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Every day there are people in our local and global community who are using the tactics and principles of nonviolence to transform the world around us. Our podcast focuses on telling these stories to highlight those who are joining us in our journey to create a world free from violence and the threat of violence.
Episodes

Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Movement Music with PJ Hoffman, Musician and Activist
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
PJ Hoffman is a musician, activist and Friends for a Non-Violent World member. In this episode PJ and Everyday Non-Violence Podcast Host Joann Perry discuss the importance of music in PJ’s life, starting with his early involvement in protests. They also look more broadly at music in social justice movements - how it inspires, energizes and comforts. PJ shares recordings of two (of his many) songs as well as an a cappella rendition of “How Can I Keep From Singing."

Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Lois Yellowthunder - Author, Anthropologist, and Policy Maker
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Lois Yellowthunder (B.A. UCLA, M.A. University of Chicago, Ph.D. University of Minnesota) has worked in many settings, academic and non-academic. For ten years Lois worked in museums as assistant to the Curator of Anthropology (Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History), helping to establish a Department of Interpretation at the Museum of Man in San Diego, coordinating the first city-wide Native American Festival at the Field Museum in Chicago, and working for the Education Department at the Science Museum of Minnesota designing museum tours and coordinating the museum volunteers. During this time Lois taught Introduction to Anthropology at San Diego Mesa College and University of Chicago Extension. Lois worked for three years at the University of Minnesota in the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Programming as Research Coordinator and Grants Manager. She taught two graduate seminars in the Anthropology Department at the University of Minnesota on Community Studies and Alcohol and Drug Research. Lois transitioned to government employment working as Principal Planner for Washington and Hennepin Counties for Human Services and Public Health. She worked for Anoka, Dakota, and Ramsey Counties on county government restructuring. Later she served as the assistant to Ramsey County Commissioner Ruby Hunt. Currently she is working on a book on local government decision-making.
Reuse of two audio excerpts from a news report titled "Bosnian Town, Residents Examined Up Close" by Sylvia Poggioli, as originally broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered on August 14, 1992, made possible by a generous consent agreement with National Public Radio (NPR).
Music generously donated by bensound.com
Additional original music composed by Mark Martinez

Monday Apr 27, 2020
Rebecca Slaby- Executive Director AMAZE Works
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Rebecca Slaby leads AMAZEworks in working with schools, communities, and organizations to create equity and belonging for all. She gives workshops on Anti-Bias Education with a focus on cultural responsiveness, bias, identity, and stereotype threat and has co-authored two AMAZEworks curriculums. With an MEd from DePaul University, she has 15 years of experience teaching middle school humanities/social studies and has worked with schools on issues of equity, inclusion, and justice on institutional, state, and regional levels. She has presented at Overcoming Racism, MEA, NAEYC, MnAEYC, Impact, and Minnesota Council of Nonprofits conferences and teaches courses on equity-based pedagogy at the University of Minnesota.
Music generously donated by bensound.com

Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Al Peters- Founder and Executive Director of Can Do Canines
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Today we hear from Al Peters, Founder and Executive Director of Can Do Canines. He shares about the work of his organization and how incarcerated people are supporting in training service animals.
Bio:
Mr. Peters serves as Executive Director of Can Do Canines and founded the organization in 1987. He is responsible for general management as well as fundraising, publicity and public relations. Mr. Peters has a B.A. in Psychology and Human Development from St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota. He has completed the College of St. Thomas Mini MBA Program for Managers of Non-Profit Organizations, was selected to attend the I.D.S. Excellence in Community Leadership Academy and completed 11 days of specialized training in The Fundraising School.
Mr. Peters has received a Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship and a Pillsbury Fellowship, enabling him to progress on an MBA in Non-Profit Management at the College of St. Thomas. In 1994, he was selected to receive the Minneapolis Award from Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton. Mr. Peters has been a member of the Spring Lake Park Lions Club since 1995 and was selected to receive the Helen Keller Award in 2009.
Music Generously donated by bensound.com

Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Mel Duncan, Co-Founder Nonviolent Peaceforce
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Mel Duncan is a co-founder and current Director of Advocacy and Outreach for Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), a world leader in unarmed civilian protection. NP provides direct protection to civilians caught in violent conflict and works with local groups on violence deterrence in a variety of conflict areas around the world. Mel represents NP at the United Nations where the group has been granted consultative status. Two recent UN global reviews cited and recommended unarmed civilian protection. The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship honored Mel with their 2010 Peace Seeker award. The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA awarded him their 2007 Pfeffer International Peace Prize on behalf of Nonviolent Peaceforce’s “courageous efforts in conflict regions around the world.” The Utne Reader named him as one of “50 Visionaries Who are Changing Our World.” The American Friends Service Committee nominated Nonviolent Peaceforce for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mel is a graduate of Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota. In 2006 he was honored with their Distinguished Citizen award. He also holds a Masters degree from the University of Creation Spirituality. He splits his time between St. Paul and, New York City. He and his wife, Georgia, have eight children and twelve grandchildren.

Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Shelly Tochluk- Educator Seeking to Interrupt White Nationalism
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Shelly Tochluk is an educator, with a background in psychology, she has spent ten years as a researcher, counselor, and teacher in California’s public schools. She now trains teachers to work with Los Angeles’ diverse school population as a Professor in the Education Department at Mount Saint Mary’s University-Los Angeles. Shelly currently work with AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere-Los Angeles). With this group, she co-created a workshop series that leads white people into a deeper understanding of their personal relationship to race, white privilege, and systemic racism.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode
- Kimmel, Michael. Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent Extremism.
-Reveal News. Hate in the Homeland, https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/hate-in-the-homeland/
-Saslow,Eli. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist.
-shellytochluk.com
-Tenold, Vegas. Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America.
-Tochluk, Shelly, and Christine Saxman. “Swastikas in the Bathroom: Connecting the Dots between White Supremacy, White Nationalism, the Alt-Right, and the Alt-Light.” Medium, https://medium.com/@shellytochluk/swastikas-in-the-bathroom-connecting-the-dots-between-white-supremacy-white-nationalism-the-dc5d6ec266f2
-Tochluk, Shelly. Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It. 2nd ed.
-usvshate.org

Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
Sasha Cotton- Youth Violence Prevention
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
Sasha Cotton is the Youth Violence Prevention Coordinator for the City of Minneapolis and serves as the Project Manager for the Group Violence Intervention strategy. Ms. Cotton is a liaison between the City and the community as it relates to youth and community violence and helps to improve communication between city officials, community organizations and all citizens concerned with public safety. Ms. Cotton has an extensive background in providing technical assistance, training and implementation of community engagement strategies related to violence prevention in diverse communities. Ms. Cotton holds a Bachelors of Art with a double major in Criminal Justice and Ethnic Studies from Metropolitan State University.
*Shortly after this interview, Sasha was named Director of the city’s newly created Office of Violence Prevention.
Music generously donated by bensound.com

Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Joseph Perry-War Veteran, Meditation Teacher
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Joseph Perry is a veteran of two wars, WWII and Korea as well as a meditation teacher (originally teaching Transcendental Meditation), an attorney for 30 years, a partner with his wife, Beverly, creating/maintaining an adult foster home for 38 years, and most recently achieved 54 years of sobriety and a 50-year wedding anniversary.
Music generously donated by bensound.com

Thursday May 23, 2019
Charlotte Gorham- Student Activist
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Charlotte Gorham is a Political Science and Geography double major at Macalester College. She interned at the Friends Committee on National Legislation during the summer of 2018. Charlotte was raised Quaker in New Haven Friends Meeting in New Haven, Connecticut. She enjoys dancing, painting, and fostering a peaceful world.
Music generously donated by bensound.com

Thursday Apr 25, 2019
"Lee"- Domestic Harm Survivor
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
In this powerful episode "Lee" shares with us a situation where he was physically abused by his wife. In addition to sharing this situation we also hear about the challenges he had trying to find resources and help.
If you identify as male and are struggling to find support and resources to get out of or process through a harmful situation the Twin Cities Men's Center has compiled a list of helpful resources https://bit.ly/2IEetQU
Music generously donated by Bensound.com