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What is Gandhi Project 18?

What is Gandhi Project 18? Gandhi Project 18 is a project focused on bringing nonviolent living into the modern world. This project is born out respect the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, of a deep love for humanity and a passion for the practicality and potential of nonviolence, which is critical at this time of urgent evolutionary change. We have all heard Gandhi’s call to “be the change we wish to see in the world”, yet how did he mean for us to do that? What were the principles and guiding lights in his experiments in truth? How can we live our own experiments in truth and bring about the changes we need to survive and thrive in the world today? These and many related concepts will be explored in this research and writing process. My goal is to help give you the tools to empower your life to have overflowing meaning and purpose in being of service to the greater good. This phase of the project is aimed to fund research taking place in May

Why Nonviolence? What can we learn from Gandhi's Legacy?

Why Nonviolence? What can we learn from Gandhi’s Legacy? In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “like most people I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously.” Yes, Gandhi was a man who used the tools of fasting, brahmachariya and civil disobedience to liberate India from British colonial rule, yet what does his legacy mean for us today and for the well-being of humanity? What was it that Martin Luther King, Jr. found so powerful about Gandhi’s work that it inspired him to lead the Civil Rights movement in the United States? “The whole concept of Satyagraha ( Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the area of social reform. Prior to reading Gandhi, I had about concluded that the ethic

Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth

An appropriate way to start this project, so dear to my heart, is with this declaration. Let us remember "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" - Martin Luther King Jr. http://nycstreetart.wordpress.com/tag/mother-earth/ Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth April 22, 2010 World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth Cochabamba, Bolivia Preamble We, the peoples and nations of Earth: considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny; gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well; recognizing that the capitalist system and all forms of depredation, exploitation, abuse and contamination have caused great destruction, degradation and disruption of Mother Earth, putting life as we know it today a

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