A story in today's Boston Globe mentions that a highly regarded academic institute is located right here in East Boston. The Albert Einsten Institution was founded in 1983 by Dr. Gene Sharp to defend "freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action" around the world. Dr. Sharp lives in Eastie and apparently the AEI is a two-person think tank that is run out of his house. The organization uses an East Boston P.O. box as an address.
Sharp appears to have been involved in non-violent protest activities in China, Israel, Russia and other global hot spots and to have written extensively on the subject. He is described by some as the world's foremost authority on non-violent political action. Last month's Progressive had an interview with him. Though it's not available on the magazine's web site, I did find it on a blog in a March 10 entry.
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