http://joebrummer.com/WordPress Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:40:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&feature=player_embedded[/video] What I enjoyed about this video is that it didn't come from Fox or CNN, it came from a science organization in England. This isn't rhetoric from American new agencies but opinions from people who actually study this stuff.  I will say my line again....if by socialist, you mean I ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1232 Great video explaining what nonviolence really means in a campaign and why it works.....a must see for activists. WATCH http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1231 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onsIdBanynY[/video] http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1229 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g[/video] http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1228 In my sleepy New England beach town lives a group of people who stand on the corner at the main light in town holding signs that read "honk for peace" and "Stop the War."  Of course, I support this message.  I don't support people standing on the side of the ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1227 In an April 4, 2010 interview with CNN, Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights leader and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said that, "We are missing the moral leader of America who had emerged not just the moral leader of America but of the world."  Now he ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1226 Although I am pretty much a secular minded person now, I can tell you that much of my roots believing in Nonviolence came from what I learned as a child attending Christian schools.  I learned Jesus was the model of nonviolence.  I learned the commandment, thou shalt not kill and ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1225 On March 27, 2010 at 9:00pm, there will be a showing of the film Our Journey to a Smile.  The film will be simultaneously shown nationwide and narrated live via Skype from Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan by the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers. Here in Connecticut, we will be showing the film ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1223 I took this quote from this article.  I request you read it and share your thoughts. "What is this kind of love? It appears to me that Jesus and Gandhi and those of us following their tradition through the practice of NVC think of love as the full radical ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1222 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHADEP58paI[/video] http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1220 It has been awhile since I have written about things I see in the gay news and this just caught my eye as such a chance to use creative nonviolence to make a point.  It would seem anti-gay activist and founder of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality's Peter LaBarbera is ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1219 This is a nice article written by Richard Layard at Huffington Post about how empathy is really the source of our joy and happiness not money.  Of course, intellectually we all know this fact, our televisions and billboards have done a good job at brainwashing us into believing we need ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1218 Communicating Compassionately in a World of Conflict April 16, 2010 - 32 Elm St. New Haven, CT 9:00AM - 4:00PM Transform conflict in your home, workplace, school and in your community Based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg and the Center for Nonviolent Communication Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1217 This was a short clip on the blocks to listening from the Martin Luther King Day workshop I presented at the Dae Yen Sa International Buddhist Temple in New Hartford, CT.  I really enjoyed doing this workshop and was happy it was well attended.  Anyway, I would love to hear ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1216 I enjoyed reading this post over at G-A-Y and particularly liked this statement from Jeremy Hooper who I have much respect for because of his nonviolent way of confronting the religious right.  I think there is valuable wisdom in this quote! As active participants of this [civil rights] movement, we can ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1215 I saw this video posted on Waging Nonviolence.  Great stuff. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkVm0htsuU[/video] http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1213 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icqrx0OimSs[/video] http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1212 I liked to wish all of my readers a happy whatever you celebrate Ramadan, Hanukkah, Christmas, the Solstice, or Kwanzaa.   I am celebrating Christmas with my family in the South and enjoying the warmth before I head back to my snowy residence in New England.   My holiday message to you: Remember, ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1211 I sometimes believe that it has become easy for us to just walk by those that appear to be living on the streets pretending we just don't see them.  We just assume in our little minds that they are not "help-able" or that there is nothing we can do.  I ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1210 A California man has been arrested for refusing to kick out homeless clients who have been living in tents and trailers on his ranch.   Change.org is reporting: For eight years, Dan de Vaul has operated a residential sobriety program on his sprawling 72-acre ranch in San Luis Obispo. While many formerly ... http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=1209