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[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/05/10/may-10-2013-prison-nonviolence-project/18421/ by PBS 10/5/13] | [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/05/10/may-10-2013-prison-nonviolence-project/18421/ by PBS 10/5/13] | ||
KATE OLSON, correspondent: For most of its 160 year history, San Quentin has been known as a tough place to do hard time. But over the past two decades, this has begun to change. | KATE OLSON, correspondent: For most of its 160 year history, San Quentin has been known as a tough place to do hard time. But over the past two decades, this has begun to change. | ||
=====We Need Political Nonviolence Now More Than Ever===== | |||
[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/22/we-need-political-nonviolence-now-more-than-ever/ by Rivera Sun 22/7/24 COUNTERPUNCH] | |||
The ties between nonviolence and democracy run deep. We know from the groundbreaking research of Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan that even if a nonviolent movement fails to achieve its primary goals, it often leaves a more democratic society in its wake. On the other hand, violence swiftly destroys democracies, shoving them toward authoritarianism and “politics at the barrel of a gun.” | |||
