Martial Arts

Peace, Justice and the Martial Arts

The martial arts have had a profound influence both on Rick Wilson’s life, and his work for social and economic justice during the past twenty years. Rick, area director of the Middle Atlantic Region’s West Virginia Economic Justice Project, has been a student of classical martial arts since he was a teenager. “I found a small hole-in-wall school that taught traditional Japanese-Okinawan karate. It was like a combination of boot camp and high-church ritual, physically and ethically demanding.”