Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s an interesting week for farmers. After a year of record-breaking protests, the farmers in India won the repeal of the farm laws. More than 250 million people joined the demonstrations, marches, and strikes. Meanwhile, 10,000 John Deere Tractor manufacturers succeeded in gaining wage increases, better pension benefits, and bonuses….
Kenya’s Climate Rebels, Peruvian Rights of Nature, and Puerto Rican Students On Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, Extinction Rebellion’s global newsletter highlighted the courageous climate protests in Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and more. In Kenya, the organizers (pictured) received death threats and harassment before pulling off a march that was so popular that passing motorists spontaneously joined in. In other parts of the…
COP26: Giant Pikachu Protesters, Loch Ness Monster Arrested, Hot Air Bands
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The COP26 protests are loud, colorful, and over-the-top, but they’re not as ridiculous as political leaders continuing to bury their heads in the sand over climate change. This week, as the COP26 climate summit gathers world leaders and thousands of global climate activists in Glasgow, Scotland, protesters are pulling out…
Sudan Rises Against Coup, Dads On Duty Stops Fights, Migrants Take Action For Justice
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In 2019, Sudan successfully kicked its 30-year-long dictatorship out of power, forming a shared citizen and military transitional government until democratic elections could be held. Now, Sudanese citizens are back in the streets, mobilizing to end a military coup that tried to seize power this week. Does this mean the…
#Striketober, 500,000 South Koreans Walkout & Crashing Fashion For Climate Action
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Welcome to #Striketober, a month of worker strikes that are sweeping across industries. According to the Intercept, 10,000 John Deere tractor company workers are on strike, joining “2,000 hospital workers striking in Buffalo, New York; 1,400 production workers for Kellogg’s in four states; 450 steelworkers in Huntington, West Virginia; and…
Kyrgyzstan’s Urban Tree Passports, Bolivia’s Dueling Nonviolent Actions & El Salvador’s Inverse Caravan
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Around the world, the use of nonviolence is growing in sophistication and strategy. Going far beyond protests, there are over 300+ methods of nonviolent struggle. This week, El Salvador added a new tactic: the inverse caravan. Hitting global headlines around the huge migrant caravans trying to move through Mexico to…
South African Engineers Strike, Garden Blockade Targets Coal Plant, Brazil Demands Impeachment
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The repercussions of the pandemic lockdowns are still echoing in shockwaves through the global labor movement. Workers flexed their power during the early stages of the pandemic, walking out en masse for stronger health and safety protocols, going on strike for hazard pay, calling-in-sick to stop hasty reopenings, and much…
Climate Kids Take The Streets, Farmers Block Roads & Who Shut Down The Golden Gate Bridge?
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The student climate strike movement, Fridays For The Future, is back with 1,400 rallies in 80 countries. Over a million people participated, with close to 800,000 protesters in Berlin, alone. Other campaigns also mobilized this week, including direct actions to halt the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Line 3 Pipeline. A…
Rainforest Tree Seeks Asylum, Indian Autoworkers Protest, Thai Taxi Drivers Build Rooftop Gardens On Vehicles, 5K Cops Shifted Out Of School Policing
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Well, here’s one I’ve never heard before: A tree in Brazil has requested asylum at the Norwegian embassy. Threatened by the destruction of the rainforest, it – like many other species – is endangered. The Indigenous activists who brought the tree to the embassy say it needs protection. Indeed, the…
#OccupyWallSt, Bitcoin Rebellions, #TaxTheRich, China’s Real Estate Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Ten years after the Occupy Protests erupted on Wall Street on Sept 17th, the Guy Fawkes mask has shown up at another monetary rebellion, this time in El Salvador. Thousands of citizens are protesting against the roll-out of Bitcoin as a legal tender; they feel the digital currency is risky…