LINKS: nonviolence organizations; Activist Voices

Here are links to some kindred organizations dedicated to the practice of Nonviolence:

• Waging Nonviolence

• ICNC: International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

• Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service/ Campaign Nonviolence

• East Point Peace Academy

• Eyewitness Palestine

• Momentum 

• War Resisters League

• Voices of Creative Nonviolence

• Courage to Resist

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ACTIVIST VOICES

Since 1976, RCNV has hosted thousands of conversations among activists, including these speakers, performers and workshop leaders. A variety of those are listed here:

• Gihan Abouzeid (Egyptian feminist activist)
• Pietro Ameglio (Gandhian Mexican activist)
• Bettina Aptheker (feminist, professor, author)
• Uri Avnery (Gush Shalom)
• Mubarak Awad (Nonviolence International)
• Joan Baez
• Phyllis Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies)
• Daniel Berrigan (Jesuit priest/activist/poet)
• Jackson Browne
• Helen Caldicott (physician/anti-nuclear activist)
• Mandy Carter (National Black Justice Coalition)
• Cesar Chavez
• Dorothy Cotton (civil rights leader)
• David Crosby
• John Dear (activist, author, former priest)
• Danilo Dolci (poet/Gandhi of Sicily)
• Jim Douglass (“Resistance and Contemplation,” “The Unspeakable,” activist),
• Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin (Israeli/Palestinian Bereaved Families Circle)
• Kimberly Ellis (advocate for people of color in politics)
• Daniel Ellsberg
• Paul Engler, co-author of “This is an Uprising”
• Adolfo Perez Esquival (Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
• Norman Finkelstein (author/activist/political scientist)
• Robert Fisk (journalist)
• Arun Gandhi (M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence)
• Kazu Haga (East Point Peace Academy)
• Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, author)
• Myles Horton (Highlander Center)
• Kenneth Kaunda (former President of Zambia)
• Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix (Tariq Khamisa Foundation)
• Naomi Klein (author/economist)
• Dennis Kucinich
• James Lawson (civil rights, nonviolent action trainer)
• Barbara Lee (Member of Congress)
• Enid Lee (antiracism trainer and practitioner)
• Michael Lerner (rabbi, Tikkun)
• Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams (Nobel Peace Prize laureates)
• John McCutcheon
• George McGovern
• David McReynolds (War Resisters League)
• Camilo Mejia (military resister/activist)
• Michael Nagler (Metta Center for Nonviolence, author)
• Daoud Nasser (Palestinian farmer)
• Grace Paley (poet)
• Miko Peled (Israeli author “The General’s Son”)
• Bonnie Raitt
• Afif Safieh (Palestinian diplomat)
• Ahmed Salah (Egyptian activist)
• Ira Sandperl (Gandhian, founder Institute for Study of Nonviolence)
• Gene Sharp (“The Politics of Nonviolent Action”)
• Lee Swenson (anarchism theorist, war resister)
• Jim Wallis (Sojourners, author)
• Howard Zinn
• Nomika Zion (Israeli leader Other Voice)
• Stephen Zunes (peace studies professor, author)