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Civil Rights Music at the White House
Watch the full episode. See more In Performance at The White House. I don’t know how I missed this when it premiered, but this is a FANTASTIC survey of the music of the civil rights movement. President Obama’s introduction is top notch. Don’t miss Natalie Cole quoting Diane Nash on the power of nonviolence (starting… Read More »
Punishment Park
Rolling Stone called it “The best film about dissent in America.” In Peter Watkins’ 1970 film, as the war in Vietnam is escalating, there is massive public protest in the United States. President Nixon declares a state of national emergency and gives the Federal authorities the power to detain persons judged to be “a risk… Read More »
A Biography of America
A Biography of America is a video instructional series on American history for college and high school classrooms and adult learners — 26 half-hour video programs, coordinated books, and Web site — Produced by WGBH Boston in cooperation with the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration. Especially appropriate for The Class… Read More »
Violence: An American Tradition
Violence: An American Tradition is a peaceCENTER favorite teaching video, no longer distributed. What a gift that it is now online! In six parts, an “exploration of the tradition of violence in America, drawing on the history of invading settlers and native peoples, frontier outlaws and modern-day murderers, racist violence, the urban underclass, and domestic… Read More »
Howard Zinn: Three Holy Wars
On the 100th anniversary of Progressive Magazine, Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of the United States, gave a talk about three holy wars. Not religious wars, he explained, but rather America’s “sacred” wars that are considered to be just and beyond criticism. They are the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War… Read More »
Harvard’s very popular course on justice now available to you online
From their Web site: Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world. In this twelve part series, [Michael] Sandel challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas… Read More »
What Bystanders Do When They Witness Violence
What Bystanders Do When They Witness Violence Facing History and Ourselves used a “Talk of the Nation” episode as the centerpiece for a lesson plan about bystanders to violence. We typically discuss this in the first session of the Class of Nonviolence and come around to it again towards the end. Another good resource… Read More »
Conflict Revolution
View more presentations from Victoria Pynchon. This slide show is from Victoria Pynchon’s Settle It Now Negotiation Blog, and is based on a presentation by Dr. Ken Cloke, Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism. (I recommend expanding the slide show to full screen to view it properly.) In Lesson 5 of the Class… Read More »
Pigs Prove to Be Smart, if Not Vain
Pigs Prove to Be Smart, if Not Vain The 8th and final session of the Class of Nonviolence is about violence and animals. This article from the New York Times covers the new scientific field of “pig cognition.” It says in part: “Even in domesticity, pigs have retained much of their foreboar’s smarts. Dr. Byrne… Read More »