Activism

Powerful Tools for Nonviolent Activists: Pledges, Role Playing, and Songs.

Powerful Tools for Nonviolent Activists: Pledges, Role Playing, and Songs.

Pledges, role playing, and freedom songs are three important tools in the nonviolent activist’s arsenals. Learn how and why to use them with examples from the US civil rights movement in Birmingham during the 50s and 60s. This article also contains the full text of the Commitment Card which we used as a template to create our Beloved Community Pledge.

Defining Love: Our Natural State of Being

Defining Love: Our Natural State of Being

In the previous class we concluded that the key to happiness is offering unconditional love to all people, beings, and life forms. But given the various and conflicting definitions of love in our culture, this talk clarifies what we mean by “love” and explains why it is a powerful and effective force for creating social change.