India

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Naresh Dadhich reviews People Power: Fifty Peacemakers and Their Communities

People Power's artistic storytelling personalizes and universalizes success stories of nonviolent struggle.

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Joe Gerson on Siddhartha

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Gandhi rightly believed in the efficacy of pitting the soul force of the nonviolent protester against the brute force of the oppressor.

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Peacework asked activists across the country to fill in the blank, "If I could show one under-appreciated film or video to a room full of potential organizers, I'd show..." and explain why or how they'd use that film.

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Where commands are no longer obeyed, the means of violence are of no use.

One hundred years ago, a mass meeting was convened in Johannesburg, South Africa by Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian lawyer outraged by the government’s proposal that Indians carry registration cards. “The Old Empire Theatre was packed from floor to ceiling,” Gandhi wrote. The group’s most important action was to pass a resolution saying they “solemnly determined not to submit to the Ordinance.”

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Goolam Vahed reviews Gandhi’s Prisoner?: The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie

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Was Gandhi a Gandhian? Was Buddha a Buddhist? Was Christ a Christian?

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Gandhi has done more than any other person in history to reveal that social problems can be solved without methods of violence.

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Gandhi has done more than any other person in history to reveal that social problems can be solved without methods of violence.