Für das Protokoll...: Gleichwohl lehne ich den größten Teil der Inhalte ihrer Partei ab.
P.S. die Würdewahrung von handelnden Personen in Autoritätsfunktionen ist für die nachhaltige Führungswirkung auch in Unternehmen zentral #NonViolence
"Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is pretty obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says 'Love your enemies' [Matt. 5:44], he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." – Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977), 53.
@TonyStark
Some of us pointed out that we never even had a choice in a place with election laws so corrupt that the “left” loves #austerity & #genocide.
Not only do they love genocide, they have armies of #PartisanHacks making impassioned pleas in support of a corporatist warmonger platform.
Dems refused to support leftist ideas like #nonviolence #policedemilitarization #singlepayer or not using tax revenue to fund #warcrimes
LESSER EVIL for the 35th election in a row!
"In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience." - Kwame Ture
“I ickevåldsamt motstånd, däremot, kan alla delta, efter sina egna förutsättningar – och de gör det också. Ju fler som ansluter, desto fler vågar i sin tur ansluta. Så växer sig protesterna stora.”
—Lisa Magnusson: Krävs bara att 3,5 procent motarbetar fascismen för att den ska falla (DN 20250418)
#nonviolence #resistance #fascism
"I had moved to the West Bank during the brief season—we could not have known how brief—in which it was possible to believe that even the cruelest regimes might be toppled by people filling the streets and squares and, without weapons or the need for violence, demanding a life of dignity. That moment had passed by the time I left, but the movement limped on, growing closer to death while other approaches gained momentum: spates of solitary stabbings and car rammings. In 2015, the year after Israel’s previous war on Gaza, rammings increased by a factor of six. Over the next seven years, settler assaults on Palestinians jumped ninefold. The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers began to rise dramatically in 2021, and in the years leading up to the October 7, 2023, attacks, armed groups of Palestinians started to reappear in the cities of the northern West Bank.
Elsewhere the months rolled by, but whenever I returned or checked in with friends, Palestine seemed stuck in a rut: years of passivity and despair followed by giddy weeks of chaos in which it felt like everything might change, until despair settled over everything again. The repetition was hard to bear. People I had come to care about gradually disappeared. Those who could left. Others died or went to prison or suffered some slow internal death invisible to those who didn’t know them. Their absences haunt this story, but they also add up to a different kind of absence: the missing voices of people who have devoted their lives, at great cost, to speaking out, and who now find themselves too afraid to speak."
Hello, friends. I've been known as "Newfangled" on Twitch and just did a re-brand of my channel. It's now called "Positive Notes" which is the name of both the channel and the show.
I'm no longer calling myself "Newfangled", but using my first given name (Dallin) as the host of my new show. So I figured I'd stop using my Newfangled account over on Universeodon and start using this account that I've had for a while but never used much.
I have been using Mastodon for years across various servers and accounts and really enjoy it. It's how social media is supposed to be. The #fediverse is amazing.
I love #music. Listening, playing musical instruments, and sharing. On my #Twitch program I share good music from my collection and good messages and stories to bring a little joy into people's lives.
I am also interested in #technology, #retro things, and #reading.
Lately I have been renewing my interest in #DigitalMinimalism and #offline things.
I am a #Christian, a disciple of Jesus Christ. I try (I fail, but I try) to emulate him - the perfect example of love, kindness, and charity.
I am interested in #nonviolence and #peacebuilding.
Fred Rogers is a personal hero and role model of mine.
The #Trump admin has detained #ColumbiaUniversity student & #GreenCard holder #MohsenMahdawi a #Buddhist #Palestinian committed to #nonviolence because he advocated on behalf of Palestinian #HumanRights.
Mahdawi became a focus of attacks from a member of #Congress & #Zionist groups like Canary Mission & Betar. Guess we know where the deportation lists are coming from.
#law #immigration #Constitution #FreeSpeech
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
Erica Chenoweth's TEDxBoulder talk reveals that nonviolent civil resistance is twice as successful as violent campaigns!
Learn about the "3.5% rule" & the power of unarmed struggle. 
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w #Nonviolence #CivilResistance #TEDxBoulder #ted #tedtalk #protest #yt
Harvard Gazette reports: Nonviolent resistance is often more successful than violent force in achieving social and political change. Key elements include large diverse participation, loyalty shifts, varied methods & avoiding violence when repressed. Learn more! 
#Nonviolence #CivilResistance
Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan's "Why Civil Resistance Works" shows nonviolent resistance is twice as effective as violence (1900-2006) 
. It boosts participation, resilience & civic disruption , leading to durable democracies . A game-changer for understanding political change!
: https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw #CivilResistance #Nonviolence #PoliticalScience #protests #civilrights
@benroyce The caption is not correct. Nonviolence has nothing to do with whether the opponent has a conscience - it operates on a theory of power that says that if you undercut the pillars of regime power, the regime falls. The documentary _Bringing Down a Dictator_ gives an example of how this was done to Milosevic in Serbia - he had no conscience and yet the movement to oust him won.
“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
> Conspirituality: Brief: Antifascist Woodshed 2 (Punching Nazis?)
Episode webpage: https://conspirituality.net/
#Violence #Nonviolence #Oppression #USPol #Dharma #Interbeing #Mindfulness #Meditation #PlumVillage #BuddhaGang #EngagedBuddhism #RecoveryDharma #SanghaInTheStreets @dharma @engagedbuddhism @bodhisattvaway @buddhagang @recoverydharma @plumvillage
@sanghainthestreets
In light of recent events in New York City
We at @50501Chicago and @50501_movement committed to nonviolent resistance. Remember, nonviolent resistance is still resistance.
I have been on this planet for 44 years now, have been working as a reasonably successful #entrepreneur for 27+ years in #switzerland, and find myself a #peoplepleaser who struggles to stand up for my own interests and/or needs. I'm not surprised to say this, I've been aware of it and working hard to change my behavioral patterns for a few years now, but it feels good to just write it down here today.
#empath #childhood #trauma #nonviolence
In light of a recent event we would like to state
We at @50501Chicago and @50501_movement committed to nonviolent resistance. Remember, nonviolent resistance is still resistance.
Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.
Read my full bio of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #freespeech #indigenous #nativeamerican #cherokee #franklittle #civilrights #nonviolence #racism #vigilantes #lynching #author #writer #fiction #books @bookstadon
Refusing to fight an enemy who's trying to harm you won't make your enemy lose control. It'll allow them to proceed to harm you, free from any prevention on your part. You twisted Sun Tzu's quote to fit your pacifist narrative even though Sun Tzu wasn't a pacifist. He wrote an entire book called "The Art of War." Have you even read it? He believed in minimizing conflict whenever possible, which is smart, not pacifism, which is the opposite.
