Gene Stoltzfus
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Mervin Eugene "Gene" Stoltzfus (February 1, 1940 – March 10, 2010) was an American peace activist, international development worker, founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams
(CPT), and pioneer in the international peace team movement. Drawing upon his Mennonite
roots in pacifism
and conscientious objection
, Stoltzfus played a critical role in the anti-war movement among American aid workers in Vietnam in the 1960s, and helped shape diverse efforts of the global peace and justice community over the next forty years. As long-time director of CPT, he developed a practical vision of international justice-making through the use of grassroots faith-based peace teams, trained in the discipline of nonviolent direct action.
. Stoltzfus attended Eastern Mennonite High School, serving as senior class president, and Goshen College
, graduating in 1962 with a B.A. in sociology. He first became attuned to issues of social inequality, he recalled, while working with migrant laborers at a poultry processing plant in Goshen, IN.
(IVS), an organization specializing in agricultural development, hamlet education, and community organizing. As the Vietnam War
ground on, Stoltzfus's circle of colleagues became increasingly uncomfortable with the role of Western aid organizations and with the violent deaths of IVSers such as Peter Hunting. Stoltzfus and several colleagues dramatized their frustration by destroying their privileged "PX" cards used for purchasing goods from defense department-operated stores, and voting down IVS acceptance of an offer for generous development funding from the Asia Foundation
(subsequently exposed in the US media in 1967 as a front organization for the CIA).
Stoltzfus submitted his resignation from IVS in September, 1967, followed by three senior (and eight additional junior) IVS colleagues, including country director Don Luce. The four released a public letter to Lyndon B. Johnson
, cosigned by 49 IVS staffers and volunteers, declaring the war "an overwhelming atrocity" which undermined IVS's humanitarian work. The action, being the first public anti-war protest by the American community in Vietnam, was covered on the front page of the New York Times.
, he worked to expose the existence of tiger cages at Côn Sơn Island prison, and later provided leadership for the Indochina Mobile Education Project, a photo exhibit which appeared in hundreds of public spaces across the country.
Returning to his Mennonite roots, Stoltzfus completed his M.Div. in 1973 at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
in Elkhart, IN, and worked in Newton, KS the following three years as director of Mennonite Voluntary Service. He served as a staffer on a U.S. congressional delegation to Vietnam in early 1975, helping to arrange for Bella Abzug
, Pete McCloskey
, and others to meet with Vietnamese civilians who had been directly affected by the war. Congress subsequently refused additional funding for the war effort, effectively ending the US military presence in Vietnam.
In 1975 Stoltzfus married Dorothy Friesen, whom he had met in seminary, and the two became Mennonite Central Committee
country co-directors in the Philippines from 1977 to 1979. During the time of martial law under the Ferdinand Marcos
regime, they worked on a variety of grassroots human rights projects, such as an organizing effort among the T'boli to resist the building in their tribal area of a dam funded by the Asian Development Bank
, and a study of the local effects of the multinational fruit company Castle & Cooke, Inc.
), an experiential and urban immersion study program for students from Midwestern colleges. Friesen served as director for Synapses, a human rights and international solidarity organization they started and operated out of a house in the Pilsen
neighborhood. The couple committed themselves to living on an income below the taxable level in order to avoid paying war taxes, and emerged as leaders in the Chicago Pledge of Resistance network, which designed creative street theater and civil disobedience actions to protest US involvement in the wars in Central America. In 1988, for example, Stoltzfus was arrested, along with activist Kathy Kelly
and 11 others, for singing Central America-theme Christmas carols in the shopping mall area of Chicago's Water Tower Place
.
Stoltzfus continued to travel internationally, serving on a delegation to Nicaragua that resulted in the formation in 1983 of Witness for Peace
, and returning to the Philippines to be present on the streets of Manila during the People Power Revolution of 1986. He served for a brief time as interim director of American Friends Service Committee
.
.
In 1988 Stoltzfus became the first director of CPT, an organization initiated by historic peace churches
to place volunteers trained in nonviolent action in conflict zones around the world. Stoltzfus developed a rigorous training program, established a volunteer pool made up of full-time "corps" members and part-time "reservists," and sought out international partners who were developing the use of nonviolent tactics to reduce levels of violence, militarism, and structural injustice in their communities. Over the next 17 years, Stoltzfus established projects in Haiti during the time of the US-backed coup over Jean-Bertrand Aristide
, in the West Bank
city of Hebron
beginning in 1995 after the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre
, in Chiapas
after the Acteal Massacre
of 1997, in Colombia accompanying displaced peoples, in Iraq prior to the 2003 US invasion, and at various locations in North America, especially partnering with indigenous peoples.
In 1990, as the Gulf War
was gearing up, Stoltzfus co-led a delegation to Iraq which, along with similar efforts by Muhammad Ali
, resulted in the release of 14 Western hostages. In a trip to Iraq after the US invasion in 2003, Stoltzfus interviewed family members of Iraqi detainees outside of the Abu Ghraib prison
in Bahgdad. In 2003-04, CPT carried out critical background and deposition work, cited by Seymour Hersh
in The New Yorker
, to expose Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
.
in a civil disobedience protest over recent drone attacks in Pakistan
. Stoltzfus died on March 10, 2010 of heart failure while riding his motor-assisted bicycle near his home.
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Christian Peacemaker Teams is an international organization set up to support teams of peace workers in conflict areas around the world. These teams believe that they can lower the levels of violence through nonviolent direct action, human rights documentation, and nonviolence training. CPT sums...
(CPT), and pioneer in the international peace team movement. Drawing upon his Mennonite
Mennonite
The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...
roots in pacifism
Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition to war and violence. The term "pacifism" was coined by the French peace campaignerÉmile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress inGlasgow in 1901.- Definition :...
and conscientious objection
Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religion....
, Stoltzfus played a critical role in the anti-war movement among American aid workers in Vietnam in the 1960s, and helped shape diverse efforts of the global peace and justice community over the next forty years. As long-time director of CPT, he developed a practical vision of international justice-making through the use of grassroots faith-based peace teams, trained in the discipline of nonviolent direct action.
Early Life, 1940-1962
Stoltzfus was born in Aurora, Ohio in 1940 to Elmer and Orpha (Beechy) Stoltzfus. His father was a farmer, pastor, and area bishop in the Mennonite ChurchMennonite Church USA
The Mennonite Church USA, or MCUSA, is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States. Although the organization is a recent 2002 merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church, the body has roots in the Radical Reformation of the 16th century...
. Stoltzfus attended Eastern Mennonite High School, serving as senior class president, and Goshen College
Goshen College
Goshen College, is a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana, USA with an enrollment of around 1,000 students. The college is accredited by North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities...
, graduating in 1962 with a B.A. in sociology. He first became attuned to issues of social inequality, he recalled, while working with migrant laborers at a poultry processing plant in Goshen, IN.
International Voluntary Services, Vietnam, 1963-1967
After college Stoltzfus served for four years in Vietnam with International Voluntary ServicesInternational Voluntary Services
International Voluntary Services, Inc., was a private nonprofit organization that placed American volunteers in development projects in Third World countries. IVS had volunteers in Algeria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Laos, Nepal, South Vietnam and other countries...
(IVS), an organization specializing in agricultural development, hamlet education, and community organizing. As the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
ground on, Stoltzfus's circle of colleagues became increasingly uncomfortable with the role of Western aid organizations and with the violent deaths of IVSers such as Peter Hunting. Stoltzfus and several colleagues dramatized their frustration by destroying their privileged "PX" cards used for purchasing goods from defense department-operated stores, and voting down IVS acceptance of an offer for generous development funding from the Asia Foundation
Asia Foundation
The Asia Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization professing a commitment to "development of a peaceful, prosperous, just, and open Asia-Pacific region." The Foundation supports Asian initiatives to improve governance, law, and civil society; women’s empowerment; economic reform...
(subsequently exposed in the US media in 1967 as a front organization for the CIA).
Stoltzfus submitted his resignation from IVS in September, 1967, followed by three senior (and eight additional junior) IVS colleagues, including country director Don Luce. The four released a public letter to Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
, cosigned by 49 IVS staffers and volunteers, declaring the war "an overwhelming atrocity" which undermined IVS's humanitarian work. The action, being the first public anti-war protest by the American community in Vietnam, was covered on the front page of the New York Times.
Setting Down Activist Roots, 1968-1980
After resigning from IVS, Stoltzfus spoke of his Vietnam experiences to audiences across Australia, New Zealand, and North America. He participated in protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and worked from 1967-72 on legislative issues in Washington, DC. Employed for a time with the United Methodist ChurchGeneral Board of Church and Society
The United Methodist Board of Church and Society is a general agency of the United Methodist Church. It is one of four international general program boards of The United Methodist Church as set out the UMC Book of Discipline. The General Board has headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C....
, he worked to expose the existence of tiger cages at Côn Sơn Island prison, and later provided leadership for the Indochina Mobile Education Project, a photo exhibit which appeared in hundreds of public spaces across the country.
Returning to his Mennonite roots, Stoltzfus completed his M.Div. in 1973 at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary is an accredited Christian seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, affiliated with Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA....
in Elkhart, IN, and worked in Newton, KS the following three years as director of Mennonite Voluntary Service. He served as a staffer on a U.S. congressional delegation to Vietnam in early 1975, helping to arrange for Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug was an American lawyer, Congresswoman, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus...
, Pete McCloskey
Pete McCloskey
Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. is a former Republican politician from the U.S. state of California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President...
, and others to meet with Vietnamese civilians who had been directly affected by the war. Congress subsequently refused additional funding for the war effort, effectively ending the US military presence in Vietnam.
In 1975 Stoltzfus married Dorothy Friesen, whom he had met in seminary, and the two became Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite Central Committee
The Mennonite Central Committee is a relief, service, and peace agency representing 15 Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Amish bodies in North America. The U.S. headquarters are in Akron, Pennsylvania, the Canadian in Winnipeg, Manitoba.-History:...
country co-directors in the Philippines from 1977 to 1979. During the time of martial law under the Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
regime, they worked on a variety of grassroots human rights projects, such as an organizing effort among the T'boli to resist the building in their tribal area of a dam funded by the Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...
, and a study of the local effects of the multinational fruit company Castle & Cooke, Inc.
Castle & Cooke
Castle & Cooke, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that was once part of the Big Five companies in territorial Hawaii. The company at one time did most of its business in agriculture...
Chicago: Urban Life Center and Synapses, 1981-1987
In 1981 Stoltzfus became director of the Urban Life Center (now the Chicago Center for Urban Life and CultureChicago Center for Urban Life and Culture
Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture is the only nonprofit and independent experiential educational program for college students in the United States. It was established in the late 1960s as "Urban Life Center" by a group of college professors and college students. It was incorporated in...
), an experiential and urban immersion study program for students from Midwestern colleges. Friesen served as director for Synapses, a human rights and international solidarity organization they started and operated out of a house in the Pilsen
Pilsen
Plzeň, or Pilsen is a city in western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Plzeň Region and the fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic. It is located about 90 km west of Prague at the confluence of four rivers—the Radbuza, the Mže, the Úhlava, and the Úslava—which...
neighborhood. The couple committed themselves to living on an income below the taxable level in order to avoid paying war taxes, and emerged as leaders in the Chicago Pledge of Resistance network, which designed creative street theater and civil disobedience actions to protest US involvement in the wars in Central America. In 1988, for example, Stoltzfus was arrested, along with activist Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and currently a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She has been described as "probably the most respected leader in the...
and 11 others, for singing Central America-theme Christmas carols in the shopping mall area of Chicago's Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place
Water Tower Place is a large urban, mixed-use development comprising a shopping mall and 74 story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The complex is located at 835 North Michigan Avenue, along the Magnificent Mile. It is named after the nearby Chicago Water Tower...
.
Stoltzfus continued to travel internationally, serving on a delegation to Nicaragua that resulted in the formation in 1983 of Witness for Peace
Witness for Peace
Witness for Peace is an United States-based activist organization founded in 1983 that opposed the Reagan administration's support of the Nicaraguan Contras, alleging widespread atrocities by these counterrevolutionary groups. Witness for Peace brought U.S. citizens to Nicaragua to see the effects...
, and returning to the Philippines to be present on the streets of Manila during the People Power Revolution of 1986. He served for a brief time as interim director of American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee is a Religious Society of Friends affiliated organization which works for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world...
.
Director, Christian Peacemaker Teams, 1988-2004
Also see main article, Christian Peacemaker TeamsChristian Peacemaker Teams
Christian Peacemaker Teams is an international organization set up to support teams of peace workers in conflict areas around the world. These teams believe that they can lower the levels of violence through nonviolent direct action, human rights documentation, and nonviolence training. CPT sums...
.
In 1988 Stoltzfus became the first director of CPT, an organization initiated by historic peace churches
Peace churches
Peace churches are Christian churches, groups or communities advocating Christian pacifism. The term historic peace churches refers specifically only to three church groups among pacifist churches: Church of the Brethren, Mennonites including the Amish, and Religious Society of Friends and has...
to place volunteers trained in nonviolent action in conflict zones around the world. Stoltzfus developed a rigorous training program, established a volunteer pool made up of full-time "corps" members and part-time "reservists," and sought out international partners who were developing the use of nonviolent tactics to reduce levels of violence, militarism, and structural injustice in their communities. Over the next 17 years, Stoltzfus established projects in Haiti during the time of the US-backed coup over Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian former Catholic priest and politician who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies...
, in the West Bank
West Bank
The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
city of Hebron
Hebron
Hebron , is located in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judean Mountains, it lies 930 meters above sea level. It is the largest city in the West Bank and home to around 165,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter...
beginning in 1995 after the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred when Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli settler and member of the far-right Israeli Kach movement, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian Muslims praying inside the Ibrahim Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs site in Hebron in the...
, in Chiapas
Chiapas
Chiapas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas is one of the 31 states that, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 118 municipalities and its capital city is Tuxtla Gutierrez. Other important cites in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las...
after the Acteal Massacre
Acteal massacre
The Acteal Massacre was a massacre of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic indigenous townspeople, including a number of children and pregnant women, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas , in the small village of Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican...
of 1997, in Colombia accompanying displaced peoples, in Iraq prior to the 2003 US invasion, and at various locations in North America, especially partnering with indigenous peoples.
In 1990, as the Gulf War
Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
was gearing up, Stoltzfus co-led a delegation to Iraq which, along with similar efforts by Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...
, resulted in the release of 14 Western hostages. In a trip to Iraq after the US invasion in 2003, Stoltzfus interviewed family members of Iraqi detainees outside of the Abu Ghraib prison
Abu Ghraib prison
The Baghdad Central Prison, formerly known as Abu Ghraib prison is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km west of Baghdad. It was built by British contractors in the 1950s....
in Bahgdad. In 2003-04, CPT carried out critical background and deposition work, cited by Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Myron Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters...
in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, to expose Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
Beginning in 2004, human rights violations in the form of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture, rape, sodomy, and homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to public attention...
.
Retirement Years, 2004-2010
Stoltzfus retired to Fort Frances, ON in 2004, learning to make twig furniture and natural jewelry, and writing regularly for his online blog, Peace Probe. He went on numerous speaking tours, including trips to Japan and Europe, and a Wheels of Justice bus tour throughout the Midwest. He helped lead a series of "Shine the Light" protests at US government facilities in Washington, DC after the CPT hostage crisis in Iraq, advocated for rights for First Nations communities through participation in the Right Relations Circle in Ft. Frances, and traveled to West Virginia to support groups protesting mountaintop removal mining. In connection with a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009, Stoltzfus became increasingly interested in researching the use of Predator drone warfare. In September 2009 he was arrested at Creech Air Force BaseCreech Air Force Base
Creech Air Force Base , formerly known as Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, is a United States Air Force base located one mile north of the central business district of Indian Springs, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is about northwest of Las Vegas and northwest of Nellis Air...
in a civil disobedience protest over recent drone attacks in Pakistan
Drone attacks in Pakistan
The United States government, led by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division, has made a series of attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan since 2004 using drones . These attacks are part of the US' War on Terrorism campaign, seeking to defeat Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants...
. Stoltzfus died on March 10, 2010 of heart failure while riding his motor-assisted bicycle near his home.
Education
- B.A., Goshen College, 1962, in sociology
- M.A., American University, 1970, in Asian/Southeast Asian Studies
- M.Div., Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 1973
Quotes
- "A good nonviolent action is like a great work of art."
- "When I read the Bible I saw Jesus doing creative interventions, healings and actions that made the moral choices visible. I began to ask myself if I was as willing to die for my convictions as Vietnamese and American soldiers all around me were being asked to do. I was looking for a way to say yes to life instead of operating by static lines drawn by our church over the centuries. Later when I returned to theological studies, I realized my question was not a new question. During the most dynamic periods of creativity our churches had tried many ways to point to a different path. In fact many had died for their choices. I was coming to see myself as operating in that stream."
- "From India to Eastern Europe, from democratic movements in China to freedom walks in the USA, from little known villages in Afghanistan to farmers and fisherfolks in Colombia, people have discovered the power of nonviolent action… A few of us may be learning to listen, and to read these signs of the times."
- "It will take an expanding worldwide but grassroots culture reaching beyond national borders to fashion a body of Christian peacemakers to be an effective power to block the guns and be part of transforming each impending tragedy of war. Little by little there will be change."
Published Writings
- "Seeing the City", The Other Side (January–February, 1985).
- "Lifetime Peacemaker Award Speech", Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church, USA, July 7, 2003.
- Peace Probe blog (peaceprobe.wordpress.com), May 24, 2005 – March 13, 2010. Reprints or reposts of blog posts indicated below:
- "Shine the Light: Seeing the Signs of the Times", Hyattsville Mennonite Church, January 15, 2006.
- "Guilt--one of many voices", Geez, Issue 5 (Spring, 2007), pp. 18–20.
- "The Impact of War on Poverty", Thai Binh Red Cross, June 18, 2007.
- "Creating space", Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church, USA, September 3, 2007.
- "Burma Reflection: Monks, soldiers, and civilians on the march", morepraxis.org.au, September 28, 2007.
- "Monks and Amish", DreamSeeker Magazine Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 10–12.
- "About waterboarding, Mr. President", The Mennonite (July 8, 2008).
- "Franz Jägerstätter - A Great Austrian Hero Who Died for Peace", Preda Foundation, July 31, 2008.
- "Gaza: Just Such a Time as This", Root and Branch: Radical Christian Vision Network, January 8, 2009.
- "Holy Week at Creech Air Force Base", Voices for Creative Nonviolence, April 7, 2009.
- "Peacemaking in Pakhtoon Country", Sahar: The Voices of Pashtuns (December, 2009), pp. 21–23.
- "In Defence of Santa Claus", Ekklesia, December 23, 2009.
- Create Space for Peace: Forty Years of Peacemaking, Gene Stoltzfus, 1940-2010, Dorothy Friesen and Marilen Abesamis, eds., Deerfield Beach, FL: Trimark Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9829702-4-9
Audio on the Web
- "Lifetime Peacemaker Award Speech", Peace and Justice Support Network of the Mennonite Church, USA, July 7, 2003.
- Radio interview, KOOP 91.7 FM (Austin, TX), October 3, 2008.
- "Compassion in Action", Wisdom in Nature: Contemplative and Ecological Community Activism (UK) monthly forum, January, 2009.
- Public address, Cooke Centenary Church, Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 25, 2009.
- Chapel address, St. Olaf College, Northfield,MN, November 3, 2009.
Video
- "Gene in Belfast, Ireland, sharing CPT Iraq's Direct, Nonviolent Action Case Study", by Wilson Tan and Big Red Button, February, 2009.
- "Gene Stoltzfus Memorial", by Mark Frey with Philip Stoltzfus, April 8, 2010.
- "Gene Stoltzfus on Motor-Assisted Bicycle", by Philip Stoltzfus, April 13, 2010.
- "Create Space for Peace book trailer", by Big Red Button, January, 2011.