Eyes on Freedom

3/12  at 7 p.m. and 4/6 at 6 p.m.

Organizer: Nelson Legacy Project

Community room Brattleboro Library  

The Nelson Legacy project invites you to a listening event “Eyes on Freedom”

A one hour audio documentary about Wally and Juanita Nelson produced by Carrie and Michael Kline of “Talking Across the Lines”

Eyes on Freedom is an audio tapestry that weaves together voices of people who knew and were influenced by the Nelsons. The audio documentary also includes vintage recordings of the Nelsons themselves.

Two upcoming listening / discussion sessions:

Wednesday March 12, 7PM – 8:45PM at Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro

Sunday April 6, 6PM – 8PM, Westminster West Church, 44, Church St, Westminster West Cosponsored by The Living Earth Action Group.

After decades of involvement in the civil rights and antiwar movements, Wally and Juanita Nelson lived just south of the Vermont border in Franklin County, Massachusetts starting in 1974. They lived there until Wally died in 2002 and Juanita in 2015. They had a significant impact on our region through their advocacy of local agriculture, land trusts, war tax refusal, and simple living.

Nonviolence was the umbrella concept that underscored everything they did. For the Nelsons, nonviolence represented so much more than a tactic to be used in a conflict situation. While it could include freedom rides, boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, war tax refusal, and other forms of noncooperation, it was also a way of life, a way of being in the world, a way of relating to people and to all of nature. It was a measuring stick they used to evaluate their actions and choices. Nonviolence encompassed dignity, humanity, truth, justice, and freedom and it was a lens through which to view the violence of our modern-day economic system.

Bob Bady (for more info, contact at bobbady@gmail.com)

Contact: bobbady@gmail.com

Website: https://www.nelsonhomestead.org