<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><p class=""><font face="Arial" color="#ff0000" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact Chris Young,</span></font><font face="Arial" style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#222222"> </font><a href="mailto:chrisyoung@berkeley.net" target="_blank"><font color="#3333ff">chrisyoung@berkeley.net</font></a><font color="#222222"> </font><font color="#ff0000">or </font></span></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#ff0000">Rachel Chodorow-Reich,</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#222222"> </font><a href="mailto: rcr@berkeley.net" target="_blank"><font color="#3333ff">rcr@berkeley.net</font></a><font color="#ff0000">.</font></font></p>
</div><div style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"></div></div><div><i style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">ETREE Note: The message below is from BHS Student Activities Director Chris Young (on sabbatical in China and Argentina</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> this year), and BHS </font></i><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>History and English </i></font><i style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">teacher Rachel Chodorow-Reich.</font></i></div>
</div><div><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear BHS Parents and Community Members,</span><br>
</div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Rachel Chodorow-Reich and I started designing a new course last year called "Nonviolence: Theory and Practice". We hope to run a section or two of it for the 2013-2014 academic year. It is an elective social science course. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font>If you know a student who might want to make the most of such a course, please send us her or his name. We will send an introductory letter to the student you suggest inviting her or him to a lunch <span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">meeting to learn more. </span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">We are very excited about the potential impact of this course, and would like to personally recruit a strong and diverse cohort. While we would like students to have some high school history and writing courses under their belts, we gladly welcome any students you think are ready to benefit from critical thinking, discussion about and practicing <i>ahimsa</i> (nonviolence) and <i>satyagraha</i> (soul force) in their lives.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><span style="font-size:13.333333015441895px">We will challenge students to understand more deeply the history of nonviolence and the different types of violence and peace we see in our daily lives and in global issues. They will have the opportunity to connect with and partner with local nonviolence leaders and organizations carrying out social or environmental activism. Students will carry out nonviolent action projects of their own design, taking on a personal, community, or global issue important to them. </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">To learn more about the course, visit its webpage at: <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/berkeley.net/nonviolence/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/berkeley.net/nonviolence/</a>. If you have ideas, resources, or other contributions to make towards the development of our new course we are also happy to receive those! </div>
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Thank you for your interest and support,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Chris and Rachel</div></div><div><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:navy">________________</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Times,serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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