[Peace-discuss] nonviolence video series at Channing-Murray

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A Force More Powerful - Video Series on Nonviolent Struggle
Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, 7 pm
Sept. 30, Oct. 7, Oct. 14, Oct. 20, Oct. 28, Nov. 17
 
This six-week public forum is based in part on the PBS documentary series A Force More Powerful focuses on one of the 20th century's most important and least-known stories: how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule from Nashville to Johannesburg and in Poland, Chile, Denmark and India.  Reviewing a century often called the most violent in human history, the series is the story of millions who chose to battle the forces of brutality with nonviolent forces-and won.  A discussion will follow each half-hour video presentation.  Free and open to the public.  
 
Thurs, Sept 30 - Over a 5-month period Afro-American college students successfully desegregate Nashville's downtown lunch counters, becoming a model for the entire civil rights movement.
 
Thurs, Oct 7 - Though civil disobedience and boycotts, Gandhi and his followers successfully loosened their British oppressors' grip on power and set India on the path to freedom.
 
Thurs, Oct 14 - In South Africa a campaign of nonviolent mass action awakened whites to black grievance and finally weakened support for the legal discrimination known as apartheid.
 
Wed, Oct 20 - Danish leaders adopted a strategy of "resistance disguised as collaboration" and rescued all but a handful of Denmark's 7,000 Jews from Nazi Germans.
 
Thurs, Oct 28 - Striking workers in Poland demanded independent unions and used their leverage to negotiate unprecedented rights in a communist party system.
 
Wed, Nov 17 - Chilean workers initiated a wave of nonviolent protests against the military dictatorship of General Pinochet and defeated him in a government referendum.
 

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