Committee for Nonviolent Action

  • Arthur Harvey: June 8, 1932 – January 17, 2026

    Arthur Harvey was born in Ridgewood, NJ on June 8, 1932. He was 10 when his parents divorced, so he was sent to live with several families at the School of Living, a back-to-the-land communal movement then based in Ohio. A few years later he moved back east to live with his mother in New…

  • The Personal and the Political of an Early Peace Walk

    The late 1950s and early ‘60s ban-the-bomb marches between Aldermaston and London during Easter weekends were an inspiration to me. I read about them in the onion-skin copies of Peace News airmailed from London to the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) office in New York. In 1962 CNVA organized Trident Walks for Nuclear Disarmament, named for three marches from Chicago, Hanover,…

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