Week of November 19, 2023
Nonviolence Report begins at 31:01
Topic Scans and Links
7 Steps to End the Cycle of Violence in Israel and Palestine
Thomas Friedman — “America cannot protect Israel in the long run”
Gaza peace activists in San Francisco chained themselves to a ship that was headed to Israel with military and other supplies.
“A radical idea, protecting one another as fear reigns.”
Veterans for Peace — “as Palestinians in Gaza teeter on the brink of death without sustenance or shelter, we call for an immediate end to Israel’s barbaric bombing and invasion of Gaza. We call on the world to intervene in any and every capacity to end the ongoing genocidal attacks against a defenseless civilian society.”
Shimri Zameret — “For the first time in decades, I can honestly say that I see a realistic path toward ending the occupation in our generation.”
Cardinal Pizzaballa - “absolute availability to be exchanged for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas.”
Protests against anti-Semitism
Anti-violence training reduces aggressive episodes among students
The prison mindfulness project.
Tony Vick - “When you take violence off the table as a remedy, you open up your mind to a vast array of other possibilities.”
Leslie Metzen - (Standing Rock Protests) “These cases and these three defendants, in particular, have awakened in me some deep questions about what would serve the interests of justice here. As a child growing up in the 50s and 60s, what I learned about “Indians” came from TV shows. And what I learned about history was only Caucasian history and the European view of the world was discussed. In the last 20 years, I have come to a broader understanding of what we, the now dominant culture, have done.”