{"id":149545,"date":"2019-12-16T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=149545"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T11:33:55","slug":"ela-gandhi-on-nonviolence-and-the-mahatma-her-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/12\/ela-gandhi-on-nonviolence-and-the-mahatma-her-grandfather\/","title":{"rendered":"Ela Gandhi on Nonviolence and the Mahatma, Her Grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>14 Oct 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Nearly 300 students, staff, and community members gathered to listen to Ms. Ela Gandhi. Ms. Gandhi, a peace activist and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, spoke about the power and peace and transformation in the 21st century.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRY4u6TaunA<br \/>\n<em><strong>Ela Gandhi is a member of the<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, a granddaughter of the Mahatma and a native and resident of South Africa. She has been placed under house arrest for 8 years for political activism and was a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2003. She runs a newspaper and researches and collects information on Mahatma Gandhi and other heroes of the liberation struggle to compile them into documentaries for purposes of research and education. Serves in a voluntary capacity as:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Hon. International President of World Council on Religions for Peace<\/em><em><br \/>\n-Chancellor of Durban University of Technology<br \/>\n-Chairperson of Satyagraha and Trustee of Gandhi Development Trust<br \/>\n-Member of African National Congress\u2019 Commission on Religious Affairs<br \/>\n-Vice Chair of International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON)<br \/>\n-Board member of the Legal Aid Board (LAB).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 Oct 2019 &#8211; Nearly 300 students, staff, and community members gathered to listen to Ms. Ela Gandhi. Ms. Gandhi, a peace activist and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, spoke about the power and peace and transformation in the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[1673,524,444],"class_list":["post-149545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-ela-gandhi","tag-gandhi","tag-nonviolence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}