Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Examples of creative nonviolence are why I spend hours searching for Nonviolence News stories each week. Take this report from Finland, for example. 4,000 reindeer die each year in car collisions in Finland. Finally, reindeer protection groups came up with a surprising solution: paint antlers with reflective paint. When cars…
#LandBack & Sacred Object Returns: Indigenous Resistance Gains Traction
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Indigenous climbers representing 10 nations scaled a grain silo in Kansas to demand #Landback (above). While four were arrested, the action comes amidst news of the US Department of the Interior finally returning 18,000 acres of the National Bison Range to the Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The move follows a…
Heating Up: Women’s Rights, Indigenous Resistance, and Workers Struggles
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, a BIPOC-led struggle in Tennessee succeeded in getting the Byhalia Pipeline cancelled. First Nations drummers helped save a man’s life. Peace teams replaced police at a street festival in Minneapolis. In large and small ways, nonviolence is showing up for a better world. You’ll also hear “a tale…
Ditching the King, Tricking the NRA, & Transforming McD’s Into a “Fast” Food Bank
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The world’s last absolute monarch is being run out of Swaziland by pro-democracy protesters. Seventy thousand health and social workers in India won a pay raise after going on strike. US climate activists blockaded all ten doors to the White House. Kenyans are resisting a major development project and organizing…
Dead Mermaids Protest, Utility Bill Strike, Google LASD Gangs Banner Drops
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun A mermaid is a myth, but like all myths, it brings our attention to the story we need to hear right now. Our oceans and planet are in danger. Humanity cannot survive without them. This theatrical climate action (pictured above) of dead mermaids washing up on the shore near the…
Making Strides, Weathering Setbacks: From Colombia to Catalonia
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s a week of reflecting on the rise and fall of global movements. Some are making headway, like Colombia’s national strike. Others have nearly vanished, like Hong Kong’s mass protests. In Spain, the Catalonian independence movement’s secession attempt took a hard hit with the imprisonment of its leaders for sedition…
Venice Flotilla Protests Cruise Ships, Pipeline Resistance Rises Up
Editor’s Note by Rivera Sun When we’ve had enough of destruction and injustice, nonviolence gives us tools to push back. With strikes, boycotts, protests, and more, people like us are standing up to powerful regimes, systems, and institutions. Around the world, courageous people are getting in the way of everything from bulldozers to cruise ships…
India’s Farmers Persist, Brazil Marches, Saiga Antelope Rebounds, and Ugandans Resist Big Oil
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week in Nonviolence News, protests in India marked the six month anniversary of their immense, record-breaking farmer protests. The organizer of a vigil commemorating Tiananmen Square has been arrested and gatherings banned. Brazilians in 200 cities marched for Bolsonaro’s impeachment. Colombia continues to rise up despite repression. In Canada,…
Demand The Impossible: Brave People Thwart Hijacker, Hug School Shooter, Stop Civil Wars
Editor’s Note by Rivera Sun We’re always told that nonviolence won’t work. We’re supposed to believe that more – and greater – violence is the only option. The strange thing is: that doesn’t always hold true. This week’s Nonviolence News contains remarkable stories that upend that kind of thinking. In Idaho (US), a sixth grade…
Ceasefire, Animal Rights, Forest Defenders & #LandBack
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun After hundreds of solidarity rallies around the world, a Palestinian general strike, widespread boycotts, dock workers refusing to load weapons ships, and more, Israel finally agreed to a tenuous ceasefire. The end of its attacks on Gaza is not enough, however. It is merely a necessary step that should be…