Young people and youth allies will celebrate nonviolent action for justice and peace at RCNV Saturday, January 14, noon to 4 pm. Workshops on spoken word and nonviolent action, resource booths, and food. All is free. Call Sarah at RCNV, 423-1626.
The NAACP, Santa Cruz Branch, hosts its annual Gospel Music Night, with recording artist Tammi Brown, and more gospel choirs and soloists, Saturday night, 7 pm, at RCNV. Tickets $20. Feed your soul and celebrate King’s actions: “true peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.”
All are welcome to join in the 2nd and 3rd sessions of Nonviolent Action Training led by Drew, Sarah, and Peter. Preparing for January 20 and beyond, the trainings are helping community members organize one action and prepare for more actions to resist the regime of injustice and aggression against many people. 40 people attended …
Nonviolent Direct Action Trainings Jan. 12 and 15, 6:30-8:30 Read More »
Community organizer and nonviolent action trainer George Lakey will discuss his new book on how Scandinavians moved from a huge wealth gap to economic equality. The book, “Viking Economics,” was called “completely fascinating” by Bill McKibben for its desription of Scandinavian achievements in meeting the climate crisis. George Lakey is a nonviolent action trainer who …
Autumn Sun took some nice photos at Bob’s memorial in May, 2016: https://www.facebook.com/autumn.sun.58/media_set?set=a.10208879829008074.1073741943.1085185228&type=3 Thank you to Eric Thiermann and Impact Creative for videotaping Bob Fitch’s memorial on 5/27/16 at Peace United Church in Santa Cruz. See link to video below. We encourage people to share it and download it to your computers if you want …
Bob Fitch Memorial: 5/27/16– Link to video and 2015 radio interview with Bob Read More »
A Tribute to Our Friend, Photographer and Organizer Bob Fitch By Josh Sonnenfeld There are two images that come to mind when I think of Bob. The first is of Bob, on the ground, with his back on the pavement of a road somewhere in between the California farming communities of Watsonville and Salinas, clutching …
Daniel Berrigan, former resident activist at RCNV in our founding year, widely known nonviolent resister, poet, author, social critic, Jesuit priest, and with William Stringfellow a significant donor towards the RCNV remodel, died April 30, 2016 at age 94. New York Times article about Dan Berrigan:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/daniel-j-berrigan-defiant-priest-who-preached-pacifism-dies-at-94.html?_r=0 http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/postscript-daniel-berrigan-1921-2016 The Resource Center for Nonviolence, founded in 1976, …
The world lost an amazing organizer, Bob Fitch, on Friday, April 29, 2016. Bob was 76. Below is a brief snapshot of Bob’s activism with the Resource Center for Nonviolence. For more about Bob, his life and photos, see BobFitchphoto.com A memorial for Bob will be held on Friday, May 27, 2:00PM at Peace United …
The Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, California stands in solidarity with the nearly 70,000 farmworkers in Burlington, Washington and San Quintín, Baja California, who have organized a boycott of Driscoll’s berries. The workers, led by their independent unions, have been fighting since 2013 in Washington and 2015 in Baja California for a just …
Resource Center for Nonviolence Endorses the Driscoll’s Berry Boycott Read More »
The Santa Cruz NAACP and the Resource Center for Nonviolence invites you to DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WEEKEND A creative and musical celebration in the spirit of the Courageous Leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Saturday, January 16 – Monday, January 18, 2016 at the RESOURCE CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE, 612 Ocean St., Santa …
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