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VSN Weekly Meetings:

Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30pm

Sarratt, Room 325/327

All welcome.

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Vanderbilt Students of Nonviolence (VSN) is a student activist group based out of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. The goal of VSN is to to create a sustained activist infrastructure capable of responding to injustice on Vanderbilt’s campus and in the greater Nashville community. VSN is committed to organizing direct resistance to injustice, while bringing forth a complete vision of a just and equitable society.

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  • On Nonviolence

    • Class of Nonviolence
      Solutions to Violence is an eight session class developed by Colman McCarthy, founder of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C.
    • Thich Nhat Hanh
      an expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist

  • Non-Profits

    NGOs doing activist work inside and outside the country
    • HD Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
      The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (the HD Centre) is an independent organisation, based in Geneva, Switzerland, dedicated to helping improve the global response to armed conflict.
    • Peace Now
      Americans for Peace Now (APN) is the leading United States advocate for peace in the Middle East.
    • Center for Community Change
      The Center for Community Change strengthens, connects and mobilizes grassroots groups to enhance their leadership, voice and power.
    • Silence is Violence
      A group that specializes in crime prevention activism as well as court case intervention for violent crimes
    • Nonviolence International
      Nonviolence International promotes nonviolent action and seeks to reduce the use of violence worldwide.
    • Campaign for Communities
      The Campaign for Community Change works with community based organizations in several states to conduct large scale voter contact and mobilization programs focused on low-income people of color
    • Clinton Global Initiative University
      CGI U, a new project of Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), challenges college students and universities to tackle global problems with practical, innovative solutions.
    • Johnson State College - Change Your World Program
      JSC service learning program
    • World March for Peace
      Worldwide march for peace and nonviolence

  • Media

    Sources of media covering issues of social justice and revolutionary acivism throughout the globe
    • KLCC Newsletter
      Kellogg Leadership for Community Change (KLCC) has helped communities across the country explore the potential of collective leadership to reshape their futures.
    • Satya: A Magazine on Nonviolence
      A now defunct magazine, but with a website that has all their back issues available to read online.

  • Resources

  • Local Organizations

    • United Mountain Defense
      United Mountain Defense (UMD) is a nonprofit organization committed to halting mountaintop removal coal mining (otherwise referred to as cross ridge or contour mining) in Tennessee.

  • Other University Movements

    • Take Back NYU!
      Take Back NYU! is a coalition of nearly two dozen groups and hundreds of students at New York University demanding budget disclosure, endowment disclosure, and student representation on the Board of Trustees.