Peace Testimony Discussion Resources

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The following resources were collected by participants in a Peace Testimony Discussion Group following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March 2022.

for March 23, 2022
"The Dangerous Assumption that Violence Keeps us Safe" by George Lakey (2/26/2022)

for March 30, 2022
"Pulling Away Putin's Pedestal" by Jason MacLeod (3/11/2022)
"Ukrainians vs. Putin" by Maciej Bartkowski (12/27/2021)

for April 6, 2022
"Torn over Pacifism from the Start" by Lonnie Valentine (2013)
"The Nazis and Nonviolence" by Michael C. Stratford, Brian Martin, and Ralph Summy (April 1987)

for April 13, 2022
"In Apprehension, How Like God: William Penn Lecture" by Bayard Rustin (1948)
"The Duty to Resist" [synopsis of above text] by Carlos Figueroa (4/1/2022)

for April 20, 2022
"Six Nonviolent Ways Congress Can Help Ukraine" by Bridget Moix (4/12/2022)

for April 27, 2022
"Russian Soldiers Release Ukrainian Mayor after Protests" by Daniel Boffey and Shaun Walker (3/26/202)
"Ukraine: A Nonviolent Victory" by Jack DuVall, Peter Ackerman, and Marciej BartkowskI (3/3/2922)
"Rail War in Belarus: Partisans Prevent Military Trains from Going to Ukraine" by Euro Radio (3/3/2022)
"Facing Severe Repression, Russians are Turning to Anti-War Graffiti" by Colleen Wood and Alexis Lerner (3/21/2022)

for May 4, 2022
No reading

for May 11, 2022
"Defining Pacifism" by Mike de Sousa