Healing Resistance

Kazu Haga's deep, nuanced, and principled commitment to nonviolence has challenged and inspired me and many others who've had the privilege of encountering his work. --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness To resist today's violence exploding everywhere, in ways that can actually heal our world, seems a pipe dream--until Kazu Haga makes it real. In his wry, funny, and utterly grounded fashion, he helps me believe we can do it, and begin to become the Beloved Community. We need this book like oxygen. If it's all you can manage, read the Six Principles of Nonviolence. Kazu is my teacher. -- Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self Kazu Haga broadens the landscape of nonviolence from an idealistic, often passively perceived, aspiration into a practical path of being deeply engaged and lovingly transformative of our world. Beautifully accessible and profound, Haga is a masterful teacher connecting our internal and external experiences: of intending, of doing, and of being--living together with care and justice. -- Larry Yang, core teacher and leader at the East Bay Meditation Center, member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and author of Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community In Healing Resistance, Kazu Haga takes on the why of violence, breaks it down, and then builds us up for the work we need to do now. --Mushim Patricia Ikeda, Buddhist teacher, racial justice community activist, and author of viral article I Vow Not to Burn Out At a time when the literature is often divided between advocates of nonviolence out of principle and advocates of nonviolent action for strategic and utilitarian reasons, Kazu Haga puts forth a compelling argument as to why both are important to challenge the forces of oppression and build a better world. --Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco and author of Nonviolent Social Movements and Tinderbox: US Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism Kazu Haga pulls you in from the first page.... In a compelling, honest, and often humorous manner, he guides you through the philosophical and practical dimensions of Kingian Nonviolence in today's world. He unflinchingly addresses some of the complexities of our times, including racism, classism, police brutality, privilege, and oppression, and other social injustices. As a strategist for nonviolent movements, I found new depths and insights into the dynamics of struggle and conflict, lessons that will be applied in my work many times over. --Rivera Sun, nonviolence trainer and author of The Dandelion Insurrection