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Nationwide Nonviolence Tour: USC School of Cinematic Arts
Posted on 19. Oct, 2010 by Tim Stoner.
Day Ten: Dr. Ralph Fertig, who marched during the civil rights days and is President of the Humanitarian Law Project tells us, “What Martin Luther King taught was the need to love the enemy. The flipside of fear is not fearlessness, it is the capacity to see the enemy as a person and appeal to him as such. Violence only begets more violence, whereas nonviolence enables the capacity to love.” This is only the second time during this cross-country tour that nonviolence has been linked to love rather than to pragmatism and politics. Both comments were from non-Christians. I find that intriguing.
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Nationwide Nonviolence Tour: Brown University
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Tim Stoner.
Day Two: Tonight we are joined by Teny Gross, the Director of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Non Violence in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a former Israeli army sergeant. Elik Elhanan is the other new member of the panel. He is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace an organization of former Israeli and Palestinian fighters who have laid down their weapons to seek a nonviolent resolution to the crisis in their homelands. His perspecive is very personal. since he lost his 14-year-old sister to a suicide bomber while serving in the Israeli army. He illustrates the necessity for understanding and forgiveness as the foundation for peace in the Middle East.
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Nationwide Screening Tour of Little Town of Bethlehem: Boston College
Posted on 25. Sep, 2010 by Tim Stoner.
There is a sense of excitement and anciticipation. It is day one of EthnoGraphic Media’s (EGM) 12-day launch tour of its new film Little Town of Bethlehem. This premiere on September 21, 2010 was scheduled to coincide with the United Nation’s International Day of Peace. I am on bus with a team whose members have flown in from across the U.S. (California to Washington D.C.). We are joined by a film crew from Dot & Cross, and a photographer to document the trip. This ground-breaking documentary addresses a growing (and finally, truly hopeful) movement, composed of both Israelis and Palestinians, with united voice calling for a nonviolent end to the occupation in Palestine.
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LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM: The Tour
Posted on 11. Sep, 2010 by Tim Stoner.
Coming to a campus near you is the premier screening of a ground-breaking documentary addressing the growing nonviolence movement in Israel and Palestine. Little Town of Bethlehem tells the gripping story of three men—born into sectarian violence and on opposite sides of the conflict, yet willing to risk everything to embrace a non-violent solution to the hostility tearing their homelands apart. Their three paths intersect in Bethlehem, the birthplace of the Prince of Peace, now a town in occupied territory surrounded by a 30-foot cement wall crowned with barbed wire.
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