Twin Cities Nonviolent has had an incredible year and we are looking forward to more great works in 2026. With your help, we can move toward a more peace-filled and nonviolent world. Please join us in this life-changing work – we appreciate your support. 

The Twin Citites Nonviolent Board of Directors will hold its 2025 Annual Meeting on December 13. The meeting is open to the public. Please RSVP to Karen Olson Johnson.

There is a rally to prevent gun violence today at Carondelet Village Auditorium, 3:30 pm to 5pm. Address is 525 Fairview Avenue S, St. Paul, MN 55116

Many excellent speakers will be in attendance.

Update on parking:

We are looking forward to seeing all of you today in the Carondelet Village 2nd floor auditorium for our rally. Randolph Ave is torn up and not sure how accessible the parking lots off Randolph will be. However the lots on Fairview are open and Fairview is open from Randolph past Carondelet Village to access them. It should be a great program. See you there at 3:30 pm!

The Center for Broadcast Journalism, reporter Jasmine McBride, wrote an article about Twin Cities Nonviolent’s inaugural speed networking event at Summit Brewery. On the evening of the Summer Solstice, 40 some climate and justice organizations very chaotically roamed from table to table finding groups of people they had never talked to before. 

They shared their passions and advocacy efforts for our communities and our only home. It was a smashing success! Much of the feedback was about how much fun people had and how much they learned about the organizations that were represented. Stay tuned for a repeat performance!

Our founder, the Rev. Dr. Harry J. Bury, is a retired Roman Catholic priest of the Saint Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese and Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior and Administration with Case Western Reserve University. He taught at Baldwin Wallace University from 1980 to 2010, and consulted not only in the U.S. but also in numerous other countries. 

Bury’s activism started as a new priest serving at the University of Minnesota’s Newman Center in the 1960s when young Catholic men asked him to write letters for them as Conscientious Objectors for the Vietnam War. In 1971, at the request of some Vietnamese, he and three others chained themselves to the U.S. Embassy gate in Saigon to protest the Vietnam War. In 2005, he was abducted in Gaza while serving as a human shield between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian citizens. 

Fr. Bury is also one of the coordinators of the nationwide Nonviolent Cities Project coordinated by Pace e Bene’s Campaign Nonviolence. And Fr. Bury founded Twin Cities Nonviolent and heads up that organization’s work in Saint Paul-Minneapolis and surrounding areas. Twin Cites Nonviolent develops the 12 Days Free From Violence program every September and partners throughout the year to reduce violence in its many forms.

Fr. Bury, in collaboration with Will Wallace of Nonviolent Peaceforce, together worked with former gang members of North Minneapolis (The Brothers) on a groundbreaking project referred to as “Cop-Free Schools” whereby members of The Brothers, well-trained in nonviolence methodologies, created and implemented nonviolent security at Ascension Catholic School in North Minneapolis—a model that will be implemented in other North Minneapolis schools by Twin Cities Nonviolent. 

Fr. Bury believes in dialogue and compromise between people in the community and around the world. In his 93 years, he’s never hesitated to “risk the worst in order to achieve the best.” 

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