Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s been a rough week. Nonviolence News stories got me through it. Why? Because my fellow human beings around the world have shown that tyrants, dictators, and authoritarians don’t get the last word. They’ve lived up to Gandhi’s quote: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way…
Insure Our Survival, Lawn Chair Tree-Sit & Beatles Statue Holds Climate Protest
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The streets of London are facing the colorful, disruptive direct actions of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival Campaign (pictured above). Focused on the insurance companies backing fossil fuels, the sit-ins, die-ins, marches, rallies, and other acts of civil disobedience happening this week are pressuring insurers to stop providing oil, gas,…
Punk Music For Mutual Aid, Kenya’s Wunderlust Parties, Radical Librarians, & Argentina’s University Struggle
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Sometimes, you’ve got to sit down to rise up. That was the case at 100 universities across Argentina, where mass assemblies were held by students and educators. Protest actions are already erupting against President Melei’s drastic, 70% budget slashes that have destroyed the nation’s historic free higher education system. The…
Political Rock Song Tops Charts, Eco-Blockade Shuts Down Oil Site & Fast Fashion’s Slow Down
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, we’re trying something a little different. Let me know if you like it better, worse, and the same as the other format. I’m hoping our round-up is pleasant to read as you sip your coffee (or gulp your tea) and offers digestible tidbits that entice you to follow…
Mexico Marches, Argentina Protests University Cuts, Malta Halts Weapons Ship
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun A decade after 43 students were forcibly disappeared, hundreds of teachers and students marched through the streets in Mexico, demanding answers. The assault on the school buses 10 years ago sent shock waves through the country, and the involvement of the police and federal government has stalled the investigation into…
45K Dockworkers Win Strike, Street Photography Exhibit For Political Prisoners & Legal Victories For Activists
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There are some issues that all nonviolent activists and social movements should work together on to defend the right to organize for change: freeing political prisoners is one of them. (Protecting and expanding the right to protest, assemble, unionize, and free speech are a few others, in case you were…
#EvictTheLords Light Projection, Coal Protests In Australia, Tunisia Rallies & Youth In Resistance
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Why are politicians so fixated on driving humanity into apocalypse? Australian’s government campaigned on climate action, but then approved three new coal mines that will lock-in carbon emissions until 2066 – long past the deadline for stopping the climate crisis. The only good news about this is that Australians protested…
Hondurans Resist Coup, Campaign Nonviolence’s 5,209+ Actions & Black Dancers Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Today, September 21, marks the International Day of Peace. Around the world, millions of people will join city governments and community groups in rallies, vigils, and celebrations for peace. Yet, with ongoing wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and many other places, many activists are honoring the…
100K March In France, Brazil’s X Ban, Summer of Heat On Wall Street & Culture Vitamins
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Nonviolence isn’t a football match, where we line up on two sides and charge in. At its best, nonviolence encourages us to engage the fullest sense of our humanity in navigating a conflict toward a resolution that gives all parties a way forward. And to achieve even a glimmer of…
Israel’s General Strike, Upgrade Democracy & Indonesia Student Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun How much injustice, harm, and destruction takes place in our world because democracy remains an aspiration rather than an actuality? Democracy and nonviolence go hand-in-hand. From Gandhi’s independence movement (which he called Indian Self-Rule) to the Philippines People Power Movement to keep the dictator from stealing the election, nonviolent action…