Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun
There’s a lot going on in the world. In Chad, protesters are mourning after security forces opened fire on people demanding that the military regime transition to civilian rule. France is bracing for the moment when widespread protests turn into a general strike. Afghan women held protests against the Taliban, laws forbidding women from going to school, and the most recent violent attack that killed 56 people (mostly female students) at a school. Iran’s feminist protests are gaining support from male oil workers who object to the violent repression of the demonstrators. Thousands of Haitians marched against foreign military intervention. It’s a good week to at least scroll through all the headlines in the round-up.
What do you think about this growing trend? Climate campaigns are getting university students to pledge against working for the fossil fuel industry – and it’s working. In previous Nonviolence News editions, we’ve also shared stories of efforts to keep law students out of the oil industry, and engineering students out of weapons and surveillance companies. It’s an interesting strategy, one that helps young, skilled professionals realize they have power in denying their abilities to destructive industries.
There’s so much to learn in this week’s stories. An interview explores how Mexican activists are taking on corruption and cartels with the Movement for the Disappeared. Another article shows how the Oromo People in Ethiopia use ritual and cultural ceremony to resist state repression. A third shares a fascinating overview of Sri Lanka’s 65+ year long Sarvodaya Movement built on Gandhi’s ideas, added their own unique stamp, influenced the recent ousting of the president, and holds take-away lessons for us all.
My favorite story this week? It’s hard to choose. I appreciated hearing that Egyptians have launched a campaign to get the United Kingdom to return the Rosetta Stone to its place of origin. On a lighter note, satirical activists put together a carnival game booth to lampoon the investment company’s claim of being “climate-friendly”. Under the bright pink awning, you can try to toss a ball into the tiny cup marked “renewable energy” – but it’s more likely to land in the big cups for oil, gas, and coal. A little satire goes a long way, don’t you think?
In solidarity,
Rivera Sun
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Detroit Racial Justice Protesters Win Payments: Detroit Will Breathe and individual plaintiffs have accepted a historic offer of judgment extended by the City of Detroit that includes over 1 million dollars — $5,000 awarded directly to the organization, with the remainder divided amongst the plaintiffs. This offer of judgment resolves the case in our favor and means that the federal court will rule that the City of Detroit and the Detroit Police Department violated the constitutional rights of protestors during the George Floyd uprising of 2020. Regardless of what the City might say, this judgment is a victory for the movement. Read more>>
Starving Big Oil Of New Talent – Young People Are Steering Clear Of Oil Jobs: Big Oil is becoming stigmatized as awareness grows that its environmentally-friendly messaging, full of beautiful landscapes and far-off promises to erase (some) of its emissions, doesn’t match its actions. Well over half of millennials say they would avoid working in an industry with a negative image, according to a survey in 2020, with oil and gas topping the list as the most unappealing. With floods, fires, and smoke growing noticeably worse, young people have plenty of reasons to avoid working for the brands that brought you climate change. Read more>>
Philadelphia Museum of Art and Union Agree to Three-Year Contract After 19-Day Strike: The new deal at the Philadelphia Museum of Art union leaders told the Inquirer, included retroactive salary increases to July and 14 percent raises over the next three years. The minimum hourly wage for museum workers is set to increase from $15 to $16.75. Workers will also receive lowered costs for health care and four weeks of paid parental leave. Read more>>
Video Used As Intervention To Significantly Reduce Political Violence: A video developed by Beyond Conflict & its research partners was shown to have had the biggest impact in reducing support for political violence and significantly reduced anti-democratic attitudes & partisan animosity among Americans on a nationwide basis. Read more>>
Greece Reached 100% Renewable Last Week: In a historic first, Greece met 100 percent of its electricity demand with renewables last week. According to the country’s Independent Power Transmission Operator, or IPTO, clean-energy technologies like wind, solar, and hydroelectricity generated a record-high 3,106 megawatts on October 7 and powered the entire country for a five-hour window. Read more>>
Dozens Killed In Chad After Protesters Demand Civilian Rule: Demonstrators gathered in N’Djamena to mark the date when the military initially promised to hand over power. Chadian security forces opened fire in the country’s two largest cities killing dozens of demonstrators. Chadian government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh said 30 people were dead in the capital, N’Djamena. Organizers of the march, however, placed the toll higher, at 40. Read more>>
Haitians Protest Threat Of Foreign Military Intervention In The Country: On Monday October 10, under the banner of “Down with Ariel Henry, Down with the Foreign Occupation,” hundreds of thousands of Haitians took to the streets across the country against a resolution passed by de-facto Prime Minister and acting President Ariel Henry, requesting the international community to send armed help to resolve gang-related crisis in Haiti. In the capital Port-au-Prince, thousands of citizens gathered in the Cité-Soleil commune. Read more>>
Youngstown, Ohio, Marches For Nonviolence: Hundreds of people joined the Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past’s march against violence and for nonviolence, commemorating lives lost to gun violence. Read more>>
Bike4WesternSahara: This epic bike tour aims to free Africa’s last colony: Can a 29,000-mile bike ride put a spotlight on the turmoil of Africa’s last colony? In May, Swedish human-rights activists Sanna Ghotbi and Benjamin Ladraa set out to do just that. They’re on a quest to bike through 40 countries to draw attention to the nearly 50-year-old occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco. Read more>>
Egyptians Launch Online Petition To Get Britain To Return the Rosetta Stone: The Rosetta Stone has been in the hands of the British since the early 1800s. But now Egyptians say they want it back. Repatriate Rashid, an online petition started by a group of Egyptian archeologists, is calling for the British Museum to return the ancient artifact to its rightful owners. Read more>>
Alabama Prisoners Strike Enters Third Week: An estimated 80% of prisoners from Alabama’s “major male facilities” went on strike on September 26th, in response to a wide range of conditions and grievances. Inside organizer Kinetik Swift Justice stated, “Basically, the message that we are sending is, the courts have shut down on us, the parole board has shut down on us. This society has long ago shut down on us. So basically, if that’s the case, and you’re not wanting us to return back to society, you can run these facilities yourselves.” The strike has now entered its third week, and at least five facilities, each with around 7,000 prisoners, continue to participate. Read more>>
Protesters Converge On State Capitol In Solidarity With Prison Strike: On the 19th day of the statewide prisoner work strike on Friday, about 100 people gathered in front of the Alabama State Capitol Building in support of the thousands of prisoners currently striking. On Oct. 7, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) confirmed that five facilities remained at a standstill due to the historic statewide work stoppage. Read more>>
Many Parkland Relatives and Survivors Speak Against Death Penalty For Shooter: A Florida jury recommended Thursday that Nikolas Cruz—who murdered 17 students and staff during a 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School—be spared execution and instead imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole. Speaking to the media and in public statements, relatives said that more killing would not bring back loved ones. Read more>>
Students Study Nonviolence: Chicago teens are being trained in a powerful set of principles of nonviolence inspired by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. They are learning from their peers at North Lawndale College Prep, a charter school network. The trainers are called “Peace Warriors.” Read more>>
Protests and Strikes Spread in France Amid Economic Crisis and Climate Inaction: Demanding a greater investment in climate action, higher wages, and an emergency freeze on the prices of groceries, rent, and energy, people marched from the Place de la Nation to the Place de la Bastille in eastern Paris as the National Assembly struggles to pass a budget for next year and strikes at oil refineries are expected to spread to the transportation sector this week. Read more>>
Australian Unions Campaign Against Anti-Strike And Anti-Protest Laws: Unions NSW has launched a community campaign against the new anti-strike law, including sending more than 11,000 emails to crossbench MPs and crowd-funding an advertising campaign to inform the public. Around 15,000 people have publicly opposed the bill. The union movement also opposes the government’s draconian anti-protest laws — the Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 — which was rushed through parliament in April with the Labor opposition supporting it. Read more>>
Communication Workers Turn Up the Heat On #FoodBankPhil: The Communication Workers Union in the UK is driving home their message with the hashtag #FoodBankPhil to emphasize that the head of the Royal Mail Phil Jansen got a 32% increase to a salary of 3.5 million while their members go to food banks. Read more>>
Weyerhaeuser Strike Enters Fifth Week: Weyerhaeuser workers are striking to say no to corporate greed, to an employer that would ask them to make sacrifices when it’s making record profits. That means their fight is the fight of all working people, and they need your support. Read more>>
Following LA City Council members’ Racist Remarks, Oaxacans March For Justice: The march was organized after a leaked audio recording in which some City Council members disparaged Black and Indigenous people, among others, in starkly racist terms. Martinez resigned this week, in the wake of the scandal, but Indigenous community leaders say it’s not enough. They are calling for the resignations of Cedillo and De León and a public apology from Martinez. Read more>>
A Guide To Decolonize Language In Conservation: Scientific evidence shows that Indigenous people understand and manage their environment better than anyone else: 80% of Earth’s biodiversity can be found in Indigenous territories. The best way to protect biodiversity is therefore to respect the land rights of Indigenous peoples – the best conservationists. Nevertheless, the mainstream conservation model today is still, just as in colonial times, “Fortress Conservation”: a model that creates militarized Protected Areas accessible only to the wealthy on the lands of Indigenous peoples. Read more>>
78 Forterra Staff Defy Bosses, Show Support For The Snoqualmie Tribe: “We, the undersigned, are former staff members and leaders of Forterra who are writing to express our solidarity and support for the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, which has made public very serious allegations of misconduct by Forterra. It is clear from publicly available information that Forterra has, at minimum, behaved in an inappropriate, disrespectful, and misleading manner inconsistent with the organization’s stated value: We show respect for people, place, culture and each other. It appears that Forterra has mistreated a sovereign Tribal Nation on its own ancestral lands while claiming to act in its best interest. Read more>>
Media 2070 – An invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations: This 100-page essay details the history of U.S. media participation in anti-Black racism. It was written by a growing consortium of media-makers and activists collectively dreaming reparative policies, interventions, and futures. This work is an effort to radically transform who has the capital to tell their own stories by 2070. It is liberation work within a lineage of civil-rights activism, racial-justice organizing and calls for reparations and makes visible the ways in which the media have taken part in and have supported state violence and harm against Black people. The work seeks to highlight how the media can serve as a lever for racial justice — and underscores the repair and reconciliation necessary to build strong, free, democratic communities. Read more>>
How Chinese Students Abroad Navigate Race and Nationality: Building solidarity within Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities can be difficult. Americans tend to talk about racism in terms of skin color and stigmas like “yellow peril” or “model minorities,” but the targets of this discrimination — especially recent migrants — often see the issue in very different terms. The solidarity implied by the AAPI label masks the radically different perspectives on discrimination held by immigrants from Japan, Korea, China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, to say nothing of the different subgroups within each of these communities. Read more>>
Our Stories. Our Stake. Showing Up For Racial Justice: Don’t miss this short video from SURJ, that tells the story of the largest organization explicitly organizing white communities in the U.S. “In a sense, the battle is and always has been a battle for the hearts and minds of white people in this country. The fight against racism is not something we’re called on to help people of color with. We need to become involved as if our lives depended on it because, in truth, they do.” Read more>>
Activists Say Fossil Fuel Interests Have Declared ‘War on Africa’s Sustainable Future’: As the fossil fuel industry gathered in Cape Town for Tuesday’s start of Africa Energy Week, African climate campaigners took to the streets and social media to reject a ploy to use the continent’s development and energy crises as a pretext for accelerating oil and gas extraction. Activists with Extinction Rebellion Cape Town rallied Tuesday outside one of the conference’s venues to demand investment in renewable energy and a transition from a carbon-based economy. Read more>>
Extinction Rebellion Newsletter: Want to know why police struggled all evening to remove a piano from the streets of Berlin? How the rebellion in Oslo had to accommodate military training exercises? Or how rebels froze rush hour traffic right across Boston? Find out what happened in Extinction Rebellion’s newsletter. Read more>>
Australian First Nations Mark One Year Of Occupying the Site of the Adani Mine: Marking a year since they reoccupied land near Adani’s Carmichael coal mine lease, the Wangan and Jagalingou people in far Western Queensland held a Waddananggu, a Wirdi word for “the talking,” which lasted five days. “This is a major milestone for Wangan and Jagalingou people,” Wangan and Jagalingou Cultural Custodian Coedie McAvoy told more than 100 activists from around the country on August 22. Read more>>
Just Stop Oil Defies Home Secretary, Blocks Lane And Paints Car Showroom: Just Stop Oil supporters have blocked Park Lane and sprayed paint over a car showroom to demand that the government halts all new oil and gas licences and consents. 14 supporters of Just Stop Oil sat down in the road with banners. A number glued themselves to the tarmac while others locked themselves together. Shortly afterwards, one supporter sprayed orange paint over a nearby Aston Martin car showroom on Park Lane. Read more>>
Berlin Activists Protest Climate Debt Inside Finance Ministry: Members of three groups known as Last Generation, Scientist Rebellion and Debt for Climate staged several protests today. Some activists entered Germany’s Ministry of Finance with banners on which they accused Finance Minister Christian Lindner of an “empty promise” in regard to debt cancellation. Read more>>
Afghan Women & Girls Protest Against Attack On School: Women demonstrated across various cities in Afghanistan after dozens of mostly young women were killed in an attack on a school last week. The protesters also demanded the reopening of girls’ high schools in Afghanistan, which have been closed since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year. “We raise our voices for justice and equality. We want the right to work, education, and the free life of women,” one organizer said. Read more>>
‘Prepare for Back-Breaking Strikes’ – Iran Energy Workers Take Action As Protests Against Regime Widen: Laborers at a major Iranian petrochemical plant in the country’s south went on a wildcat strike on Monday in solidarity with a nationwide protest movement sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody of morality police. It’s the first sign that weeks of unrest are reaching the nation’s most crucial sector. Read more>>
Chinese Women Tackle Sexual Harassment On Job Platforms: All over the country, women are speaking up online to name and shame predatory bosses — and pressure leading job sites to kick them off their platforms. The campaign to get harassers and toxic workplaces kicked off job platforms is a scattered, grassroots movement — the strict supervision of Chinese social platforms makes a formal campaign almost impossible. Read more>>
In China, This Man Is Organizing Gender Equality Classes Teach Men To Respect Women: To dismantle patriarchal and sexist views, this Chinese man is helping other men unlearn them. Read more>>
Peace Activists In 40+ Cities Demand De-escalation From Nuclear Brink: Anti-war groups including Peace Action and RootsAction organized picket lines at the offices of U.S. senators and representatives in more than 40 cities across 20 states, calling on lawmakers to push for a ceasefire in Ukraine, the revival of anti-nuclear treaties the U.S. has exited in recent years, and other legislative actions to prevent nuclear catastrophe. Read more>>
235 Nonviolent Actions To Resist War & Occupation In Ukraine: Some stories included: farmers refusing to sell grain to Russian soldiers, protecting local admin officials and schools, and engaging Russian civil society on the reality of war. The report finds that nonviolent resistance has 1) hindered some of the long-term military and political goals of the Russian authorities, such as the institutionalization of the military occupation and repression in the occupied territories; 2) has protected many civilians; 3) undermined the Russian narrative; 4) built community resilience; and 5) strengthened local governance. Read more>>
Russian Anti-War Protesters Face Torture & Abuse: Anti-war Russians risk abuse by security forces when they speak out or take action. On September 25, in a public square in the capital of Russia, Artyom Kamardin participated in a poetry reading to protest Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kamardin, 32, began by saying: “Don’t follow illegal orders [to take part in the invasion] … Freedom for Russia, peace for Ukraine!” He then read his poem, which criticized the war. The police response was swift and brutal. It was also consistent with police abuse against other people protesting the war. Read more>>
A Guide to #ShutDownAFRICOM: On October 1st, the criminal and genocidal US military command, AFRICOM, will have been in existence for 14 years. In those 14 years, a sizable amount of awareness on the program has been raised by committed individuals and organizations who want to see our homeland released from the clutches of the US empire. But as that fourteenth year begins, the necessity of ending this initiative, once and for all, grows more and more dire. #ShutDownAFRICOM. Read more>>
Hugging Soldiers Billboard Censored: Claiming that they cannot display politically “sensitive” images that refer to current conflicts (like the war in Ukraine), a pro-peace billboard was censored by the advertising company. Meanwhile, the company continued to display ads that were pro-military, war industry related, and promoting weapons conferences. Read more>>
Palestinians Protest Continued Israeli Siege Of Shuafat Refugee Camp: A Palestinian youth was killed and several others were injured after Israeli occupation forces opened fire at protesters in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, October 12. The protesters were demanding lifting of the Israeli siege on the Shuafat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem. Read more>>
New Peace Billboard Goes Up in California: The California chapter of World BEYOND War put up their first World BEYOND War billboard. The billboard is located off the Interstate 10 freeway at Gene Autry Trail in the Coachella Valley. For the next two months, travelers to Palm Springs from Los Angeles will be reminded of the immense financial costs of war, and what tremendous potential for good exists if we change our misguided spending priorities by even a small percentage. Read more>>
The Yes Collective Lampoons Vanguard At Its Own Family-Friendly Carnival: The Yes Collective, a group of trickster activists with a track record of creatively calling out hypocrisy. Throughout this year, Yes Men activists have been hosting Vanguard S.O.S. eco-doom carnival pop-up events on Vanguard’s home turf around Philadelphia. The investment company touts themselves as family-friendly, but the activists are showing how their climate policy is not okay. (Btw, carnival games are a great way to get people to pause long enough to learn something.) Read more>>
Peace Activists Identified the 10 Worst Warmongering National Anthems: Translating national anthems, peace activists have identified the ten worst songs that glorify war, violence, and hatred of enemies (even from hundreds of years ago). Read more>>
New Film Explores Untold Radical Life of Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks examines Parks’s legacy beyond helping to inspire the Montgomery bus boycott. Read more>>
Volunteer Trash Clean-Up Group Counters Housing Sweeps: The Echo Park Trash Club began bringing together neighbors for the very same activity — but with new significance in the midst of worsening housing and climate crises. The group uses cleanups not only to beautify their neighborhood but also to support its unhoused community, whose trash buildup can result in encampments being dispersed, or “swept.” Read more>>
Open Source Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers: A handful of companies own the patents on virtually every seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing biodiversity back to farming. Read more>>
Nigerian Independence Day Speech: Nigerian poet uses spoken word to denounce corruption on their independence day. Read more>>
How the Oromo People of Ethiopia Use Ritual To Resist State Repression: By reviving the cultural and religious ritual of Irreechaa, the Oromo people of Ethiopia are engaged in a form of constructive resistance to domination. Read more>>
Sri Lanka’s Untold Story Of Resilience – Sarvodaya’s Pathway Can Work Anywhere: The story of Sarvodaya, a longstanding Sri Lankan self-governance movement, offers a pathway to resilience that can be adopted — and adapted — by any country, bioregion, or neighborhood. Read more>>
The Rise Of India’s Dystopian Surveillance State: With protests under constant surveillance, Modi’s massive facial recognition system is making it easier to crack down on minorities and political opponents. Read more>>
Mexico’s Movement For the Disappeared: Since 2015, the MNDM has been helping families across the country in search of justice for their missing loved ones. It is made up of more than 80 groups from 24 states and conducts extraordinary efforts, from digging mass graves to passing the first legislation on the subject, while confronting organized crime, institutionalized corruption and an incapable and indifferent bureaucracy. Read more>>
Facilitating and Training in Cross-Sector Movements: On September 14, 2022, The Horizons Project hosted a webinar to bring together movement trainers, facilitators, and organizers to discuss the current state of movement-building support in the US and how training and convening spaces could be better coordinated and envisioned more creatively to build a broad-based pro-democracy movement to counter the rising authoritarian threat. Read more>>
Violence and the Backfire Effect: Any movement that seeks to stand up against powerful opposition and advocate on important political issues must be prepared for a violent reaction. Eighty-six percent of major nonviolent movements around the world have faced significant violent government repression. But there are ways that movements can handle violence to their advantage. Through skillful rhetorical and practical strategies, they can cause the violence directed at them to backfire. Read more>>
How to Apply For US Student Debt Relief: The US Department of Education (DOE) will cancel federally held debt up to $10,000 for non-Pell Grant recipients and up to $20,000 for those with a Pell Grant. The move stands to affect as many as 43 million borrowers and cancel student loan debt for almost 20 million, according to a fact sheet from the White House. But there is an important catch: Many borrowers don’t simply qualify for relief and get it; they have to apply for debt forgiveness. Here’s how to do it. Read more>>
Support Striking Embassy Builders In Honduras: There is an urgent call to raise money for the workers’ strike fund. As over 100 of the most active workers have been illegally fired by B.L. Harbert in recent weeks, they need our support. Learn more>>
Sign the Anti-Annexation Resistance Pledge: War will never end if we don’t put an end to invading and annexing neighboring territories. Nonviolence International is unusual in taking a stand against all invasions and annexations including Russia over Ukraine, Morocco over Western Sahara, and Israel over Greater East Jerusalem and Golan Heights. Please join them to launch this important public pledge which calls on everybody and all governments to stand united against the practice of invading and annexing neighboring territory or countries. Learn more>>
#PayUpFIFA: Migrant workers have suffered terrible abuses building the World Cup in Qatar. FIFA should pay up now and compensate them and their families for workplace harm. Learn more>>
Global Week of Action to #StopEACOP: People all over the world are uniting to stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). In order to show the global resistance to this project and put pressure on more banks and insurance companies like Marsh to drop out, we’re hosting a Global Week of Action to #StopEACOP from October 24 – 30. Learn more>>
Month of Action To Stop AFRICOM: As AFRICOM’s presence and activity across the continent has grown, so has the terrorism it is meant to curb. In opposition to this criminal effort, the Black Alliance for Peace and U.S. Out of Africa Network has organized the ongoing International Month of Action Against AFRICOM to demand the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Africa and the closure of U.S. bases throughout the world. Please join us in this effort by taking action using this toolkit. (Oct) Learn more>>
#FundPeaceNotWar Week Of Action: Join peace activists in 9 Canadian cities in demanding NO new fighter jets, warships, or drones as part of the #FundPeaceNotWar week of action across Canada! This call to action was initiated by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) in the U.S. and has been taken up by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network, a coalition of 45 peace groups across Canada. (Oct 15-23) Learn more>>
Ground the F-35 Fighter Jets: Sign the letter led by CODEPINK and signed by over 220 organizations from around the world was released calling for a cancellation of the F-35 fighter jet program and a reinvestment of its budget into life-affirming programs like universal healthcare, housing guarantees, and more. Learn more>>
Tell Insurers To Stop Profiting On Climate Destruction: US insurance giants like Travelers and The Hartford are falling behind global peers who are moving away from oil and gas, while climate disasters like Hurricane Ian continue to devastate communities. The report gives them each climate score of less than 1.5 out of 10. Add your voice to call on Mr. Swift of The Hartford and Mr. Schnitzer of Travelers and ask them to drop fossil fuels in line with the latest science and insure our future.Tell Travelers and The Hartford CEOs: Accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy — our planet needs you to act now. Learn more>>
Community Safety Beyond Policing –Understanding Copaganda: How do popular culture and the news media shape our view of the criminal legal system and policing? And what are the effects on policymaking and elections? We’ll discuss this and more with guest speakers Palika Makam of the 8th Amendment Project and Alec Karakatsanis of Civil Rights Corps. (Oct 20) Learn more>>
About A People’s Works Progress Administration – Re-Imagining Labor and Building Cultural Power: This training series in partnership with PeoplesHub consists of a cultural organizing workshop, a circle of arts and culture practitioners and a hands-on policy clinic that uses storytelling and anti-oppressive experiential activities to re-imagine and redefine labor outside of capitalism and white supremacy. Participants will unpack the seven themes central to the USDAC’s PWPA storytelling project, gain skills for how to advocate for public service artist jobs programs and be tasked with collectively envisioning a world where those most marginalized can effectively build cultural power whilst getting their material needs met. We are aiming to build a learning cohort and ask those who are interested in the cultural organizing workshop and/or hands-on policy clinic be available to attend both. (Oct 28, Nov 4, and Nov 10) Learn more>>
#DivestFromDeath Week of Action: Join Dissenters for the #DivestFromDeath Week of Action by hosting actions and events against war and militarism in your community. The group is demanding that institutions divest from endless wars and reinvest in the life-giving resources that communities actually need to be safe. (Nov 7-13) Learn more>>
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