USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice

11/09/2022

We are looking forward to seeing you at this awe-inspiring evening! The USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice invites you to a gala on Saturday, Nov 19, at St. Ignatius Church, featuring a conversation between Dr. Clarence B. Jones (Lawyer, strategic advisor, and draft speechwriter for Martin Luther King, Jr., Founding Director of USF INSJ, and Recipient of the American Bar Association’s 2021 Thurgood Marshall Award) and Bryan Stevenson (Founder and Director, Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery AL Author, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Recipient of the American Bar Association’s 2016 Thurgood Marshall Award).

This momentous conversation will be moderated by Meadow Fund President Lateefah Simon. The event will include performances by the world-renowned Kronos Quartet and musical artist Jennifer Johns.

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11/10/2021

Please join us as we celebrate the Life of Robert P. “Bob” Moses on Thursday, November 11 @ 6pm (CST) SHARP. The location is Tougaloo College, Historic Woodworth Chapel, 500 West Countyline Road, Jackson, MS, 39174.

For event livestream info, see: https://www.facebook.com/DemocraticEducation.

MASK REQUIRED FOR IN PERSON ATTENDANCE.

08/20/2021

Tomorrow! Don’t forget to join and use our code “INSJ” — link in our bio!

Posted • Join us and as we work to build a culture of nonviolence during the For Goodness Sake online music festival-August 21, 2021.⁠
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Donate with code INSJ and you'll be supporting our work along with many other peace organizations. Visit goodness-sake.org for more info!⁠
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07/12/2021

Join us on Thursday for a free concert in ! Headlining will be Pato Banton and there will be performances from other musicians as well!

 Welcome Back San Francisco! Value Culture invites you to the historic bandshell in Golden Gate Park for an all ages concert experience celebrating live music, peace, diverse cultures, yourselves and San Francisco!

04/23/2021

Tomorrow! Join ServiceSpace for an interview with our director Jonathan Greenberg for what will be a heartening conversation. RSVP link down below.

Be part of this live video webinar! Saturday, April 24th, 9:00 AM Pacific.

At 12 years old, Jonathan D. Greenberg was leafing through his family’s Life magazine when, to his horror, he came across images of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. These evoked other haunting images he’d seen before—the civil war and famine in Biafra, and the Watts riots in Los Angeles, just on the other side of town from where his family was living. These senseless acts of violence disturbed and alarmed his sensitive heart. Inspired by his rabbi, Leonard Beerman, who was outspoken against the Vietnam War as well as against inequality in the United States, Greenberg, still in middle school, participated in his first protest against the Vietnam War. The passion and empowerment he felt would come to ignite a lifelong calling in restorative justice and human rights.

In 2018, Greenberg co-founded the Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco, whose purpose is to “disseminate the teachings and strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi in response to the moral emergencies of the 21st century.” The institute aims to serve students, activists, and thinkers to advance the theory and practice of transformational nonviolence—as a means to powerfully confront and overcome injustice and systemic violence and contribute to the just resolution of communal conflict. Greenberg founded the institute with his friend and colleague Dr. Clarence B. Jones, who served as Dr. King’s lawyer, strategic adviser, and draft speechwriter from 1960 until Dr. King’s assassination in 1968, having spent countless hours together “in crisis and action, negotiation and decision, intimate conversation and prayer.”
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Please join Janessa Wilder in conversation with this public servant for peace and nonviolence.
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INFO/RSVP: www.awakin.org/calls⁠
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To join the 90-minute call, simply RSVP and you'll be emailed the details. There is no charge to attend.

03/18/2021

We must protect our elders: stopping violence against Asian Americans. Thank you to Grande Lum, member of our institute's Leadership Council, for sharing his call to action with us all.

The harsh reality is that while Asian Americans are being scapegoated for the pandemic...

03/03/2021

As engaged participants of the Gandhi-King Global Network (GKGN) we are deeply saddened by the desecration of the Mohandas K. Gandhi statue that occurred on January 26, 2021 in Davis, California. A controversial figure, Gandhi advocated nonviolent resistance and participated in anti-racist movements as a young lawyer in South Africa.

Read our joint statement about this event on our blog.

An Appeal for Understanding and Reconciliation from the Gandhi-King Global Network Posted on February 26, 2021 by Jonathan Greenberg We are scholars, teachers, and practitioners of nonviolence in the living tradition of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Based in the U.S., India, South A...

02/03/2021

Earlier this week, following a landslide electoral victory by civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy, the Myanmar armed forces (known as the Tatmadaw) seized power in a coup d’etat on the basis of a false claim that the election had been stolen by means of fraudulent ballots. The Tatmadaw immediately detained Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD cabinet ministers and party leaders, writers and intellectuals, democracy activists and human rights defenders and imposed a one-year “state of emergency” in the country.

Today, the Tatmadaw indicted Aung San Suu Kyi and other NLD leaders on trumped-up charges subject to sentences up three years in prison following military trials.

The USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice supports the nonviolent resistance movement to the Tatmadaw putsch and joins Human Rights Watch (HWR), Amnesty International, and human rights organizations throughout the world in urging for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners illegally arrested and detained by the Myanmar junta. We endorse the statement of HRW’s Asia Director Brad Adams: “The military’s actions show utter disdain for the democratic elections held in November and the right of Myanmar’s people to choose their own government. We are especially concerned for the safety and security of activists and other critics of the military who may have been taken into custody…. We urge concerned governments to speak out forcefully against the military’s actions and consider targeted sanctions against those responsible.”

For more, see: https://tinyurl.com/13e4rl9m

The World House: As democracy is smashed in Myanmar, the spirit of grassroots resistance has been ignited Posted on February 3, 2021 by Jonathan Greenberg Naypyidaw (AsiaNews/Agencies) Following democratic elections in November 2020, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) achieved ...

01/12/2021

Join us this Friday at noon to honor the legacy of with USF president Fr. Fitzgerald, Dr. Clarence B. Jones, and Nona Jones. Registration link in our bio!

01/08/2021

Today we celebrate and wish Dr. Clarence B. Jones a joyous 90th birthday! 🎉

11/11/2020

Join us tomorrow for an important post-election conversation with David Cole, the National Legal Director of the .

Zoom and registration info in the link below!

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The USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice invites you the following Fall 2020 Webinar and Podcast Series event. Guest speaker: David Cole, National Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

11/11/2020

11/11/2020