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 Nonviolence A 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

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, :00-6:30pm Pacific / 8:00-9:30pm Eastern US