Indian-Nordic Encounters 1917-2006 - Det danske Fredsakademi

of Africa. Here a mass movement developed that followed the Gandhian ideas of nonviolent
resistance. As the printers were in the hands of whites that refused material from the party
representing the black majority in the country, the material had to be prepared in Sweden and
smuggled into the country. Stencils with pictures were made in Sweden to be used by the
UNIP party inside Zambia, 40 000 small coloured miniposters were spread all over the
country and three modern battery-driven modern megaphone equipments were smuggled in
somehow from Stockholm.
The young theosophists were involved in boycotting South African goods and had the ANC
secretary Nokwe as a guest at a TUG meeting in 1963. They were active against conscription
and consciousness objectors and the first to be allowed to do alternative civil service in
voluntary organisations, which was done at the UN Association. Two young theosophists,
Tom Alberts and Roland von Malmborg started a mass-scale civil disobedience campaign in
Stockholm filling every outdoor advertisement for tobacco with the word CANCER, a
struggle that finally after trials used as a political platform ended with a ban on tobacco
advertisements.
Antitobaccoactivists adding cancerinformation to advertising in the subway of Stockholm
The close connection to India was the main inspiration, changing the worldview among the
activists in TUG. The Fjellander siblings were children to Ingrid Nyborg-Fjellander, world
secretary 1957-1975 to Rukmini Devi Arundale, a leader in the theosophical Round Table,
Indian parliamentarian and founder of the Kalekshtra cultural centre outside Madras. 25
Arundale also held a leading position in the Vegetarian World Congress that in 1964 invited
25 Nyborg-Fjellander, Ingrid, Leende biskopen: en modern sökares äventyr, Stockholm: Larson, 1975, p48.
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