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Mark Your Calendars for the 2014 Nonviolence Summer Intensive!
Only 25 spots available!
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Celebrating our Sponsors!
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Thank you to our
2014 Season for Nonviolence
University of Rochester Admissions
Friends of the Rochester Public Library
Rochester Area Mennonites
Feminists for Nonviolent Choices
Rochester Friends Meeting
Sisters of St. Joseph
With additional support from:
MCC-Damon Campus
Rochester AmeriCorps
Asbury Methodist Church
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
& the amazing Cammy
Enaharo for the gift of her concert!
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Facilitator Skill Share Day!
With a special focus on addressing racism and racial dynamics in group settings
Saturday, April 26
9 am-3 pm
Gandhi House (929 Plymouth Ave South, 14608)
Presenters include: Kristin Hocker (University of Rochester Leadership and Diversity Trainer), Steve Jarose and Albert Dickerson (National Coalition Building Institute of Rochester), Jennifer Banister (Teen Empowerment), and Sherry Walker-Cowart (Center for Dispute Settlement).
We especially encourage those who facilitate groups to attend.
Bring your own lunch.
Register by April 18 by emailing Anna: annakristina.pfeifer@gmail.com
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"We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or die separately as fools."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Register Now!
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Training in Dr. King's Nonviolence*
with Jonathan "Globe" Lewis
May 29-30
Spend two days learning about leadership, justice, and social change!
Jonathan "Globe" Lewis, Founder and Executive Director, is a Senior Level Kingian Nonviolence Trainer who started working with Civil Rights legend Dr. Bernard Lafayette as a college student in the 1990s. Jonathan has served on the International Global Conference Series from 2000-2004 as a youth representative. He has trained all over the United States and abroad, including Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Israel, and Nigeria. In 2008, while working for Harry Belafonte's Gathering for Justice, he introduced over one thousand community leaders to the Kingian Nonviolence philosophy.
*This training is a pre-requisite for the week-long Train the Trainers workshop with Civil Rights legend Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Jonathan Lewis,
July 28-August 1 at RIT.
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Jonathan Lewis teaches Rochester youth nonviolence skills, February 2014.
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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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Quote of the Month
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M.K. Gandhi
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Earth Day: Earth VigilApril 22 12 noon-2 pm
on the pedestrian bridge, High Falls
 P lease join the Rochester Zen Center on Earth Day, April 22, to help raise awareness that the Genesee River is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United Sttaes. We will demonstrate in silence, because sometimes silence speaks louder than words.
Earth Vigil is sponsored by the Rochester Zen Center and the Lost Bird Project.
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Robert L. Holmes, The Ethics of Nonviolence
Robert Holmes is one of the leading proponents
 of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world. However, he has never presented his views on nonviolence in full-length book form.
The Ethics of Nonviolence brings together his best essays on the topic, both classic works and more obscure pieces, as well as several important essays that have never been published.
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Letter from the Director
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April 2014
Dear friends,
Recently it was my privilege to attend a three day training called Mentors in Violence Prevention, hosted and delivered by MCC-Damon campus faculty. It was a rich and challenging learning experience about gender-related violence of all kinds. We studied some of the seeds of violence too, in the objectification of women and the proliferation of stereotypes about gender that box in every one of us. The founder of this program, Jackson Katz, will be speaking at MCC tomorrow (see below).
MCC has been a wonderful collaborator with us over the last years on the Season for Nonviolence campaign, which wraps up this weekend. Please plan to join us on Friday, April 4, 4:30-5:30 at the Liberty Pole for a remembrance of Dr. King on the anniversary of his assassination. The program will focus especially on what Martin Luther King Jr. called the 'triple evil' of poverty, racism and militarism and what we can do about those things here in Rochester. We'll be joined by Rochester AmeriCorps who are providing food (thank you!), the House of Mercy choir, Teen Empowerment and others. Like Gandhi, Dr. King knew he would likely be killed if he continued his work, and he chose to do it anyway. Let's honor him together in the best way possible by finding ways to address the systemic ills that he identified with such clarity many years ago--ills that haunt us today.
This comes with love from everyone here,
Kit Miller,
Director
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Anti-Violence Educator Jackson Katz Speaks
Wednesday, April 2
 7-8:30 pm MCC Brighton Campus: Warshof Conference Center, Monroe A & B, in the Flynn Campus Center Dr. Katz is an educator, author, and internationally acclaimed lecturer who is a pioneer in the field of gender violence, and is a co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention. This program is currently the most widely used sexual and domestic violence initiative used around the world.
"Jackson has a rare gift for applying feminist insights about gender and power to the real life experience of boys and men."
-- Susan McGee Bailey, Director, Wellesley Center for Women
Free.
Questions? Christine: cplumeri@monroecc.edu.
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Season for Nonviolence
Closing Ceremony
Co-sponsored by Rochester AmeriCorps
THIS Friday, April 4!
4:30-5:30 pm
Rochester Liberty Pole All are welcome! Free! 
Conversations on Race Exploring issues of race in our lives and community. More than 600 people have participated in these dialogues. Join us! Phyllis Wheatley Library: April 9, 5-7 pm Gates Public Library: April 29, 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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Tuition Details:
Sliding scale $75-$250 contribution requested--please help us cover costs for Karl's travel and time.
Deposit is $40.00 due at registration with the remainder due by 05/23/14.
Lecture Series:
Friday, April 25
7:00-8:30 pm
Gandhi House
Free!
G. Peter Jemison, of the Heron Clan from the Cattaraugus Territory, Seneca Nation, is a Seneca artist and site manager of Ganondagan, a New York State Historic Park in Victor, New York. His artwork has been shown internationally and his writings have been widely published.
Co-sponsored by the
Ganondagan Historic Site.
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Make the Gandhi Institute your pick for this year's United Way campaign!
Designate #2578
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