University of Virginia Student Body Mourns
NoViolence mourns the loss of fellow UVA students Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D’Sean Perry.
We continue to work to promote Peace and reject Violence.
Prayers
NoViolence Team
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No Violence and Black Lives Matter
No Violence stands in solidarity with the call to end police brutality and reform our nation’s police departments. The violence that we saw with Breonna Taylor and George Floyd is horrifying and must be condemned. We also stand in solidarity with the peaceful protests that have popped up in our nation in these past few months; at the same time, it goes against our purpose to say that we condone the violence that has cropped up in many of our cities in outrage to these senseless killings. We are outraged too, but we cannot resort and let these angry feelings allow us to harm the messages of Black Lives Matter and the end of police violence to the innocent in this country. In my own city of Waynesboro, I participated in a couple of peaceful marches through downtown showing that we will not let our police officers kill our African American brothers and sisters.
We hope everyone is safe during Covid-19. Thanks. Jack
Coronavirus Update
Hope everyone is safe in these scary times. Nonviolence will be adding content during these impending quarantine months. Stay safe y’all!
An Extra Video for Your Enjoyment on Nonviolence
Peace through Silence in the Wake of the Charlottesville Protest’s Second Anniversary
The Quaker’s were at the forefront of the counter protesters in the Charlottesville Riots; they stood tall against the violence and hate in complete silence. Today, noviolence founder, Jack Strickland, visited a session to see what it was like. A calm, peaceful experience centered around silence and fellowship. The Quaker culture is one of peace since their creation in the 17th century. They didn’t believe in war and have always been pacifists. They see the evil in human nature and strive to fight it for a peaceful outcome, and yet, they were in the violent chaos of Charlottesville on August 12th. Why? They want to create change, and they want to do it in a nonviolent manner. Many of their core principals are along the basic lines of nonviolence and love that we here at noviolence.org strive for all over the globe.
Forms of Nonviolence
The History of Violence
Noviolence has filming session with Boy Scouts
Yesterday, the scouts from Jack’s troop helped make videos for noviolence. The scouts were running away chanting for fake worker’s reform and were acting out other types of nonviolent speech. The videos will be uploaded soon.
Founder of NoViolence goes to Charlottesville Book Festival to Hear About Hate Speech
My father and I made the journey over the blue ridge mountains to Charlottesville to hear professors Nadine Strossen and Arjun Sethi speak about their views to fight against and irradicate hate speech. They both had very interesting yet contradictory opinions on the topic. The difficulty of having free speech while irradicating hate is something that is important to NoViolence. We believe it is important to be able to have free speech but to try to do it in a peaceful way. Both of the speakers did a good job making interesting points.
NoViolence to conduct first NoViolence Seminar for Kids
NoViolence.Org will be conducting a NoViolence seminar for kids at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Waynesboro (UUFW). The event will take place on Sunday August 4th. We will be training the kids about the importance of using your words and not your fist … and choose friends that do the same.