June 12 tonight I filled in for Joya Dass as a moderator for a documentary film titled From India With Love, this film is based on six Americans from diverse backgrounds who embarked on an epic 10-day journey to India in March 2016. The common denominator that binds them in this story is their unique exposure to violence and their desire to reinvigorate the conversation about nonviolence in America. The group included: a single mother whose son was brutally murdered in a tragic school shooting (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) and her best friend, a former gang member (Los Angeles, California), an educator (Newark, New Jersey), a social entrepreneur and a music scholar (both advocates for the Movement for Black Lives Matter from Oakland, California). The film shows how this trip to India renews their spirit and reaffirms their desire to open up a conversation about nonviolence in the United States. The film is inspired by the transformational journey to India taken by Rev Martin Luther King Jr. in 1959.
I encourage all of you to please watch this film, it is sends a awe inspiring message.
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