page_title: Lanza del Vasto
section_title: Nonviolent struggles
hierarchical_section_title: Lanza del Vasto / Nonviolent struggles
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: De gauche à droite, Jean-Marie Muller, Lanza del Vasto, Jacques Pâris de Bollardière sur le plateau du Larzac pendant la lutte contre l'extension du camp militaire. English: Left to right, Jean-Marie Muller, Lanza del Vasto, Jacques de Bollardière on the Larzac during the struggle against the military camp extension.
context_page_description: Lanza del Vasto was an Italian philosopher, poet, artist, Catholic and nonviolent activist.
  He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Murcia, Spain.
  A western disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he worked for inter-religious dialogue, spiritual renewal, ecological activism and nonviolence.
context_section_description: In 1957, during the Algerian War, del Vasto started with other well-known people (General de Bollardière, François Mauriac, Robert Barrat, etc.) a movement of protest against torture. He fasted for 21 days. In 1958, he demonstrated against the nuclear power plant in Marcoule, France, which produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.
  In 1963, he fasted for 40 days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council, asking Pope John XXIII to stand against war - "Pour demander au Pape de prendre position contre la guerre."
  In 1965 he was at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, talking about non-violence during weeks with the students.
  In 1972, he supported the farmers of the Larzac plateau against the extension of a military base while fasting for 15 days. In 1974 a community of the Ark settled in the Larzac in a farmhouse bought by the army.
  In 1976, he participated in the demonstrations against the building of the fast breeder reactor Superphénix at Creys-Malville, Isère (France).
caption: Left to right, Jean-Marie Muller, Lanza del Vasto, Jacques de la Bollardière on the Larzac during the struggle against the military camp extension.
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