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This ever-expanding list of resources is here to help you connect to teachers, books, films, and organizations studying and training in nonviolence. We would love your input, so post a comment with something you would like to see on this list. Thank you!
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Books Recommended By Love-In-Action Members
Films for Love-In-Action Screenings
Websites for Nonviolence Organizations
Great Online News, Journals, and Articles
Books Recommended By Love-In-Action Members
By the way, the Love-In-Action Network has a short, but potent required reading list. Check these out. Two of them are free downloads:
- 1) Love In Action: writings on Nonviolent Social Change by Thich Nhat Hahn and Daniel Berrigan
- 2) Self-Liberation by Gene Sharp and Jamila Raqib http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SelfLiberation.pdf
- 3) From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf
Other Great Books Recommended by Love-In-Action Members:
- The Dandelion Insurrection by Rivera Sun
- Strategy for a Living Revolution an essay by George Lakey (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/lakeylivrev.html)
- The Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute
- Nonviolent Communication: A language of life by Marshell Rosenberg
- Peace with Every Step, the Path to Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hahn
- Ishmael by Daniel Green
- The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Love In Action by Thich Nhat Hahn
- Learning True Love by Chan Khong
- No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
- The Long Haul by Myles Horton
- Reverence for Life by Albert Schweitzer
- A Future Without War: the Strategy of a Warfare Transition by Judith Hand
- Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer by Eric Mann
- Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family and Community by Rosalie Riegle
- Is There No Other Way?: The Search for a Nonviolent Future by Michael Nagler
- The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
- Cultivating Peace by James O’Dea
- Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
- Conscious Evolution by Barbara Max Hubbard,
- Power vs Force by David R Hawkins,
- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
- The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
- The 5th Sacred Thing by Starhawk
- Active Hope: How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnston
- The Voice of Hope by Aung San Suu Kyi,
- Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
- On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
- Oppose and Propose by Andrew Cornell
Films for Love-In-Action Screenings
- Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough
- The Singing Revolution (a documentary about Estonia’s nonviolent revolution)
- How to Start a Revolution (a documentary about Gene Sharp’s work – watch trailer)
- Occupy Love, directed by Velcrow Ripper
- Fierce Light, directed by Velcrow Ripper
- Scared Sacred, direction by Velcrow Ripper
- Freedom Riders directed by Stanley Nelson Jr.
- American Revolutionary, the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (trailer)
Websites for Nonviolence Organizations
- Popular Resistance.org http://popularresistance.org
- The Metta Center for Nonviolence http://mettacenter.org
- The Albert Einstein Institution (and the works of Gene Sharp) http://www.aeinstein.org
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change http://www.thekingcenter.org
- Waging Nonviolence.org http://wagingnonviolence.org
- Training For Change.org http://www.trainingforchange.org
- The Ruckus Society http://www.ruckus.org
Great Online News, Journals, and Articles
- Popular Resistance.org http://popularresistance.org
- Waging Nonviolence.org http://wagingnonviolence.org
- Open Democracy.net http://www.opendemocracy.net