Nonviolence as an affirmative value . . .

[OneBlueSky]

I do some part-time work (writing) for our local battered women's shelter, and I'm forever making the argument that, as a society, we have to end violence against women and other marginalized/oppressed/under-represented groups . . .

working on a recent assignment, it occurred to me that what's missing in our discussion of violence these days is the notion of promoting nonviolence as an affirmative value -- something that we did a lot of in the 60s, but which seems to have fallen by the wayside in these turbulent times . . . just when it is most needed . . .

so I did a little googling to see who's doing what to make bring nonviolence back into the national discussion . . . the first resource I found was something called Nonviolence.org . . .

http://nonviolence.org/

digging a little further, I came across their links to other resources dealing with peace and nonviolence . . .

http://nonviolence.org/links/

I think one of my goals in the New Year will be to see if I can get the organization I work with to start talking about nonviolence as a desireable value that we should be celebrating, fostering, and promoting . . . I'd like to see nonviolence once again be a topic of national discussion and maybe offset some of the barbaric war-mongering that seems to be at the forefront of our national consciousness these days . . .