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Gandhi Service Fellow
Fatima Bawany Awarded Davis Project for Peace!
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The Davis Projects for Peace (originally known as "100 Projects for Peace") is an initiative for all students at the Davis United World College Scholars Program schools. The program funds students to design and implement their own grassroots "Project for Peace" anywhere in the world during the summer of 2013. Through a competition on 85 campuses, Fatima's proposal was one of 100 projects selected for funding at $10,000 each! Fatima's project includes a week long retreat at the Gandhi Institute for refugee youth from St. Mary's Place in Rochester, NY.
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ORDER YOUR OFFICIAL SNV T-SHIRT TODAY!
CALL 585-463-3265
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3rd Annual
Nonviolence
Summer Intensive
JULY 22-26, 2013
10:00 am-5:00 pm
Gandhi House
929 S. Plymouth Ave
Rochester, NY
- Learn from experts in the field
- Develop skills in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Restorative Justice and Kingian Nonviolence
- Become more centered and determined about your personal goals
- Earn a certificate of participation
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Youth Activists Learn About Aikido as a Form of Nonviolent Self-Defense
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Youth Activists Attend Anger Management Workshop with Presenter Patricia Mason of the Center for Dispute Settlement
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Patricia Mason
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Check out our new video about the 2013 Youth Activist Leadership Program!
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Video by Anna-Kristina Pfeifer
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The 2013 Season for Nonviolence is sponsored by the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. University of Rochester partners include the Interfaith Chapel, Frederick Douglas Leadership House, the Student Association of Vegan and Vegetarian Youth (SAVVY), and the Rochester Center for Community Leadership (RCCL). Community sponsors include the Ad Council of Rochester, Jay Advertising, Crazy Dog T-shirts, Grant Taylor Photography, Icon Creative, Inc., Restorative Rochester, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Teen Empowerment, Monroe Community College Damon City Campus, Rochester Institute of Technology, Spiritus Christi, Rochester Friends Meeting, Center for Dispute Settlement, Partners in Restorative Initiatives, Education for Peace, First Unitarian Church of Rochester, Feminists Choosing Life of NY, Greater Rochester Community of Churches, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, Rochester Public Library "Safe to be Smart" Program, Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library, Black Student Caucus of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Education for Peace, Mental Health Association, Rochester Area Mennonite Fellowship, Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, private individuals, and more being added every day.
"The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Gandhi Institute to Facilitate NY Council for the Humanities Reading & Discussion Program for Adults on the theme of:
Service
Wednesday nights
May 1-June 5, 2013
6:00-9:00 pm
Gandhi Reading Room in UR Rush Rhees Library
Facilitated by George Payne
Why and how do we choose to serve others? What is the nature of the relationship between those who serve and those who are served? If we serve, what sustains and renews us? How does our service impact our communities?
This series is especially appropriate for individuas engaged in service work, such as AmeriCorps members, social service workers, and adult learners interested in serving their community more energetically and thoughtfully.
To register for the discussion group or to get more information contact George at 585-703-9230.
"Books are to be call'd for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half sleep, but, in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start or framework."
--Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas," (1871)
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Letter from the Director
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Dear Friends,
Here is another opportunity to freeze time and share what's going on around here. As I type, I hear a group in the next room discussing a request to bring restorative justice practices to inmates at Attica Prison. Downstairs, one of our community partners, Teen Empowerment, is holding youth-police dialogues. And today, the local newspaper posted a terrific blog about work we have been quietly offering the last four years to Rochester middle school students http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/editorial/?p=28799
We are finishing with this year's Season for Nonviolence and especially savoring the connection to youth during that time (see below). Join us on April 4 at 5:30 pm at Rochester's City Hall to celebrate the completion of the youth programming.
All of this is happening in the larger context of gun violence, drones, hydrofracking, and myriad other concerns. We talk around here about the challenge of keeping spirits up in the midst of challenges we collectively face, near and far. What about you? How do you sustain your faith in humanity and in your own ability to make a difference? Do you need support to continue with wholehearted engagement in your life? Let us know how we can help.
Meanwhile, Gandhi's words comfort and challenge us: "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
This comes with love,
Kit Miller
ps. the Gandhi Institute is now a designated agency for the United Way. Our donor designation number is 2578. Please consider supporting us this way!
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Stepping Back to Step Forward:
A Conversation on Transformative Action for Systemic Change
Thursday, March 28
7:00pm-9:30pm
Gandhi House on 929 South Plymouth Ave
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Photo by Anna-Kristina Pfeifer
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How can we go beyond the personal/interpersonal spheres of social change and specific projects/campaigns to create a deeper level of change? How can we address the underlying causes of the pain in our world in a truly transformative way? In this community discussion we want to step back, to explore systemic or structural change together, to focus our vision on structural nonviolence and how we can practically step towards it.
For this evening we want to make a space to ask ourselves and each other some questions out-loud: what are we and others around the world doing and how we are doing it? What could we imagine doing differently if we zoom out a little? How does our action fit together with a broader/deeper vision?
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Youth Activists Graduation Ceremony
You're invited!
April 4, 2013
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Rochester City Hall
30 Church Street
Hear this year's Youth Activists share about their experience in the leadership program, see videos created by youth in the Participatory Video Project, and remember Dr. King on the anniversary of his assassination.
*Since food will be served we request that you RSVP.
Please RSVP by April 2: call (585) 463-3266
  
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Would you like to be part of an organic farm program this summer that allows you to get fresh produce each week at the Gandhi Institute?
NOFA-NY (Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York) is seeking participants for a Neighborhood Farm Share Program. Sliding scale rates are available.
For more information contact the Gandhi Institute: 585-463-3265 no later than April 15, 2013.
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Gandhi Institute Work Party!
Saturdays, April 27 & May 18
1-4 pm
929 S. Plymouth Ave.
Be part of transforming the empty lot next to the Gandhi House
into a permaculture paradise! We'll provide the tools and work gloves!
ALL ARE WELCOME!
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What You Say Next Can Change the World: a workshop with Miki Kashtan
Saturday, May 4
10-5 pm
University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel*
on Wilson Blvd, north of Elmwood
*free parking available in the Library Lot on Intercampus Drive
We are very excited to host Miki Kashtan, who teaches nonviolence skills around the world.
How can nonviolence work--not only as a guiding philosophy for social change, but also as a daily practice in our homes and workplaces? In this workshop, we'll practice concrete steps that bring to life the principles linking nonviolence, speech and action.
Register by May 2: 463-3266 or srichmond@ur.rochester.edu. Requested contribution of $75 to cover costs for food, travel for Miki from Oakland, CA, and Miki's time. Vegetarian lunch provided.
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