Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service presents:
Facilitators
Henry Cervantes is an artist, activist and educator who has trained activists from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America. He currently serves as manager for The Peace Exchange. Cervantes is a volunteer nonviolence trainer at Cook County Jail in Chicago as part of the Sheriff’s Anti-Violence Effort (SAVE), and is an adjunct professor for North Park Theological Seminary at Stateville Correctional Center, a Maximum Security Prison. He is board co-chair at The Crossroads Fund.
Nonviolent Campaigns 101: A Toolbox and Strategy for People Power
A 6-Week Online Course on Designing Successful Nonviolent Campaigns
Co-facilitated by Rivera Sun & Henry Cervantes
Thursdays Jan 21-Feb 25; 5-6:30pm Pacific / 6-7:30pm Mountain / 7-8:30pm Central / 8-9:30pm Eastern
$80/person; scholarships are always available!
SPECIAL 50% DISCOUNT STARTING JAN 20TH! SELECT $40 BELOW TO RECEIVE THE DISCOUNT.
Description:
Ready to make social change? Join co-facilitators Rivera Sun and Henry Cervantes for a 6-week online course on building nonviolent campaigns. We’ll explore creative and powerful examples of how people like you have stood up for life, safety, health, people, and our planet. You’ll learn skills and gain tools that you and your community can use. We’ll examine concrete strategies . . . and we’ll also reconnect to the heart and soul of why we work for change. Bring your love. Bring your hope. Bring your creativity. We need them all to organize and win. Movements throughout history have tapped into the creative and strategic power of nonviolent action to win human rights, political freedoms, and greater social justice. Join us as we learn practical tools for making change in this fun and engaging 6-week webinar series.
Bio: Activist/Author Rivera Sun is a trainer in strategy for nonviolent change, and a Pace e Bene trainer. She has worked on anti-fracking campaigns, peace and demilitarization, climate justice, the rights of unhoused persons, and has been an ally in racial justice efforts. She is the Editor of Nonviolence News, and the author of The Dandelion Insurrection and The Way Between, a study guide to nonviolent action,and other books and novels. www.riverasun.com
Participants will learn:
300+ methods of nonviolent action
how to design strategic and successful nonviolent campaigns
the role of participation and how to build momentum
how to choose - and win - achievable goals
when to shift from protests to constructive programs to direct action, and back again
how the principles of nonviolence can support strategy
how art, music, culture, and our humanness offer powerful ways to work for social change.