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Freshman from the University of Rochester volunteered at the Gandhi Institute during the annual Wilson Day. Students picked up trash along the Genesee River and learned about permaculture by preparing flower beds in our community garden.
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New Gandhi staff member Debrine Williams interacts with community members at the City of Rochester's Project TIPS.
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Here are two clips from Anna-Kristina Pfeifer's audio-visual project about the southwest quadrant community in Rochester. Visit the evolving website of the project which will hopefully grow into a Rochester people's history resource over time: http://vimeo.com/user13285228
Before Anna returned to Europe, she wrote a blog about her time at the Institute. To read Anna's letter click here: An Open Letter of Gratitude to the Gandhi Institute |
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Testimonies from Volunteers
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Volunteering at the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
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If you would like to volunteer at the Gandhi Institute, email:
Opportunities include helping with events, fundraising, outreach and more.
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Restorative Practices Featured in City Newspaper
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"There's been a break in faith with the current justice system, which is important for all kinds of reasons," Barter says. "If people start breaking away from the justice system, it reveals a larger split within society, and the giving up of hope that mainstream society will actually treat everybody as equal and take care of everyone."
Dominic Barter
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Letter from the Director
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Dear friends,
This month is the grand opening of our Institute's beautiful new home and impossibly it is also the month that our beloved board president Karen Trueheart died unexpectedly. Karen taught and embodied mindfulness to everyone she came in contact with. Below is a text she shared with us many times as a compassion meditation. I am so glad to hear her voice in these words.
If you are able, join us September 30 to remember Karen and to dedicate this new home for the Gandhi Institute as a beacon for lived nonviolence in our community and beyond.
This comes with love,
Kit Miller
Director
May I be kind to myself
May I be peaceful
May I be free from suffering
This summer Karen recorded a CD, a gift for all of us who will miss her. www.dancingwithuncertainty.com
* We dedicate this issue to Karen Trueheart
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Yesterday was a double anniversary. On September 11, 1906 Gandhi and three thousand Hindus and Muslims took a vow of non-cooperation with discriminatory laws passed by the South African government. Their struggle ended in victory because they faithfully remembered the connection between means and ends. Would this other September 11 have occurred if that lesson had been learned? For more information on the first September 11 click here: Democracy Now Story About September11 |
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Upcoming Events
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September 15, 2012
Gandhi River Keepers
10:00am-12:00pm
Meet at the Gandhi House on 929 S. Plymouth. Refreshments and tools provided.
September 21, 2012
International Day of Peace
Peace not Fracking!
Drop in between 5-8 pm
Cobbs Hill Park, gather at Lake Riley. Family-friendly. Bring people of all ages! Please support the earth by walking, biking, busing, or carpooling.
Be heard-come make a sign or banner voicing your concern, fear, frustration. Bring a white or blue shirt to stencil a message on!
Learn-participate in a direct action training and learn about civil disobedience.
Mourn-walk to the reservoir and take part in a ritual to mourn how current power structures and policymakers mistreat the earth.
Network-meet and join with other concerned community members.
September 26, 2012
Active Hope Reading and Study Group!
Join us twice a month as we read Joanna Macy's and Chris Johnstone's book: Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're In Without Going Crazy. http://www.activehope.info/
We'll meet twice a month to discuss the book chapter by chapter. This will be a peer-led group rather than a teaching session or lecture! As we learn together from the book and each other, we'll examine where we can learn experientially and share what we learn with our communities.
Here are the dates we plan to meet:
Wednesdays, 7-9 pm
Starts Sept 26, 2012
2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month after that:
10/10, 10/24, 11/14, 11/28, 12/2
@ the Gandhi House
929 S. Plymouth Avenue
Rochester, NY 14608
Contact Shannon Richmond at: srichmond@ur.rochester.edu or
463-3266
*Please come September 26 prepared to discuss the first chapter.
September 29, 2012
Nonviolence Workshop
10:00am-3:00pm
929 S. Plymouth
P. 585-703-9230
September 30, 2012 Gandhi Grand Opening and Birthday Celebration at the new Gandhi Institute office 929 S. Plymouth Ave 2:00pm-5:00pm All are welcome! October 18, 2012
"Hands on the Freedom Plow": Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Interfaith Chapel, University of Rochester
Guest speakers and former SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, and Dorothy M. Zellner will share personal accounts of their experience organizing with SNCC.
Co-sponsored by the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
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