Amitabh Pal speaks on Nonviolence in Menomonie

[img_assist|nid=3697|title=Amitabh Pal in Menomonie|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=300|height=225]Rather than join the throngs of conservatives at "grassroots" tea parties last night,  I chose to have some good old left-wing liberal community by attending Amitab Pal's speech at the Menomonie Library.  Amitab Pal is the managing editor of The Progressive.  His speech last night on Nonviolence in Difficult Circumstances covered the history of nonviolent peace protests in situations where the odds were stacked against the protestors.  Many of these protests have been remarkably successful, including protest moevemtns in 1943 in Berlin, nonviolent Pashtun protests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Serbian resistance movement against Slobodan Milosevic. 

Instead of belaboring my attempts to summarize his speech, I'll let him speak for himself.Thanks to the Red Cedar Peace Initiative,

UW-Stout Center for Applied Ethics, and STAND
(UW-Stout Students Against Genocide) with additional funding from
Music For Peace, a summer all day concert organized by musicians and
held in Menomonie

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