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10th Anniversary of A Season for Nonviolence Begins Jan. 30, 2007
From Barbara Fields, executive director of the Association for Global New Thought, and co-founder of the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence
2007 marks the 10th anniversary of The Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence (SNV), a revolutionary, grassroots awareness campaign aimed at using local projects and activities to further the nonviolent action and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Running January 30-April 4, the exemplary leadership of local Season task force leaders has now extended the Season’s reach to more than 400 U.S. cities and 18 countries worldwide. Since 2005, thanks in part to a donation of NVC books from PuddleDancer Press, Season activities aimed at teaching Nonviolent Communication are now reaching thousands.
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Annual SNV events have brought forth endorsements and commitments from the following world leaders: The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan; the U.S. Ambassador to India; Vice President Al Gore; the Director General of UNESCO on behalf of its Culture of Peace and Nonviolence appeal by the Nobel Peace Laureates (language officially added as a result of the SNV inaugural year). Other notable Season speakers have included Jesse Jackson, Dr. C.T. Vivian, and Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne of Sri Lanka. The Season has received written support of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet; the late Coretta Scott King; Dr. Robert Muller; and many other serious and distinguished individuals from virtually all sectors of the world leadership community.
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Marshall Rosenberg to Present at the National Gandhi King Peace Conference
Don't miss your opportunity to join Marshall Rosenberg and an international lineup of Gandhi King contemporaries at the Gandhi King Peace Train and Living Legends of Nonviolence Conference April 18-21, 2007 in Los Angeles and San Jose, California. This once-in-a-lifetime event celebrates the 10th anniversary of A Season for Nonviolence and is produced by the Association for Global New Thought. Over 500 Season task force leaders, community leaders, policymakers, faith-based organizations, youth delegates, and activists will sit as peers with internationally recognized legends. Presenters will include: Arun Gandhi, Yolanda King, Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Ela Gandhi and Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr., Paul and Richard Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Bro. David Steindl-rast.
Using a unique, highly-interactive conferencing format — including custom chartered railcars hosting a moving conference from LA to San Jose — the Gandhi King Peace Train and the Living Legends of Nonviolence Conference are designed to explore best-practices in nonviolent activism by putting local grassroots leaders and Living Legends of Nonviolence at the same table. The conference will culminate in the creation of a new model for omni-local, spiritually based nonviolent governance.
Due to the unique nature of this event, registration is expected to fill quickly. For more information and to secure your registration, visit www.agnt.org/peacetrain
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Season for Nonviolence, continued . . .
A Season for Nonviolence was co-founded by Arun and Sunanda Gandhi of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and a group of ten ministers forming the Leadership Council of The Association for Global New Thought, the organization that convenes A Season for Nonviolence on an annual basis. Its purpose is to focus educational and media attention on the philosophy of attaining peace through nonviolent action as demonstrated by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
General Overview of Results for SNV
Launching on the January 30th memorial anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, A Season for Nonviolence draws to a close on each year on the King April 4th memorial. Fifty percent of United States governors, and many mayors have issued official proclamations for the 64-day period, and over three hundred unique events and programs have been developed and carried out at the local level during the Season. There are 290,000 web pages that refer to Season for Nonviolence. Media coverage includes radio and television broadcasts, PSA and film productions, and print publications at all levels from local to national press. At least 350 major organizations representing peace faith-based groups, business, the arts, and educational institutions have elected themselves as official co-sponsors of the Season for Nonviolence initiative.
The Objectives
“Our objective each year has been to create an awareness of nonviolent principles and practice as a powerful way to heal, transform and empower our lives and communities,” said SNV
co-founder, Dr. Barbara Fields.
Through an educational and community action campaign, the Season has recognized the use of nonviolent methods to build communities that honor the dignity and worth of every human being. By identifying “what works” in these new models for reconciliation and human harmony, the Season helps demonstrate that every person can move the world in the direction of peace through their daily nonviolent choice and action.
10th Anniversary Celebration: The Gandhi King Peace Train and Living Legends of Nonviolence Conference
In 2007, A Season for Nonviolence will be launched once again at the United Nations and culminate with a unique event: The Gandhi King Peace Train and Living Legends of Nonviolence Conference.This gathering of peace activists will take place from April 18-21, 2007 in Los Angeles and San Jose, CA and aboard a specially chartered train between the two cities. Join this rare opportunity to collaborate with fellow Season task force leaders, and internationally renowned Living Legends of Peace representing the most innovative approaches to nonviolent activism. This conference will launch the Perennial Season for Nonviolence, in which unwavering nonviolence in thought, word and action becomes our chosen way of life. Learn More or Register for this Event
Feature 2007: Peace in the Middle East for the Family of Abraham
This Season, SNV leaders are continuing the expanded mission of Waging Peace in the Middle East with the help of omni-local community pilgrimages to heal the Family of Abraham. The purpose of the Abraham Path Initiative is to open up a route in the Middle East retracing the footsteps of the prophet Abraham. The Abraham Path will serve to underscore and disseminate Abraham’s universal messages of oneness, unity, faith, justice, peace, and hospitality toward all. Parallel events will again be organized in communities around the world in the form of local “Abraham Walks” from churches to mosques to synagogues, shared religious services and festivals, and educational events on religious coexistence.
Season Leadership
The Association for Global New Thought is the convener and co-founder of SNV. Season co-founders are Arun and Sunanda Gandhi of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. Co-directors are: Dr. Bernard Lafayette, former executive assistant to Dr. King; Alicia Renee Farris of the Michigan Institute for Nonviolence Education; Dean Lawrence Carter of the MLK Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College; Dean James Parks Morton of the Interfaith Center of New York; and Dr. Richard Deats of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Co-founder and Project Director is Dr. Barbara Fields, Executive Director of the Association for Global New Thought, Program Director for the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions, and for the Synthesis Dialogues 1999, 2001, 2004 (with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama) in Dharamsala, India, Trent, Italy and Castelgandolfo, Rome.
We hope you will be among those empowered individuals and communities whose co-creative leadership will promote nonviolence as a way of life on this planet. We appreciate the time you have taken to explore your own role in this worthy campaign. You are the ones the world has been waiting for.