Responding nonviolently - what's it all about?

Listen to me talking about 5 aspects of nonviolence to resource yourself with when tensions are high

My way of responding to everything that is happening in the world and all the changes that have been happening over the last couple of weeks or the last 18 months or even since Brexit, big things are happening in the world. And although in the UK there aren’t very strong, inclusive civil movements of Gandhian or Kingian nonviolence, there are movements around peace, anti-militarism, against the arms trade and there are also strong traditions of workplace-based organising. What matters are the principles underlying how we organise. And I wanted to just cover some of these principles because they do make sense and they are what most people in the world value and want to live by.“

Here are quotes mentioned in the audio.

Ahimsa is more than just absence of violence, it is intense love” Gandhi

“Nonviolence is our natural state of compassion, when violence has subsided from the heart” Dr Marshall Rosenberg

“If you had lived someone else’s life, you would be doing exactly what they are” Raoul Martinez

“To speak the truth, even if our voices shake. Our own truth is worth the telling, no more, no less. We don’t have to chop everything down with our sword of truth, sometimes we can point the way with it” Jayne Manfredi

“I can never be who I ought to be, until you are who you ought to be” Dr Martin Luther King

“Sometimes we need a willingness to be in hopeless places, and be a witness” Vaclav Havel

Nonviolent Communication: Gandhian Principles for Everyday Living