By John Dear August 6, 2021 Recently, a peace activist friend told me about visiting a physical therapist to help with some issues. They got talking, one thing led to another, and the woman therapist told an unusual story. Years ago, she spent her junior year in college in Hiroshima, Japan. She stayed with a...

“One is called to live nonviolently,” Daniel Berrigan once wrote, “even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the United States around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better.”   In some...

Rev. Richard Deats, a long-time global peace movement leader and one of the most influential teachers of the philosophy and practice of nonviolent action in 20th century movements, died in Nyack, N.Y. on April 7th, 2021, from complications related to pneumonia. He was 89. “As a longtime leader of the global peace movement organization, the...

By John Dear Last summer, after Congressman John Lewis died, I posted a photo on social media of me and John from a memorable afternoon we spent together in his congressional office. It was 26 years ago. We had talked for a while, and then filmed a formal conversation on nonviolence. Needless to say, it...

By — John Dear — January 22, 2021 Today is the day the United Nation’s Treaty on Nuclear Weapons goes into effect. It is the long planned but seemingly impossible day millions—billions—of people have waited for since Hiroshima day, August 6, 1945. Today, the UN treaty declares that the manufacture, possession, use or threat to...