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Director of Administration at Girl Scouts of the USA. Lynn Cothren coordinates advances and facilitates and serves as one of Girl Scouts key staff members, playing a leadership role in organizing and implementing its programs and activities. Prior to his current position, Cothren was Special assistant to Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Founder of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, GA for twenty-three years. A well known Human Rights Activist in his own right, Cothren conceived and organized the successful protests against discrimination based on sexual orientation at Cracker Barrel Restaurants and many other campaigns for human rights. He has also served as a member of the Boards of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Atlanta Lambda Center and Founder of the Advisory Board of the Georgia Equality Project. A former vice-chair, co-chair and (2003Grand Marshall) of the Atlanta Pride Committee, Cothren has been credited as the driving force that increased Atlanta Pride’s turnout from 5,000 participants in the late 1980s to more than 320,000 participants in 1997. He has appeared as a spokesperson for GLBT rights on the Larry King Show, Oprah and ABC’s 20-20 and in interviews in the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post and Genre magazine. Class of 2003 American Institute for Managing Diversity. He has serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the Fund for Southern Communities, which annually disperses more than 700,000.00 in grants to human rights groups in the southeastern U.S. Mr. Cothren served as a convener and the program chair of the 40th Anniversary March on Washington commemorating the 1963 Great March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Mr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. Most recently he was Recipient of the 2005 ACLU Georgia and Bee Rich Wolf Award. 2006 and 2007 a Judge for the Public and Community Service. Emmy Awards
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How to Learn Nonviolent Resistance As King Did
Created by Shara Lili Esbenshade Feb 14, 2012 at 11:48am. Last updated by Shara Lili Esbenshade Feb 14, 2012.
Two Types of Demands?
Created by Shara Lili Esbenshade Jan 9, 2012 at 10:16pm. Last updated by Shara Lili Esbenshade Jan 11, 2012.
Why gender matters for building peace
Created by Shara Lili Esbenshade Dec 5, 2011 at 6:51am. Last updated by Shara Lili Esbenshade Jan 9, 2012.
Changing rifles into notebooks: what is the University of Peace?
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Gene Sharp & the History of Nonviolent Action
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I am a gandhian scholor & having deep knoledge in gandhian philosphy. Now I am working in Gandhi Research Foundation Jalgaon. I am editor of bio monthaly magzine 'Khoj Gandhiji Ki' I am requesting for friendship. By which we can do job for piece for world.