Cincinnati Friends invites you to Quaker Conversations Th 3/31, 7-9 pm

[Peace Churches of Greater Cincinnati]

The Quaker Conversations group will begin meeting again on Thursday,
March 31, 2011
(7:00-9:00 p.m. at Cincinnati Friends Meetinghouse).

The conversation topic will be the Peace Testimony, here, now, in
Cincinnati. Interest in this arose when, during a Meeting for Worship
at Cincinnati Friends Meeting, some Friends voiced the query: "Should
I (we--i.e., Friends in our meeting) be doing more to oppose the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan?"

Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join the conversation.

In the past few weeks, I have been hearing/reading about a man named
Gene Sharp. His writings on the practice of non-violence apparently
influenced the actions of those who used non-violence to rebel against
dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East . I
first heard a reference to Sharp on NPR. Since then, I found
references to his book From Dictatorship to Democracy in several other
places, including the most recent issue of The Christian Century.

Sharp is founder of the Albert Einstein Institute and makes some of
his books available for download as pdfs. I am intrigued by the man
and have downloaded a copy of Sharp's book, From Dictatorship to
Democracy. Is anyone interested in using his book to begin our
discusson of how to protest violence non-violently????

Please give me a call or send me an email to let me know your interest
in/reaction to using Sharp's writings in addition to Quaker sources.

Let there be peace,
Donne

Further information on Gene Sharp:

21 February 2011 on the BBC:
"Gene Sharp: Author of the Nonviolent Revolution Rulebook"
By Ruaridh Arrow Director of Gene Sharp - How to Start a Revolution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12522848


February 16, 2011 New York Times article ~ "Shy U.S. Intellectual
Created Playbook Used in a Revolution" by Shery Gay Stollberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17sharp.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[Mary Anne Curtiss]

I just read Donne Hayden's discussion of Gene Sharp, and the possibility of
studying together his books on how dictatorship can be turned non-violently
to democracy.

I would love, love, love to do this, but I am one of the shrinking class of
people in
America with a job and, like many others, working more hours than I can
handle. So I cannot commit to it any time soon. Is there anyone can carry
this on, with my support? Or could this be put off until after graduations
in June, when I and who knows who else will be more free?

We are a great group of people!

Thanks,

Mary Anne Curtiss, Community Friends Meeting

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