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streets and public places as their place to sleep and inklings of nonviolence, ahimsa. The society is actually seek shelter. To this, the government body did not react building cultures of peace and nonviolence by means positively but decided to implement criminalization and of seminars and meditation camps. announced they would arrest people sleeping in public In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted places and doorways. They would arrest people who a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier were eating in public and also arrest people who would being built across their olive groves. As part of this offer food to people violating the law and using public barrier, the villagers would lose 40% of their land and places as their shelter. To this, an activist group of be surrounded by the wall, so they would lose free leaders named "religious witness to homeless people access to the west bank. Not so far back in time, but decided to resolve this act of harshness by means of just recently several Palestinian leaders adapted nonviolence. They decided that if any of those nonviolence to protect their land and water resources homeless people would get arrested, they would sleep from Israeli soldiers and settlers. These Palestinian in the parks of San Francisco to protest against their leaders tried their best to contrive a massive national arrest. Hence every night, they would roll out their non-violent movement to protest against the Israeli sleeping bags on the streets and sleep there to outcry government and enforce them not to build the the bitter act. To this, the police would charge over them separation wall on the villager's land and block the free midnight and put them behind bars. But they did not water resource and thus to build peace in the region. stop. This kept happening night after night but the These non-violent acts in today's era are attaining leaders did not give up. And to add to their fortitude, strikes with their covet conclusion. Research has protesting against not eating in public, they organized proven that nonviolent resilience has gained more an open lavish banquet for all homeless individual success than any violent movement. Violence is treating them with a fest. Their urge to give justice to extremely complicated, although the complicated all humankind, their compassionate and unconditional simplicity of nonviolence is to its par and outrageous. love to every living soul, did not allow them to stop There are many such non-violent movements taking their act of protest and gallantry. The police tried to place all around the world, in USA, West Bank, Gaza, enforce their means of violence by objecting and and elsewhere. But it is not as much heard about and stopping the act of nonviolent protest. But here the recognized as we hear about violence and extortion presence of media served as a blessing. It was everywhere. Such discreet and successful nonbecause of media coverage that these acts of violence movement seeks the power of attention from nonviolence acclaimed acknowledgment. And so, you, from the media to spread peace around the world, eventually, the leaders were invited for a healthy and not to hear cries and agony but laughter and discussion with the mayor and the city officials, which giggles. Non-violent movements did not just consolidate finally led to abandon this program of discrimination in Gandhi's or Martin Luther King's time, but is against homeless people and provide constructed integrated with great triumph in current times too! But solution to resolve the situation. Thus ordinary people it is disheartening to learn that it is not as much heard adopted a nonviolent stand for justice and their act of about. compassion attained accomplishment to satisfaction. Striding towards spiritual prospects, our religion The power of nonviolence in today's time is accelerated Jainism's primary cynosure is ahimsa (non-violence) to a great extent around the world despite the to its utmost. Respecting the existence of every living occurrence of all the violence. The diaspora is being and not causing harm by any means is the most changing and this society is in the midst of a imperative and paramount doctrine of Jain religion. A proliferation of nonviolent action for change. We are Jain is the one who follows ahimsa true to its state. bestowed with technology and media that can reach Practicing nonviolence by all means, significantly not to the heart of every human being and incorporate causing pain to any other body, mind, and soul. Non
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