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Organisation of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence on track

On the eve of the start of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence on 2 October, the activities in Costa Rica – the country where the March will start and travel through many countries of the world, returning…

Chile is a polarized state that tries to discipline the population by force.

Carabineros assassinated. In the early hours of the 97th anniversary of the founding of the Carabineros, three non-commissioned officers were murdered on the road between Cañete and Tirúa, in the province of Arauco, Biobío region; an event considered to be…

Nonviolence, the challenge of the 21st century

“Our political constitution does not follow the laws of other cities but gives laws and examples to others. Our government is called a democracy because the administration serves the interests of the masses and not of a minority. According to…

[Poetry] CHILE, 50 YEARS IN CHAINS

Do you remember when tenderness nested in our hearts? Do you remember the times when we marveled at the garden full of fireflies, that flowing river, the warm sand on our feet and the flower of a thousand petals? Do…

What to do (and what not to do) in the face of the reactionary advance of the far right

The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro, Xiomara Castro, Gabriel Boric, Pedro Castillo, the return of MAS to the Bolivian government and Lula to the Brazilian presidency, together with the electoral victories of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Alberto Fernández inaugurated…

Let’s extinguish War and ignite Peace

The Chilean humanist militancy makes a common cause with the clamour of European civil society and its call for a nonviolent demonstration against war on 2 April 2023. We have been denouncing the political leadership of the first world powers…

2 October, from Gandhi to Lula

On October 2, the Brazilian people have before them a challenge with enormous implications. On that day the population will decide a large part of its immediate future at the ballot box, electing in the executive branch those who will…

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet president and friend of the humanists, dies

The last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died today in Moscow at the age of 92 after a serious and prolonged illness, was very close to Silo and the humanists, according to Russian state media. He maintained…

The long road to nonviolence

Six months ago, in this same space, we proposed replacing the national motto with one that discarded violence as a way of relating to each other or of resolving conflicts and looking to the long term, because “what can we…

“Some clues for nonviolence”: 12 – Integrating and overcoming duality

We transmit to you the study “Some clues for nonviolence” carried out by Philippe Moal, in the form of 12 chapters. The general table of contents is as follows: 1- Where are we going? 2- The difficult transition from violence…

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