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December 2, 2016

The KKK has announced a march. How do we respond?

On November 10, 2016, The Loyal White Knights of Pelham, a North Carolina branch of the Ku Klux Klan, announced a “Victory Klavalkade Klan Parade” to take place on Dec. 3rd, 2016.  The stated purpose of the march is to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory and the sense of validation they have gained from it. As […]

Filed Under: Observations, Peace Work, politics Tagged With: KKK, Klan March, Klan rally, Ku Klux Klan, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, responding to racism, third way

February 20, 2015

Rosa Parks’ OTHER arrest—Feb. 22, 1956

Almost no one knows about the second time Rosa Parks was arrested, and that context changes her story significantly.

Filed Under: Peace Work, politics Tagged With: activist, activists, arrest, creative non-violence, hero, movement, narrative, nonviolence, organizing, Rosa Parks, story, Worldchanging, Worldchanging 101

March 27, 2013

Klansmen, Crips, Clowns, Memphis and Me

This Saturday the Ku Klux Klan is promising to have one of its largest rallies ever in Memphis, Tennessee. I’m headed there too. The Memphis park formerly known as Forrest Park, after Civil War general, slave trader and first Grand Wizard of the KKK Nathan Bedford Forrest, now bears the innocuous moniker “Health Sciences Park” […]

Filed Under: Peace Work, politics Tagged With: CCC, community, Conference on Race and Equality, Coup Clutz Clowns, Forrest Park, KKK, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Memphis, Memphis Unite, nonviolence, protest, rally, Tennessee, White Flour

September 21, 2012

White Flour is now a video!

Here’s a way to hear and see this story, that doesn’t require buying the book. Please feel free to share it in any context you like, virtual or actual.  

Filed Under: In the News, Peace Work, poetry, politics Tagged With: activism, Clowns, Coup Clutz Clowns, David LaMotte, KKK, non-violence, nonviolence, street theater

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yellow cover page of book, You Are Changing the World Whether You Like It Or Not, by David LaMotte

Publishing with Chalice Press

May 2, 2022

Big news to share! I have signed a publishing deal with Chalice Press to publish a new edition of my book Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness.  The new book, with significant … Read More

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"The cover art is by artist Scott Neely, who doodled this guitar drawing while actually sitting at a concert of mine, listening to me play my instrumental song Shadows."
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