A Season for Nonviolence is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities.  Inspired by the memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event starts January 30 and ends April 4 and thus honors their vision for an empowered, non-violent world.

Since 1996, the County of Alameda and the City of Alameda have partnered with AUSD to create the Alameda Collaborative for Children, Youth, and their Families (ACCYF).   Moreover, ACCYF each year helps to support a city-wide speech contest.

Daily readings are just one of the highlighted activities practiced during the season.  AUSD schools have been provided materials by which teachers and administrators integrate these daily readings into the school day.  

Today’s principle of nonviolence is Difference.

Accepting other people’s differences is a sure-fire way of gaining a more complete acceptance of yourself. 

Educator, anthropologist, and humanitarian Johnnetta Betsch Cole says, “We are for difference: For respecting difference, For allowing difference, For encouraging difference, Until  difference no longer makes a difference.”