Workshop to teach peaceful resistance
Satyagraha (saat - YA - gra -
ha) is a means of achieving social
and political reform through
friendly, vigorous, peaceful
resistance.
This summer in Eugene two
types of satyagraha training will
be available for those interested.
Peter Bergel, whose past ex
perience includes instructor in
Non-violence and Revolutionary
Change at the University of
California, Berkeley, will be
teaching people how to play the
“peace game” and, if interest is
high enough, will be instructing
ten weekly training sessions.
The first of four mandatory
training sessions for the peace
game will be 7:30 p.m., Thurs
day, at 1948 Olive St. The actual
game will take place at Gull
Haven, 13 miles north of
Florence, on the weekend of
August 4, 5, 6. Charge will be less
than $10 for food and rent.
Satyagraha was developed in
India by Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi, famous for applying
principles of non-violence in his
own life, used this tool very ef
fectively in the Indians struggle
for independence against the
British.
Martin Luther King taught his
followers the power of such non
violent procedure and used the
method in everything he
organized. Last May, Bergel, co
Gerontology center loses grant,
Dellenback investigates mixup
The University’s Center for
Gerontology will probably not get
the almost $100,000 federal grant
promised to them, according to
Francis Scott, director of the
center.
The Gerontology Center was
notified that the announcement of
the grant two weeks ago through
Oregon Fourth District
Republican Congresman John
Dellenback’s office was an error
apparently originating in the
f'ants management section of
le Department of Health,
ducation and Welfare,
uellenback is personally in
vestigating the matter, according
to his office. A Dellenback aide
told University officials that
more definite information would
be available today.
The proposed grant would
allow the University’s Center for
Gerontology to continue to train
people to conduct classes for pre
retirees, to follow up their work
with research into its results and
to test different ways of
presenting programs to those
about ready to retire.
Scott said no one was surprised
when the grant came through.
“We had been expecting a grant
for quite some time,” she said.
“We had even contacted the
Washington Regional Office to
see what was holding it up.”
In losing the grant, Francis
Scott said, the center would lose
its project director, Vincent
Manion. The training program
can probably be kept, she said,
but not the research.
“Fortunately,” Scott said, “we
had not started spending money.
The only things we had started
were talks with students who
were to be placed in the jobs of
three research assistants. We
McCall to participate ui
billboard razing, erection
Gov. Tom McCall will par
ticipate Thursday in razing of one
billboard along Interstate-5 and
erection of one of the first six
motorist information logo
rds.
So far 83 billboards along in
terstate highways throughout
Oregon have been taken down
under the provisions of the new
law.
All had been erected since
passage of the Federal Highway
eautification Act in 1965.
wners had signed waivers
agreeing that they could be taken
down without compensation when
the Act was implemented.
McCall will participate in
taking down the 84th sign, which
is owned by Standard Oil Co. The
company is to be paid for the sign
under the terms of the state and
federal laws, and has agreed to
accept whatever compensation is
later determined.
McCall is in Washington,
D.C. for a meeting with federal
highway officials to seek ap
proval of a compensation for
mula worked out by highway
officials and outdoor advertising
representatives in Oregon.
The Standard sign is along the
southbound lanes of Interstate 5
just north of the Wc-odbum in
terchange.
Logo boards erected under the
new state law provide space for
company insignia to advise
motorists of the types of services
available at the next freeway
exit.
McCall will tack up the last of
five gasoline company insignia
that will be placed on a logo
board ju3t north of the Champoeg
exit of Interstate 5, listing ser
vices at the Wilsonville in
terchange. Similar motorist
information signs identifying
lodging and food service
locations also are to be erected in
the months ahead.
The Wilsonville logo board is
one of six being erected this
month. The others are at the
Corvallis-Lebanon, Murder
Creek, Sunnyside-Tumer, Brooks
and Stafford Road interchanges
on Interstate 5.
The logo boards are placed
under the direction of the new
Travel Information Council,
headed by Portland attorney A1
Hampon. Companies pay a
yearly fee to the council for space
on the signs.
Part of that money will be used
to create sign plazas in rest areas
under another part of the high
way beautification law.
Billboard removal is under the
direction of the State Highway
Commission. The commission is
ready to take down additional
signs just as soon as a com
pensation formula is approved.
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were also organizing materials to
make a film for Gerontology.”
Scott called the mixup “very
irresponsible behavior on the
part of government agencies.”
Apparently, she said, the grant
had been intended for another
state group, the Oregon State
Legislative Interim Committee
on Social Service Evaluation of
Programs for the Aging and
Development of a Recommended
Legislative Response.
founder of the Berkeley Peace
Brigade, used the principles of
Satyagraha to help cool the
People’s Park crisis.
One method of teaching
Satyagraha, the peace game,
uses a continuous two day
exercise in which a team of
satyagraha trainees is con
fronted by a team of violent
aggressors within the context of a
previously agreed upon
“scenario.” The game's rules are
enforced by a team of umpires
who are also responsible for
starting and stopping the game.
They also remove anyone who, in
their opinion, is suffering a
serious adverse reaction to the
experience. This training for both
the aggressors and the resisters
will begin Thursday evening.
Terms such as “Soul force”
and “Truth force” have been
used to explain the practice of
satyagraha. The theory is that by
appealing to the good in your
adversary without threat of
violence, you force him to
communicate with you on a
higher level. In this way violence
is avoided.
The 10 weekly training sessions
will also be held if a minimum of
seven people commit themselves.
These sessions will focus on
application of satyagraha
principles to the participant's
daily lives. Participants will
explore the nature of their own
need for violence, and emphasis
will be placed on reconditioning
their reactions to constructive
solutions to conflict situations.
Cost will be $10 with $3 refun
dable at the end if attendance is
perfect.
Besides his experience with the
Berkeley Peace Brigade, and his
post at Berkeley. Bergel’s ex
perience includes being a par
ticipant and director of peace
games at the Mid-Peninsula Free
University near San Fransisco.
This summer he has been living
at a commune near Alsea with his
wife and son.
The entire program is being
sponsored by the World Without
War Council of Eugene. If in
terest is sufficient a Eugene
Peace Brigade will be formed to
continue training programs and
provide a group of trained
volunteers to help avoid
demonstrator-police clashes in
situations of civil disturbance.
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