all)

 

 Agenda Preview: 

 

 Gathering: " Today I feel..."

 

 Rick’s Rap: News of the day, community sharing)

 

Exercise:   "Relevance exercise "    (breakout rooms0

                        

Readings:

• Maria Stephan interview w/John Dear, "Nonviolent Resistance in the World, The Beatitude Center, December 3, 2022 (link sent by email)

• Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things",  On Being Link to Site

• Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day," (start 16:08), 92nd St YMCA Link to Site

Closing: "Something that I learned in this course..."

 Resources: 

• Erica Chenoweth, "The Future of Nonviolent Resistance," Journal of Democracy, July 2020, Link to Site

• Jamila Raqib, "The Secret to effective nonviolent resistance," TED Talk, 2016 Link to Site

From Michael Beer's Talk

 Horizons Project Link to Site

The Momentum Organization: https://www.momentumcommunity.org/

Jim Lawson, Lawson Training Institute https://jameslawsoninstitute.org/

Dr. Mary King http://maryking.info/ , https://snccdigital.org/people/mary-king/

Bernard Lafayette in RI https://snccdigital.org/people/bernard-lafayette/

EQAT https://www.eqat.org/

350.org https://350.org/

Extinction Rebellion https://rebellion.global/

• Nonviolent PeaceForce Link to Site

Training for Change (in Philly-- started by George Lakey…) https://www.trainingforchange.org/

Beautiful Trouble https://beautifultrouble.org/

Shout out to Rivera Sun and her weekly NV newsletter https://riverasun.com/

 

Engler Bros: Amazon.com: This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First

Century: 9781568587332: Engler, Mark, Engler, Paul: Books

 

 

 To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

• • Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.