Resources with a Spiritual Kinship to Quakers

 This is a good free film on nonviolence produced by the Metta Center in California.

https://mettacenter.org/

63 Boycott screening

https://mettacenter.org/upcoming_events/63-boycott-screening/  31:04

posted 11 February, 2021 free till 3am ET 19 February

On October 22, 1963, more than 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. Many marched through the city calling for the resignation of School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, who placed trailers, dubbed ‘Willis Wagons,’ on playgrounds and parking lots of overcrowded black schools rather than let them enroll in nearby white schools. Blending unseen 16mm footage of the march shot by Kartemquin founder Gordon Quinn with the participants’ reflections today, ’63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism.

When: Anytime between February 11-18

Where: Vimeo On-Demand

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How much: Please make a donation to support our programs. We recommend a $10 ticket donation. Options available.

https://mettacenter.org/upcoming_events/63-boycott-screening/

From nonviolence podcasts https://mettacenter.org/writings-blogs/radio/

Vandana Shiva ‘Neither Extinction nor escape’

December 21, 2020

https://mettacenter.org/ppr/vandana-shiva-neither-extinction-nor-escape/ 58:00

“… the ecofeminist option is a third option. Neither extinction nor escape. We stay here on this earth and protect her. That is the work we’ve done. That’s the work that we are called to do, and that’s the revolutionary work of our times. We know the earth is living and all ancient cultures recognized Mother Earth.” — Vandana Shiva

This week’s episode of Nonviolence Radio is a recording of a talk given by Vandana Shiva, environmentalist, activist, author, and scholar. For decades, Shiva has been advocating — nonviolently — for sustainable agriculture, for the rights of small farmers, for biodiversity, for women. She calls for a shift not only in the way we grow and distribute food, but a radical change in the way we understand our relationship with the earth. 

While the environmental crisis we face today has led many to seek to escape (for instance, through space travel) or become pessimistic, convinced of our species’ imminent extinction, Shiva sees a third possibility: ecofeminism.