http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com My thoughts and revealations as I learn about Non-Violent Resistance Thu, 15 May 2008 18:17:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guerrilla Gardening: Guerrilla gardening is a form of nonviolent direct action. The gardens are planted on an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or plants. Guerrilla gardeners wish to reclaim land from neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it. Links here, here ... http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/05/15/3-current-non-violent-direct-action-movements/ I’m a week behind. This post should have been written last week. So, two post this week. I’ve been spending a lot of mental energy thinking about and planning my final project for this class. It’s going to be a fiber project. I’ve know that since the first day of ... http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/8/ This week I focused my search for an important woman of non-violent resistance on the Danish Resistance since this was the topic  of one of the assigned chapters this week. I typed in "important women Danish Resistance" into Google and found a link to "Women in Intelligence" as part of ... http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/05/03/monica-massy-beresford-and-the-danish-resistance/ Tomorrow will be our 4th class. I have to miss it because my neice is getting married at 6:30 pm. I’m really unhappy about missing class. I love this class. Our class discussions and the video and the book we’re using - A Force More Powerful - are so thought ... http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/04/26/this-weeks-journal-entry/ Tibetians in India protested the Olympic torch’s arrival in India. They started their protest at the grave of Mahatma Gandhi. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/17/asia/17torch.php http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/04/18/non-violent-resistance-in-todays-news/ The reading I’m doing for this class, the video we’re watching and our class discussion have stirred me to want to search out the names and faces of women who have made an impact in various non-violent resistance movements. I remember reading the following post…so I searched it out again. ... http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/04/14/women-of-non-violent-resistance-rachel-corrie/   Our first class started the day after the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther Kings assassination and Saul talked a little about that as he walked us through the syllabus and talked about what we could expect from the class. Saul told us that he was at the March on ... http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/first-journal-entry/  …Non Violent Resistance? It’s a class that’s offered through Antioch University McGregor’s Under Graduate Studies Program that (from the course catalog) examines 20th century cases ... http://teresastetlerclear.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/what-is-hum-455/