For Goodness Sake:
Music for the Nonviolent Future
From the struggle for racial justice,
to the existential call to heal the earth and its inhabitants,
a global nonviolent shift is needed more than ever.
On August 21, musicians from around the world will promote the power of this urgent nonviolent change via the online music festival For Goodness Sake: Music for the Nonviolent Future.
We want you to be part of this!
Campaign Nonviolence, a project of Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, invites you to join this landmark event by contributing a video with one or two songs by July 1, 2021. If you have questions or want to participate contact Ryan Hall at ryanhall@paceebene.org // 510-268-8765. You can also request to participate by filling out the form on this page.
Pace e Bene means “peace and all good.” For over three decades we’ve been working to spread the message that nonviolence is creative love in action for justice, peace, and the well-being of all. Nonviolence is a way of life, a constructive force for social change, and a means of building a more just, peaceful and sustainable global community. People throughout the world have used nonviolence to end injustice and foster reconciliation, to resist war and build peace, to safeguard the infinite worth of all human persons, and to care for the earth and its teeming inhabitants.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared, “Nonviolence is the love that does justice.” In a world facing monumental crises, we need the superabundance of love and justice that creative action can unleash and music has proven to be a catalyst for this throughout history. It is a powerful force in nonviolent movements around the world, awakening and strengthening people working for change.
We invite you to join with Campaign Nonviolence by tapping the power of music for change—and by spreading the message of nonviolent options in a world hungry for alternatives to violence and injustice.
NOTE: The public website to promote this event is at goodness-sake.org.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
As a musician you can help build a nonviolent future for everyone just by sending us your song. All funds raised during the For Goodness Sake Music Festival will support Pace e Bene’s work for nonviolent change by:
Helping us reach a wider audience about the power of nonviolence.
Provide support for activists and organizations looking to utilize nonviolent strategies.
Expand our nonviolence training programming to equip more people to build and support nonviolence movements for change around the world.
Broaden our Campaign Nonviolence Action Week encouraging people to take to the streets against violence and injustice each year around the International Day of Peace in September.
Increase cities and towns involved with our Nonviolent Cities Project as they spread the tools and techniques of nonviolence into every area of their communities.
Collaborating with many other peace and nonviolence organizations around the world. Each time a member of their organization donates towards the For Goodness Sake festival, we give them back 25% of the proceeds to support their work locally.
THE DETAILS
This online music festival will air on our YouTube channel as a YouTube Premiere video on August 21, 2021 to support Pace e Bene’s work for nonviolent change. We invite you to take part. Please use the form on this page to indicate your interest. If you plan to participate, you will need to submit a 5-10 minute video. You can even use your phone, as long as it’s in landscape mode. Send it to us by the end of July. Please include a brief mention of Campaign Nonviolence at the beginning of the video and why you want to see a culture of peace and nonviolence. We encourage musicians to use music recorded specifically for this music festival so they are not simply things viewers can access on YouTube or elsewhere beforehand. Also, to avoid any legal concerns, all songs should be pieces you have all the copyrights too, or it needs to be from the public domain.
When you are ready to submit your music, you can upload your file(s) here.
The August 21 music festival will be interspersed by brief talks on the power of nonviolence from activists and educators working in the field of nonviolent change. On August 20, Pace e Bene trainers will also be presenting a live online nonviolence training and workshop! Learn more here.
Learn more about Pace e Bene
At Pace e Bene we believe that a nonviolent world is a better world for all of us. Nonviolent strategies are being used by people around the world to build more democratic societies, to champion human rights, to challenge racism and sexism, to struggle for economic justice, and to safeguard the planet. Groundbreaking academic research has demonstrated that nonviolent strategies are twice as effective as violent ones.
For three decades, we have been organizing and nurturing movements for social change and creative nonviolent action; training thousands of people in nonviolence; organizing “nonviolent cities”; and creating resources for a more just and nonviolent culture.
Ours is a long-term strategy with one goal in mind: to mainstream nonviolence by building a culture of nonviolence. Music is an integral part of cultural expression and like nonviolence, it has the power to reach into the depths of our hearts. We hope you’ll join us!
For goodness sake, the world has to change!
For goodness sake, the world can change!
For goodness sake, let's be the change!
Be sure to check out Nonviolent Austin, part of Campaign Nonviolence and our Nonviolent Cities Project, which organized Songs of Peace, a nine-day, online music festival in 2020, which included Willie Nelson! See four of the videos below.
“Arts, music and culture are powerful amplifiers of nonviolent action and peacebuilding.”
Confirmed Musicians:
Brother Timothy featuring Robert Robinson
Lori LeChien of Talk2Strangers
Francisco Chávez Silva and Family
Tom Rudderow
Paul Crum
Jim Crosby
Alfredo Gomez-Beloz
And more!
ADD YOUR MUSIC TO THE FESTIVAL!
Want to participate and add your music to the festival? Fill in the information below. We will review all interested musicians and let you know if space is available. Once you are confirmed we will let you know how to submit the video and all other important details.
Questions? Contact Ryan Hall at ryanhall@paceebene.org or 510-268-8765
“Through nonviolence, courage displaces fear; love transforms hate. Acceptance dissipates prejudice; hope ends despair. Peace dominates war; faith reconciles doubt. Mutual regard cancels enmity. Justice for all overthrows injustice. The redemptive community supersedes systems of gross social immorality.”
