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FICNOVA 6 AWARDEES (2022)

Pablo M — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:07:00 +0000

These are the films AWARDED by the international selection team of the 6th International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence 2022 with the “Stelae” of this edition, in its four different sections.

EDUCATION CENTERS SECTION

Humanize

Susana Freitas, Rui Duque
2020 – Portugal – 3 min

Human beings have Fundamental Rights, established so that everyone may have a dignified and peaceful life. Remembering these rights is fundamental to put them into practice.

Complete film fact sheet

SHORT FILMS GENERAL SECTION

Dos ríos. Cacao y libertad

Fellipe Abreu, Patricia Moll
2021 – Brasil – 10 min

The inhabitants of the Dois Riachões settlement used to live in a situation analogous to slavery, but today they have managed to conquer the land and their freedom through cocoa production. In 2021 the community launched its own brand of chocolate.

Complete film fact sheet

MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS GENERAL SECTION

Solidarity crime. The borders of democracy

Nicolás Braguinsky Cascini y Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena
2021- España – 55 min

It is a documentary that raises awareness about the systematic policies of human rights violations against migrants and all those who have been in solidarity with them.

Complete film fact sheet

FEATURE FILMS GENERAL SECTION

The return to the field

Juan Pablo Leporé
2020 – Argentina- 73 min

In a neoliberal context marked by poverty and exclusion, land redistribution and food production become part of the return to the countryside.

Complete film fact sheet

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FICNOVA 6 AWARD WINNERS (2022)

Pepa BO — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:43:00 +0000

These are the films AWARDED by the international selection team of the 6th International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence 2022 with the “Stelae” of this edition, in its four different sections.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SECTION

Humanise

Susana Freitas, Rui Duque
2020 – Portugal – 3 min

Human beings have Fundamental Rights, established so that everyone can have a dignified and peaceful life. Remembering these rights is fundamental to put them into practice.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL SHORT FILMS SECTION

Two rivers, Cocoa and Freedom

Fellipe Abreu, Patricia Moll
2021 – Brasil – 10 min

Full film fact sheet

GENERAL MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS SECTION

Solidarity Crime. The borders of democracy

Nicolás Braguinsky Cascini y Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena
2021- España – 55 min

It is a documentary that raises awareness of the systematic policies of human rights violations against migrants and all those who have been in solidarity with them.

Full film fact sheet

GENERAL FEATURE FILMS SECTION

Return to the countryside

Juan Pablo Leporé
2020 – Argentina- 73 min

In a neoliberal context marked by poverty and exclusion, land redistribution and food production become part of the return to the countryside.

Full film fact sheet

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FINALIST films at the 6th FICNOVA 2022

Pepa BO — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:01:08 +0000

These are the FINALIST films selected by the international team of the 6th Active Nonviolence International Film Festival 2022, in its four sections.

We recognise in this edition 20 finalist films from 13 countries as some good examples of the force of nonviolence that is growing and transforming the world.

Thank you very much to all and congratulations to the finalist.

EDUCATIONAL CENTRES SECTION

Hopefully there will be no school tomorrow

Destiny Osarumwense
12Nubes y la Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Vitoria-Gasteiz
2015 – España – 4 min

The video clip reflects the experiences and emotions of the different protagonists of bullying, sung and narrated by the young people themselves.

Complete film fact sheet

Humanise

Susana Freitas, Rui Duque
2020 – Portugal – 3 min

Human beings have Fundamental Rights, established so that everyone can have a dignified and peaceful life. Remembering these rights is fundamental to put them into practice.

Complete film fact sheet

Our own economy

Mauro Altschuler
2020 – Argentina – 2 min

Is it possible to build among ourselves, and for our own benefit, a more social and solidarity-based economy?

Complete film fact sheet

Signals

Montse Vázquez Martín, Michel Augusto Ambrosio
2019 – España – 5 min

The signals are right in front of us but we don’t always see them.

Complete film fact sheet

We all belong

Mohamed Larbi Bourourou
2020 – Argelia – 4 min

A boy with Richer Collins syndrome feels frustrated and pessimistic about life and contemplates suicide.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL SHORT FILMS SECTION

Acoua

Güido Simonetti
2019 – Argentina – 12 min

An endearing story in which people from different social classes meet in a collective job interview. Showing the values that the other candidate has will make them employable or not.

Complete film fact sheet

Harmonies for after the war

Pablo Tosco, Migue Roth
2019 – Argentina, España, Siria – 25 min

Music does not end war, but it helps to exorcise it. Syrian Kurdistan was destroyed by long years of war, but on the ruins, musicians, poets, teachers and dozens of children are once again playing instruments to replace the lacerating noises of violence.

Complete film fact sheet

Two rives. Cocoa and Freedom

Fellipe Abreu, Patricia Moll
2021 – Brasil – 10 min

The inhabitants of the Dois Riachões settlement lived in a situation analogous to slavery, but today they managed to conquer the land and their freedom through cocoa production.

Complete film fact sheet

The seed of hope

Nando Morra
2021 – Italia – 17 min

The Seed of Hope is a short film starring Tancredi, a substitute literature teacher, and three sixth-grade boys, the Italians Samuele, Marco and the Syrian Nasser. Nasser arrived in Italy five years earlier with his mother, after an eventful crossing of the Mediterranean.

Complete film fact sheet

MOOSTRO

Sergio Beltrán
2021 – Chile – 14 min

Seven-year-old Vita hears strange noises in the crawl space that arouse her curiosity. At her insistence, her mother goes upstairs to check.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL SECTION MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS

Barcelona – City of welcome

Christin Schuchardt
2021- Alemania, España – 55 min

Barcelona’s image is characterised by a cosmopolitan tourist life, long-term gentrification processes and progressive political perspectives, for example for the reception of refugees and immigrants.

Complete film fact sheet

Get up

Ursula Robles Heredia
2020- México – 40 min

Violence seen through the eyes of art. A documentary that shares the vision of several independent artists in the face of the violence that has engulfed Mexico.

Complete film fact sheet

Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara

Iara Lee
2015- Sahara Occidental – 58 min

Four decades after the departure of the Spanish rulers promised its people freedom, Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.

Complete film fact sheet

Remedy

Jakub Šipoš
2021- Eslovakia – 39 min

The story of a group of young people who travel by boat from the Canary Islands to the south of Senegal to bring simple water filters to the Casamance area.

Complete film fact sheet

Solidarity crime. The borders of democracy

Nicolás Braguinsky Cascini y Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena
2021- España – 55 min

It is a documentary that raises awareness of the systematic policies of human rights violations against migrants and all those who have been in solidarity with them.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL SECTION FEATURE FILMS

Our flag will never be red

Pablo López Guelli
2019 – Brasil- 72 min

It shows the struggle of independent journalists in Brazil to break the blockade imposed by 6 families that dominate the country’s information system.

Complete film fact sheet

Graine

Ouedraogo Alimata
2021 – Burkina Faso- 93 minSybia, a forty-year-old architect from Ouagadougou, has been trying for years to have a child with her husband, a wealthy Burkinabe businessman, but to no avail.

Complete film fact sheet

In debt to all women

María Lobo, Roi Guitián
2019 -España- 60 min

Abortion in El Salvador is punishable by 20-40 years in prison. En deuda con todas las mujeres wants to give a voice to those women who suffer and struggle to change one of the most restrictive laws in the world in terms of sexual and reproductive rights.

Complete film fact sheet

Return to the contriside

Juan Pablo Leporé
2020 – Argentina- 73 min

In a neoliberal context marked by poverty and exclusion, land redistribution and food production become part of the return to the countryside.

Complete film fact sheet

Another conviction

Juan Manuel Repetto
2020 – Argentina- 74 min

Sebastian must serve a sentence for crimes he committed when he was a minor. When he is transferred to the prison, he discovers that it is very different from the traditional prison system. There are no guns, no bars, no cells. The doors are still open and the authorities are teachers, social workers and psychologists.

Complete film fact sheet

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AWARDED V FICNOVA (2020)

Pepa BO — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:19:00 +0000

These are the films awarded by the international selection team of the 5th International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence 2020 with the “Stelae” of this edition, in its six different sections.

Educational Centres: Short Films

Bosa

Aitana Serrallet Baines
2019- España – 19 min

When Lucas discovers that Driss, his best friend, has been sent back to Morocco with his aunt and uncle, he decides to commit the madness of going in search of him on a forbidden journey across the strait in the opposite direction to that in which it is normally carried out.

Complete film fact sheet

Educational Centres: Film Schools Short Films

Tili´s Garden

Las respuestas aquí presentadas son todas de acciones no violentas que involucran a un gran grupo de personas de una sociedad, que dan esta lucha para evitar que se vuelvan a repetir estas acciones que atentan contra los derechos y la vida humana. Y todo esto mostrado desde la mirada y la gráfica de una niña, lo que le da la sensibilidad fresca, espontánea de las nuevas generaciones, que nos deja con una sensación liviana y de un futuro abierto y más humano.

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Short Documentary Films

From our Muxu´x

From our Muxu’x connects with the affective feelings towards others in the work to overcome discrimination and violence of the most disadvantaged: women and indigenous peoples in Guatemala.

The example of Sara Curruchich, shared from city to city through music, brings us all closer together. It shows an awareness as human beings capable of creating and building, across differences. Listening in silence as it resonates in us, in any culture, this message is not only of Central America, but becomes universal.

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Short Fiction Films

Tariq

The nonviolent response of Tariq‘s protagonist is noteworthy. His mother lives in fear that her son will give a violent response and succumb to war. He, through his memory, will respond in an unexpected way to those who want to end their lives.

The solution provided by the play stands out, even in everyday life, as a response to people who want to destroy coexistence. Tariq also appeals at times to mysticism and human depth to give this response, suggesting two directions to choose in the direction of life: darkened or luminous.

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Medium-Length Films

The Threads of the board

This documentary deals with one of the issues we consider to be the most important in global violence: the arms industry and its consequences.

It develops one of the most abhorrent human tragedies as war, but not only in its ideological conception but also in its manipulation and suffering, narrated through moving testimonies.

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Feature Films

¡Nae pasaran!

Nae Pasaran tells a part of Chile’s history that is told in such a way that it has transmitted the empathy and fighting spirit of its protagonists, thus rescuing the best of human beings.

Complete film fact sheet

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FICNOVA 3 AWARD WINNERS (2016)

Pepa BO — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 19:05:00 +0000

These are the films AWARDED by the international selection team of the 3rd International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence 2016 with the “Stelae” of this edition, in its four different sections.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SECTION

El Carnaval del Buen Pastor

2016. Colombia. 8:29 min

Dir: Laly Malagón
UNI5TV – Universidad del Norte
Centro Penitenciario del Buen Pastor – Barranquilla

Carnival of the good sheperd, tells the story of Silvia, a woman who has lived and enjoyed Carnival in all its splendour for 15 years, playing the role of La Diabla and continues to do so even though she is behind bars.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL SHORT FILMS SECTION

Kandia

2015. Italia – Burkina Faso. 14 min

Directed by Jean Hamado Tiemtore

In the Bambara language, in Burkina Faso, the term Kandia, composed of the words Kan (voice) and Dia (beauty), means the good voice, but also the beauty that the voice produces. In the heart of Lecce, in Puglia, a choir of voices singing their own humanity. They sing in Italian, Tamil, Swahili… An example of integration and encounter between peoples.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS SECTION

BALKAN BLUES: Stories from Mostar

2016. Italia. 35 min

Dir. Lucio de Candia

Balkans Blues aims to demonstrate that, in a period when violent religious radicalism is used for unclear and dangerous ends, the universal language of music and art can promote peace, tolerance and social harmony.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL FEATURE FILMS SECTION

Fugir de L’oblit

2016. España. 90 min

Dir. Abel Moreno Pradas

At 90 years of age, Pitu walks fast, as if he were on the run. This anonymous old man probably got used to it years ago: running away from Franco’s regime, from the refugee camp in Algiers, from the Vichy government’s labour camps, from the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, from the Nazi concentration camps.

Complete film fact sheet

Honourable Mentions (out of competition)

Silo. Un camino espiritual

2016. España. 90 min

Dir. Abel Moreno Pradas

In 1969, in Argentina, Mario Rodriguez Cobos, SILO, launched a movement for non-violence in response to the growing violence in the world and the dictatorships in Latin America. Through a young woman, we will travel to different countries to listen to the testimonies of people who were inspired by Silo.

Complete film fact sheet

Silo

Argentina. 99 min

Dir: Leandro Bartoletti

In the midst of social and political upheaval… a voice rises in the mountains with a message of peace and non-violence. His voice was silenced, his words were denounced. This humble thinker has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. How is it that he remains the best kept secret in the Andes?

Complete film fact sheet

Más allá de la Venganza

2016. España- Alemania. 75 min

Álvaro Orús & Luz Jahnen

Beyond Revenge” is a novel treatment of the archaic yet burning issue of revenge, linking the personal with the social and historical.

Complete film fact sheet

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FINALIST FICNOVA 3 (2016)

Pepa BO — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:39:00 +0000

These are the FINALIST films of the 3rd International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence 2016, in its four different sections.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SECTION

A minute of silence

2016. Italia. 5 min

Dir: Classe 4ºB a.s. 2015-2016

Liceo Artístico Toschi

A minute’s silence? The horror of the Paris attacks 13/11/2015. A minute’s silence is observed in classrooms as a sign of mourning.

Complete film fact sheet

Carnival of the Good Shepherd

2016. Colombia. 8:29 min

Dir: Laly Malagón
UNI5TV – Universidad del Norte
Good Shepherd Prison – Barranquilla

Carnaval del Buen Pastor, tells the story of Silvia, a woman who has lived and enjoyed Carnival in all its splendour for 15 years, playing the role of La Diabla and continues to do so even though she is behind bars.

Complete film fact sheet

Europe

2015. España. 1 min

Dir: LaCA Audiovisual Creation Laboratory at Barcelona Youth Prison

Can the journey be just a dream, an illusion perhaps, can Europe be just that illusion?

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL SHORT FILMS SECTION

Kandia

2015. Italia – Burkina Faso. 14 min

Dir. Jean Hamado Tiemtore

Complete film fact sheet

Once

2015. España. 10 min

Dir. Sonia Guerra

One day like any other, Chila Huerta picked up her three children and left the house where she lived with her husband. No one in the city understood how she had been able to leave him.

Complete film fact sheet

The other side

Italia. 25 min

Dir: Giuseppe Favaloro

Dir. Jean Hamado Tiemtore

Story of the immigration of human beings, reliving the past reflected in the present through difficult journeys in search of hope.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS SECTION

BALKAN BLUES: Stories from Mostar

2016. Italia. 35 min

Dir. Lucio de Candia

Complete film fact sheet

Amnestesia

2014. Francia. 53 min

Dir. Lizette Lemoine

In Bogota, actors from the VARASANTA theatre delve into the horror of the war that the country has lived through and the pain of its victims.

Complete film fact sheet

If David had persuaded Goliath

2015. Argentina. 34:10 min

Dir. Carlos Santos

We asked people from different parts of the world about the origin of violence.
The builders of the Permanent Councils for Active Nonviolence tell us about their transforming experiences in the work developed in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, USA, Uganda and Italy.

Complete film fact sheet

GENERAL FEATURE FILMS SECTION

Fugir de L’oblit

2016. España. 90 min

Dir. Abel Moreno Pradas

Complete film fact sheet

Dauna. What the river carries

2015. Venezuela. 104 min

Dir. Mario Crespo

For Dauna, life in the Orinoco delta has generated a strong curiosity for what exists beyond the river. Her natural talent for language and learning was always supported by her family and her father Julio.

Complete film fact sheet

Runes

2016. Ecuador / España. 62 min

Dir. Pepe Vidal

” Runes “, tells the story of the director’s journey to mobilise the collective in the square. “Runas” is the return of its director with the audiovisual “La Ventana de los Andes”, the consequences and conclusions about the different projections.

Complete film fact sheet

Honourable Mentions (out of competition)

Silo. A spiritual path

2016. España. 90 min

Dir. Abel Moreno Pradas

In 1969, in Argentina, Mario Rodriguez Cobos, SILO, launches a movement for non-violence, responding to the growing violence in the world and the Latin American dictatorships. Through a young woman, we will travel to different countries to listen to the testimonies of people who were inspired by Silo.

Complete film fact sheet

Silo

Argentina. 99 min

Dir: Leandro Bartoletti

Complete film fact sheet

Beyond Revenge

2016. España- Alemania. 75 min

Álvaro Orús & Luz Jahnen

Beyond Revenge” is a novel treatment of the archaic and, at the same time, hot topic of revenge, which connects the personal with the social and historical.

Complete film fact sheet

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Award winners 2 FICNOVA 2014

Pepa BO — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:11:00 +0000

These are the films awarded by the international selection team of the 2nd International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence 2014 with the “Stelae” of this edition, in its five different sections

Educational Centres Section: Short Films

Difficult decisions

España. 14:00 min

Dir: Asoc. Centro Trama

Complete film fact sheet

Educational Centres Section: Micro-short films

No more violence

México. 0:48 min

Dir: Nicolás López Maya

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Short Films

Ri´ka raibal ixoqi¨ – Nuestro territorio cuerpo-tierra en libertad

Guatemala. 16:12 min

Dir: Unión Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Medium length films

At home, in bed and on the street

Nicaragua / Canadá. 35 min

Dir. Liz Miller

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Feature Films

Pachakuti 2012. The changeover

Argentina. 61 min

Dir. Carlos Santos

Complete film fact sheet

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Finalists 2 FICNOVA 2014

Pepa BO — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:43:00 +0000

These are the finalist films of the 2nd International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence 2014 in its five different sections

Educational Centres Section: Short Films

Difficult decisions

España. 14:00 min

Dir: Asoc. Centro Trama

Complete film fact sheet

With willpower you can

España. 8.32 min

Dir: Rosa M. Perera Carmona

IES Giner de los Rios

Complete film fact sheet

The Clash

México. 6:15 min

Dir: Claudia Yolanda Gutierrez Anaya

Complete film fact sheet

Educational Centres Section: Micro-short films

No more violence

México. 0:48 min

Dir: Nicolás López Maya

Complete film fact sheet

The hidden history of mobs

México. 1:33 min

Dir: José Cuauhtli Solís

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Short Films

Paquito, the guide in Alpendeire

España. 5:04 min

Dir. Fernando Pozo

Complete film fact sheet

The return journey

España. 14:30 min

Dir. Alberto E. Pons Florido

Complete film fact sheet

Trapped

España/Venezuela. 16:00 min

Dir: Oskar Tejedor

Complete film fact sheet

Hominids

Argentina. 2:17 min

Dir. Patricia Lacolla

Complete film fact sheet

Ephemeral

Guatemala. 14:00 min

Dir: Ingrid Cuevas

Complete film fact sheet

BrushStrokes

USA. 6:30 min

Dir: Ken Kimmelman

Complete film fact sheet

Ri´ka raibal ixoqi¨ – Nuestro territorio cuerpo-tierra en libertad

Guatemala. 16:12 min

Dir: Unión Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Medium length films

The girls

Venezuela. 58 min

Dir. Gabriela González

Complete film fact sheet

At home, in bed and on the street

Nicaragua / Canadá. 35 min

Dir. Liz Miller

Complete film fact sheet

Polygamy, the weight of a tradition

Burkina Faso. 34:10 min

Dir. Roland Zongo Sanou

Complete film fact sheet

General Section: Feature Films

The footprints of the footpath

España. 63 min

Dir. Luis Cintora

Complete film fact sheet

Pachakuti 2012. The chageover

Argentina. 61 min

Dir. Carlos Santos

Complete film fact sheet

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SPACES FOR NONVIOLENCE

joselito — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:42:15 +0000

Violence is learnt, non-violence too

During the week of the festival, FICNOVA and the humanist organisations participating in the different venues held all kinds of activities to disseminate the samples of nonviolent action received that year all over the world. Images that act as a demonstration effect of the process of change that human beings are going through internally, opening new paths with active nonviolence in the face of the different forms of violence: physical, economic, religious, sexual, racial, psychological and moral.

Each host city prepares its own parallel activities and/or participates in jointly coordinated activities, according to the possibilities of the venue.

But it’s not all over after that week of festival activity. Throughout the year, in different FICNOVA venues, we continue to promote the opening of spaces for nonviolence, from our local action possibilities, organising film forums with films from the FICNOVA VIDEO LIBRARY authorised by their authors, together with workshops to exchange the daily experience of nonviolence that we can all rescue. In this joint and horizontal way, we propose to advance personally and socially, developing the principle of treating others as we like to be treated.

We encourage any collective, cultural space or educational centre to create these spaces.

If you are interested in creating a space for nonviolence in your educational or cultural centre or in your association or collective, get in touch with the nearest FICNOVA headquarters or contact us and we will see the possibilities.

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Recent background in the history of nonviolence

Pepa BO — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:42:21 +0000

Background on Nonviolence

The following is a brief summary of the compilation made by Marisol Glez Alonso, whose complete work can be downloaded from the following link:

Background to Nonviolence (in Spanish)

These are some of the historical references and currents of thought that appear in the genealogical tree of the nonviolence movement. To study their ideas and actions is to come into contact with nonviolence as a methodology of action. The list is not complete and we are only making a contribution so that everyone can go deeper into it later.

Ubuntu (philosophy)

“I am because we are”

Ubuntu is seen as a traditional African concept. A prevailing mental attitude among the natives of the southern tip of Africa, it stems from the popular saying “umuntu. nigumuntu, nagamuntu” which in Zulu means “a person is a person because of others”

Jainism

“Feeling compassion for any Living Being is like feeling compassion for oneself”.

Jainism is, along with Hinduism and Buddhism, one of the historical religions of India. For Jainism, there is a single, immortal life principle in every living being. Every action that is accomplished constitutes a cause that will necessarily have an effect.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

“Uno tiene la obligación moral de negarse a cooperar con un sistema social injusto”.

Ensayista norteamericano, poeta y filósofo práctico, adherido a la doctrina del Trascendentalismo (que entre otras cuestiones trabajaba para el fin de la esclavitud).

Lev Tolstoi (1828 – 1910)

“No hagas a otros lo que no quieres que te hagan a ti”

Novelista ruso, reformador, pacifista y pensador moral. Nació aristócrata pero renunció a sus privilegios.

Tras sufrir una fuerte crisis existencial, se acerca al Cristianismo, tratando de captar su significado auténtico y original, ya perdido en el Cristianismo oficial.

Mohandas Karamchand (Gandhi) (1869 – 1948)

“La noviolencia es la fuerza más grande a disposición de la humanidad”

Fue conocido como Mohatma (alma grande)
En 1888 fue a Gran Bretaña a estudiar derecho y se graduó en Londres. Sus intereses le llevan a estudiar textos religiosos y se acerca al pensamiento de Tolstoi, definiendo su obra, “El Reino de Dios está en vosotros” como uno de los pocos libros capaces de transformar inmediatamente a una persona.

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, también conocido por Badshah Jan (1890 – 1988)

“La educación del pueblo es la única salida”

Nació en Utmanzai, Pakistán, de origen pastún e hijo de terratenientes.

Pasó 30 años de su vida en la cárcel y otros siete de exilio en Afganistán por sus actividades noviolentas que le ganaron el sobrenombre de El Gandhi Musulmán.

Sufragismo. Movimiento feminista para la consecución del voto.

El movimiento internacional por el sufragio femenino, llevado a cabo por las llamadas sufragistas, fue un movimiento reformista social, económico y político que promovía la extensión del sufragio (el derecho a votar) a las mujeres, abogando por el “sufragio igual”.

Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968)

“La no cooperación con el mal es una obligación moral, tanto como lo es la colaboración con el bien”.

Se graduó en Teología y Filosofía. Fue pastor de la Iglesia Norteamericana Baptista que desarrolló una labor crucial en EEUU al frente del Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles para los afroamericanos y que, además, participó en numerosas actividades de protesta contra la Guerra de Vietnam y la pobreza en general.

Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005)

Rosa Parks una costurera negra y activista de los derechos civiles, se convirtió en un importante personaje histórico cuando el 1 de diciembre de 1955, en la localidad de Montgomery (Alabama), rehusó obedecer la orden de James Blake, un conductor de autobús, de sentarse en la parte trasera del vehículo para dejar lugar a los blancos, por ello fue detenida.

Silo (Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos) (1938 – 2010)

“Ama la realidad que construyes y ni aún la muerte detendrá tu vuelo”.

Escritor y pensador argentino. Fundador del Humanismo Universalista. Doctor “honoris causa” por la Academia de Ciencias de Rusia.
Los primeros intentos de hacer públicas sus ideas fueron reprimidos por el cruento régimen militar en el poder durante los años 60 en Argentina. Silo y algunos jóvenes que difundían sus ideas fueron perseguidos y arrestados. El 4 de mayo de 1969 le fue permitido hacer un discurso público, en Punta de Vacas al pie del Aconcagua (Argentina). Entre vehículos militares y ametralladoras, dio su primera charla pública llamada “La curación del sufrimiento”.

Betty Williams y Mairead Corrigan (Irlanda del Norte) (1943-) (1944-)

“La única fuerza que puede romper las barreras es la fuerza del amor, la fuerza de la verdad, la fuerza del alma…”

Betty Williams fue bautizada en el catolicismo pero había nacido en una familia con gran mezcla religiosa por el hecho de tener el abuelo y la abuela maternos judío y católica respectivamente, y por otro lado su padre protestante.

Aung San Suu Kyi (Birmania) (1945-)

“La noviolencia significa una acción positiva…No es que uno se quede sentado sin hacer nada…sino hacerlo de una forma noviolenta”

Es la figura emblemática, no violenta y pro-democrática, de la oposición birmana contra la dictadura militar que ocupa el poder desde 1962.
Las fuentes de su inspiración fueron Mahatma Gandhi, del que ella había aprendido cuando su madre fue embajadora en la India, y su padre Aung San, el líder en la lucha por la liberación de Birmania.

Shirin Ebadi (Irán) (1947-)

“Sigo manteniendo que nada útil ni perdurable puede nacer de la violencia.”

En 1969 se convirtió en la primera mujer juez de Irán. Después de la revolución islámica de 1979, Shirin fue forzada a renunciar a su cargo de juez, debido a la nueva prohibición a la mujer de ocupar este cargo. Le ofrecieron trabajos administrativos en la misma corte donde antes presidía. Como resultado de su protesta le dieron el título de Experta en el Departamento de Justicia. Sin embargo, Shirin no toleró la situación y solicitó permiso para su retiro anticipado que fue aceptado.

Rigoberta Menchú, (Guatemala) (1959- )

“Hemos entendido revolucionario en el verdadero sentido de la palabra: transformación”

Indígena maya quiché. Nación en una familia campesina. Su infancia y su juventud estuvieron marcadas por la pobreza, la discriminación racial y la violenta represión con la que las clases dominantes guatemaltecas trataban de contener las aspiraciones de justicia social del campesinado.

Movimiento 15M y las nuevas generaciones en todo el planeta. (2011)

“La R-evolución”. “Si no nos dejan soñar, no les dejaremos dormir”. “Han despertado al dragón”, “Vamos despacio porque vamos lejos”.

Nueva generación que se despierta y rebela frente a la violencia de un sistema corrupto y decadente. Y lo hace mediante una acción no violenta, organizada, asamblearia, horizontal, participativa e inclusiva, que se expresa en la calles, plazas…etc., en los espacios públicos. No tienen la solución, sólo promueven el diálogo, el debate, el consenso… las soluciones las encontramos entre todos, dicen.

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