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CDSC Resources

Upcoming CDSC Events

Civil Discourse & Social Change Events

Suffering the Grasses: Documentary Screening and Discussion with Syrian activists. March 6, 2013. Valley Performing Arts Center. Room LA 181.

Black and Latina/o Migrant Relations. March 11, 2013. 4:00-6:30 p.m. USU, Thousand Oaks.


Panel on Spirituality and Social Change: Monday, March 18th, 2013. From 4 to 6:45 p.m. Location: Music Recital Hall.

Monthly Soulcial Justice Poetry Lounge:

Flier for Poetry Lounge

CDSC hosts the Soulcial Justice Poetry Lounge on the following dates this Spring:

Thursday, February 21st

Thursday, March 14th

Thursday, April 18th

Aronstam Library, Manzanita Hall 240 from 7-9 p.m. We have Open Mics!

Click here for flier.

All events are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

 





Civil Discourse and Social Change Resources

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1.Reverend Lawson Recommends: Reverend Lawson has suggested a list of resources that might be helpful for you to further your own reading, or understanding of the issues that the Civil Discource and Social Change Initiative focuses on:

  • A Force More Powerful by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall
  • American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David Stannard
  • Hidden Wounds by Wendell Berry
  • Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
  • Martin Luther King’s April 4th 1967 speech: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
  • Audio and transcript: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
  • Transcript: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html
  • My Experience with Truth by Gandhi
  • Nonviolence in the Global Community by Richard Deats
  • Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp
  • The Children by David Halberstam
  • Waging Nonviolent Struggle by Gene Sharp

2. Article on "Why Civil Resistance Works"

3. Curriculur Resources on Nonviolence: We have compiled a list of resources on Nonviolent political organizing and nonviolence within various traditions.

4. CDSC - Working Bibliography: A working list of resources organized by various topics like social justice pedagogy, economic in/justice, globalization, culture and social justice.

5. Film Series

6. Community Partners

7. Library Resources for Researching Civil Discourse & Social Change (compiled by Katherine Dabbour)