Peace Talks Radio

Pacific. He visited the U.S. recently to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. Also, an excerpt from a mid-1990's talk by the late Miep Gies (meep-geese), who helped hide Anne Frank's family from the Nazi's in World War 2. Ms. Gies was the one who found Anne Frank's now-famous diary. And a chat with foreign aid proponent Jamie Drummond. All on the next edition of Peace Talks Radio.

This program will trace the influences on Chavez, as a child, young man and adult, that led him on a path to nonviolence. We'll also recall the major moments during his campaigns when his dedication to nonviolence and social justice were put to the test.

We'll talk with Dolores Huerta, his colleague, friend and co-founder of the UFW. Also Jose-Antonio Orosco, whose book "Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence" seeks to elevate Chavez as an original thinker, who added significantly to the peacemaking toolkits of more celebrated nonviolence heroes like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Finally, we hear from Texas community organizer Juanita Valdez-Cox, who worked the fields there with her family in the 1950's and 60's and recalls

Chavez and Huerta leading the organization of farm workers in her state. Our guests will discuss what Chavez' own actions and theories about

nonviolence have to offer to our daily lives as well as how they can be used to address today's social and political issues. Archival comments

from Cesar Chavez are included, along with comments made by President Barack Obama at the dedication of the Cesar Chavez National Monument in 2012.

You’ll hear from Dr. Vincent Harding, Professor of Religion and Social Transformation at Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado and a

personal friend and speech writing colleague of Dr. King in the 1960’s. Also mixed into our program, you’ll hear Dr. Clayborne Carson, who at Coretta Scott King’s request, has been directing the King Papers Project since 1985. Dr. Carson established the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University in 2005. The speeches these scholars chose were… King’s last address, the night before his assassination in Memphis in April, 1968. Also, the speech he made a year

to the day before he was killed, called “Beyond Vietnam,” in which Dr. King came out publicly and explicitly in opposition to the Vietnam War.

And from March of 1965, Dr. King’s remarks that he made at the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery marches, considered a turning point in the struggle for Voting Rights and equality for African Americans.

The program features conversations about restorative justice programs, peace journalism, activism to prevent gun violence, a winning domestic violence prevention project, and the peacemaking roots of Mothers' Day. Also excerpts of our programs about Nelson Mandela, Peace Pilgrim and Sister Peggy O'Neill. And we'll recap our countdown of the Top Ten Peace Songs of all time. Paul Ingles hosts.

A new e-book for young people by Alex Paramo helps children understand and

appreciate multi-culturalism, cooperation, forgiveness and more. Also

positive thinking researcher and Ted Talk star Shawn Achor talks about his

2013 book Before Happiness . And John Dear, an internationally known

peacemaker, organizer, and lecturer talks about the blueprint for living

set out in his book The Nonviolent Life.

In Minnesota, 38-year old Robert King is trying to make peace in his

relationship with his wife. After 20 years of abusing women, Robert

finally was forced into getting help through what’s now being referred to

in domestic abuse circles as “The Duluth Model” - a Domestic Abuse

Intervention Program – the heart of which is to get both offenders and

victims to talk openly about their experiences, and to get multiple

agencies to work cooperatively around the understanding gleaned from the

true stories. So Robert King has been talking in these week after week

sessions and learning how brutal he’s been to women and how to break the

cycle of violence.

We hear him tell his honest story as well as hear from the man who's been

leading the sessions Robert's been attending. That's Scott Miller,

system coordinator for the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth,

Minnesota. Also featured, Melissa Scaia, Executive Director of Advocates

for Family Peace in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Carol Boss and Paul Ingles

host.

The hosts of Peace Talks Radio present a special program counting down the Top 10 Peace Songs since the late 1960's. Also featured are honorable mention selections that didn't quite make the list.

While in prison

from 1964 to 1990, Mandela became a symbol for the apartheid resistance

which withstood bloody massacres and continued oppression while Mandela

and other resistance leaders were in jail. Pressure from both within and

outside of South Africa resulted in political changes that resulted in

Mandela’s release and the allowance of parties like the African National

Congress. Mandela helped negotiate the end of apartheid policies and was

elected president of South Africa, a post he held from 1994 to 1999.

Today, we’ll hear some of our former Peace Talks Radio guests who, during

our interviews with them assessed the importance and impact of Mandela’s

life and example. We’ll hear from others too, including radio producer

Joe Richman who researched Mandela’s life for over a year to produce the

2004 series and special Mandela: An Audio History. Joe’s allowing us to

excerpt some of the more compelling moments from his award-winning series

which blended archival tape, news reports, old and new interviews to tell

the tale both of Mandela and the black South African’s and anti-apartheid

activist’s decades long struggle for civil rights. Also, Mandela's

inaugural address in 1994 when he became President of South Africa.

In this episode, we’ll hear the stories of three people . One, Colin Goddard, the survivor of the mass shooting in 2007 at Virginia Tech where 32 were killed by a disgruntled highly armed student. After 2 years of healing, he joined national efforts to promote mandatory background checks on gun sales.

Second, we’ll talk with Annette Nance-Holt, the mother of an innocent 16 year old boy who was shot and killed on a Chicago city bus. She's helped start an organization called "Purpose Over Pain" that assists other families who've lost children to street violence as well as addresses some

of the root causes of gang violence.

And third, we’ll meet Scott Cameron, an Albuquerque father of two boys. When he heard of the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in CT in 2012, although he was 2,000 miles away, he began to organize in

his own community, setting up events he thought might reduce the chances of a Sandy Hook happening in his city.

Do common conventions of reporting instead inflame conflict and omit viable non-violent options for resolving conflicts. Can severe hate speech and alarmist propagandathat threaten lives in developing nations be quelled with targeted

training? Our conversation today starts with Steve Youngblood, the

director for the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in

Parkville, Missouri. Also we'll hear from Ugandan Journalist Gloria Laker

who took Youngblood's "Peace Journalism" workshops in Uganda, then helped

facilitate them to other journalists across her homeland. Finally,

Humankind radio producer David Freudberg, who calls for the development of

a "Peace Beat" at news organizations, offers his thoughts on the

responsibilities of journalists to cover conflict thoughtfully.