Nonviolence

Peaceful resistance to oppression or aggression.

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Civil Rights Protesters Offered Pardon for 1963 Birmingham Arrests

On May 2nd, 1963, over a thousand black children in Birmingham, Alabama took part in a nonviolent protest against racial segregation now known as the “Children’s Crusade.”  The children skipped school that day and marched together, two-by-two, singing songs of freedom.  The police confronted the children wielding clubs and fire houses, and set dogs on them.  Hundreds of children were arrested, many taken to jail in school buses.  Frank James recounts this story in his Facing Today

August 13, 2009
Congressman John Lewis Describes Sit-Ins
Video Clip June 26, 2008
Congressman John Lewis Speaks about Nonviolence
Video Clip June 26, 2008
Foiled Bomb Plot at NYC Synagogues
Last week four men were arrested for planning to blow up two Bronx synagogues as well as purchasing missiles which they hoped to fire at U.S. Military planes. The F.B.I. have been following the case since June 2008.
Facing Today May 27, 2009
Hanukkah Has Special Significance in Montana

A recent New York Times article reports that even though flourishing Jewish populations lived in the mining towns of Montana in the 19th century and had a large enough presence to build a temple in 1891 with the capacity to seat 500 people, the Jewish population has mostly moved out of state to bigger cities.

Facing Today December 9, 2009
Holocaust-denial Groups on Facebook
CNN reports that the popular social networking website Facebook has found itself in the middle of a controversy about free speech. Since last year, Brian Cuban, a Texas lawyer, has been campaigning to get Facebook to remove Holocaust denial groups that have been using the website to organize.
Facing Today May 13, 2009
Larisa Kasumagic Discusses Non-Violent Communication
Video Clip June 9, 2009
Larisa Kasumagic on the Culture of Silence
Video Clip June 9, 2009
Nonviolence: A Way of Life
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in the strategy of nonviolence to advance civil and human rights. In "Nonviolence: A Way of Life," the six principles and six steps of nonviolence are highlighted for a deeper understanding of what nonviolent participation meant to Dr. King.
Facing Today March 27, 2008
Not in Our School Video Clips
Lesson Idea May 26, 2010
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