Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun
Let’s start with some victories! In Australia, a coalition of First Nation and climate campaigners got a three-part fracking project canceled. Cubans voted “love into law” with a sweeping same-sex marriage bill. The Oneida Nation is putting up dual-language road signs. And California highways just got a lot safer for wildlife with new laws that aim to protect animals and build under and over passes into any new construction. These are just a few – check out the “Success Section” for more.
Mothers are at the center of several campaigns featured in this week’s news. In Mexico, mothers of Central American migrants who have disappeared en route have organized a caravan seeking information. In Kazakhstan, they’ve been protesting for 600 days for the release of their loved ones imprisoned in China. In the United Kingdom, as Just Stop Oil shut down London’s Waterloo Bridge, one mom gave an impressive interview while being carted away, handcuffed and suspended by four police officers.
Other notables: a new article explores how “unorganizable” undocumented workers in the United States are doing some impressive labor organizing work. A set of articles about Iran’s feminist uprising show how school girls, athletes, teachers, unionists, Iranians outside the country, and international solidarity groups are protesting in support. In the United States, there have been more strikes in 2022 (already) than there were in 2021. While Belgium rose up against high prices, Enough Is Enough protests against cost-of-living and the climate crisis were also held across the United Kingdom.
We’re approaching Indigenous Peoples Day, so be sure to read about the #LANDBACK campaigns, two women’s efforts to decolonize canoe trips, recent commemorations of Canada’s Truth & Reconciliation Day, and how a coalition of Catholic bishops and activists are pushing Pope Francis to rescind the Doctrine of Discovery (the underpinning of colonization).
Last, but certainly not least, in case you missed it: Nonviolence News won an international award! We were honored with First Place in the Publishers & Writers Foundation’s “Pioneers in UN Sustainable Development Goals” for how we show the multitude of people pushing to achieve the visionary 17 goals and 169 targets of the program. Stories are powerful. Watch the awards ceremony (and the 3-min spotlight video on Nonviolence News) here.
In solidarity,
Rivera Sun
Photo Credit: Traditional Owners in Australia oppose a fracked gas project.
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Cubans Vote In Favor of New Family Law Allowing Same-Sex Marriage: A majority of Cubans voted in favour of a new families code (Código de las Familias) on September 25 that allows same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. Dubbed the world’s most inclusive and progressive code, the 100-page document expands the definition of the family beyond the hetero-normative conception, promotes gender equality, enshrines women’s rights and protects the role of grandparents and significant others in family relations. Read more>>
Unrelenting Opposition Wins Fracking Project Cancellation In Australia: First Nations and climate campaigners say oil and gas giant Origin Energy’s decision to pull out of exploring and fracking in three important natural jewels is testament to the effectiveness of a grassroots campaign led by Traditional Owners, who refused to accept the company’s attempts to destroy land and water. Read more>>
Spain Passes “Solidarity” Wealth Tax on Top 0.1 Percent: Spanish taxpayers who own more than $2.9 million in assets will be subject to the new measure. Spain’s leftist coalition government on Thursday announced a series of downwardly redistributive fiscal reforms — including a temporary “solidarity” tax on the nation’s 23,000 wealthiest residents — that lawmakers hope will ease the cost-of-living crisis hurting millions of working people. Read more>>
How This Solar Town Survived Hurricane Ian Shows the Promise of a Green Energy Future: The Babcock Ranch community near Ft Meyers shows building a resilient and low-carbon America will save both money and lives. We need to start now. Read more>>
How An Illinois City Achieved Functional Zero for Veteran and Chronically Homeless Populations: Thanks in part to developing a by-name list and a single point of entry, Rockford, Illinois, believes it can reach functional zero homelessness for all populations by next year. Read more>>
Dual Language Road Signs Go Up On Oneida Nation: The Oneida Nation, in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), unveiled their first dual-language highway signs September 30. “Oneida has been waiting for this day for a very long time,” Councilwoman Cornelius said. “The Oneida language is the core of our traditions, culture, and ceremonies. It’s good to see (these signs) in a place where people are welcomed to our reservation every day.” Read more>>
Safe Roads and Wildlife Protection Act Passed: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the Safe Roads and Wildlife Protection Act. This crucial law directs state agencies to include wildlife crossings when building or improving highways. It will help reduce vehicle collisions that can be deadly for wildlife like mountain lions, elk and deer — and people, too. Read more>>
Xinjiang Detainees’ Relatives Mark Anniversary At Chinese Consulate: For well over a year, relatives of Kazakhs being held prisoner in China’s Xinjiang province have been protesting most days outside the Chinese consulate in Almaty over the fate of their loved ones. On September 29, they went to the suburban diplomatic compound to mark their 600th day of protest. Five women and one man held up pictures of mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who are languishing behind bars in Xinjiang. They were outnumbered by Kazakh police who were reinforced by extras in a van that arrived shortly before the protest was due to start. Read more>>
Four Straight Years of Nonstop Street Protest In Haiti: In recent weeks, the streets of Haiti have once again been occupied by large marches and roadblocks. Banks and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) – including Catholic charities – faced the wrath of the protesters who denounced US interference in Haitian affairs. Read more>>
Alabama Prison Strike Over ‘Neo Slavery’ Conditions Continues Amid Claims of Severe Crackdown: Thousands of incarcerated workers in Alabama are on strike to protest forced unpaid labor, as they face alleged retaliation from prison officials. Read more>>
Gig Drivers Strive for a Safer Workplace: Workers at app-based delivery companies and their families are often not compensated by their employers for injuries or deaths on the job. Several grassroots organizations and unions have been advocating for better safety measures for those workers and now, finally, are starting to see some improvements at local levels. Read more>>
Voices From The Honduran US Embassy Strike: For the last 3 months, more than 1,000 Honduran construction workers building the new United States embassy in Tegucigalpa have been striking against Alabama-based mega-prison contractor B.L. Harbert and their ultimate employer, the U.S. State Department, to demand safe working conditions, job security and fair compensation in compliance with Honduran labor law. Join the DSA International Committee and DSA Labor for a bilingual webinar to hear directly from the striking workers in Honduras, co-sponsored by US- and Honduras-based solidarity organizations. Read more>>
4,622+ Actions & Events For A Culture of Peace & Nonviolence: Each year, Campaign Nonviolence mobilizes thousands of actions to ‘build a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction’. This year saw youth holding the megaphone at rallies against violence, intergenerational solidarity showing up for school strikes for climate justice, light projections to protect rivers gleaming on skyscrapers, huge signs near housing complexes declaring a “zone of peace and nonviolence”, bike rides filling the streets for peace and racial justice, community-led trainings in violence prevention, giant murals for peace, and so much more! Find action reports here>>
Belgian Left Launches ‘Fridays Of Rage’ Against Cost Of Living Crisis: On Friday, September 30, the Workers Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA) launched weekly protests called ‘Fridays of Rage’ (Vendredis de la Colère) against the government’s failure to tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis. Protests were held on Friday in the cities of Kortrijk and La Louvière with the call to bring down the prices of food, energy, and other essentials. Read more>>
‘Time to Take to the Streets’: Working Class Hold ‘Enough Is Enough’ Rallies Across UK: “Does a CEO need an extra zero at the end of their salary—or should nurses, posties, and teachers be able to heat their homes?” said one supporter ahead of the #EnoughIsEnough National Day of Action. Read more>>
Airline Workers Striking At Dozens Of Airports In The United States: Employees at some of the biggest airports across the country are going on strike over staffing levels and pay. In Los Angeles, Chicago and more than a dozen other airports, thousands of United and Southwest airline workers are in uniform — but spending their time off-duty protesting conditions when they’re on. “We are … looking for protection from long, brutal duty days, over 20 hours, being stuck in airports, sleeping on the floors.” Read more>>
Staten Island Amazon Workers Stage Work Stoppage After Fire At Warehouse: At least 100 unionized employees at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island refused to return to work for several hours on Monday evening after a fire broke out at the facility. Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, said 500 workers refused to return to work, after a fire blazed on a shipping dock beside the warehouse. “Amazon refuses to let night shift be excused with pay,” Smalls said. “Amazon management is threatening time deductions and written warnings for not returning back to the floor. The dock smells like burnt chemicals.” Read more>>
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Strike: Since Sept. 26, almost 200 workers have been on strike — not reporting for work in person or virtually — at one of the oldest and largest art museums in the U.S. with over 240,000 works of art from around the world. Read more>>
Sysco Workers Strike Spreads Across the US: Finally, a strike of Sysco workers appears to be spreading. Last week in Syracuse, New York, 230 Sysco workers went on strike. This week, another 300 Sysco workers are on strike in Plympton, Massachusetts. Now, a group of 250 Sysco workers is refusing to cross the picket line in Arizona this week. Finally, an additional group of 30 workers went on strike in Buffalo, New York earlier this week. The strike threatens to cut off food deliveries to restaurants, major universities, hospitals and even Fenway Park. Read more>>
Just Stop Oil Supporters Block Waterloo Bridge For A Second Day: Hundreds of Just Stop Oil supporters marched through central London today, disrupting traffic and are currently occupying Waterloo Bridge to demand the government end the cost of living and climate crisis by stopping new oil and gas. Read more>>
Wonnarua People Demand Coal Mine Be Stopped: First Nations’ cultural heritage is under threat from multinational mining company Glencore’s coal mine expansion at the site of one of the Frontier Wars at Glendell, near Singleton in New South Wales. Read more>>
Tapping Into Insect Farming To Clear Zimbabwe’s Urban Waste: Farmers are turning to vermiculture farming to deal with Harare’s uncollected garbage problem and to produce affordable livestock feed. Read more>>
Coal Industry Workers in Australia Are Taking Their Destiny Into Their Own Hands: Unions representing workers in the coal industry are generally not opposed to the realities of climate change. They know that the impending energy transition is inevitable – they just want to ensure that it is just. Read more>>
The Fossil Free Research Movement Is Taking Universities By Storm: A student-led effort to get fossil fuel money out of university research is building on the divestment movement’s biggest successes. Read more>>
Greenpeace Activists Disrupt PM Truss’ Speech Over Fracking: Demanding to know “who voted for” new U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss’ reversal on fracking, Greenpeace campaigners on Wednesday prominently displayed a banner as the Conservative leader spoke at her party’s annual conference in Birmingham before being forcibly removed from the meeting. After Truss called for the protesters to be “removed” from the conference hall, the banner was ripped from their hands by security guards, but Newsom and McCarthy quickly produced another sign. Read more>>
Black Coalition Resists Development of Historic Cemetery: Moses Macedonia African Cemetery is at the heart of a legal battle between the descendants of the River Road community and the Housing Opportunities Commission. Officials are pushing to sell the landmark to a commercial developer. However, Black folks want to preserve the property which honors their enslaved ancestors. Read more>>
A West Fresno Farmer Aims To Revolutionize Local Community Food Access: Black farmers in West Fresno launched a new community-supported agriculture program in hopes to bring fresh food, health & community to a historically redlined neighborhood. Read more>>
On Canada’s National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, First Nations Remember Residential School Survivors & Victims: Canada’s political leaders have released statements on Friday to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, while many Canadians are stressing that this day should include learning and action by all Canadians. Read more>>
Black-Led Cooperatives & Solidarity Economy: Professor Stacey Sutton discusses the Ideology of Black-led Cooperatives and the Solidarity Economy Ecosystem. The discussion focused on Sutton’s research study “Real Black Utopias,” a cooperative city research study, where she examines the infrastructure and ideology of Black-led cooperatives and solidarity economy ecosystem in multiple cities. Read more>>
Daniel Prude’s Family Offered Settlement; Continues Struggle For Legal Changes: The family of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in custody of Rochester police, will be paid $12 million in settlement by the city, according to an NBC News report. Prude’s case was another where someone in desperate need of mental help lost their life at the hands of cops who weren’t trained to handle mental crises. Read more>>
From Grassroots To Governments, LANDBACK Returns Stolen Land: Different tribes have varied histories of land dispossession, leading tribes to work with individuals, organizations, and governments to return Native land. Read more>>
Two Women Seek To Decolonize Canoe Journeys: Embarking on a voyage to feminize and “decolonize” the wilderness, two women in a canoe have started their expedition down the entirety of the Mississippi River. Immigrant Indigenous Latina, Cory Maria Dack, who’s also a transracial transnational adoptee, along with Espoir DelMain, a queer white woman are aiming to empower and inspire others to enjoy the outdoors and connect with nature. Read more>>
Hawai’ians Tend Fish Ponds For Sovereignty & Health: In recent years, Hawaiians have been leading an effort to honor and reimplement land practices and foodways that kept the Hawaiian islands healthy and Hawaiian peoples fed. And in the years since the pandemic began, developing a food system that’s independent from colonial and mainland U.S. imports and adaptive to the impacts of climate change has proved even more important. Those who care for fishponds and lead their restoration efforts insist that while colonial history can’t be undone, its impacts can be healed if the land is healed. Read more>>
Pope’s Planned Statement On Doctrine of Discovery Could Upend Colonization’s “Legal” Framework: “Galvanized by the calls of Indigenous groups and by the Holy Father’s remarks, Canada’s bishops have engaged and are actively working with the Vatican with the goal of issuing a new statement from the church on the Doctrine of Discovery. Read more>>
The Mothers’ Caravan Journeys North: Along the main migration route through Mexico, mothers of disappeared Central American migrants journey north. In 2005, the Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano, or MMM, was formed by a group of mothers who have led a caravan through Mexico each year since to demand justice for their disappeared adult children. I followed this year’s caravan of mothers—the first since 2019 due to COVID-19—documenting their journey as they traced the main migrant route. Read more>>
It’s Past Time To Celebrate Migrant-Led Labor Organizing: For decades, the labor movement has treated undocumented workers as “unorganizable.” Now these workers are doing some of the most innovative labor organizing in the U.S. Read more>>
How Migrants Sent to Massachusetts Found Aid and Community: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent nearly 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard with no warning. Instead of being shunned, the migrants were welcomed and supported. Read more>>
Iranian School Girls Take Up the Struggle: High school girls have become the latest Iranians to join anti-government protests in large numbers, as the country mourned a teenager killed in the first days of protests. Nika Shahkarami, who lived in Tehran and would have turned 17 on Sunday, vanished in September. Her family found her body in a detention centre’s morgue 10 days later. Read more>>
The National Iran Football Team Covers Uniforms And Insignia In Black At National Anthem: Iran’s national team wore jackets to cover up their country’s symbols before a friendly with Senegal on Tuesday to protest against the brutal repression of women in the Middle East country. Read more>>
‘Each Time It Gets Bigger’ — How Iran’s Protests Look To a Dissident of The Shah’s Regime: Nonviolence Radio interviews Iranian scholar Mehdi Aminrazavi as he discusses his youth as an anti-Shah activist and his hopes for the movement sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. Read more>>
Teachers And Other Unionists Are Joining Iran’s Gender Justice Uprising: As part of the nationwide protests in Iran, women union members are taking to the streets, saying: “we have nothing to lose but our lives.” Read more>>
How I’m Fighting For Iranian Women From The Outside: Iranian women outside Iran have an important role in the protests against the regime, explains one activist. Read more>>
International Solidarity With Iranian Women: Protesters have gathered in cities around the world in recent days in a show of solidarity with women in Iran. The gatherings are an echo of the protests that have erupted in Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country’s so-called morality police. Whether in Istanbul or Los Angeles, protests are marked by the striking words and images that have typified the protests rocking Iran: chants of “Women, life, freedom!” and in some cases, women taking scissors to their hair. Read more>>
Students at More Than 50 Schools Are Walking Out to Support Abortion Rights: The Day of Action, organized by members of the Graduate Student Action Network and the Young Democratic Socialists of America, is meant to be a strike in which all U.S.-based students skip their classes and use that time “to fight for access to abortion, gender-affirming healthcare, contraception, and comprehensive sex education,” a news release about the action said. Read more>>
Graduate Unions Lead National Reproductive Rights Walkouts: Today, October 6, students from more than 50 schools spanning over 30 states are holding coordinated actions in support of the rights to safe, legal, and accessible abortion, gender affirming care, comprehensive sex education, and free contraception. These events range from resource fairs and “green out” color days, to panels and rallies, to full student walkouts. Read more>>
Oahu Families Sickened by Military Spill Protest Defense Secretary’s Visit: The protest over Red Hill goes beyond defueling the tanks. Some 93,000 water users along the Navy’s system couldn’t drink the tap water for months until it was cleared by the state Health Department earlier this year. Military medical teams saw 6,000 people during the crisis. Ten months after the spills, families who were sickened after drinking fuel-contaminated water say their physical and neurological illnesses aren’t going away. Read more>>
Putin Tried to Draft 300K Men; 261K Fled the Country: In just five days after Putin’s speech calling up 300,000 reservists, the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, citing government sources, reported that 261,000 Russian men had fled the country. Read more>>
Protest Calls For AUKUS To Be Scrapped: Australian peace activists are opposing the creation of a nuclear submarine fleet. They protested on the anniversary of the signing of the AUKUS agreement. Read more>>
Peace Poles Gifted to Hawke’s Bay: A gift of 43 pou aims to spread a message of peace in schools, churches, marae, parks and public spaces across Hawke’s Bay. The ‘Peace Poles’ that were installed in Hastings’ Civic Square during summer were gifted in a special gathering at Te Aranga Marae on Wednesday. Liz Remmerswaal, Hawke’s Bay Peace Poles/Te Matau a Māui Ngā Pou Rangimarie coordinator, said she hopes they will be an inspiration as well as a challenge to communities to use non-violent ways of dealing with conflict. Read more>>
Long Beach, CA Police Department Publicly Discloses Information On Militarized Equipment: Last year, California passed a law that requires more transparency from local police departments on their use of militarized equipment, such as armored vehicles and tear gas. The law also gives community members and elected officials opportunity to change those policies. Long Beach police department is among the most recent to disclose such information. More accountability will come next year when police departments must start filing annual reports on how they’ve deployed this equipment, says AFSC’s Jennifer Tu. (Long Beach Post) See AFSC’s advocacy toolkit on the new law. Read more>>
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Human Rights Campaigners in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia: The prize went to advocacy groups in Russia and Ukraine, as well as imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski. Read more>>
Anti-War Activists Protest Harvard Kennedy School Professor With Ties To Defense Contractor: Over a dozen anti-war activists staged a protest against Harvard Kennedy School professor Meghan L. O’Sullivan Tuesday morning, disrupting a class she was teaching to first-year master’s of public policy students. The protesters denounced O’Sullivan’s affiliation with Raytheon Technologies, a weapons manufacturing firm, and her role in the Bush administration during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more>>
Climate Activists Gives Interview While Being Carried Off By Police: Suspended by four policemen as she was carted off to jail, a climate activist made an impressively on-point, impassioned plea for the planet her child will grow up in. Read more>>
Ad Parodying Chevron for Contributing to Climate Crisis Goes Viral: The fake commercial depicts the oil giant as “actively murdering” people across the globe with fossil fuel extraction. Read more>>
Brooklyn’s Library Moves To Slip Books Through Red State Bans: A program has lent tens of thousands of e-books in places they’re forbidden. The Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books Unbanned” program provides access to its eBook collection and learning databases for people between the ages of 13 and 21. Read more>>
Free Stores Offer an Alternative to the Exploitative Capitalist Economy: A coordinated network of free store hubs could begin to act as a building block for moving beyond capitalism. Read more>>
Latinx Co-op Power: Many of the strongest examples we have of solidarity economies come out of social movements in Latin America, and the communities who have carried those traditions of cooperation across borders. Throughout the Caribbean, people have used cooperative lending to resist extractive banking practices. Cubans have formed co-op networks to build food sovereignty and economic self-sufficiency. Brazillians have taken participatory budgeting around the world. Check out this resource list of solidarity economy organizing in Latin America and Latinx communities in the US as a reminder that another world isn’t only possible – it’s already happening. Read more>>
11 Activists on What Disability Justice Means: Meanwhile, many Americans with chronic illness or disabilities — whose numbers have grown due to long COVID — feel they’ve been left behind, discarded as an acceptable consequence of the return to “normal.” We asked 11 disability rights advocates about their experiences during the various stages of the pandemic and what’s next in the fight for disability rights and inclusion. Read more>>
Labor Is On the Offensive: Aided by a historically tight labor market and a supportive president and National Labor Relations Board, unionized workers have been able to use their newfound leverage to win demands that forward their agenda. Read more>>
Schools Should Ban Corporal Punishment — and Teach Restorative Justice Instead: By instituting corporal punishment, school districts are exposing children to violence that causes long-term damage. Read more>>
Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Delivered Marlon Brando’s Oscar Rejection Speech, Dies at 75: The Academy formally apologized to the Native American activist and former actress in June after she was blacklisted for representing the actor at the 1973 Academy Awards. Read more>>
Nonviolent Approaches to Security: If not military intervention (or militarized policing) when civilians are being threatened by violence, then what? You are invited to learn how communities are answering this question around the world. Read more>>
Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to “Move On” From COVID: There must be support for disabled activists who are doing lifesaving disabled activism, mutual aid and survival work. Read more>>
Corporations Are Spending a Ton to Stop Low-Wage Workers From Unionizing: Multibillion-dollar companies are spending thousands a day to defeat attempts by their low-paid workers to organize. Read more>>
Workers Have Held More Strikes So Far In 2022 Than In All of 2021: US. workers have waged more strikes in the first nine months of 2022 than in all of 2021, data shows, lending evidence to unions’ and activists’ observations that the labor movement is undergoing a resurgence. The strikes have also grown in size this year. In the first half of 2022, there were about 180 strikes involving 78,000 workers, according to the tracker. That’s triple the number of people, about 26,500 workers, who went on strike in the first half of 2021. About 140,000 workers participated in work stoppages over the course of 2021, logging over 3.2 million strike days. Read more>>
Alternatives to Police and Prisons: Activists Share How To Better Address Violence: We’re seeing local, state, and federal officials resort to the same strategies they deployed in previous decades: more funding for police, more punishment, more people behind bars. The Chicago Transformation Collab, a three-day event in June, brought together activists, artists, and public defenders to talk about what alternatives could look like. Read more>>
The Future Is Disabled – ReImagining A World Of Care: What would a future look like where the vast majority of people were disabled, neurodivergent, Deaf, Mad? What would a world radically shaped by disabled knowledge, culture, love, and connection be like? Have we ever imagined this, not just as a cautionary tale or a scary story, but as a dream? Read more>>
Railroad Workers Need Solidarity Support From You: Here’s a quick and effective way to take action: Contact your member of Congress and ask that they help solve the fundamental problems that created the conditions that are forcing the workers to exercise their right to strike. One specific ask is to pass H.R. 8649, the “Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act.” Read more>>
Support Ukrainian Peacebuilders & Nonviolent Activists Resisting Russian Occupation: Here is a streamlined way to provide resource support for Ukrainian peacebuilders and nonviolent activists resisting Russian occupation as well for Russians resisting the war in Russia. Learn more>>
October Month of Action To Diffuse Nuclear War: Say NO to NUKES This October, as we demand attention be paid to the very real threat posed by nuclear weapons. (Oct 14 & 16) Learn more>>
Voluntary Simplicity: From Gandhi to Thoreau to Thich Nhat Hanh to Wally and Juanita Nelson, voluntary simplicity runs through the heart of nonviolence. In this 6-week course, we will examine how—and why—simplifying our lives supports nonviolence as a way of life. We will also address how voluntary simplicity is an act of resistance to the many violences inherent in our economy, society and culture, and the war industry. We will draw from examples of nonviolence practitioners from around the world and find inspiration from many spiritual traditions. (Oct 12-Nov 16) Learn more>>
Writing Nonviolence: In this 6-week course with award-winning author Rivera Sun, you will explore how to write about all things nonviolence. We’ll look at op-eds and editorials, articles and blogs, and even social posts. We’ll also get creative, exploring story and poetry, looking at novels and fictional portrayals of nonviolence. This course is for everyone, whether you think of yourself as a “writer” or not. If you love fiction, join us. If you gravitate toward journalism, join us. If you’re not sure, join us. We will have a lot of fun in this welcoming, encouraging, and empowering online community. (Oct 13-Nov 17) Learn more>>
Gun Violence Campaign Organizing Meet Up – On Earth Peace: The goal of this campaign is to move into direct action to reduce gun violence in the United States. If you have been active, we want to hear your stories so others can learn from your experience; if you are recently fired up we want to offer community and place to connect. For all of us, we want to build capacity and commitment and see the way forward. (Oct 14) Learn more>>
Say No To US Wars: Stop endless wars: Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, everywhere. Join us in protest during the week of Oct 15 – 22. Organize an action in your local area or join one. (Oct 15-23) Learn more>>
2-hr Intro to Kingian Nonviolence: On October 28 at 4pm ET, there will be a 2-Hour Intro to Kingian Nonviolence. Join in to meet others interested in Kingian Nonviolence, build Beloved Community, and connect with On Earth Peace’s Kingian Nonviolence Learning Action Community. (Oct 28) Read more>>
From Separation to Connection – (Environ)mental Health & Youth Work: This training project explores the separation and move to re-connection, with psychological, personal, collective and practical approaches, to become healthier as a person and as a community. We’ll draw from Gestalt Therapy, Deep Ecology and Buddhism. (Nov. 5-13) Learn more>>
Leadership and Organizational Seasons: This workshop on Seasonality is about the cyclical patterns that exist in our leadership and social movement organizations. Seasons and cycles help us to understand, appreciate and protect the ebbs and flows that occur throughout our time in this work. (Nov 16) Read more>>
