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Last Minute — NonViolent Workshop Feb 29 in Boulder

February 28, 2020 By Bob Kinsey

Workshop and Community Gathering:
Using Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigns for Social Change
and Living Planet Protection

Workshop by George Lakey

When: February 29, 2020 9am to 3pm
Where: Boulder Friends Meeting, 1825 Upland, Boulder, Colorado
Registration:   Just Show up at this point or go to RMPJC web site at this point.    

PLEASE SIGN UP SO WE HAVE A COUNT OF PARTICIPANTS IN ADVANCE. We want to ensure the most meaningful and engaging program for participants. So sign up early.

Events are without a mandatory charge, but a free will donation of $20 is suggested for the morning workshop to help defray expenses of the sponsor organizations.

Program:

9am to 12:30 pm
Workshop lead by George Lakey, acclaimed author of How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigns, and Viking Economics. In this highly interactive workshop participants learn how to navigate this polarized time we live in through strategic campaigns that build a movement that can create major progressive changes in the country for peace, justice and environment.

12:30 to 1:30 pm
Organic Lunch and making community connections; book signing by George Lakey

1:30 pm to 3 pm
Community building sessions by all participants, with presentations and community dialogue lead by local Boulder area peace and justice, social change, environmental/living planet protection, and faith based organizations. Learn about each other’s programs. Discover and create paths for collaborative non-violent direct action for social change.

Host Sponsor: Boulder Friends Meeting, Peace & Social Justice Committee

Co-Sponsors:
Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center
Boulder Green Faith Circle (and its affiliated faith groups)
Mountain Forum for Peace (Nederland)
Others supporting: Active Peace, and Mountain View Friends Meeting (Denver)

WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PRESENCE TO HELP CREATE A NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND A HEALTHY WORLD FOR ALL ITS INHABITANTS.

Some available Resources for workshop:
Book by George Lakey: How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning, 2018; Copies for purchase hoped to be available at the workshop, or you may purchase via https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/how-we-win/
Visit these websites:
Earth Quaker Action Team EQAT.org
WagingNonviolence.org
Global Nonviolent Action Database http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu

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Disarmament Quotes

Viewing Trinity Test July 16,1945: "Now we are all Sons of Bitches"

Kenneth BainbridgeDeputy Director Manhatten Project

“Everything I did at Kings Bay was a result of my faith and my commitment to challenge the idols whose only purpose is to destroy human life on an unimaginable scale. I went to Kings Bay to use my body to refuse to bow down to these idols. I went to try to bring attention to the idolatry that it is requiring of our nation and its people. I went in a spirit of prayer and repentance. I went in hope that this witness might invite other people to reflect on the obscenity and on the idolatry that it is before God.”

Liz McAlisterKings Bay Protestor 2019

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending he sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." --spoken to the American Society of Newspaper Editors 1953

Dwight EisenhowerUS President 1953-1961

We are prone to self-righteousness if we call ourselves peacemakers, and yet do not perceive how the peace issue cuts through all the economic and social issues that we often try to keep separate. If the race for nuclear arms is encouraged by our fear of losing the affluent ways of life that we have taken for granted, then we must see how our fears and desires have left so many other human beings naked and hungry.

Malsolm Warford"The Church's Role in a Nuclear Age

A world free of the threat of nuclear weapons is necessarily a world devoid of nuclear weapons…. Nuclear weapons pose an intolerable threat to humanity and our habitat…. Others subscribe to Churchill’s assertion ‘Peace is the sturdy child of terror.’ For me, such a peace is a wretched offspring, a peace that condemns us to live under a dark cloud of perpetual anxiety, a peace that codifies mankind’s most murderous instincts….The beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste.

General Lee ButlerFormer Commander, Strategic Air Command, April 28, 1996

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