while I was away...
I attended the National Nonviolence Gathering on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. It was hosted by the Donald Groom Peace Committee, a Quaker group. I'm very glad I went. It was exactly right for where I was in my head about the subject of pacifism.
You might also like to visit the following websites:
Nonviolence Training Project
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
I'll say more about my experiences at (and thoughts about) the gathering in subsequent posts.
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You might also like to visit the following websites:
Nonviolence Training Project
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
I'll say more about my experiences at (and thoughts about) the gathering in subsequent posts.
.
posted by The Editor at
8:46 AM
3 Comments:
my schooldays from 1954 were in the era when teachers use to hit children.
flick chalk at us, pitch blackboard cleaners at us, hit us with rulers on the knuckles or the back of our legs,
WTF were they bloody thinking.
parent violence was also widespread.
no point in hurting a child or an animal . . .or anything really.
Forgive them, for they knew not what they did. It was a cultural thing.
At the gathering, Helen Bayes, a Quaker, winner of the 1999 Human Rights Medal and founder of Defence
for Children International, chaired a discussion on the subject "Making links between the Nonviolence Movement and Ending Physical Punishment of Children campaigns."
go diogenes, the man who truly "let the dogs out."
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