Today's Anniversary

Mahatma Ghandi launched Satyagraha exactly 100 ago today. This monumental event taught the contemporary world the meaning of non-violent resistance. How fitting that it should coincide with the 5th anniversary of the day of sorrow in the United States.

Here is a description of that life-giving teaching (from http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl? sid=06/09/08/1349257&mode=thread&tid=25)

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The date was September 11th, 1906. Speaking before 3,000 Indians gathered at a theater in Johannesburg, Gandhi organized a strategy of nonviolent resistance to oppose racist policies in South Africa. Satyagraha was born and since then, it has been adopted by many around the world to resist social injustice and oppression.

Gandhi used it in India to win independence from the British. The Reverend Martin Luther King used it in the United States to oppose segregation and Nelson Mandela used it in South Africa to end apartheid.

Today, we mark 9/11 by looking at Satyagraha.

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God's peace+