Last May, on two consecutive Monday evenings, I viewed the six episodes of “A Force More Powerful,” a documentary about the efficacy of nonviolent direct action campaigns, which originally aired on PBS stations in 2000. I helped arrange for the screenings, because it’s my sense that such campaigns will be increasingly called for in our own time and place.Among the six campaigns were Gandhi’s salt march, a critical episode in the struggle he led against [...]
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