[Peace] Day-Long Non-Violent Direct Action Training at UUCUC on March 10

[Pam Richart]

If you want to learn more about non-violent direct action as a powerful force for change …  and are ready to put your values into action, this is a great opportunity!

Saturday, March 10 Non-Violent Direct Action Training at UUCUC 
Throughout history non-violent direct action has played a recurring and vital role in shining a light on injustice and bringing about social change. On Saturday, March 10, members of the Social Action Committee of UUCUC will host a day-long training in the principles, philosophy and practice of non-violent direct action.This training will help prepare us to participate in six weeks of "direct action and nonviolent civil disobedience" at our state capitol associated with Reverend Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign <https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/>. These actions begin on Mother’s Day, May 13, and continue through June 21.  But this training also has much broader, universal applications. 

Led by Jerica Arents, noted activist and educator  <http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1991461>in peace, justice and conflict studies, this interactive training will provide basic knowledge and skills to better understand, support, and/or actively engage in non-violent direct action as part of social change. We invite you to join us! 

Registration is required, but no one will be turned away for financial reasons. Call Lan Richart at 773-556-3417 for more information.

Date:		Saturday, March 10, 2018

Time:		8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Location:  	Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign (Fellowship Hall)
  	
Cost:		$20 (includes lunch, snacks and training materials)

Register: 	https://uucuc.brownpapertickets.com/ <https://uucuc.brownpapertickets.com/>

Meet the Trainer: Jerica Arents is a professor <http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1991461> in the Peace, Justice, Conflict Studies Program at DePaul University.  Her ongoing interests focus on social movements and activism with interests in peacemaking in Afghanistan and the effects of the NATO-led occupation on ordinary Afghans. She collaborates with the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, where they have created the first multi-ethnic community of youth committed to nonviolent action. She also serves as an organizer with Witness Against Torture, a campaign to close the prison at Guantánamo and end U.S.-sponsored torture worldwide.



Pamela Richart
Eco-Justice Collaborative
919 West University Avenue
Champaign, Illinois 61821
773.556.3418
prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org <mailto:prichart at ecojusticecollaborative.org>
www.ecojusticecollaborative.org <http://www.ecojusticecollaborative.org/>

"Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process."

-2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai 


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