IF 160 Sunflower Lane Watsonville, CA 95076 Phone: 831-724-4108
Tax ID#510203813 501c3
page last updated 7-4-2020
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IF is a nonprofit humanitarian, educational and social change organization located in the Santa Cruz, CA, area. We are a community of friends seeking hopeful alternatives to the violence, greed and destructiveness of our world.
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“Viralize Solidarity”
Vigil of family members of the disappeared in a church in Guerrero, Mexico, 2019
We were not able to hold our annual Latin America Dinner this year because of shelter-in-place, but we came up with a good alternative. For years, proceeds from the dinner have gone to support the innovative nonviolence education and organizing work of Pietro Ameglio in Mexico. In lieu of the dinner, we arranged a teleconference on the theme “Viralize Solidarity" with Pietro and a group of IF supporters who tuned in. In it, Pietro articulated the nonviolence pedagogy that he has developed over the last several decades, with its emphasis on cutting through concepts and illusions to drill down to the lived realities of participants, provoking significant shifts in perspective and new intellectual and moral insight (“ruptures”), and, rather than simply following the teaching or the footsteps of famous nonviolent movement leaders, instead nurturing autonomous thinking and action that are authentic and thereby more resilient. He also talked about the strategy of combining a country’s "moral reserve” with direct actions of relentless persistence as a powerful tool of nonviolent social change.
The conversation, including the questions and comments from the other participants, was wide-ranging and touched on his work with youth as well as with the families of the disappeared, some of the international links and work in which he and his co-workers are involved, and the raging anti-racism protests in the U.S. taking place at the time of the call and how heartening they have been from a Mexican perspective. More on Pietro Ameglio.
The conversation, including the questions and comments from the other participants, was wide-ranging and touched on his work with youth as well as with the families of the disappeared, some of the international links and work in which he and his co-workers are involved, and the raging anti-racism protests in the U.S. taking place at the time of the call and how heartening they have been from a Mexican perspective. More on Pietro Ameglio.
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