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Building an Effective Peace Movement
| What | King's Books WWFOR UFPPC peace activism |
|---|---|
| When |
2007-11-16 19:00
2007-11-16 21:00
2007-11-16 from 19:00 to 21:00 |
| Where | King's Books, 218 St Helens, Tacoma |
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Next in UFPPC's 2007 speaker series: presentation by Glen Anderson, lifetime peace activist -- FREE and open to the public.
"Building an Effective Peace Movement" will suggest macro-level strategies and practical nuts & bolts. Glen Anderson, host of Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) television program on Thurston Community Television (TCTV), which has been running for more than twenty years, has also been a leader of an opposition group Thurston Jail Alternatives.
Anderson says, "We'll explore how social change movements grow from a few persons to majority public opinion and success. We'll see how different kinds of personalities and different kinds of roles are needed along the way from the beginning to ultimate success. We'll consider a wide range of practical 'helpful hints' that help us recruit and keep volunteers, help us raise money, help us publicize activities, and help us keep building the movement. We'll see how a commitment to nonviolence is necessary for us to win public opinion to our side and change public policy toward peace."
Over the years Anderson has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and strategizing to build progressive social change movements. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. He lives in Lacey near Olympia.