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Mark Your Calendars for the 2014 Nonviolence Summer Intensive!
Only 25 spots available!
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 Get Your Gandhi Gear Here! We are selling homemade screen printed t-shirts and handbags to raise funds for the Season for Nonviolence, so if you want to stop at the Gandhi House, or invite us to table somewhere to sell items, that would be great!
Sliding scale for bags and recycled shirts with screen printed designed by students is a $10-$1,000,000 contribution.  | | RIT students printing tote bags! |
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All About Gandhi
Day-long workshop
March 29
10:00am-3:30pm
Gandhi House (929 S. Plymouth)
Please register with George: gpayne2@ur.rochester.edu
All are welcome. Donations gladly accepted to support the Institute.
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Benefit Concert for Gandhi Institute to support youth nonviolence training!
with singer/songwriter
Cammy Enaharo
Listen to Cammy Enaharo onSoundCloud
Sunday, March 9
3-5 pm
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
(141 Adams St. 14608)
Tickets:
Adults-$10
Students-$5
Kids Free
*Enter the raffle to win great Gandhi prizes and more!
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Conversations on Race
Exploring issues of race in our lives and community.
More than 600 people have participated in these dialogues. Join us!
Brighton Memorial Library: March 11, 6-8 pm
Charlotte Branch Library: March 27, 5-7 pm
Phyllis Wheatley Library: April 9, 5-7 pm
Gates Public Library: 6-8 pm
This project is sponsored by the Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library, the Gandhi Institute and many other local groups.
For more information, or to schedule a race dialogue in your library, school or community setting, contact Rebecca Fuss 428-8350 or rebecca.fuss@libraryweb.org
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Film Screening about the Sexual Objectification of Women & Girls
Wednesday, March 12th
6:15-9 pm
The Little Theater (240 East Ave)
Tickets $5 at the door
Sponsored by Feminists for Nonviolent Choices
Questions? Contact Hannah: hannahmariamurphy@gmail.com
Check out the Season for Nonviolence events calendar to see what else is happening!
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Featured Project
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Julia Polidore-Oakley and Anisha Gill Transforming Lives at School #10
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Gandhi Service Fellows Julia and Anisha
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Launched in 2013, the Nonviolence Youth Empowerment Project at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy in Rochester is supported by M.K. Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Principles of Nonviolence. We believe that change first begins within, "We are the change we wish to see in the world."
Nonviolence facilitators serve as positive role models in the school environment, providing urban youth with tools and strategies to overcome and combat violent and negative behaviors.
  
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Letter from the Director
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 March 2014 Dear friends,
Time with Dr. Lafayette and Jonathan Lewis last week (see below) was extraordinary. We have been delighted to hear from dozens who expressed their appreciation for the learning and inspiration. I loved when students from across the socioeconomic spectrum in the greater Rochester area came together for two days to learn and debate Dr. King's principles of nonviolence, justice and social action. These are the principles that we are using as the backbone for our nonviolence clubs at Northeast College Prep, Wilson, and Pittsford Mendon high schools. Students from these three nonviolence clubs received first choice to attend the training with Dr. Lafayette. They were joined by students from Penfield HS, Allendale Columbia and other schools too.
Ultimately, the best feedback came from Dr. Lafayette and Jonathan themselves, who expressed a wish to return! We are planning now for their return visit in July, to be part of the 50th anniversary remembrances of the 1964 Rochester riots; they will hold a five day 'Train the Trainers' week with the same youth and youth workers who completed the two-day training.
Last Thursday classes in Nonviolent Communication started at Groveland Prison, part of their Season for Nonviolence programming. The commitment and interest in the Season from our brethren at Groveland continues to inspire all of us here.
If you want to help out, invite friends to the concert on Sunday, March 9 with the amazing Cammy Enaharo. I hope to see you there!
This comes with love from everyone here,
Kit Miller
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Celebrating Dr. Lafayette
and the Positive Peace Warrior Network visit!
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30 new young leaders in our city!
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Over 300 people attended talks with Dr. Lafayette! We also had 30 youth and more than 30 youth workers in the two-day Kingian Nonviolence trainings!
Thank you for supporting an inspirational week of learning and action!
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Dr. Lafayette delivering the 2014 Season for Nonviolence Keynote Address at Asbury First Methodist Church
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Reception at the Gandhi House with Dr. Lafayette
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Jonathan "Globe" Lewis of Positive Peace Warrior Network training Rochester youth!
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Dr. Lafayette speaking at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County
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* All photographs taken by Gandhi staff member Anna-Kristina Pfeifer
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We need your support for Dr. Lafayette's Historic Visit!
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We are still gratefully collecting funds to help pay for Dr. Lafayette's visit to Rochester. Please consider making a donation to help foster nonviolence education for our youth and youth workers.
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"When we build a house, we start by creating a stable foundation. Just so, when we wish to benefit others, we start by developing warmth or friendship for ourselves."
- Pema Chodron
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