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