Sharing my Chat Notes from a Class on Civil Disobedience...and modern examples of concerns and approaches...
Learning with a small group of folks with a dynamic wise teacher about various historical views about Civil Disobedience is a great opportunity. I hope to go over the talks in more depth... Short texts from Thoreau, Delmas, Ghandi and Frederick Douglas among other figures are being explored.
There's a link as well to a photo that 'speaks a thousand words' about the historical violence shown to people of color (particularly during the time of segregation.) See other talks on The Salisbury Forum online from over the years...and many rich points are covered in the class I'm taking that I have not summarized.
Hello Everyone, There is a Solidarity School from 350.org which has 4 talks online (lst one was last night.) Lots of helpful current ideas about Just Resistance and clarifying not investing in fossil fuels (which happened with the last relief package with the Sec. of the Treasury being able to give them a huge bail-out rather than seek to get more direct help to people of this country...
Sen. Markley spoke along with others. Also MLK has Kingian Non-Violence (and there are programs to help train people along the Ghandi-MLK lines, also a program called 64 Days of Peace between their birthdays from Jan to Apr. Another type of Ghandi/Christian teaching is in the book Peace Child, involving a missionary in the New Hebrides helping two tribes who were often tricking and even killing one another. The Peace Child refers to the tribes exchanging healthy infants to be raised by the other...the missionary explains at a time when that was going to happen that Jesus was the universal peace child, so won them over...
From Me to Everyone: 11:35 AM
In terms of domestic abuse, only recently in some states, including CT, have there been Primary Aggressor Laws to help determine who is at fault and prevent victims from being arrested.
It can take up to 10 years for communities to understand them and for those laws to be used effectively. It seems we need to have far greater advocacy to prevent legal marriages which often lock people (especially women) into difficult situations they don't understand...and divorce and particularly custody can favor abusers (recent research has shown... see Battered Mothers Custody Conference, BMCC and CA Protective Parents Assoc.)
The media does not cover these issues. Most agencies and non-profits cannot criticize the gov't without risk of losing funding...
Safe &Together Institute with David Mandel is now doing a lot of outreach at these times online around the country and the world...
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From Me to Everyone: 11:47 AM
A decade or two ago, our NW area in CT received a half a million dollar grant twice to educate people and create safety nets about domestic abuse...and put out a few posters speaking to the 'silence about domestic violence.'
They printed up some booklets quoting Lundy Bancroft. They invited a hundred ministers and groups to gather for a breakfast and only heard back from one.
There is still a gaping hole in terms of ongoing education and a way to check with Every Person, especially every woman and child, to understand what they may need help with for basic safety. Similar concerns about bullying and many other forms of ostracism and cliques/ economic classes and so on...
Not the easiest thing to figure out but making more public or formal ways to address these things, even theoretically could be helpful. I explore some of those issues on Livfully.org.
Steven Greer has many important theories in his Netflix Disclosure and other talks about WW2, 9/11 and many other parts of history from the 1940s on..
