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North Alabama Committee for Nonviolent Action (NACNVA) was formed in 2006 in Madison, Alabama in response to the war in Iraq. NACNVA’s purpose is to encourage citizen participation in nonviolent direct action such as sit-ins, boycotts and civil disobedience to demonstrate opposition to current United States actions in Iraq.
History of the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) - 1958
NACNVA is based on the ideas and principles of the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) formed in 1958. The CNVA brought together representatives of all the major pacifist groups. Its purpose was to conduct nonviolent direct action campaigns … Quaker Lawrence Scott was the first leader of CNVA.
Members of CNVA participated in many actions including sit-ins and acts of civil disobedience. Members of CNVA sailed the boat, The Golden Rule, into the nuclear bomb testing area in the Pacific Ocean in 1958. They led peace walks including the San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace. (p. 129, “The Power of the People” (1977)
In solidarity with other internationally respected individuals that engaged in civil disobedience as a form of dissent including Rosa Parks, Gandhi, MLK and Thoreau, the NACNVA is proud to carry on the valuable and timeless tradition of demonstrating opposition to unjust actions through the vehicle of civil disobedience.
