Welcome to the Resource Center for Nonviolence website! Please refresh this page to see our new look. RCNV is a peace and justice center founded in 1976. We moved to our NEW location at  612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, California in March 2012. Please come by to see us. Our hours are Monday – Thursday, noon- 4:00p.m. Feel free to browse our site to learn more about us and our programs, sign up for our email newsletter, listen to some of our audio from past events, check the link to our Facebook page, or make a secure donation through our Paypal link on the sidebar of this page or on the Donation page. We invite you to join us at one of our many events.

RCNV’s First Annual

GOOD FOOD FESTIVAL

* A VEGETARIAN celebration *

Good for you, Good for the Planet!

Sunday, May 19, 2013,                           Noon – 6:30p.m

At the Resource Center for Nonviolence,612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz

Ride your bike, or Plenty of Free parking at the County Building, 701 Ocean St.

Click to see PDF Color Flyer: Color 8.5×11 v. 5.14.13.  Click to see Black & white Flyer: BW 8.5×11 v 5.14.13

Join us for the First Annual GOOD FOOD FESTIVAL,

Making the connection between eating sustainably and climate change

-  Free admission  -

Please join us for the GOOD FOOD FESTIVAL, a A family-friendly Vegetarian festival celebrating the health and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet. Enjoy great food!  See films that make the connection between eating sustainably and the powerful effect on climate change. Learn what you can do to change the world! Fun activities for kids all day. Reduce your climate footprint by eating lower on the food chain. Your food choices Can make a difference!

*INTERNATIONAL CUISINE*  - Vegetarian and Vegan options –  India Joze, Tamales, India Gourmet, Navajo Tacos, Bobcat Ridge Avocados, Corn on the Cob, Dessert, Drinks and more!

*Children’s activities    *Demos  *Films  *Live Music  *Samples   *Speakers
*Luma Yoga   *Information

DEMOS/ LIVE MUSIC

12:30p.m.: INDIA JOZE cooks up an entertaining

1:30: Food for Life- ‘On Beyond Green Smoothies’ by Sandi Rechenmacher

2:00p.m.: Bobcat Ridge Avocados: Presentation on avocados and a tasting of several varieties

2:45: The Alex Raymond Blues Band

3:45: Sprouting Workshop with Elizabeth Borelli, Sustainable Santa Cruz

4:15: Those Guys- pop, folk, blues

5:15: Luke Abbott and friends- old time music

INSIDE:

3:00p.m.Luma Yoga in the Multi-purpose Room

FILMS

in the Main Hall: making the connection between eating sustainably and climate change:

1:00 and 5:00p.m:  “Do the Math” (45min.) 2013 film highlights the rising movement to change the global climate crisis and challenge the fossil fuel industry.

2:30p.m.: “The True Cost of Food” Sierra Club animated 15-minute film encourages people to think about the environmental impacts of their consumption choices. And short clip: Diet for a Hot Planet (3 min.) Author/activist Anna Moore-Lappé speaks about her book “Diet for a Hot Planet: the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it.”

3:00p.m.:  “Forks Over Knives” 96min. The results of one of the most comprehensive health investigations ever undertaken (the China Study) on the links between diet and disease. Shows the health benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet and highlights the work of pioneering researchers Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.

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It’s green to go veggie:

Reduce global warming; help save the rainforest; refresh the air; save water; be healthier; feed more people; ensure environmental sustainability

Did you know:

*Going vegetarian for even one day per week for a year is equivalent to not driving 1,160 miles.

*It takes 600 gallons of water to produce one hamburger patty.

Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence. Co-sponsors & business supporters(list in formation): Bobcat Ridge Avocados, Central Coast Wilds, Earthbound Farm, Hotel Paradox/Solaire, Allterra Solar, Seacliff Inn, UNA- United Nations Association, 350.org Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Vegetarian and Vegan Meet-ups, Literary Guillotine, Dharma’s, the Bagelry, Whole Foods, Staff of Life, New Leaf Market, Café Cruz, Mountain Feed and Farm, Silver Spur, Westside Pharmacy, Al Fresco, Companion Bakery, Carried Away, Zachary’s.

Media co-sponsors: Santa Cruz Weekly, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Good Times, Connection Magazine, KUSP 89.1FM, KSCO 1080AM, KZSC 881.FM

We need lots of volunteers!  To get involved contact Anita rcnvinfo at gmail dot com or call 831.423.1626.

Ira Sandperl helped start the Resource Center for Nonviolence by leading “Conversations in Nonviolence” at the whale park near Seabright in 1976.  He co-founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence with Joan Baez, and was co-activist with her in civil rights and anti-war nonviolent action.”We are deceived into believing that we can get the kind of world we seek by doing the very things we are trying to get rid of. ‘Just a little more violence to end violence.’…  We get what we do; not what we intend, dream or desire.  We simply get what we do.  Recognizing this and applying it would, in a generation, bring about the transformation that alone can put an end to the fear, suspicion, and misery which at present hold such terrible sway over our lives.”  From Ira’s book, A Little Kinder.” See irasandperl.org.   And know that we live with Ira’s insistence and humor in us.                                            (Peter)

Title: Reel Work screens “Wisconsin Rising”

Location: RCNV, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
Description: April 28:
Reel Work screens \”Wisconsin Rising\”
Location: RCNV, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
Description: 7 PM film screening of \”Wisconsin Rising,\” a work in progress documenting what happened in Madison when Scott Walker tried to break the unions.
Filmmaker Sam Mayfield will be on hand to introduce the film and lead Q&A.
Admission is by voluntary donation at the door.
This event is part of the 2013 season of the Reel Work Labor Film Festival, which runs from April 24 -May 8. See the full schedule is at http://reelwork.org.

Title: Reel Work screens “The Healthcare Movie

“Location: RCNV, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
Description: April 30:
Reel Work screens \”The Healthcare Movie\”
Description: 7 PM film screening of \”The Healthcare Movie\” by Laurie Simons & Terry Sterrenberg documenting the different roads traveled by US & Canadian healthcare systems.
A panel of California Nurses Association members will lead discussion.
Admission is by voluntary donation at the door.
This event is part of the 2013 season of the Reel Work Labor Film Festival, which runs from April 24 -May 8. See the full schedule is at http://reelwork.org.