[Peace-discussion] FW: WRL Dave Dellinger Nonviolence Essay Contest

[Joni LeViness]

 In gpaxers' free time, perhaps someone would like to enter?
Peace and Joy,
joni

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Subject: WRL Dave Dellinger Nonviolence Essay Contest


Announcing the

Dave Dellinger Essay Contest

Following in the Footsteps of David Dellinger " I wanted to bring closer the
day when the whole country (and the world) would adopt nonviolent force as
the only sane and ultimately successful way of securing and defending
justice and freedom." -David Dellinger on resistance to World War II Contest
Guidelines

*  Final length no more than 1,000-words

*  Topic is based on the quote above and Dave's life of nonviolent activism.

*  In the context of the violence that plagues our contemporary world,
essayists should show awareness of nonviolent theory and point to some
examples of contemporary nonviolent resistance efforts, which may help to
give meaning to the quotation above.

*  All essays are to be typed and double-spaced

*  Mail or email final essay to Dr. Anna J. 
Brown, Department of Political Science, Saint Peter's College, Jersey City,
NJ, 07306, ajbspc@earthlink.net

Essays must be received by 5 pm, October 5, 2007.

Winner will be invited to the lecture on October 25, 2007, and will receive
a $100 prize.

An excerpt of his/her essay printed in the program of the Dellinger lecture
and the full essay will be posted on the WRL website.

The David Dellinger essay contest and Lecture on Nonviolence honors the
memory of revolutionary pacifist and activist Dave Dellinger (1915-2004). 
He was a World War II resister, civil rights activist, anti-Vietnam War
leader, member of the Chicago Eight, and peace and justice activist until
his death at 89. He is the author From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a
Moral Dissenter, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays by David Dellinger, and
Why I Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What Led
to It.
For more information about the life of David Dellinger and his writings,
please see
<http://www.towardfreedom.com/dellinger>www.towardfreedom.com/dellinger
All essays are to be typed and double-spaced and sent to Dr. Anna J. Brown,
Department of Political Science, Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ,
07306 or emailed to <mailto:ajbspc@earthlink>ajbspc@earthlink.net ASAP!
Questions about the essay contest may be directed to Dr. Brown at
<mailto:ajbspc@earthlink.net>ajbspc@earthlink.net or (201) 915-496 More info
at http://warresisters.org/dellinger-2007.htm

Save the DATE

Announcing the
First Annual David Dellinger Lecture on Nonviolence Featuring author and
social historian

Kathy Kelly and others

on

"Nonviolent Action in the Middle East"

7 - 9 pm . Thursday, October 25, 2007

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
New York City