All is One: Building a Decolonized Future Together In this virtual event we will highlight our regional native communities’ anticolonial environmental justice movements. And we will join together in celebration of the relationships we have built this year, in antiracism education, healing and training, and climate justice organizer training. Learn and engage with two native …
Dear RCNV Community, As 2021 comes to an end, we send greetings and gratitude for the ongoing love and strength from the community of nonviolence and antiracism and continue to inspire one another.
The Resource Center for Nonviolence is pleased to announce the addition of three new board members as well as a new part-time employee. All four bring their unique community connections, commitments to nonviolent social change and antiracism, and organizational experience to their roles. For a full roster of all of our current board members and …
Welcome to our new Board Members and Part-time Employee Read More »
Beloved Community, I ask you to read this important Public Statement from: Santa Cruz County Black Coalition for Justice and Racial Equity Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters Initiative NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch Black Kings of Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz Equity Collab Project. The Executive Director and Board of Directors of the Resource …
RCNV Public Statement on the Vandalism to the BLM Mural in Santa Cruz Read More »
The June 10th California Ocean & Climate Justice Summit amplified stories and solutions from the BIPOC environmental justice leaders who participated in a spring mini-fellowship hosted by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Save Our Shores. Please join us in supporting these emerging leaders in their efforts to inspire California to recognize how its diverse population, cultural influence, vast wealth, and startup mindset can be essential …
TRUTH + JUSTICE = HOPE, A California Ocean & Climate Justice Summit on June 10, 2021 Read More »
Beloved Community, Much has happened in our world and nation over the last year, and despite all of the challenges and hardships, RCNV continues the work of supporting and inspiring our community to press on for what it means to be a truly “nonviolent” society. We are riding the new wave of momentum, exploring exciting …
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not end until Israelis stop taking Palestinian homes and land. This war started when Israeli settlers moved to force Palestinian families out of homes they had lived in for generations. Israel has been confiscating land and destroying Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the 1967 …
Letter to the Editor printed in the Santa Cruz Sentinel 5/29/21: Read More »
I am Muna AlSheikh from Sheikh Jarrah, my father was born and raised in Sheikh Jarrah, I grew up in Jordan, digesting in my body and heart the impact of my parents’ stories about Jerusalem, and the ancestral stories about Palestine, pain accompanied me for long time and still does, as it accompanies many Palestinians. …
What is happening in my hometown of Sheikh Jarrah and the country as a whole? Read More »
As the Resource Center for Nonviolence we pay attention to violence. Some of our antiracism book circles read Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands, and consider the impact of violence and racialized trauma on our bodies, hearts, and minds. Resmaa’s first encouragement is for each of us to stop, pay attention to our breathing, attend to …
RCNV Statement in Response to Murders in Atlanta and Boulder 3/26/2021 Read More »
What value will we celebrate this July 4th, independence or interdependence? The Covid-19 virus, then US government failures to contain the virus, then police murder of George Floyd, then eruptions of outrage and protest in every corner of the country, all combine to take the wraps off deep wounds in the national body, wounds that …
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