"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducated the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the person who is not afraid anymore." César Chávez.

Namaste dear beloved brothers and sisters,

May this email find you well and full of courage, understanding and love.

The last nonviolent direct action at the Anthropology library will certainly set the tone for our future acts of civil disobedience: we achieved most of our goals and respected all our agreements.

Our movement is showing solid signs of maturity.

Even in the face of provocation, like when brother Frank Jaques from the police, broke (for a few minutes) our agreement and shared intentions of _no weapons_ inside of the library, our police liaison Be The Peace team remained respectful and active for our movement is about embracing human dignity. For future acts of civil disobedience, I only hope that this incident will serve as a lesson to avoid harming the trust we are building among all parties.

This time the siblings of the administration of the university decided to not enforce the law of men but to follow the law of love. This only encourage us to escalate our movement to open and reclaim more libraries and more public spaces. Even if the administration decides in the future to enforce the law of men, which most of the times is in fragrant disobedience with the law of love, we will be ready to take the consequences of our actions with courage, love, dignity and respect.

Today, I celebrate that, in some degree, the siblings of the administration are inspired, by our actions, to follow the path of harmony with the Universal Love.

But not only them followed the law of love: from the solidarity shown by librarians from all over the campus (including a delicious surprise breakfast on Saturday) to the support of sister Christina of Campus Life and Leadership; from the gentle heartfelt talks with the Anthropology library staff to the respectful communication with sister Margo and brother Marc of the UCPD; from silent non-stop studying, writing articles and papers to poetry slam and intense alive teach-ins; from connecting deeply with our comradely siblings in the movement to compassionate chats many of us had with a few so called homeless people who finally found a warm home, for a few hours, in our hearts and in the pages of a progressive revolutionary book.

This is only the beginning. If we want our nonviolent direct actions of civil disobedience to be successful in the long term, we must practice them again, and again and again. If possible, every single week until the incongruous law disappears from our universities; until the self-reliant people can rule the libraries with the law of love.

I look forward to continuing the transformation of our public education.

May all become courageous, compassionate and wise.

If you want to be a rebel, be kind. Human-kind, be both.
Planetizing the movement of the Ahimsa (R)evolution from some corner of our round borderless country...
Your always brother,
Pancho