Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun
It’s been a week of political violence – and not just the assassination attempt at a Trump rally that left 2 dead and several injured. In Bangladesh, six people have been killed and hundreds injured as police violently repress the students holding mass protests for Quota Reform. They’re demanding that the government end the rule that 30% of government jobs must go to descendants of military members during their war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
It prompted me to reflect (and write) about the radical idea of political nonviolence as a standard for both individuals and governments. Upholding and expanding the right to protest (and engage in other forms of nonviolent action) are critically important for global movements. If we don’t, we see situations like what’s happening in the most politically-active city in Kazakhstan, where officials are trying to reduce the number of permitted protest areas from three to two.
They are not alone in trying to squelch protests and nonviolent action. In the United Kingdom, 5 climate protesters with Just Stop Oil – including Extinction Rebellion cofounder Roger Hallam – were sentenced to record jail time for planning the 2022 blockade of the M25 highway. This ruling was designed to make other climate activists hesitate to use direct action. The authorities know how powerful it is – and Just Stop Oil’s bold and disruptive tactics seem to be working. The campaign just won the first of their original demands: that the government commit to ending all new licenses and consents for fossil fuel exploration and extraction.
In some good news for nonviolent activists, a US court just ruled that protest organizers are not responsible for the violence of attendees. While nonviolent activists can – and should – do everything they can to prevent violence from taking place, this court decision is an important protection against the damages wrought by agents provocateurs. It also prevents the chilling effect that million-dollar damages would have for your average citizen hoping to organize a rally, demonstration, or march. The ruling was made on a case from 2016 during the protests over the police murder of Alton Sterling, but it could have an impact on similar lawsuits facing organizers for the Stop Cop City campaign in Atlanta, GA.
In more Nonviolence News, Ecuadorians borrowed a tactic from Mexico’s Gazolinazo Protests as they also took action against high fuel prices, thousands of South Korean Samsung workers are on strike, Sudan’s trade unions are calling for an end to the civil war, large numbers of First Nation peoples and allies marched in Australia, and schoolgirls in India held a sit-in protest against their principal and caretaker’s drunken harassment. Mexico won a huge victory when Bayer-Monsanto dropped their lawsuit against Mexico’s historic ban on GMO corn. And, following a mediation process, charges have been dropped against a group of villagers in Kazakhstan who used direct action against a gold mine that threatened their water and health.
This is a good week to at least scan the headlines of the full round-up. (It’s always a good week to do that, but it’s a particularly impressive collection of stories. Too many to mention here!) You don’t want to miss the report on Mexico City’s luxurious ‘utopias’ for low income residents, Hungary’s lessons in resisting authoritarianism, the librarian lending out wedding dresses, and much more.
In solidarity,
Rivera Sun
Protest Organizers Not Responsible For Violent Actions of Others: A landmark ruling in the case against prominent civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson upholds that a protest organizer cannot be held responsible for another person’s violent actions during the time of the rally. This case began in 2016 during protests over the police murder of Alton Sterling. It could have a powerful impact on similar cases facing protesters who are trying to stop the construction of Cop City in Atlanta, GA. Read more>>
‘Paint The Town Orange!’ – Just Stop Oil Wins First Demand: Four Just Stop Oil supporters have painted Parliament Square orange to celebrate winning Just Stop Oil’s original demand, that the UK Government commit to ending all new licenses and consents for fossil fuel exploration and extraction. Read more>>
Mexico Scores Major Victory Against Bayer-Owned Monsanto: After a four-year legal battle on multiple fronts with Mexico’s AMLO government, Monsanto has finally thrown in the towel. Last Tuesday, Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt) announced that two Mexican divisions of Monsanto — now subsidiaries of German chemicals giant, Bayer, which in 2018 acquired Monsanto in arguably the worst ever corporate merger — have dropped their law suits against the Mexican government over its intention to ban genetically modified corn. Read more>>
In Kazakhstan, Charges Dropped Against Villagers Who Stormed Gold Mine Over Cyanide: A court in the East Kazakhstan Region has dismissed a case against six residents of the village of Maraldy for their role in a direct action against a local gold mine, following mediation between the parties. The mine operators announced they were dropping their compensation claim of 6 million tenge ($12,600). The defendants admitted their culpability. The case originated from an incident in May when a group of around 100 people stormed the gold-processing facility over concerns about the use of cyanide. Riot police were deployed to defuse the situation. Read more>>
TC Energy’s $15-Billion Keystone XL Lawsuit Gets Thrown Out: Calgary-based TC Energy recently lost its US$15-billion arbitration case against the U.S. government over the Keystone XL pipeline, much to the relief of environmentalists. Read more>>
School District Votes Out Board Members Who Banned Pride Flags In Schools: Two school board members voted to ban flags that were not the U.S. flag or the California state flag after the superintendent and principal of a school flew a Pride flag. This week, both of those board members were voted out. “It was sneaky behavior, and then they pushed it through without listening to people. We will not stand for this.” Read more>>
Six Protesters Killed Amid Quota Reform Protests in Bangladesh: Thousands of students from universities across the country have been protesting for weeks demanding the abolition of the 30% quota for the descendants of country’s freedom fighters and other reforms in the recruitment for government jobs. Read more>>
Gazolinazo Protests High Fuel Prices In Ecuador: Gasolinazo is the Spanish word for a series of protests that rocked Mexico in 2017 after citizens became distraught over the exorbitant price of gasoline. The name was revived this week as Ecuadorians took to the streets of Quito to protest rising gasoline prices under Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s policies. On July 4th, social organizations marched through the streets of the capital with chants, songs, posters and banners. Read more>>
Kazakhstan Considers Shrinking Political Rally Locations: Municipal lawmakers in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest and most politically active city, are considering reducing the number of locations where people can legally hold rallies from three to two. Read more>>
Kashmiri Pandits Protest Removal Of Day Of Commemoration: A group of Kashmiri migrant pandits held a protest outside the Raj Bhavan, denouncing the alleged persecution of their community on this day in 1931. They view the day as a ‘black day’ after the administration removed it from the list of holidays and dates of commemoration. Read more>>
Protest March Greets Opening of Milwaukee Republican National Convention: On opening day of the Milwaukee Republican National Convention, the Coalition to March on the RNC took the streets near the inner security zone downtown controlled by the Secret Service. The Poor People’s Army (aka Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign) also marched. Watch here>>
California Moves To Ban Forced Labor. But There’s Still More To Do. California is finally taking steps to abolish slavery from its constitution by banning it in state prisons. On June 27, 2024, the state legislature passed the End Slavery in California Act, teeing up a statewide vote this fall on whether to end forced prison labor in the Golden State. Sixteen states still allow the incarcerated to be forced into labor for a pittance, a historical extension of slavery that must be eradicated. Read more>>
How Kenya’s Protesters Faced Death To Hold Their Leaders To Account: When Kenya’s Gen Z came out onto the streets of Nairobi, they hoped the government would listen. Instead, police responded with tear gas, water cannon and live ammunition, resulting in the deaths of 39 demonstrators. The initial outrage was sparked by a piece of legislation known as the Finance Bill 2024, that sought to raise taxes on several basic goods. But when many Kenyans say daily life is already unaffordable, the perception was that an out-of-touch government was making young and poor people shoulder the burden of the country’s debt crisis. Watch here>>
We Opened an Abolitionist School. Then They Jailed One of Our Own. “How can we push back today on this repression and the ideas that underpin it?” Read more>>
What We Know-and Don’t Know – About Religion and Nonviolent Action: The conspicuous role of spiritual leaders — not just in Kenya, but also recent protests movements from Hong Kong to Iran to Nicaragua — illustrate the need to better recognize the religious dimensions of peaceful, sustainable change. The urgency of this call is all the more pressing as we witness a broader resurgence of religion in global politics in the 21st century. Read more>>
Climate Activists Block Australia’s Biggest Oil & Gas Producers: As climate protesters protested outside the headquarters of one of Australia’s biggest oil and gas producers Woodside on July 12, two others had blockaded the only access road to Burrup Hub Project in Pilbara region in the early morning. Read more>>
Activists March at the Capitol to Urge State Officials to Adopt a More Active Role in Enforcing the Green Amendment: “We are here today to tell our New York leaders that our environmental rights are not discretionary. They are mandatory,” said Maya van Rossum, leader of a national movement to add environmental protections to state constitutions. Read more>>
Tribes and Environmentalists Press Arizona and Federal Officials to Stop Uranium Mining Near the Grand Canyon: Activists hope to shut down an existing mine within a new national monument and to prevent the transportation of uranium on state and federal roads across Navajo Nation lands. Read more>>
Climate Activists Arrested at Protest Demanding Citibank Divest from Fossil Fuels: In New York, police arrested 46 elder climate campaigners as they staged a nonviolent civil disobedience protest near Citigroup’s Manhattan headquarters. Read more>>
Contempt, Gagging and UN Intervention – Inside the UK’s Wildest Climate Trial: The prosecution of five Just Stop Oil activists over M25 protest led to chaotic scenes in court and concerns about ‘judicial persecution’. Read more>>
New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say: Latest documents unearthed by Dutch climate activist seen as “valuable sources” for litigators. Among the files, reported for the first time today by DeSmog and Follow The Money, and published on Climate Files, there is a 1970 industry journal article where Shell appears to accept responsibility for harms caused by its products. A trove of Shell publications from the 1980s and 1990s foresee the “major adverse changes” the “greenhouse effect” is liable to cause to the climate. Read more>>
‘For Our Grandkids’: Seniors Take Action On Climate Change, Urge Bank To Divest From Fossil Fuels: A few dozen retirees took to the Wells Fargo corporate building in downtown Minneapolis Wednesday morning attempting to disrupt employees from entering, demanding the banking giant divest from fossil fuels. Read more>>
Five Just Stop Oil Activists Receive Record Sentences For Planning To Block M25: Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance. Read more>>
How To Have Tricky Conversations About Climate Change: One of the most important things you can do to fight climate change is to talk about it. “I think the No. 1 thing anyone can do is to try and build their social and collective power. Meet like-minded groups of people to both be able to vent to but also to empower each other, share solutions, work together.” Read more>>
Defying Threats of Replacement, Thousands of Samsung Workers Go On Indefinite Strike: In a statement, published on the website of the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) which is spearheading the strike, the union told its members “don’t get tired” and continue the strike until further instructions are given. Read more>>
New York Amazon Workers Demand Paid Juneteenth Holiday: Six hundred of our Amazon co-workers at five warehouses around New York signed a petition demanding starting wages of $25 an hour, time-and-a-half pay for Prime Day (July 16-17), seasonal workers converted to permanent status within 30 days of employment, and Juneteenth as a paid holiday. Read more>>
UnitedHealth Reports $7.9 Billion in Q2 Profits After Protesters Arrested: A day after 150 people assembled outside the headquarters of UnitedHealth Group to demand the for-profit health insurance giant stop its “systemic” denial of coverage, the company announced Tuesday the huge profits it raked in over the second quarter of 2024: $7.9 billion. The sum, said one organizer, exemplifies why the demonstrators were willing to risk arrest to speak out against the firm’s practices. Read more>>
Unions Warn Voters Not To Be Fooled By JD Vance: Leading U.S. unions warned voters on Monday not to be fooled by the pro-worker facade constructed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio who has opposed congressional efforts to strengthen organizing rights, allowed corporate lobbyists to influence his legislating, and raked in donations from the elites he claims to despise. Read more>>
Sudan’s Trade Unions Front Calls For End To War And Military Rule: Trade unions have played a key role in Sudan’s political change since the 1940s, despite crackdowns by subsequent military dictatorships. The Front’s announcement comes in light of the civil war that has caused mass destruction and devastation to Sudan since April 2023, leaving more than 14,000 people killed, 33,000 others wounded, and 11 million people displaced so far. Read more>>
Thousands March For Land Rights And Justice For First Nations Peoples: Thousands joined the march for land rights and justice for First Nations peoples on July 12 as part of the annual NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) rally. The “Keep the fire burning: Blak, Loud and Proud” theme celebrated “the unyielding spirit” of First Nations communities, inviting everyone to “stand in solidarity, amplifying the voices that have long been silenced”. Read more>>
Commemoration Marks 10 Years Since Death of Eric Garner At The Hands of Police: Eric Garner was 43 when he died in 2014 during an arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. The incident was captured on cell phone video. Garner could be heard telling officers “I can’t breathe” 11 times. His death was ruled a homicide. Read more>>
On Eve of GOP Convention, Faith Leaders Warn Against White Christian Nationalism: A cross-section of faith leaders gathered on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus Sunday disavowed the type of religion that, they charged, animates Trump’s candidacy. “We must understand that democracy is in danger,” Shaw said, his voice rising. “That’s why we’re here tonight — to protect our democracy, to reject white Christian nationalism and to build the beloved community.” Read more>>
Protest and Serve: Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech. Read more>>
This LA Restaurant Serves Up Empowerment for Refugees: At Flavors From Afar, each chef brings their own unique history to the table — with vibrant, triumphant and delicious results. Read more>>
Protesters Demand Answers After Sangamon County Deputy Fatally Shoots Woman: Dozens of protesters lined up outside the Sangamon County Building again on Monday demanding answers in the death of Sonya Massey, 36, who was shot and killed by Sangamon County deputies. Protesters were holding signs saying “Black Lives Matter,” “Justice for Sonya,” and “Sonya Strong.” They are also asking for the body camera footage from that night to be released. Read more>>
Meet The Mercaditas Fighting For Fairness In Mexico: Street selling is a risky activity in Mexico City. But the mercaditas movement aims to empower women and nonbinary sellers to protect themselves from economic exploitation. Read more>>
Arkansas Abortion Rights Organizers Vow to Fight ‘Absurd’ Rejection of Ballot Measure: Reproductive rights advocates responded with outrage and vowed to fight after Arkansas’ top election official on Wednesday moved to disqualify a proposed ballot initiative that—if approved by voters—would enshrine abortion access in the state’s constitution. “We will not back down,” organizers of the initiative said in response to Republican Secretary of State John Thurston. Read more>>
In India, Students Protest Against Principal’s Alleged Misconduct, Harassment: Several female students of the Social Welfare Residential Women’s Degree College in Balemala, India, staged a protest in front of the institution alleging that principal Shailaja and caretaker Soumitri consumed liquor and also harassed the students. Activists belonging to women’s organizations backed the agitating students. They demanded the suspension of the principal. Read more>>
40th Week of Palestine Protests As Gaza Death Toll Estimated At 186,000: In response, healthcare workers across Australia called a Code Blue national day of action on July 12, invoking the hospital emergency code to emphasise the critical situation in Gaza. Read more>>
Illegal Sale of Palestinian Land Supported By Biden, Local Government: As Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Yet, pro-Palestinian protesters at the real estate event were met with violence from zionists while the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) stood by and offered them no protection. Read more>>
Tracking Dissent – The US Officials Who Have Resigned Over The War On Gaza: Support from President Joe Biden’s administration for the Israeli government’s war on Gaza has resulted in an unprecedented surge of dissent within United States agencies. Read more>>
Philly Palestine Coalition’s Response To Police Attack On Palestine Rally: “We can no longer afford to play the game of optics. This is a matter of life and death and of a moral compass.” Read more>>
Delta Airlines Forces Passenger to Remove T-Shirt in Anti-Palestine Move: Louie Siegel describes how Delta Airlines threatened to kick him off a plane over his “Jews Say Ceasefire Now” T-shirt. Read more>>
MSM Buries News of a Protest Over Gaza At Wimbledon Men’s Final: Fossil Free London activists staged a demonstration outside the Wimbledon men’s finals, in protest of its sponsorship by climate crisis-catalyst and Israel genocide-enabling Barclays. You’d be forgiven for not knowing this, as the corporate media appears to have ignored the actions altogether. Read more>>
Coalition Urges Senators to Stop ‘Illegal, Ineffective’ US Airstrikes in Yemen: An anti-war coalition of over 50 groups this week wrote to four U.S. senators who have raised alarm about American airstrikes in Yemen and the Red Sea to call for legislation that would stop “illegal, ineffective, and deadly unauthorized” bombings. Read more>>
Youth Demand Takes Action At The Cenotaph – Threatening To Disrupt State Opening of Parliament: At around midday on 15 July, the two Youth Demand supporters laid a Palestinian flag and white flowers at the Cenotaph. White flowers are traditionally seen as a symbol of peace and of anti-war sentiment. The pair then displayed signs which read: ‘Never Again for Anyone’ and ‘Stop Arming Israel’. Read more>>
Why Sending Unarmed Protection To Gaza Isn’t a Radical Idea: This episode of Nonviolence Radio welcomes Mel Duncan, the founding director of Nonviolent Peaceforce and longtime peace activist. Mel talks to Michael and Stephanie about a proposal to bring unarmed civilian protectors to Gaza. Unarmed civilian protection, or UCP — the practice of protecting vulnerable groups by having well trained unarmed people accompany them in areas of danger — has been shown to be extremely effective, even in places entrenched in violent conflict. Too often we are told by conventional history and mainstream media that the appropriate, and indeed, only ‘realistic’ response to violence is yet more violence. Mel encourages us to question this assumption. Read more>>
Public Luxury For The Everyday Citizens of Mexico City: The “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada in Mexico City combine functionality with high-level living … but not for the ultra-wealthy. The Utopías are social infrastructure for some of the poorest, most marginalized people in Mexico City—and it’s clearly intended to show that nothing is too good for them. It’s very high-quality design. But it’s not aimed at architecture’s tastemakers. It’s meant to be functional. Read more>>
Does Law Influence Culture, or Does Culture Influence Law? For years the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) partnered with communities to move cutting edge rights-based laws into place to help change cultural thinking and corporate behavior. Then along comes LA activist artist and native Ohioan Andrea Bowers in 2019 offering a new perspective on CELDF’s work by way of the power of art. This month’s Webinar Wednesday we join Andrea as she shares her journey through her current exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa) entitled “Exist, Flourish, Evolve”. Watch here>>
Librarian Lends Out Free Wedding Dresses: Need a wedding dress? This librarian has 100 — and she lends them out for free. Brides-to-be visit the library in hopes of saying “yes” to a dress among the stacks. Read more>>
#SummerOfHeat Shares Climate Stories In Front of Citibank: On Wednesday, July 10, Third Act (Climate elders) teamed up with Climate Families NYC (@climatefamsnyc) and #SummerofHeat to share climate stories infront of Citibank’s headquarters in New York City. Folks, both young and old, came together to think about how we could make this world a better place. Read more>>
Painting Stories of Oppression And Solidarity: Luke Mustafa Woods, a proud Wiradjuri man from up north paints a beautiful painting, where the Aboriginal flag has been welded into the Palestinian flag and the red from both flags blend together as one. Read more>>
Where Communal Art Is Resistance: In Tijuana, Uganda, and Gaza, refugees facing dispossession, displacement, and constant violence are finding moments of solace in the art of dance. Read more>>
A Dose of Inspiration – Why Doctors Are Prescribing Museum Visits: In September 2023, a decade-long initiative to boost mental health and wellness became a little more formal when it signed an agreement with the University Hospital Center of Lille (CHU) to offer 140 museum art therapy sessions over a year to patients who have been given a “museum prescription” by doctors, making it one of the most significant programs of its kind in the world. Read more>>
How Germany’s ‘Orchestra of Change’ Inspires Action: The Berlin Staatsoper’s “Sustainable Listening” series is just one of hundreds of projects launched by members of Germany’s Orchestra of Change, a grassroots, classical musician-led initiative whose goal is to use the emotional power of music in creative ways to protect nature and the climate. And, the musicians emphasize, we might just find that living more sustainably can be beautiful, fulfilling and fun. Read more>>
Lessons On Challenging Authoritarianism From the Hungarian Teachers Movement: A leading Hungarian organizer and teacher discusses the struggle to defend public education from Orban’s increasingly authoritarian government. Read more>>
Uhuru 3 Trial May Set Dangerous Precedent For Free Speech: On July 29, 2022, the FBI raided seven properties connected to the African People’s Socialist Party/Uhuru Movement and fabricated charges against three prominent members. They are facing up to 15 years in jail for speaking out against the proxy war in Ukraine. Clearing the FOG Radio spoke with Penny Hess and Leonard Goodman, a criminal defense attorney with the Uhuru Legal Team. Mr. Goodman made the point that if this trial succeeds, political speech may be considered disinformation even if it is true. Read more>>
Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together: “We cannot pin our hopes on one election, person, victory. What we can do is dig in for the struggle ahead. Art Works provides a reminder of our history of art and activism, the inspiration of past struggles, and the tools for what lies in our future.” Read more>>
We Need Political Nonviolence Now, More Than Ever: Political violence has a terrible track record. It has spent centuries delivering and defending injustice, abuse, discrimination and destruction. So, what should we do instead? Boldly and with vision, we should be building a culture of active nonviolence, including defining and implementing new standards of political nonviolence. Read more>>
Assessing the Flames of Protest: Self-immolation is heart-stoppingly dramatic, capturing the public’s attention, emotions, and imagination despite, or maybe because of its inherent contradictions. Read more>>
The Only Antidote To Election Anxiety Is Training To Confront Trump’s Threat: No matter the outcome in November, we need training to transform despair into action and to build the kind of solidarity that offers protection. Read more>>
Resources for Care & Resilience: Here are a collection of tools to support us journeying climate grief, despair, hope, rage, caring, loving, and staying grounded. Read more>>
Replanting The Seeds of Jewish Revolutionary Nonviolence: Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb takes us on an inner pilgrimage of revolutionary nonviolence as she discusses her new book. Read more>>
The Hunger Strike To End Solitary Confinement In California: In 2011, more than 6,600 people imprisoned in California stopped eating for 19 days to protest extreme isolation inside the state’s prisons. The protests lead to state hearings and a lawsuit. Read more>>
They Tracked 3,200 Pro-Palestinian Campus Arrests. Here’s How Prosecutors Are Responding: Despite peacefully protesting, students across the country still face severe consequences, including potential suspensions, evictions, expulsions, and criminal prosecutions. The latter depends on local prosecutors (or, in some cases, municipal city attorneys) who often have broad leeway to file—or drop—charges after someone is arrested. The Appeal contacted more than 120 prosecutors and city attorneys to ask if they’ll file criminal cases against campus demonstrators. So far, only four expressed apprehension at doing so. Read more>>
In 1917, Columbia’s Clampdown Remade The Antiwar Movement: When police raided Columbia University in May, commentators drew parallels to the crackdown in 1968. But the school’s hostility to the antiwar movement stretches all the way back to 1917, when its management fired faculty and had students arrested. Read more>>
Call On Costco To Drop Dirty Bank Citi: Climate activists are asking you to contact Costco and get them to drop Citibank as its credit card partner because of Citi’s role in funding catastrophic climate change. Learn more>>
Interfaith Action For Palestine: Join a powerful interfaith, multiracial coalition of organizations in Washington, DC from July 28-30 to oppose the national gathering of Christians United for Israel (CUFI). This event will feature targeted actions around their gathering and lobbying efforts with Senators and Representatives. Together, we aim to reclaim the true spirit of Christianity, which CUFI has misappropriated to support Israel’s actions in Gaza. Participating organizations include Christians for a Free Palestine, Mennonite Action, Faith for Black Lives, Rabbis for Ceasefire, Jewish Voice for Peace – DC, If Not Now, Hindus for Human Rights, and FOR-USA. Learn more>>
War Abolisher Awards Presentation Online: World BEYOND War’s Fourth Annual War Abolisher Awards will recognize the work of individuals and organizations from around the globe who directly support one or more of the three segments of World BEYOND War’s strategy for reducing and eliminating war as outlined in the book A Global Security System, An Alternative to War. They are: Demilitarizing Security, Managing Conflict Without Violence, and Building a Culture of Peace. (July 22) Learn more>>
Extinction Rebellion Announces ‘Mass Occupation’ To Upgrade Democracy: Extinction Rebellion UK has responded to the general election result by inviting people to join Upgrade Democracy. It will be a three-day mass occupation of a high-profile location from Friday 30 August to Sunday 1 September. Learn more>>
Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice: The first annual Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice will address the links between war, militarism and climate injustice, promoting grassroots action and policy making for peace and climate justice. This year’s theme is divest from war – invest in climate justice!(Sep 21-28) Learn more>>
Campaign Nonviolence Action Days: From Sept 21 to Oct 2, 2024, (Int’l Day of Peace to Int’l Day of Nonviolence), join tens of thousands of people in creatively building a culture of peace rooted in active nonviolence. Last year, people held over 5,000 actions, events, and marches across the USA and in 20 countries. Over 60,000 people participated in these events. In 2024, join us in advancing peace and nonviolence, and addressing the entwined issues of violence, war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. (Sep 21 – Oct 2) Learn more>>