Today we're going on an adventure with Kazu Haga, a high school dropout whose path turned radically into a passionate study & sharing of nonviolence. Having learned from/with & befriended some of the greatest activist and nonviolence workers & trainers of the past 70 years, Kazu found & refined his life's mission in many phases. His book, Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, traces Kazu's steps through learning & activism with the University of Rhode Island's Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies, with Joanna Macy, as an important organizer with Occupy Oakland, and in forming the East Point Peace Academy (as opposed to West Point Military Academy), while deepening personally with the East Bay Meditation Center. His now extensive experience working with many incarcerated folks & in many other settings has given him first-hand experience to confidently proclaim essential dynamics of nonviolence sprung from Kingian roots, like the 6 principles of nonviolence & the 6 steps of nonviolence. Just naming these parts of the theory & practice far undersells the marvelous work that Kazu does, and the amazing stories he tells. Kazu Haga lives in the Los Angeles, CA, area.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Meditation, Shinto, Buddhism
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