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New Video Documents the Life and Times of Mohandas Gandhi
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We are excited to announce the release of a film project that has taken over a year to complete! With the help of Arun Gandhi, filmmaker and Gandhi staff member Anna Kristina Pfeifer proudly presents "A Gandhi Family Photo Album," an important new resource on Gandhi available to people worldwide. Proceeds from viewing will benefit the Institute and the Gandhi Worldwide Education Fund.
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"Turning an abandoned house into the headquarters of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence has been a lot like non-violence work itself: laborious, collaborative, neighborly and punctuated by celebrations.
Unlike the quest to rid the world - and the city - of violence, the house is almost complete. On Sunday, the non-profit social action organization celebrated its third annual grand opening on South Plymouth Avenue.
At the first open house, in 2011, the 'new' building was still boarded up. At the second, the interior was finished but the exterior was ugly. This year, visitors danced and sang, admired the sunflower garden out front and walked the empathy labryinth in the back.
The remodeled building is the base from which the institute will work toward its goal of increasing the peace in Rochester and worldwide.
"Violence is not inevitable - it's not like gravity," Institute Director Kit Miller said. "The more serious the violence in the world becomes, the more serious we need to be about non-violence."
To read the full article by Democrat & Chronicle reporter Justin Murphy click here:
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RIT's Mental Graffiti shares spoken-word poetry
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2013 Gandhi Institute
Fall Nonviolence Workshop
Oct 31-Nov 1
@ the Gandhi House
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Andy Stern of the "Lost Bird Project" shares his vision with GI staff and volunteers
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Gone and nearly forgotten in extinction, the Labrador Duck, the Great Auk, the Heath Hen, the Carolina Parakeet, and the Passenger Pigeon leave holes not just in the North American landscape but in our collective memories. Moved by their stories, sculptor Todd McGrain set out to create memorials to the lost birds-to bring their vanished forms back into the world.
The Lost Bird Project follows the road-trip that McGrain and his brother-in-law, Andy Stern, take as they search for the locations where the birds were last seen in the wild and negotiate for permission to install McGrain's bronze sculptures there.
Click below to learn more about the Lost Bird Project:
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Spotlight on Gandhi Service Fellows
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The Gandhi Service Fellowship is a year long program designed for college students in the greater Rochester area. Students receive guidance as well as material support in order to coordinate a project or event related to the promotion of nonviolence. Matias Piva is a senior at the University of Rochester double majoring in philosophy and psychology. When he's not doing homework, Matias is wearing a variety of different hats: - House Member of Douglass Leadership House
- Vice President of the Undergraduate Philosophy Council
- Board Member of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
- Gandhi Service Fellow of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Matias imagines himself growing up to be an entrepreneur by starting his own private relationship counseling and therapy practice someday and by adding value to the world by helping others create and maintain happy and healthy relationships. Matias Piva has also taken a course in Nonviolent Communication, is trained in MVP Bystander Intervention, and was formerly a Resident Advisor for three semesters. For his service project Matias intends to organize and facilitate a three-day training on issues related to gender violence on the University of Rochester campus. | |
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Contact Kit Miller
at 585-463-3267
Contribute $25 monthly and receive a Gandhi Institute poster
Contribute $100 monthly and receive a Gandhi t-shirt
Contribute $250 monthly and receive a limited edition Margaret Bourke-White photograph of Gandhi
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Dear Friends,
When I was a little girl, I learned that Eleanor Roosevelt died the same day I was born, on November 7. I nourished a secret ambition that somehow she had decided to reincarnate in the space of a few hours and share her spirit with me!
I was reminded of that reading her words recently. Because Eleanor was a practical lady, I wonder, what does it really mean to work for peace? We each have our own answer. What I increasingly trust are answers that include inner and interpersonal work--of prayer and meditation, of forgiveness, of walking toward conflict or of being transparent when it's scary to do so--as well as community work and activism. We must remember that the structures of violence have been built within us as well as outside of us. The integrity of integrating inner work with outer activism is called principled nonviolence. In this way we can embody Gandhi's famous words to "be the change."
This comes with love from all of us here,
Kit Miller Director, MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
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Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library Announces Conversations on Race
The Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library (FFRPL) invites the public to Conversations on Race this fall at the following public libraries:
Sully Branch of the Rochester Public Library, 530 Webster Avenue, Rochester - Tuesday, November 12, 5 - 7pm
Central Library, 115 South Avenue, downtown Rochester Thursday, November 14, 5 - 7pm
Fairport Public Library, 1 Fairport Village Landing, Fairport - Wednesday, November 20, 6 - 8pm
The Conversations on Race are facilitated and open dialogues about race and its impact on the community. More than 300 people have participated in Conversations throughout the community in the past year. The Conversations are free and open to the public.
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GANDHI RIVER KEEPERS
Saturday, Nov 9, 2013
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Meet at the Gandhi House Refreshments and supplies will be provided. Contact George at gpayne2@ur.rochester.edu
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Artwork by Jill Gussow
hanging in the Gandhi Institute's front room. Thank you, Jill!
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Going Beyond the Headlines:
Engaging in Conversations,
from Exploration to Expression
This six week course is designed to establish a conversational framework that allows for safe, open discussions while critically examining social issues of the world. In addition, this course will provide an opportunity to voice one's individual connection to these social events using creative tools for self-expression and social engagement.
Dates to be announced.
To learn more about this class contact George:
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Interested in learning about and practicing meditation?
Join Robert Massar, a Gandhi Service fellow and student at the Rochester Zen Center as he leads a weekly meditation session.
Open meditation every Saturday
10 am-11 am in the meditation room at the Gandhi House
929 S. Plymouth Ave. 14608
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Tuesday, November 12 @ 7:00PM
The Cinema Theater on
957 Clinton Avenue
General Admission $10
"Jaw dropping...has the power to pry open government lock boxes." -Variety
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Does Mother Nature deserve the same protection as your own mother?
This last October Bolivia enacted an expanded version of its already revolutionary 2010 Law of the Rights of Mother Earth. Titled the Framework Law on Mother Earth and Integral Development for Living Well, the new law exemplifies indigenous values in that it recognizes Mother Earth as a "living dynamic system," and grants Her comprehensive legal rights that are comparable to human rights.
The legislation will create 11 distinguished rights for the environment. They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.
Even though there are some concerns from different sectors from the Bolivian society, it's difficult to deny the law points us in an important direction. It recognizes the inextricable connection between human and environmental well-being, that we are pushing Mother Earth past sustainable limits, and that all people and institutions need to take part in reversing this trend. - See more at: Giving Mother Earth Rights We at the Gandhi Institute celebrate this revolutionary step towards honoring all life beings, and we want to acknowledge the possibility for social change when governments respond to the needs of everyone in society.
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Dr. Bernard Lafayette worked with Dr. King during the most crucial years of the Civil Rights Movement. He will be joining us for a week of training and lectures in February.
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"What I love about nonviolence is that when you step out of the shower you are fully armed."
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Support the Gandhi Institute by donating:
Tulip and daffodil bulbs
Copy paper
3 foot bookshelf
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