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thegandhiguy (25)in #fasting • 6 years ago
A fast for nonviolence - March 10-18
March 10, 2019. It was on this day in 1968 that Cesar Chavez ended a 25-day fast for nonviolence. Last year, I wrote out a lengthy article comparing Chavez's 1968 fast…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 6 years ago
Gandhi's flawed fast - 99 hours in Rajkot
Mohandas K. Gandhi, who described fasting as a weapon that “cannot be lightly wielded,” used it over the last three decades of his life for personal, social, and political…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 6 years ago
Gandhi goes to jail
On January 10, 1908, Mohandas Gandhi awaited his fate in a South African courtroom. Less than two weeks earlier, Judge H.H. Jordan had given Gandhi two choices, leave the…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 6 years ago
Gandhi in South Africa, Part 3
Part 2 can be read here . Mohandas Gandhi stared at the walls of his room. The owner of Johnston's Family Hotel had agreed to let the 23-year-old barrister stay overnight…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 6 years ago
Gandhi in South Africa, Part 2
Part 1 can be read here . On Friday, June 2, 1893, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi woke up aboard a northbound train in a first-class compartment. After a little more than a…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 7 years ago
Gandhi in South Africa, Part 1
On May 24, 1893, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in South Africa. It was the third continent the 23-year-old barrister had set foot on. During his first two weeks, he was…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 7 years ago
Fasting for Nonviolence – Chavez, Gandhi, and Labor
March 9, 2018 - This week marks two historic dates in the intersection of the labor movement and nonviolence. Fifty years ago, Cesar Chavez ended his 25-day fast to promote…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 7 years ago
Fasting for justice, part 2: the twenty-first day
On the morning of March 3rd, 1943, Mohandas Gandhi was handed six ounces of orange juice by his wife, Kasturba. It had been 21 days since his last meal, and now he was ready to…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 7 years ago
How Gandhi got his start in civil disobedience
One of the best known stories about Mohandas Gandhi takes place in a first-class train car upon his arrival in South Africa. A dramatization of it appears at the beginning of the…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 7 years ago
Gandhi - fasting to protest detention without charges
During World War II, Gandhi was imprisoned in the Aga Kahn Palace and held without charges for almost two years. He wasn't the only one being detained; his wife, his secretary…
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thegandhiguy (25)in #gandhi • 7 years ago
Did Gandhi kill his wife?
“Gandhi killed his wife.” Over the summer, I was talking with some friends about Gandhi, and one of them chimed in with that scrap of information. I was literally…
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