rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/nonviolent-direct-action-training-7?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-nonviolent-direct-action-training-7' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Mainers for Accountable Leadership https://actionnetwork.org/groups/mainers-for-accountable-leadershipaction https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg Spend the day with Jessica Stewart and learn about nonviolent direct action. "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored." Martin Luther King, Jr. "You have to be hopeful. You have to be optimistic. If not, you will get lost in despair. When I travel around the country, I say, “Don’t get down–you cannot get down.” I’m not down. I got arrested, beaten, left bloody and unconscious. But I haven’t given up. And you cannot give up. - John Lewis "Nonviolent Direct Action is powerful. There are many dramatic images of nonviolent action; indeed, the ability to dramatize an issue is one of the strengths of nonviolence. However, this drama doesn't just happen. It gestates – in groups...of activists, in discussions, in training sessions, in reflecting on previous experiences, in planning, in experimenting, in making contacts." - The War Resisters League. Larry Dansinger, (207) 262-3706 or larryd@myfairpoint.net or Marie Follayttar Smith, 207-838-0162 flagpantsgirl@gmail.com. https://actionnetwork.org/events/nonviolent-direct-action-training-7