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BOMBAY SARVODAYA MANDAL
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GANDHI BOOK CENTRE
Tel: 2387 2061
FAX No. 2269 6992
299, Tardeo Road,
Charity Public Trust Reg. No. F 3633 (Bom.) dt. 29-7-75 Nana Chowk,
Mumbai 400 007,
Email : info@mkgandhi.org Website: www.mkgandhi.org
India
Date:
100 Years of Non-Violence
Gandhi and Sept. 11, 1906-2006
Prepare to be inspired!
This Sept.11 commemorate the birth of the non-violent movement
INVITATION
100 YEARS OF GANDHI’S SATYAGRAHA
9/11 Programme; screening of the film ‘A Force More Powerful’
Dear friend,
To commemorate 100 years of Gandhi’s Satyagraha on 11 th September 1906 in South
Africa, ‘A Force More Powerful’ documentary film produced in USA will be screen by
Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal, Citizen for Peace, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan and Pakistan-India
Peoples’ Forum. This kind of film screening is probably the first time in India. The film
produced on the subject/themes of Civil Disobedience, Non-violence resistance/movement
and social justice based on real stories in different countries and people like Mahatma Gandhi,
Martin Luther King and others.
Shri Narayan Desai, a well known Gandhian will be guest of honor.
PROGRAMME DETAILS
Date : Monday, 11 th September 2006
Venue : Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan,
K.M. Munshi Road, Chowpatty,
Mumbai – 400 007
Time : 6.00 p.m. onwards
PLEASE BRING THIS INVITATION LETTER FOR ENTRY TO THE PROGRAMME.
For more information, contact: 2387 2061 / 98208 57034 / 98208 61634 /
98201 98605.

9/11 Programme - 100 years of Satyagraha
Mumbai will see a different 9/11 this year. It was on 11 September 1906, hundred years
ago, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, addressed a meeting at Johanesburg demanding equal
rights for Indians. The meeting, ultimately, changed the human history. It was the birth of
Satyagraha, Non-violence resistant. Satyagraha mobilised millions of people all over the world.
In the violent world, people realised the importance of Satyagraha to fight against violence
through non-violent way.
About the Film
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict explores how popular
movements have battled entrenched regimes or military forces with weapons very different
from guns and bullets. Strikes, boycotts, and other actions were used as aggressive measures
to battle opponents and win concessions. Petitions, parades, walkouts and demonstrations
roused public support for the resisters. Forms of non-co-operation including boycotts and
civil disobedience helped subvert the operations of government. And direct intervention in
the form of sit-ins, nonviolent sabotage, and blockades frustrated many rulers’ efforts to
suppress people.
The historical results were massive: tyrants were toppled, governments were overthrown,
and occupying armies were impeded and political systems that withheld human rights were
shattered. Entire societies were transformed, suddenly or gradually, by nonviolent resistance
that destroyed opponents’ ability to control events. These events and the ideas underlying
nonviolent action are the focus of this three-hour documentary television production.
The television series begins in 1907 with a young Mohandas Gandhi, the most influential
leader in the history of nonviolent resistance, as he rouses his fellow Indians living in South
Africa to a nonviolent struggle against racial oppression. The series recounts Mohandas
Gandhi’s civil disobedience campaign against the British in India; the sit-ins and boycotts that
desegregated downtown Nashville, Tennessee; the nonviolent campaign against apartheid in
South Africa; Danish resistance to the Nazis in World War II; the rise of Solidarity in Poland;
and the momentous victory for democracy in Chile. A Force More Powerful also introduces
several extraordinary, but largely unknown individuals who drove these great events forward,
and let them tell their stories.
Few who relied on nonviolent sanctions in the twentieth century did so because of a principled
attachment to nonviolence. For some, arms were unavailable as a way to fight. Others had
seen a violent insurrection fail, at devastating cost to life and property. But they had no
desire to be passive: they wanted passionately to overturn the rulers or the laws that subjected
them.
The greatest misconception about conflict is that violence is the ultimate form of power,
surpassing other methods of advancing a just cause or defeating injustice. But in conflict
after conflict throughout the twentieth century, people have proven otherwise. At a time
when violence is still too often used by those who seek power, A Force More Powerful
dramatizes how ordinary people throughout the world, working against all kinds of opponents,
have taken up nonviolent weapons and prevailed.
A Force More Powerful was also released as a 110-minute 35 mm film which told three
stories of nonviolent conflict - Gandhi’s independence movement in India, the Nashville
sit-ins, and the consumer boycotts in South Africa. It played in film festivals nationwide.
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