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[https://www.nytimes.com/1966/02/27/archives/just-folks-at-a-school-for-nonviolence-school-for-nonviolence-her.html by Joan Didion 27/2/1966 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/1966/02/27/archives/just-folks-at-a-school-for-nonviolence-school-for-nonviolence-her.html by Joan Didion 27/2/1966 The New York Times] | ||
OUTSIDE the Monterey County Courthouse in Salinas the Downtown Merchants' Christmas decorations glittered in the thin sunlight that makes the winter lettuce grow. Inside, the crowd blinked uneasily in the blinding television lights. The occasion was a meeting of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, and the issue, on this warm afternoon before Christmas, was whether a small school in the Carmel Valley owned by Miss Joan Baez, the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, was in violation of Section 32-C of the Monterey County Zoning Code, which prohibits land use “detrimental to the peace, morals, or general welfare of Monterey County.” | OUTSIDE the Monterey County Courthouse in Salinas the Downtown Merchants' Christmas decorations glittered in the thin sunlight that makes the winter lettuce grow. Inside, the crowd blinked uneasily in the blinding television lights. The occasion was a meeting of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, and the issue, on this warm afternoon before Christmas, was whether a small school in the Carmel Valley owned by Miss Joan Baez, the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, was in violation of Section 32-C of the Monterey County Zoning Code, which prohibits land use “detrimental to the peace, morals, or general welfare of Monterey County.” | ||
=====Occupy Wall St. nonviolence: Is Oakland the exception or the future?===== | |||
[https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0131/Occupy-Wall-St.-nonviolence-Is-Oakland-the-exception-or-the-future by Gloria Goodale 31/1/12 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR] | |||
As Occupy groups in Washington and Oakland generate contrasting images of Dream tents on the one coast and flag burning on the other, it’s becoming clear that the four month-old protest movement is facing its Hamlet moment: to be or not to be nonviolent. | |||
