Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun
They expected 5,000 people. The march quadrupled, bringing 20,000 Australians into the streets of Sydney to demand more stringent climate measures from authorities. Instead of accepting a 43% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030, students, mothers, activists, and Aboriginal protesters pointed out that a 75% reduction is an absolute necessity. Many other actions also took place. In a keen reminder that a climate transition must also be a just transition, the Pauite, Shoshone, and allies are resisting a lithium mine in Thacker Pass (US) that threatens to desecrate burial sites. In Brazil, creative brigades of volunteer firefighters and artists are trying to protect the rainforest from fires and deforestation. Italians are using story telling to help protect old-growth beech forests.
In more Nonviolence News, California’s mental health care clinicians have tried everything to get the corporate provider to pay better wages and provide service to patients – now they’re on strike. In Bangladesh, 150,000 tea pickers are on strike against their dollar-a-day wages. The People Over Prime campaign is mobilizing TikTok influences to cease working with Amazon until the company meets the demands of the Amazon Labor Union. In the United Kingdom, energy workers are holding walkouts and wildcat strikes as fuel companies and utilities raise rates but not wages. In Delhi, HIV patients are protesting a life-threatening medicine shortage.
Afghan women marked the 1-year anniversary of the Taliban regime’s return to power with protests for bread, work, and freedom. Another article looks at some of the less-reported on nonviolent resistance of Ukrainians. Mutual aid groups have been flipping the script on the Texas governor’s bigotry: He’s been shipping migrants and asylum seekers to DC … so locals have been meeting the buses and welcoming the new arrivals. Several stories in this week’s round-up look at sports as fields for justice – the Haudenosaunee and the Irish are decolonizing lacrosse, and trans gender persons are finding solace and welcome in some open-minded local sports leagues.
This is, of course, just a teaser for the whole collection of stories in this week’s Nonviolence News. I counted 73 articles spanning a phenomenal range of issues, including a campaign to let a retired performing orca return to the ocean to reunite with her now-90-year-old mother. Can you imagine that reunion?
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‘Massive Win’ – Court Rules Transgender People Entitled to Disabilities Act Protections: LGBTQ+ rights advocates on Tuesday celebrated Tuesday after a federal court became the first in the U.S. to rule that transgender people who suffer from gender dysphoria must be protected from discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Read more>>
Family Leave Law Is a Milestone: A bill to enshrine 10 days of paid family violence leave is the result of more than a decade of campaigns by women, unions and activists. Read more>>
Grand Rapids Reduces Gun Violence By 8%: In Grand Rapids, MI, the Cure Violence partner site shared its annual report highlighting successes from the program in its first eight months of implementation, including an 8% reduction in gun violence. Read more>>
Austin Schools Will Now Offer Free Pads and Tampons: Period Equity Is Expanding: Students are fighting for equal access to menstrual supplies — and winning. When Austin public school students return to classes this month, they will find a new amenity awaiting them in the bathrooms: dispensers of free maxi pads and tampons. Over the summer, Austin Independent School District spent about $85,000 on dispensers and $70,000 on the first batch of menstrual products to provide to students at no cost. Read more>>
Motion Picture Academy Apologizes To Sacheen Littlefeather Nearly 50 Years After Oscars Abuse: “I never thought I’d live to see the day,” the Native American actor and activist said of the apology. Nearly 50 years after suffering harassment and discrimination for protesting Native American mistreatment, the activist will be the guest of honor at an evening of healing and Indigenous celebration hosted by the Academy Museum on Sept. 17. Read more>>
No NBA Games On US Election Day: The National Basketball Association (NBA) will not schedule any games on Election Day this season, in hopes that the move will encourage staff and fans to vote in this year’s midterm races. “The scheduling decision came out of the NBA family’s focus on promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and encouraging fans to make a plan to vote during midterm elections,” the league said in an official statement. Read more>>
Massachusetts Ends Subsidies For Wood-Fired Power Plants: Environmental groups today celebrated the enactment of Massachusetts’ new climate law, An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, which will expand clean energy development and end renewable energy subsidies for wood-burning power plants. The new law makes Massachusetts the first state in the nation to remove woody biomass from its Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS). Read more>>
Chipotle Agrees To Pay NYC Workers $20 Million Settlement Over Workplace Violations: Chipotle has agreed to pay $20 million to 13,000 workers as they were found violating laws involving employee sick time and scheduling, CNBC reports. Mayor Eric Adams announced the settlement is the largest in New York City history. Chipotle will also pay $1 million in civil penalties to the city. Read more>>
Diversity Training Comes To Sesame Place: Big Bird is about to take a few classes to learn how to properly deal with Black folks. At least the guy who wears the Big Bird costume and waves to guests at the Sesame Place Philadelphia theme park will have to do so. The park, which is owned by Sea World Parks and Entertainment, says it is mandating that every employee go through bias training and that it will conduct a company review, after it was sued last month by the father of a Black girl who was allegedly ignored by the park’s characters that had seconds before engaged with white children. Read more>>
Soda Taxes Improve Equity: To date, eight cities in the U.S. have instituted a sugary beverage tax. In Philadelphia, the tax revenue has gone toward expanding universal pre-K and growing a community schools program. In our lead story, Cinnamon Janzer looks at new research that points to the soda tax’s effectiveness at redirecting funds to lower-income communities, in Philly and Seattle specifically. Read more>>
After Half A Century In Captivity, Tokitae The Performing Orca Could Finally Go Home: Activists are fighting to return the whale – named Tokitae – to the Pacific north-west to live out her final days and possibly reconnect with her family. Her mother, believed to be in her 90s, still swims the waters of the Salish Sea, leading a pod of southern resident killer whales to find salmon. Read more>>
In Tajikistan, Pamiri Activists Imprisoned En Masse: Dozens of Pamiris in Tajikistan are being subjected to cursory trials and sentenced to lengthy terms in prison. Few defendants appear able to get legal representation. Read more>>
In Delhi, HIV Patients Protest Medicine Shortage: A group of people who are HIV positive have been protesting outside the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) office in Delhi for the past 20 days alleging shortage of certain antiretroviral (ARV) drugs even as the government maintains there is no scarcity at the state or national level. Read more>>
Sri Lankan Repression Escalates: The Sri Lankan government has begun escalating its repression against the popular movement that removed former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from office. Read more>>
With Nationwide Rallies, UPS Teamsters Kick Off Their 2023 Contract Campaign: Last week, 25 years after UPS workers last went on strike in 1997, the UPS Teamsters kicked off their contract negotiation campaign with rallies around the country. In New York City alone, rallies and actions took place across 14 UPS facilities. Workers are demanding an end to excessive overtime, an end to the two-tier system, higher pay for part-time warehouse workers, more full-time jobs, job security for feeders and package drivers, and ending the surveillance and harassment from the bosses. Read more>>
The Growing Movement To Liberate Julian Assange: On this week’s edition of The Watchdog podcast, Lowkey explores the growing movement to free Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and is joined by his father John Shipton, to do so. Imprisoned in Belmarsh high security prison in London since 2019, and before that confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy, Assange has spent a decade locked up. If extradited to the United States, he faces up to 175 years in prison. Yet there are signs that his future might be brighter than his past. The global movement to free him, Shipton explains, is growing. Read more>>
Scaling Deliberation—Austrian Citizens’ Councils: Vorarlberg is a state of about 400,000 people lying at the western tip of Austria and bordering Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. The state government has a history of exploring and experimenting with a variety of participatory approaches to involving citizens more deeply in shaping public policy. While cost considerations proved an impediment to using many them over the long term, for over a decade now the use of Citizens’ Councils has been a regularly recurring part of the state’s governance. Read more>>
Racism Complaint Sparks Walkout at South Carolina Pizza Shop: Employees at a Columbia pizza restaurant launched a five day strike Friday over complaints of discrimination, low pay and unfair scheduling. As the dinner rush began, protesters filled the lobby of the Pelham Drive location around 5 p.m. Four employees walked off the job to chants and cheers. Read more>>
Indigenous Fear Desecration Of Burial Sites At Thacker Pass Lithium Mine: Indigenous organizers put their drone into the sky and filmed an individual taking what they say was “spearheads” out of the ground while collecting dirt samples as archeological procedures began for the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in April 2022. The land where construction is slated is at the site of a massacre perpetrated by the U.S. government in 1865. Read more>>
Florida Teacher Resigns In Protest After Portraits Of Black People Taken Down: A teacher from an Escambia county public school resigned this week after what he called ‘racist’ actions by a school district employee, according to the Pensacola News Journal. After decorating his classroom with Black historical leaders, the district employee in question took them down. Read more>>
Bishop Barber Calls Upon Clergy To Go To Russia To Free Brittney Griner: Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, about his call for the creation of a diverse, interfaith humanitarian delegation to travel to Russia to bring home WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for possessing just two ounces of cannabis oil. “Our priority should be this young lady coming home,” says Barber. Read more>>
Lenape Tribe Brings Treaty, Fight For Recognition To Bucks County: Hundreds of years after they were forced from their ancestral home along the Delaware River, the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania is still fighting for perhaps the most precious resource of all. Recognition. Pennsylvania does not officially recognize the Lenape Nation or any Native American tribe. Read more>>
Meet The Volunteer Brigades And Artists Fighting Forest Fires And Deforestation In Brazil: As wildfires ravage the Amazon, street artists have joined forces with the volunteer firefighters risking their lives to stop Bolsonaro’s assault on the environment. Read more>>
Sydney Climate March Says 43% Emission Cut By 2030 Is Not Enough! Climate activists from 35 grassroots groups came together for a march on August 7 to send a strong message to the Anthony Albanese Labor government that its recently legislated 43% cut to emissions by 2030 target is not enough to avert catastrophic climate change. Climate scientists say Australia should set a target of 75% emissions cut by 2030. Short article, video. Read more>>
Activists Call On Australian Environmental Minister To Stop Kangaroo Harvesting: The kangaroo population is in deep decline: the once common western grey kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroos, wallaroos and red kangaroos are now considered rare. Nike and other manufacturers use the leather for expensive soccer boots. Read more>>
Marine Life Defenders Acting As The High Seas Alliance Say UN Talks ‘Last Chance’ For Global Ocean Treaty: Because the high seas “don’t ‘belong’ to anyone, they have been treated recklessly with impunity,” said one campaigner, arguing that “nobody’s waters” must become “everyone’s responsibility.” Read more>>
Alaskans Resist Tribal-Led Plan For Gold Mine: Throughout generations, the Kuskokwim River has provided food, a community gathering spot, transportation between villages, and a water source to those lucky enough to call the terrain home. Now, a proposed gold mine nearly 200 miles up-river from Bethel threatens the entire region. Read more>>
Community Prepares To Fight Old Growth Logging Project: This morning, community members organizing with Cascadia Forest Defenders hung a 30 foot-wide banner across Highway 126 in the Willamette National forest in opposition to the proposed Flat Country old growth timber sale. The organizers are calling on the Willamette National Forest and the Biden Administration to drop the proposed timber sale in light of the significant impacts that it would have on the climate, drinking water, and community safety. Read more>>
Solving The Plastic Crisis Through Community Empowerment: Microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic debris, which result from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste — are now ever-present pollutants now found to be in most places in the world, from marine life to the top of Mt. Everest, and now our bloodstreams. Plastic pollution also disproportionately affects marginalized communities and communities living near plastic waste sites. Read more>>
Climate Activists Fill Golf Holes With Cement After Water Ban Exemption: The group targeted sites near the city of Toulouse, calling golf the “leisure industry of the most privileged”. The exemption of golf greens has sparked controversy as 100 French villages are short of drinking water. Read more>>
Protect This Place – Italy’s World Heritage Beech Forests: Stories about these forests and villages can help connect people to these old-growth systems and their irreplaceable worth and inspire people to continue to work to protect them. Read more>>
Clinicians Strike Against ‘Separate And Unequal’ Mental Health Care: Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike. Their goal is to compel Kaiser to put an end to the gaping disparity in the care it provides for physical vs. mental health conditions. Patients are forced to wait months before they can start therapy. Read more>>
Bangladeshi Tea Workers Strike Against Low Wages: Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike Saturday to demand a 150% rise to their dollar-a-day wages. Unions are demanding an increase to 300 taka a day, with inflation rising and the currency depreciating, and said that workers in the country’s 232 tea gardens began a full-scale strike on Saturday, after four days of two-hour stoppages. Read more>>
Gen Z TikTok Creators Are Turning Against Amazon: The ‘People Over Prime’ campaign is a public setback for the company, which has courted influencers. A coalition of top TikTok stars is pledging to cease all work with Amazon — including shutting down storefronts and halting new partnerships with the e-commerce platform — until the company meets the demands of the Amazon Labor Union. Boasting a combined following of over 51 million, the group of 70 TikTok creators says that the campaign, called the “People Over Prime Pledge,” is designed to pressure Amazon to meet the requests of its workers, which include a $30 minimum wage, increased paid time off and halting activities the group considers “union busting”. Read more>>
Energy Workers To Stage More Protests As Companies Raise Bills But Not Pay: Energy workers are promising rolling protests at major sites across the UK as employers push up bills and profits soar despite falling real-terms pay. Employees at Drax, Grangemouth and other energy sites will walk out every fortnight as firms rake in huge profits. Read more>>
Store Walkout Over Firing of Starbucks Union Organizer Racks Up 20 Million Views on TikTok: A clip of New York Starbucks workers walking off the job to protest the firing of a fellow employee believed to have been targeted for union organizing has now been viewed nearly 20 million times on the popular video platform TikTok, bringing greater public visibility to the coffee giant’s aggressive attempts to beat back a movement that has spread nationwide. Read more>>
The True Story of Busing Migrants From the Border – It’s About Welcoming: The narrative cycling around conservative media outlets is that Governors Abbott and Ducey have “stuck it to the Dems” by “bringing the border crisis” to their front doors. In reality, mutual aid and solidarity groups have safely welcomed thousands of asylum seekers with dignity. Read more>>
Building Solidarity Against Poland’s Two-Faced Refugee Policy: The reception of Ukrainian refugees in Poland has painted an image of a country welcoming refugees. But the crisis at the border with Belarus tells a different story. Read more>>
From LA To Tennessee, Unhoused Activists And Supporters Fight A Wave Of Anti-Homeless Legislation: With soaring rents pushing people onto the streets, those struggling just to survive are taking a stand against bills criminalizing homelessness. Read more>>
Philly Tenants Are Fighting on the Front Lines of the Low-Income Housing Crisis: Last July, the company that owns UC Townhomes informed the 69 families who live there that they had to move out the following year. For decades, UC Townhomes had a Section 8 subsidy contract with the federal government, allowing residents to pay no more than 30 percent of their income on rent. Now the company wants to sell the property for private development. Read more>>
Tackling The Housing Crisis With Public Power: Rhode Island is using COVID stimulus money to become a public housing developer — a monumental first step towards building a just housing delivery system. Read more>>
‘Bread, Work, And Freedom’ – Afghan Women Protest: Taliban fighters violently dispersed a rare protest of Afghan women in Kabul on Saturday as the one year anniversary of their reconquest of the country approaches. “Justice! Justice! We’re fed up with ignorance,” the woman chanted outside the Education Ministry. “Bread, work and freedom”. Read more>>
Abortion, Family Violence And The Gendered Pay Gap: Reproductive control, coercion, rape and sexual assault are significant forms of violence against women. When coupled with the widespread lack of affordable and accessible abortion care, the barriers for some women and people in accessing abortion can seem insurmountable. Read more>>
How Trans Sports Players Are Finding Community In Grassroots Sport: Vicious backlash against trans people in sport hasn’t stopped players finding supportive, nurturing teams. The newly formed Alternative Football League, “is providing a safe space in Greater Manchester for women, non-binary and transgender individuals to take to the pitch – some for the very first time”. Read more>>
‘A Flame Was Lit In Our Hearts’ — How Ukrainians Are Building Online Networks For Resistance And Mutual Aid: With little more than the drive to help and an internet connection, some Ukrainians are finding creative ways to resist Russia’s invasion and fight for their future. Read more>>
Protecting Vulnerable Seniors In Ukraine: After a recent visit to hard-hit northeastern Ukraine, unarmed civilian protectors are exposing the lack of humanitarian engagement with the country’s most vulnerable populations. Read more>>
South Korean Unionists Protest US-South Korea War Games: The drills will be the largest in years, and follow the May election of President Yoon Suk-yeol, who has promised to take a hardline with North Korea. Union leaders worry about risks. While many South Koreans, especially supporters of President Yoon on the right, favor close ties with the U.S., large numbers also argue the US military and the country’s alliance with Washington, prevent the improvement of ties with North Korea – and generate tension. Read more>>
West Chicago Is Cleaning Up the Last of Its Nuclear Contamination. Residents Exposed to Radiation Say ‘It’s Not Over’: A local factory was once the largest producer of thorium in the world. This fall, the “radioactive capital of the Midwest” is doing one last cleanup. Read more>>
As Nuclear Tensions Rise, Activists Mark Atomic Bombing Anniversary With Calls For Disarmament: On the 77th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, activists held creative protests, vigils and direct actions calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Read more>>
Remembering The Unsung American Soldiers And Veterans Who Resisted The Vietnam War: Paul Cox of Veterans for Peace San Francisco discusses a new exhibit honoring the overlooked antiwar movement within the military. Read more>>
Don’t Draft Our Daughters—or Our Sons: Here we go again. Last year, debates over whether or not women should be required to register for the Selective Service ground the debate over the Pentagon’s authorization bill to a halt. From a feminist perspective, it is clear that it would be unjust to draft women against their will—not because “women are fragile,” or in need of paternal care, but because we should not force anyone, regardless of gender, into warfighting without their full consent. Instead of arguing about women joining the Selective Service, Democrats should join the bipartisan effort to abolish the Selective Service once and for all. Read more>>
Venezuela Holds Progressive Theater Festival: The First International Progressive Theater Festival was held in Caracas, Venezuela, under the motto: “Let humanity be human”, and presenting 47 shows with theatrical groups from 15 countries from July 29 to August 7. Venezuela’s Minister of Culture, Ernesto Villegas, said that 189 theatrical proposals were presented throughout the country, which exceeded all expectations, and pledged that all these plays will be staged. Read more>>
10 New Albums the US Supreme Court Judges Won’t Listen To: Mat Ward looks back at July’s political news and the best new music that related to it. Read more>>
Project SOS – Yes Men Make Stunt Expo Booth For Vanguard Investments: Vanguard, the biggest retirement fund company in the US and second-biggest asset manager in the world, is sinking our ship with $300 billion invested in fossil fuels. We decided to breach right in their backyard with a playful de-branding booth decked out to share the truth about the mega investment firm’s role in climate calamity and enlist new mates aboard the movement to change how they invest. Our interactive sinking-ship station will appear at events throughout Philadelphia and Malvern, PA (where their HQ is), all summer long. Read more>>
Lacrosse Builds Deep Bond of Respect Between Haudenosaunee and Ireland: When the Haudenosaunee were excluded from competing in the sport (lacrosse) they invented, the Irish gave up their places in the competition for them. In addition when the Haudenosaunee came to Ireland, Irish customs officials formally acknowledged and accepted Haudenosaunee passports that represent the people of the Six Nations, providing an international courtesy that Nationals board member Rex Lyons said has not been offered with such grace and respect at other destinations in the past. Read more>>
Rural Europeans Take Action: Cargonomia officially was launched in 2015. It came out of the idea: how can we connect the farm, bike messengers and a bike workshop? Read more>>
New ‘A League of Their Own’ Series Offers Untold Stories About Black Women in Baseball: New biography series on Black women baseball players brings racial justice to the screen as well as women’s equality. Read more>>
Narrative Project Shares List Of Story-Based Resources: This compilation shares the best resources, trainings, and examples of narrative-based change making. Read more>>
How Striking Auto Workers Showed Italy the Way Out of Decline: The battle against layoffs at Florence’s GKN auto parts plant may seem like a dispute from a past era. Yet the workers’ plan for the green reconversion of the factory shows how labor can point the way to the future. Read more>>
How West Virginians Helped Win The Climate And Health Deal: For over a year, community groups and residents organized and advocated to move Sen. Joe Manchin, a key vote on the legislation. AFSC’s Rick Wilson shares insights from coalition efforts. Read more>>
The Intersectionality of Senior Activists: “One thing I love about organizing seniors is that seniors cut across a lot of the other kinds of silos, “says Bowzer. “You know, African Americans, Hispanic, Jewish, all kinds of categories, well, seniors cut across all of those.” Bowzer also says that senior activists, many of whom got their starts in their civil rights and anti-war movements, also care deeply about many other issues. Read more>>
How A Global Nonviolent Insurgency Could Prevent Climate Destruction: Historian Jeremy Brecher’s new book shows how everyone can find a place and a role in the movement to address the climate crisis. Read more>>
10 Things You Can Do To Counter Islamophobia: There are many ways to confront anti-Muslim or anti-refugee violence in your community, from talking with your friends to supporting organizations that welcome refugees to advocating for policies to stop violence against Muslims. Read more>>
Cancel Culture: “In the United States today, the left and right alike have aggressively embraced cancelation campaigns. Each side has its own distinctive objectives, strategies, initiatives and networks—as well as its own particular strongholds.” Read more>>
Can People Be Manipulated To Protest? Is it true that elites regularly organize community-level protests to advance their own agendas? And how are they able to manipulate the residents of communities they don’t know into protesting around the issues they want? The answer is: it’s complicated. Read more>>
Put Up Climate Crimes Wanted Posters: Download and repost our Global Climate Crimes “Wanted” posters. Post them everywhere you can – both digitally via email or social media or simply print them out and post them in coffee shops, on lamp posts or wherever you can. Learn more>>
5 Ways You Can Support Palestinians In Gaza: We all can show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza in our communities, writes AFSC’s Jennifer Bing. That includes organizing events to raising awareness, talking to our elected officials, and amplifying the voices and stories of Palestinians in Gaza. Read more>>
Tell Liberty Mutual to Un-Insure Trans Mountain Pipeline: Will you take a minute to flood Liberty executives’ calendars by inviting them to un-insure Trans Mountain? Liberty Mutual talks a big game on climate — but it still refuses to rule out insuring destructive fossil fuel projects, like the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. Learn more>>
Reparations Sabbath and Reparations Sunday: August 20 and 21 mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. Join the Truth Telling Project and a growing list of communities of faith, learning and ethically-centered organizations throughout the nation and organize for a Season of Remembrance & Reflection. Details here>>
Howard Zinn Centennial: Throughout the week of the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on Aug. 24, 1922, there will be events for educators, archivists, and the wider community to learn from Zinn’s life and work — and to share the many ways that people continue to document and teach people’s history. All centennial events are free and online. (Aug 24) Learn more>>
Migrant Justice Webinar: Join On Earth Peace on September 7 for a panel and discussion on migrant justice. We will use this panel discussion and online conversation to fuse our efforts in helping those who risk their lives for a safe place to work and call home here in the U.S. This is an opportunity to connect with other advocates and activists to share local, regional, and national ideas. (Sept 7) Learn more>>
The Singing Revolution Screening & Discussion: Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolution. But song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. The Singing Revolution is an inspiring account of one nation’s dramatic rebirth. It is the story of humankind’s irrepressible drive for freedom and self-determination. (Sept 10) Learn more>>
Campaign Nonviolence Action Days, Sept 21-Oct 2: From Sept 21 to Oct 2, 2022, (Int’l Day of Peace to Int’l Day of Nonviolence) join tens of thousands of people in calling for a culture rooted in nonviolence. From renewable energy to housing for all, we’re connecting the dots between the issues and proposing a bold vision for nonviolent solutions to our pressing crises. Learn more>>
Turning Point Summit: Youth ages 16-32 can apply for an international summit on nonviolence, including youth assembly, training sessions, and co-created sessions. (Oct 2-9) Learn more>>
Teach Central America Week: More than four million Central Americans reside in the United States and migration from the region is headline news. However, most schools teach very little about Central America, including the long history of U.S. involvement in the region. In 2019, Teaching for Change launched Teach Central America Week to encourage and support teaching about Central America during Latinx Heritage Month. We have collected lessons, booklists, biographies of noted historical figures, and readings for free use by classroom teachers. (Oct 3-9) Read more>>
