Book Group—Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist 

A Benefit For Pace e Bene w/ David Hartsough

4-Sessions, Mondays, May 9, 16, 23 and June 6
3-4pm PT / 4-5pm MT / 5-6pm CT / 6-7pm ET
Cost: $60-100 (you will need to purchase the book separately) 
Scholarships are available, but do not cover books. 

David Hartsough organized his first protest (against nukes) at age 14 and hasn’t stopped since. Join him for a 4-week book club on Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist. David has crisscrossed the globe waging peace and initiated efforts like Nonviolent Peaceforce and World BEYOND War. Read his remarkable stories, learn from his lifetime of activism, and ask him questions in this interactive book club. This is a wonderful opportunity and we hope you will all join us for these lively and eye-opening discussions of courageous, peaceful action.

This book club has been graciously offered by David Hartsough as a benefit for Pace e Bene. While we have Solidarity Scholarships available for anyone who needs, we encourage everyone to donate generously to support the movement to build a culture of peace and active nonviolence.

You can purchase the book from Pace e Bene here.

You can get print or ebook versions from PM Press here.

Or you can listen to the audiobook version here.

About the author:

DAVID HARTSOUGH knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet “the enemy” in East Berlin, Castro’s Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines. Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world. Inspired by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Hartsough has spent his life experimenting with the power of active nonviolence. Read more here.

About the book:

“It has been my privilege to work with David Hartsough over the years and to be arrested and jailed with him for nonviolent civil disobedience. I highly recommend Waging Peace to every American who wishes to live in a world with peace and justice and wants to feel empowered to help create that world.” —DANIEL ELLSBERG, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and The Pentagon Papers

“Reading this book is breathtaking. Hartsough has lived a life of action for peace and justice from one end of the world to the other. He has participated in many of the nonviolent struggles at the forefront of human liberation over the past half century. He shows us that it is possible to engage, to resist, to ‘peaceably rebel.’ He shows us that anyone can do this. We all need to read and reread this book—and then get going on our own lifelong journey of doing, and telling, nonviolent change.” — KEN BUTIGAN, Strategist for Campaign Nonviolence.