Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun
One of the things that heartens me about editing Nonviolence News is seeing change happen every week. You can count the victories, one by one. Watch them gaining ground, inch by inch. A mine shut down. A length of an oil pipeline turned off. An anti-trans bill ruled unconstitutional. Wind power is surging past green energy goals. UPS drivers now have air conditioning in the trucks – and they haven’t even gone on strike yet. A Bay Area alliance returned 43 acres of land to Native peoples. These are just some of the positive changes that happened this week.
Tunisians protested to demand the release of political prisoners. Argentines in Jujuy Province are holding mass protests against a regressive constitutional reform. In 62 cities across the globe, the Mothers Rebellion (pictured) stood up for their children’s future and immediate action on the climate crisis. Thousands of Greeks took to the streets after a shipwreck drowned migrants in the Mediterranean. LGBTQ+ persons in Turkey held a Pride Parade in Instanbul despite serious dangers and police repression. Taiwan is having a #MeToo flashpoint, prompted in part by a Netflix drama on the issue.
In the US, an anti-war coalition’s protest pushed the military recruiters out of a jobs fair. Multiplied a hundred-fold, this tactic could impact the US military’s already dropping recruitment numbers. Another article in this week’s Nonviolence News shares the story of how even military veterans are mobilizing to push back against the latest recruitment expansion efforts. Did you know that 60% of US citizens want to slash the military budget and redirect the funds to domestic needs and social services? A new poll revealed this (somewhat surprising) majority opinion.
Here’s a few stories I especially encourage you to check out: a retrospective on how Native Matriarchs helped Seattle’s urban Native population find healing and belonging; a review of a new theatrical play about Dr. King’s last night in Memphis; recently-deceased whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg’s message to us and future generations; a reflection on how we should honor nonviolence heroes (like Cesar Chavez) without glossing over their human shortcomings; and a fascinating report from Placer, CA, about how its racially-diverse teens are defying every myth and statistic that’s been slung at their generation.
A favorite read? Well, since I write fantasy novels with nonviolent plot twists, I found an article about how/why teens are voraciously consuming sci-fi and fantasy novels to be illuminating. It’s not simply escapism. In the wake of the pandemic, books provide windows into wider horizons and other worlds. They can also affirm young people’s identities, sexualities, visions and hope. Teens also say they read to find a sense of belonging and possibility. In this sense, reading is an act of resistance to despair and the many forms of violence and crisis young people face in our troubled world.
In solidarity,
Rivera Sun
Photo Credit: Mothers Rebellion in New Delhi, India, part of a 62-city mobilization.
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Antiwar Coalition Chases Military Recruiters Out of College Career Fair: The Bronx Antiwar Coalition successfully chased U.S. Army recruiters out of a student career fair June 11. As the military recruiters approached the fair’s entrance, the demonstrators forcefully chanted, “Military recruiters out of CUNY!” and “Money for college, not for war!” They distributed pamphlets to all attendees that warned them about the physical and psychological dangers of joining the military, explicitly encouraging attendees not to talk to any military or police recruiter. Within 15-20 minutes, the military recruiters left the fair and did not return. Read more>>
Connecticut Pioneers the First US Baby Bond Program To Close Racial Wealth Gap: Connecticut is pioneering the country’s first “Baby Bond” program, which will invest $3,200 for every baby born into poverty in the state. “Because Black and Latino residents of the state are poorer than their white counterparts,” Dedrick explains, “the program will significantly address the state’s racial wealth gap — even as it gives young people of every race in the state a path out of poverty.” Read more>>
Health Care Advocates Celebrate Passage of Medical Debt Relief in New York: Thanks to a new bill, 740,000 New Yorkers will no longer have medical debt on their credit reports. Meanwhile, a battle is brewing in the state to expand health care access to 250,000 undocumented people. Read more>>
Judge Orders Stretch of Enbridge Line 5 Shut Down on Tribal Land: The Canadian oil company Enbridge has been ordered to pay the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa $5 million in damages for trespassing and to gradually shut down part of its Line 5 pipeline in Wisconsin after a federal judge found that the company has placed the tribe’s sacred land at risk of an environmental disaster. Read more>>
US Army Corps Revokes Permit For Minnesota Mine, Cites Threat To Downstream Tribe’s Water Standards: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has revoked a crucial federal permit for the proposed NewRange Copper Nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, saying the permit did not comply with the water quality standards set by a sovereign downstream tribe. Read more>>
With Strike Looming, UPS Teamsters Win Air Conditioning & Other Gains: Since national negotiations started in March, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has reached many tentative agreements in their national contract with United Parcel Service. These agreements that will benefit Teamsters include but are not limited to better cooling systems in package cars, strengthened grievance procedures, and the creation of more union jobs. The current Teamsters contract with UPS was a five-year agreement which expires on July 31. Unless the Teamsters bargaining team reaches a tentative agreement with UPS for a next contract and the rank and file votes “yes” by July 31, over 300,000 Teamsters are set to strike on August 1. Read more>>
43 Acres of Land In Bay Area Returned to Indigenous Peoples: Movement Generation (MG) and Sogorea Te’ Land Trust announced that they have partnered to return 43 acres of land to Indigenous care, in the unceded Bay Miwok territory of the San Francisco East Bay Area. MG and Sogorea Te’ liberated the land title from the speculative real estate market, with Sogorea Te’ now holding the deed. The organizations have created long-term agreements together for care of the land. Read more>>
Arkansas Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth Is Unconstitutional, Judge Says: The ban “undermined the interests” of trans youth in the state, the judge wrote in his ruling. Chase Strangio, a transgender rights advocate and an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union who represented the families in the case seeking to have the law overturned, celebrated the ruling. “This victory shows that these laws, when tested by evidence, are indefensible under any standard of constitutional review,” Strangio, who himself has benefited from gender-affirming care, said in a statement. “We hope that this sends a message to other states about the vulnerability of these laws and the many harms that come from passing them.” Read more>>
Airbnb Will Chip In for Its Hosts’ Green Upgrades: The property rental service will offer its Massachusetts hosts thousands of dollars to help pay for heat pumps, new insulation and more. Read more>>
Wind Power’s Explosive Growth Is Blowing Past Green Energy Goals: The production of wind energy keeps breaking records, and its potential for expansion is as wide as the oceans. Read more>>
Tunisia Protesters Demand Release Of ‘Political Prisoners’: Some 300 protesters gathered in Tunis demanding the release of former ministers, businessmen and other opposition members in custody. Read more>>
Israelis Hold 24th Weekly Protest Against Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform Plan: Opposition leader Yair Lapid and ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni join demonstrators to protest against what they call as PM Netanyahu’s power grab in favour of executive authority. Protests against government plans for judicial overhaul have continued for the 24th straight week in Israel. Thousands of protesters demonstrated on Saturday at Nahalal and Karkur in northern Israel. Other protests were reported in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Rehovot, Holon and Herzliya, The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported. Read more>>
Georgian Miners Have Gone On Strike: Thousands have marched through the streets of the western Georgia town of Chiatura demanding better working conditions for local miners who have been on strike for more than 10 days. The workers are protesting recent changes in their labor and payment conditions and are calling for further improvements to their working and living environment. They say their company’s proposed new work structure envisages more intense labor, creating health and safety risks. Georgian Manganese LLC says the changes are necessitated by a global market crisis. Read more>>
Vatican Re-Opens Investigation After Netflix Documentary Highlights Unsolved Disappearance Case: Forty years after the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared, the Vatican said on Thursday that new leads “worthy of further investigation” had surfaced, raising hopes one of the Holy See’s enduring mysteries could be solved. Pietro Orlandi, who has fought for 40 years to find the truth about his sister, is planning a sit-in protest to pressure the Vatican to solve the case. Read more>>
Cop City Protesters Visit Nationwide Insurance: Nationwide Insurance, and its Scottsdale-based subsidiary, became a target of the Stop Cop City movement earlier this year when public records requests revealed that the company had signed a liability insurance contract with the Atlanta Police Foundation for the controversial and unpopular construction project in unincorporated DeKalb County, southeast of Atlanta. The Cop City project would train officers from across the country and around the world in militarized policing tactics. Protesters took action at their headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. Read more>>
The Childcare Movement Is Rediscovering Its Power To Make Change: Childcare has existed on the backs of women willing to put their own economic interests aside, but a newfound rebel spirit is rising. Read more>>
200 LA Hospitality Workers Arrested At Airport: Unite Here Local 11, which represents hospitality workers in Southern California, held a mass protest near Los Angeles International Airport. Hundreds of demonstrators filled Century Boulevard, and nearly 200 of them were arrested. The protest was held after two months of contract negotiations between the union and local hotels, with workers seeking higher wages and healthcare benefits. On June 8, the hotel workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize their leaders to call a strike if their employers didn’t agree to the union’s proposed contract, which covers 15,000 workers in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Read more>>
Argentine Province Rocked By Mass Protests Against Right-Wing Constitutional Reform: In Jujuy, Argentina, communities and organizations have been mobilizing on the streets and highways to reject the constitutional reform that was pushed through an early approval by the provincial government of conservative Gerardo Morales. The massive protests in cities and towns across the province, which have seen participation from Indigenous communities, trade unions, and social movements, have been met with heavy repression from state forces. Read more>>
Workers Sue Secretive Elite Club Bohemian Grove For Wage Theft: The private club, which has included Reagan and Nixon among its members, is accused of failing to pay overtime and not giving breaks. Read more>>
Local Ownership of Clean Energy Boosts Benefits, Busts Barriers, and Build Power: Institute for Local Self Reliance’s new report, Advantage Local: Why Local Energy Ownership Matters, finds that local ownership of clean energy can address many of the most pressing challenges we face today, from the climate crisis to economic inequality to corporate exploitation. The report details how local clean energy ownership — as distinct from local siting — can boost the economic impacts of clean energy, cut through public opposition to project development, and put power back in the hands of people instead of polluting utility monopolies. Read more>>
Global Mothers Rebellion: Extinction Rebellion organized mothers in 62 cities worldwide to demand climate justice. In XR’s latest newsletter, you can also read about the exciting resurgence of XR Bangladesh, the incredible number of arrests that resulted from a motorway blockade in the Netherlands, and how an activist alliance brought rock-n-roll rebellion to the streets of Australia. Read more>>
As World Leaders Dither, Climate Coalition Announces Global Mobilization to ‘End Fossil Fuels’: As the United Nations climate talks in Bonn, Germany became the latest in a string of high-profile negotiations to end with little substantive progress, a coalition of environmental groups on Thursday announced plans for a global mobilization that organizers say will bring millions into the streets to demand an end to planet-wrecking fossil fuel production. The worldwide protests are set to take place on September 15 and 17, days ahead of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres’ September 20 Climate Ambition Summit in New York City and weeks before the crucial COP28 talks in the United Arab Emirates, which will be overseen by the CEO of one of the world’s largest oil companies. Read more>>
Climate Defiance Disrupts Keynote of Pro-Pipeline US Energy Secretary: “Today we turned up to a keynote by the pro-pipeline U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. We were peaceful. Her henchmen brutalized us anyway. One of us left with bruises the size of baseballs. Another was dragged out *by the ears.* We have no words. No words.” Read more>>
Lithium Nevada Lawsuit Aims to Stop Praying At Sacred Site: Lithium Nevada Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Protect Thacker Pass and seven people for opposing the Thacker Pass lithium mine. The lawsuit is similar to what is called a “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation,” or SLAPP suit, aimed at shutting down free speech and protest. The suit aims to ban the prayerful land defenders from the area and force them to pay monetary damages which could total millions of dollars. “This lawsuit is targeting Native Americans and their allies for a non-violent prayer to protect the 1865 Thacker Pass massacre site,” said Terry Lodge, attorney working with the group. “These people took a moral stand in the form of civil disobedience. They are being unjustly targeted with sweeping charges that have little relationship to the truth, and we will vigorously defend them.” Read more>>
France To Shut Down Climate Protest Group Citing Public Safety Risks: Les Soulèvements de La Terre uses direct action aimed at big business interests. The French government is planning to shut down a climate protest group over a series of recent demonstrations citing risks to public safety, as the environmental activists called the decision “political and particularly worrying”. Les Soulèvements de la Terre (Earth Uprising) is an umbrella group of several different environmental activist associations across France. It is seen as leading a new form of more radical climate action in Europe with high-profile direct action often aimed at big business interests, state projects and large-scale farming. Read more>>
A Juneteenth Call For The Closure Of 10 Prisons Across The State In The Next Five Years: Juneteenth has become a federal holiday—yet prison slavery under the 13th Amendment continues. Uprooting the prison industrial complex is vital to completing the abolition of slavery. In California, the Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) coalition aims to close 10 state prisons in the next 5 years as part of the People’s Plan for Prison Closure. CURB Executive Director Amber-Rose Howard joins Rattling the Bars to discuss this bold plan. Read more>>
Movement Leaders Dream Big For Reparations: This video is part of Realizing Reparations, an exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation. Read more>>
Educators Nationwide Pledge to Teach Truth in Schools: On the #TeachTruth National Day of Action, teachers, parents, and students said they won’t back down from the fight against anti-history bills. #TeachTruth gathering in D.C. As efforts to suppress and eliminate the teaching about America’s history of racism and oppression ramp up, it’s easy to forget that a group of stalwart advocates has been on the frontline of this fight for decades, lobbying for an accurate and comprehensive student curriculum: teachers. For the last two summers, educators have rallied together — along with students, parents, and community members — to speak out against the anti-CRT movement. They kept the same energy this year as they pledged to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights. Read more>>
Greeks Protest Over Fatal Migrant Shipwreck: People took part in a protest over the loss of hundreds of asylum seekers who were aboard a boat that capsized off the coast of Peloponnese, in Athens, Greece. Protests have been held across Greece following the tragic shipwreck that claimed the lives of hundreds of migrants. Greek anti-racist organizations, unions and others on Thursday staged rallies in cities including Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Karditsa and Kalamata, protesting the tragic shipwreck off the coast of the Peloponnese. “They made the Mediterranean a liquid cemetery; we will never get used to the slaughterhouse,” read banners held by protesters condemning Greek and European refugee and migration policy. Read more>>
What It Means To Be a Refugee In Gaza: On June 20, World Refugee Day, Serena Awad shared her experience living under Israeli military blockade in Gaza, how young Palestinians are resisting, and what gives her hope today. Read more>>
Ten Protesters Detained in Istanbul Trans Pride Parade Released: Ten LGBT activists including Pride event organisers and members of the queer community were released on Monday after being detained by police at Sunday’s Trans Pride Parade in Istanbul. The parade was banned by Istanbul’s Governor as part of the Turkish government’s hostile policies towards Pride events. Read more>>
NYC’s Queer Liberation March May Be The Most Important Protest & Celebration This Year: Each year since the march launched in 2019, an estimated 35,000–45,000 people have gathered for the annual alternative to the better-known NYC Pride March, the city’s official parade organized by the non-profit organization Heritage of Pride. As Reclaim Pride co-founder Jay Walker recently explained to LGBTQ Nation, the purpose of the Queer Liberation March is to get back to the spirit of resistance that fueled the Stonewall Riot in 1969 and the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march in 1970 by recentering activist organizations, intersectionality, and the politics of the moment while rejecting corporate sponsorships and the involvement of the NYPD. Read more>>
Wisconsin County Declares Itself a Sanctuary for Trans People: The resolution “draws a circle of safety and protection around trans people,” its sponsor said. Local lawmakers of a county board located in southcentral Wisconsin voted near unanimously on a resolution to become a sanctuary for transgender people in the state and elsewhere. The Dane County Board of Supervisors voted 25-1 to back a resolution that seeks to protect the rights of transgender and nonbinary individuals in the event that a state proposal endangering those rights — including access to gender-affirming health care — is passed by the GOP-controlled Wisconsin legislature. Read more>>
Pastor Walks Out After Christian Reformed Church Synod Passes Anti-LGBTQ+ Resolution: When the Christian Reformed Church synod, a gathering of church officials and delegates, passed a resolution condemning gays and lesbians and requiring them to confess it as a sin as well as requiring members to oppose same-sex marriages to remain a member, one pastor gave a short impassioned speech before walking out. Delegate Dave Struyk, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced to the group that he was leaving to protest “on behalf of the pain that was caused to many LGBTQ+ people.” And one of those people was his son. Read more>>
How To Be A Better LGBTQ Ally: Expand your knowledge. Create safe spaces. Amplify LGBTQIA+ voices and follow their lead. Here’s how to be a better ally in tough times. Read more>>
Netflix Drama Unleashes Taiwan’s #MeToo Moment: The fictional “Wave Makers,” a popular Netflix drama that explores gender and sexual dynamics in politics against the backdrop of a presidential election in Taiwan. It has heralded in Taiwan’s #MeToo moment. Read more>>
How Environmental Conflicts Hurt — And Motivate — Women Activists: Even when governments concede to environmentalists, women are often left out of negotiations. Read more>>
Fighting Remilitarization In Japan: Japanese peace activist Seishi Hinada talks about the policy of militarization pursued by the Fumio Kishida government and the campaign against US bases in Okinawa. Read more>>
Groups Are Coming Together To Resist This Year’s UK Armed Forces Day: The UK’s Armed Forces Day’s grotesque display of militarism gets more nauseating each year. But campaigners in Cornwall won’t take it lying down. This year’s Armed Forces Day is on Saturday 24 June. The main “public show” (perhaps the most grotesque uses of the phrase imaginable) will be in Cornwall. However, local and national campaigners are not taking this display of militarism lying down. In fact, they’re planning a counter-event to show the public’s resistance. Read more>>
Majority of US Citizens Want To Cut Military Budget: When Americans across different groups were asked if they would support shifting Pentagon spending to domestic issues like healthcare and education, sixty percent said yes. “Weapons and war do not keep us safe. Instead, we should put our money and time into programs that ensure real safety and security for everyone, like affordable health care, a just judicial system, and economic opportunities.” Read more>>
‘War Made Invisible’ Refutes Collusion with War Makers: Kathy Kelly reviews a new book asks why people often identify more with the bombers rather than with the bombed. Following a string of U.S. “forever wars,” a profusion of well-written, often riveting novels, memoirs, and analyses have been published. Talented authors have aimed to promote understanding about the human cost of war. In the same period, mainstream media sources have continually developed ways to make war appear normal—something necessary, justifiable, or in some cases, “humane.” Read more>>
US Veterans Push Back On Military Recruitment: The U.S. military is facing its worst recruitment crisis since the end of the Vietnam War. The Defense Department’s budget proposal for 2024 outlines a plan for the military to slightly cut back on its ranks, but to reach its projected numbers, it will still need to embark on a heavy recruitment push. Across the country, anti-war veterans and their allies are working together in an effort to stop the U.S. military from reaching its goal. Read more>>
Veterans For Peace Memorial Day Recap: Veterans across the United States held marches and rallies on US Memorial Day. Every year, Veterans For Peace Memorial Day commemorations focus on the true costs of war. “We remember not just fallen U.S. service members, but all who have died in war. In recognizing the human toll of war as well as its devastating effects on all living things, we are reminded that war has no winners.” Read more>>
For the Colonized Body, Tattoos Are Reclamation: For centuries, tattooing has represented much more than mere aesthetic or a tough facade. For communities outside the West—especially to Indigenous peoples. Tattooing is medicinal and sacred, symbolizing a person’s great milestones, beauty, and bravery. Tattooing is more than decorative: It is a form of devotion to one’s true self and community. Read more>>
The Oil Industry Guide To Things You Should Not Do: Hello, loyal customers! Recently, many, MANY of you have been asking “what can I do to stop oil company pollution from destroying literally everything I know and love?”. The fact is, with 7 billion people on Earth who all want to live a safe and healthy life, there are so many opportunities for you to stop us. So here’s what to do: Nothing! Just keep doing what you’ve been doing. It’s working great for us. Please especially don’t do any of the things below, ok? Help us help you help us and hurt you. A creative action guide from Yellow Dot. Read more>>
Theater Review: Dr. King Theater Play Explores His Last Night: A story unfolds between the weary Dr. King and a hotel maid who brings him a cup of coffee. Read more>>
Iranian Gay Photographer Uses Art For Survival: In 2020, as the world battled to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, Ashkan Shabani faced his own battle for survival. The LGBTQ+ community in Iran faces systemic suppression, discrimination, family rejection, and legal obstacles. In exile, he uses photography to express the peril LGBTQ+ persons face. Read more>>
Teens Use Sci Fi & Fantasy To Find Security, Affirmation, and New Horizons: Reading into worlds that affirm diverse identities, finding solace in another world, and expanding one’s mind, young readers are using sci-fi and fantasy books as a tool to navigate a harsh reality. Read more>>
Mutual Aid & Solidarity Groups Launch New Campaign For Back-Up Power: A community backup power supply is a community-organized mutual-aid group where people work together to provide backup batteries during power emergencies. A battery collective provides an efficient way for communities to manage and share energy resources in times of need. Power shut-offs have become common occurrences in states across the nation from California to Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and many others. Read more>>
The Matriarchs Who Helped Seattle’s Urban Native Population: The Seattle Indian Center offered an oasis inside the urban wilderness. Any Indian, regardless of their tribe or background, was welcomed, offered coffee, and counseled. They were given food, clothing, and emergency financial assistance, but most importantly, they were listened to and treated as human beings with a rich heritage. The Native women who volunteered there were not outsiders or government workers. They were Native mothers and grandmothers who saw in the faces of the Native street people the eyes of their ancestors pleading for help. Read more>>
What Ohio’s Co-op Evangelists Learned From Spain’s Union Co-op Network: For more than a decade, Co-op Cincy has been working to both create new cooperatively-owned businesses and help current businesses transition to co-op models across the greater Cincinnati area. In April, the group had a chance to visit Mondragon Co-op in Spain, the model that inspired their own. Now, they’ve returned with a list of action items. Their goal: To better understand how Ohio co-ops could get to Mondragon’s level. Read more>>
Daniel Ellsberg’s Message To Us, And To Future Generations: Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers and activist on the dangers of nuclear weapons, spoke with Martin Hellman about what he’d like to say to us and to future generations upon his death. He passed on June 16. Read more>>
César Chávez, American: A social justice cyclist retraces the United Farm Workers March to Sacramento. Over the six days he’d been following the route and meeting leaders in the Central Valley, he found himself thinking about the legendary labor activist César Chavéz, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union and a key organizer of the farmworkers march, and asking the question: What role should complicated legendary figures like Chávez play in civic life? Read more>>
The California Town Disproving Every Myth You’ve Heard About Teenagers: From teen pregnancy to crime, Placer, CA, is showing that its racially-diverse teenagers are a boon to their community. And that trend could apply to other places, too. Read more>>
From the Picket Line: Why A Conservative UK Worker Became A Union Rep: Mark Dollar is a trade union representative for National Highways – a government-owned company tasked with keeping 4,500 miles (7,242km) of Britain’s arterial roads and motorways safe, clear and moving. It is the largest trade union in the civil service, representing workers in the public sector as well as commercial and private sector workers who work on government contracts. Here’s what propelled Mark Dollar to start organizing. Read more>>
Will Businesses Get the Right to Vote in Seaford, Delaware? To most, Seaford, Delaware, would seem the kind of community for which the word “idyllic” was coined. But a proposed city charter change has brought a bit of unexpected controversy to this community of tree-lined streets and brick sidewalks: City officials want to give municipal voting rights to nonresident owners of limited liability companies, corporations and trusts. “It’s interesting that this is making any news at all,” Seaford Mayor David Genshaw said earlier this week. Read more>>
Join Pope Francis’ Call For a Ceasefire in Ukraine: Let us heed Pope Francis’ call to support a mutual ceasefire and diplomacy in Ukraine to stop this terrible annihilation of so many precious lives. Sign our statement in support of Pope Francis’s call for a mutual ceasefire before this war escalates to engulf all of Europe or a direct war between the US and Russia. Learn more>>
LA Hotel Workers Prepare For Strike – Send A Solidarity Statement: Los Angeles hotels are making more in profits now than before the pandemic, but they’re refusing to offer workers even a penny more in wages. Stand with hotel workers by sending messages to the CEOs of Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt today. Demand these hotel chains come to the table and negotiate a fair wage with their workers. Learn more>>
Speak Out of Diaspora Russian War Resisters and Evaders: Join Nonviolence International for a panel discussion about the situation of Russian war resisters and evaders in the Diaspora today. Hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled the war to neighboring countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany. Largely, their resistance and plight have not been heard. NVI will also present its plans for organizing communication among groups in the diaspora to share alternative information with their families and friends in Russia. (June 26) Learn more>>
Demand Climate & Hunger Justice in the US Farm Bill: No one should ever have to go hungry—especially in a wealthy nation. Unfortunately, far too many of our neighbors struggle to put food on the table. Yet the U.S. relies on industrial agriculture, which is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This year’s Farm Bill is an opportunity to change course. Urge Congress to pass a Farm Bill that works for people and the planet. Sign the petition today! Learn more>>