A World of Change: Summer Film & Discussion Series

Online Series with Ken Butigan
Thursdays, July 27 - August 31, 2023
3-4:30pm PT / 4-5:30pm MT / 5-6:30pm CT / 6-7:30 ET
$65, scholarships available

Films. Friends. Fantastic stories. Fascinating conversations. Join Pace e Bene’s six-week summer film series featuring A Force More Powerful on the power of nonviolent action in South Africa, Poland, Chile, India, Denmark, and the US. In each of these six sessions, we will watch one of the incredible 30-minute documentary video segments on a classic nonviolent struggle for change. Then, Pace e Bene's Ken Butigan will share further insights, reflecting on the struggle's many lessons for building a more just and peaceful world today. In a fun, engaging, and participatory way, this course offers you a dive deep into the power of nonviolence to unleash social change. In groups discussions and breakout rooms, we will explore each example in depth. This six-week program will illuminate the steps for effective social transformation—and what it takes to change the world.

What YOU will gain:

• Inspiration and empowering stories

• Useful and applicable understanding of how nonviolent change occurs

• Community and connection

• Enlivening conversations

• Tools you can apply to your situation

• Knowledge you can use from local issues to global change

Highlights of the Film:

• Historic footage of the Salt March in India

• A look at the Nashville sit-ins' trainings and role plays

• The escalating power of Poland's Solidarity strike

• How pots-and-pans banging broke through fear of Chile's dictatorship

• The power of timing in organizing a successful boycott in South Africa

• Staggeringly courageous Danish resistance under Nazi occupation

A Force More Powerful is a documentary series available through the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict.

Pace e Bene’s Ken Butigan has been an organizer in a series of movements for social change, including campaigns addressing homelessness, nuclear weapons, freedom for East Timor, and US wars in Central America and Iraq.