FULL INTERVIEW - ENTREVISTA COMPLETA: http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/dia-escolar-de-la-violencia-la-paz-entrevista-al-sr-federico-mayor-zaragoza/ - Education for Life NGO members met Mr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza to interview him about the School Day of Non-violence and Peace, held every January 30 in honor of Mahatma Gandhi. Mr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza was Director General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999, and since 2000 chaired the Foundation for a Culture of Peace. He is also one of the main ideologists of the Universal Declaration of Democracy. The interview was published in the 2nd edition of Global Education Magazine: http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/global-education-magazine-2/ In this edition, it will also involve current Director General of UNESCO, Ms. Irina Bokova: http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/education-frontline/ From Education for Life, we encourage all our followers to read Global Education Magazine and to share their ideas and experiences. - El equipo de Educar para Vivir se reunió con D. Federico Mayor Zaragoza para entrevistarle sobre el Día Escolar de No-violencia y Paz, celebrado cada 30 de Enero en honor a Mahatma Gandhi. El Sr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza fue Director General de UNESCO desde 1987 hasta 1999, y desde el año 2000 preside la Fundación para una Cultura de Paz. También es uno de los principales ideólogos de la Declaración Universal de Democracia. La entrevista fue publicada en la 2ª Edición de Global Education Magazine (http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/global-education-magazine-2/). En dicha edición, también participó la actual Directora General de UNESCO, Sra. Irina Bokova: http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/education-frontline/ Desde Educar para Vivir, animamos a todas/os nuestras/os seguidoras/es a leer Global Education Magazine, así como compartir sus ideas y experiencias. http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com - http://www.educarparavivir.com - Audio: Tothom Shanti Video: Imágenes de la entrevista y otras cedidas del film: "La Educación prohibida" de nuestro amigo Germán Doin.

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During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced. Dr. King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history. Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States. While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals. He went on to lead similar campaigns against poverty and international conflict, always maintaining fidelity to his principles that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human family. Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Nobel Peace Prize lecture and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” are among the most revered orations and writings in the English language. His accomplishments are now taught to American children of all races, and his teachings are studied by scholars and students worldwide. He is the only non-president to have a national holiday dedicated in his honor, and is the only non-president memorialized on the Great Mall in the nation’s capitol. He is memorialized in hundreds of statues, parks, streets, squares, churches and other public facilities around the world as a leader whose teachings are increasingly-relevant to the progress of humankind. Some of Dr. King’s most important achievements include: In 1955, he was recruited to serve as spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a campaign by the African-American population of Montgomery, Alabama to force integration of the city’s bus lines. After 381 days of nearly universal participation by citizens of the black community, many of whom had to walk miles to work each day as a result, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in transportation was unconstitutional. In 1957, Dr. King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization designed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. He would serve as head of the SCLC until his assassination in 1968, a period during which he would emerge as the most important social leader of the modern American civil rights movement. In 1963, he led a coalition of numerous civil rights groups in a nonviolent campaign aimed at Birmingham, Alabama, which at the time was described as the “most segregated city in America.” The subsequent brutality of the city’s police, illustrated most vividly by television images of young blacks being assaulted by dogs and water hoses, led to a national outrage resulting in a push for unprecedented civil rights legislation. It was during this campaign that Dr. King drafted the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” the manifesto of Dr. King’s philosophy and tactics, which is today required-reading in universities worldwide. Later in 1963, Dr. King was one of the driving forces behind the March for Jobs and Freedom, more commonly known as the “March on Washington,” which drew over a quarter-million people to the national mall. It was at this march that Dr. King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which cemented his status as a social change leader and helped inspire the nation to act on civil rights. Dr. King was later named Time magazine’s “Man of the Year.” In 1964, at 35 years old, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech in Oslo is thought by many to be among the most powerful remarks ever delivered at the event, climaxing at one point with the oft-quoted phrase “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” Between 1965 and 1968, Dr. King shifted his focus toward economic justice – which he highlighted by leading several campaigns in Chicago, Illinois – and international peace – which he championed by speaking out strongly against the Vietnam War. His work in these years culminated in the “Poor Peoples Campaign,” which was a broad effort to assemble a multiracial coalition of impoverished Americans who would advocate for economic change. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent leadership ended abruptly and tragically on April 4th, 1968, when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. http://www.thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king

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