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Each Christmas, we celebrate the birthday of Jesus, whom Gandhi called the greatest person of nonviolence in history. Alas, he lamented, the only people who don\u2019t seem to realize that Jesus was totally nonviolent are Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the story, the nonviolent Jesus was born into poverty, a refugee, an immigrant, a homeless person; became a great peace and justice rabbi activist who marched to his capitol on a campaign of nonviolence; disrupted the status quo with civil disobedience; and was arrested and executed. When he was born, the story goes, the angels couldn\u2019t contain themselves and announced the coming of \u201cpeace on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Christmas is about celebrating and reclaiming the nonviolence of Jesus and doing our bit to welcome \u201cpeace on earth.\u201d The oil companies, politicians, corporations, military and ruling elites have declared full scale war on Mother Earth, so Christmas is actually a time to speak out against \u201cwar on earth,\u201d to redouble our efforts to welcome the Christmas gift of \u201cpeace on earth,\u201d and to build up our own campaigns of nonviolence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John and Pace e Bene board member, Michele Dunne, were among many showing up for climate justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Sermon on the Mount, the nonviolent Jesus taught: \u201cBlessed are the meek, they will inherit the earth.\u201d The biblical word for active nonviolence was \u201cmeekness,\u201d so Jesus is saying is: \u201cBlessed are people who practice active creative nonviolence; they will be one with creation, with Mother Earth.\u201d (I wrote about this in my recent book, They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a time of War and Climate Change<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long ago we rejected Jesus\u2019 way of nonviolence, and so we have not been one with Mother Earth. Instead we have waged war against one another and all of creation, and now hang on the brink of global war and catastrophic climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, when Greta Thunberg stood before the United Nations, she declared that the world house is on fire, and we need to start acting accordingly. Longtime actor and activist Jane Fonda heard the call. She decided to leave her comfort zone, and literally moved from Beverly Hills to Washington, D.C. where with the help of others, she launched \u201cFire Drill Fridays\u201d to kickstart a campaign of nonviolence to the U.S. Capitol to engage in weekly civil disobedience to mobilize political will to stop the insanity of our environmental destruction. (See www.firedrillfridays.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Liz Gorman) Rev. John Dear and Jane Fonda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This past Friday, December 20th, I joined nearly a thousand people to march with Jane Fonda and rally at the U.S. Capitol for climate justice, and then sit in at the Hart Senate Office Building in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience to draw the line and up the ante of our resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We heard powerful speeches from leaders such as Civil Rights icon Dolores Huerta, Women\u2019s Rights advocate Gloria Steinem, Buddhist leader Roshi Joan Halifax, Poor Peoples\u2019 Campaign leader Rev. William Barber II, and Jane herself, who called for an army of people to take to the streets for climate justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We chanted slogans (\u201cWhat does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like!\u201d \u201cWhat do we want? Climate Justice! When do we want it? Now!\u201d). We sang (\u201cThis little light of mine,\u201d \u201cAin\u2019t gonna let nobody turn me around\u201d). We held banners (\u201cWe want a Green New Deal now!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our message to the U.S. Senate was Greta\u2019s: \u201cThe eyes of all future generations are upon you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And whether you like it or not, change is coming!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eventually, 138 of us were handcuffed in the rotunda of the Hart Office Building, booked and photographed, then loaded into paddy wagons and hauled off to an old police warehouse in Southwest D.C. There we sat in our handcuffs for the rest of the day, the men on one side, the woman on the other, meeting each other, sharing our experiences, and waiting our turn to be interviewed and eventually released, most of us late in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could say it did no good. You could dismiss the whole thing cynically as an exercise in vainglory, or naivete, or even recklessness. You could even confess functional despair and say it\u2019s all too late, nothing can be done\u2014but then you would be doing exactly what the oil companies and their politicians want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, this is <\/em>what democracy looks like. The only way positive social change comes about is through bottom up people power grassroots movements of creative nonviolence, from Jesus to the Abolitionists and the Suffragists to Gandhi and Dr. King, the Civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam war movement to the thousands of nonviolent movements since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned after forty years of work in various grassroots movements of nonviolence. That\u2019s why I continue to organize Campaign Nonviolence, a national week of action every September when tens of thousands take to the streets against everything–from racism and sexism to war and poverty to nuclear weapons and fossil fuels to animal extinction and environmental destruction. See www.campaignnonviolence.org<\/a>) Together, we have more power than we realize. Together, we are learning, we can change the world. With nonviolence, Dr. King said, there is power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, however, we need to go way beyond Gandhi and Dr. King, and build a global grassroots, bottom up, people power movement of active nonviolence on behalf of all creation the likes of which the world has never seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why Jane Fonda is right\u2014regular, repeated, steadfast, serious yet joyful nonviolent rallies, marches and civil disobedience in Washington D.C. will help ignite the global movement of nonviolent transformation for a more just, peaceful and environmentally sustainable future. This is the most important work we can do, certainly the most meaningful, and we all need to act accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, though, it goes even deeper. Fire Drill Fridays was a spiritual experience, Christmas come early, a spiritual exercise in preparation for the Christmas gift of \u201cpeace on earth.\u201d That\u2019s what we were doing\u2014exercising democracy, exercising nonviolence, exercising the truth, exercising our hearts in preparation for a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May your Christmas and New Year be as blessed, and may we all take to the streets throughout the New Year for the coming of \u201cpeace on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*** <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. John Dear\u2019s new book, Praise Be Peace: The Psalms of Peace and Nonviolence in a time of War and Climate Change <\/em>will be published next month. His monthly \u201cPeace Podcast\u201d appears the first of each month on itunes, sound cloud, and www.paceebene.org<\/a>. He works with www.campaignnonviolence.org<\/a> See www.johndear.org<\/a>  REV. JOHN DEAR DECEMBER 23, 2019<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>
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