April 21, 7 pm
The Nation Institute presents:
Gandhi, King and the Power of Nonviolence:
Alternatives to Force in the 21st Century
Jonathan Schell and Pulitzer prize-winner Taylor Branch
The New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West)
Doors open at 6.30 p.m.
Free of charge (suggested donation $10).
Join bestselling writer Jonathan Schell, author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger, and Pulitzer prize-winner Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, as they discuss Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the enduring power of nonviolence in our contemporary world.
Suzannah Lessard will moderate the evening.
(This evening is part of a series that has been organized in collaboration with the Satya Graha Forum to celebrate the Metropolitan Opera's performance of Philip Glass' opera about Mahatma Gandhi and Satyagraha, his movement of social change through nonviolence.)
Following the discussion there will be audience questions, and a book-signing.
For more information go to www.satya-graha.org or www.nysec.org
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