Satyagraha: Gandhi's "truth force" in the age of Climate Change April 13, 2008

The Garrison Insitute
Satyagraha: Gandhi's "truth force" in the age of Climate Change

Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha or "truth force" inspired the 20th century's most effective social change movements. Can it now inspire us to confront and transform climate change?

As Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha opens at the Metropolitan Opera, the Garrison Institute in cooperation with the Cathedral presents a free, public exploration of Gandhi's concept of satyagraha or "truth force," its links with Thoreau's civil disobedience, Emerson's self-reliance, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s agape, and the relevance of this thought lineage today. It inspired the 20th century's most effective social change movements. Can it now inspire us to confront and transform climate change?

Speakers and performers will include:

* Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, founder of Sri Lanka's Sarvodaya movement
* Rajmohan Gandhi, professor and author of the upcoming biography on his grandfather, Mohandas: A True Story Of A Man, His People, And An Empire
* Philip Glass performing excerpts of his opera Satyagraha
* Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
* Sulak Sivaraksa, founder of the Thailand Spirit in Education Movement

Location:
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
Amsterdam at 112th
New York, New York 10025

Pre Event Service:

Prior to the Garrison event, the Church will be hosting EvenSong/Vespers with Dr. Ariyaratne. (start time and more info to follow)

Official Website: http://satya-graha.org/garr.php