Call Number:

CDG-A.North American Seminar on Training.Organizing Nonviolent Action

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)

Language Note:

Materials are in English.

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, CDG-A., North American Seminar on Training and Organizing for Nonviolent Action.

Date:

1977

Creator:

Shivers, Lynne and North American Seminar on Training and Organizing for Nonviolent Action (Organization)

Abstract:

Collection includes, leaflets, fact sheets, printed correspondence; correspondents include Lynne Shivers; includes information on the International Seminars on Training for Nonviolent Action (Waltham, Mass.).

North American Seminar on Training and Organizing for Nonviolent Action (NASTONA); formed in 1970 at Pendle Hill study center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania; goal was to provide a forum where people could share nonviolent training and organizing skills, promote nonviolent direct action as a mean of social change, and develop a network of nonviolent trainers who would be available to train groups working for nonviolent social change. NASTONA was sponsored by the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute; Lynne Shivers was one of the organizers; headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NASTONA appeared to be modeled on and in some way related to the International Seminar(s) on Training for Nonviolent Action, headquartered in Massachusetts, which was also sponsored by the A.J. Memorial Institute.