A Force More Powerful

PRESENTED BY: West Seattle Meaningful Movies
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7:00 PM, Saturday, April 2, 2016 PST
Location: West Seattle, WA (click for map)
by Corey Elliot / March 14, 2016 / 1  High Point Neighborhood House, 6400 Sylvan Way SW Seattle, WA
An evening on the power of non-violent direct action—past and present.
We’ll show two inspiring episodes from A Force More Powerful (a series on successful nonviolent resistance movements). They are about the movement Gandhi led in India in the 1930s, and the Nashville sit-ins of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
Then Liz Spoerri, a West Seattleite and a member of the Delta 5 http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/15/no-jail-time-delta-5-historic-case-welcomes-jurors-climate-movement, will share how she and four others blocked an oil train in Everett and went to trial, where they argued a historic case.
 
Liz will also bring information about Break Free from Fossil Fuels http://breakfree2016.org, a global mobilization coming up in May, with important events here in the Pacific Northwest.

Release Year: 2000

Running Time: 51 min

Director: Steve York

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  1. Rick Turner
    #1 Rick Turner 15 March, 2016, 15:47

    Ths is an amazing series of films on non-violent revolution. Everyone shoud see these! Lessons in life.

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