Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News contains a wonderful collection of success stories. You’ll find a heartening number of nonviolent solutions being implemented around the world. These practices and programs restore ecosystems, prevent systemic violence (like childhood poverty), and hold society accountable for some of its harmful behaviors. These include: acknowledging sea…
Mexico Objects To Tourist Train, Sri Lankan Tea Pickers Strike, & Trevi Fountain Turned Black
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News contains many successes worth celebrating. Oakland teachers have returned to work after voting on a contract that includes living wages, equitable wages, and expanded special education services. In the wake of tragedy, Serbians have handed over an impressive number of guns to try to prevent future…
Big Enough? Plus: Greek Ferries Halt, Italians Protest Slashes & Colombia’s Aerial Dances
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Sometimes, you can hear the cries of the people echoing like rolling thunder from one country to the next. Across the globe, human beings use nonviolent action to lift up common dreams and shared senses of outrage over injustices. Italian unions mobilized 40,000 people to protest the government plan to…
Serbia Against Violence, Aboveground Migrant Networks, Mexico’s Mother’s Day Protest For the Disappeared
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In Serbia, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets in the wake of the nation’s first mass shootings. Protesters are demanding resignations of officials, revocation of licenses for violence-promoting state media channels, gun reform and disarmament, and much more. The same weekend, in a heart-wrenching reminder of how…
Palestine’s Half-Day Strike, May Day Rallies, Canada’s Fed Workers Strike Deal
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun From the global labor movement’s resurgence to interesting strategies in a wide range of campaigns, Nonviolence News offers a lot to mull on this week. Latvian teachers held an intense 3-day strike that led to higher wages. New York took thousands of guns off the streets with a buyback program….
3K Migrant Caravan, 12K Belgiums March & 8K French Citizens Block New Motorway With DIY Wall
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Thousands are on the march for a range of social justice issues this week. After 41 deaths in a detention center fire, a migrant caravan of 3,000 people is marching to Mexico City to speed up legal immigration routes. Argentines filled two lanes of a divided highway as they marched…
Climate Actions & Earth Day, Pothole Flower-Planting Hijinks, Egyptian & Iranian Women Resist Morality Police
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun On Earth Day, April 22, 2023, millions of people are taking action on behalf of our imperiled planet (or, more accurately, our imperiled species and ecosystems). With the climate crisis heating up, business-as-usual destroying hope, and politicians dragging their feet, many people are doing far more than picking up garbage…
Uzbekistan Protects Women, Ethics Board Resigns Over Taser Drones In Schools, German Climate Activists & Transport Workers Join Forces
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In a rare glimmer of good news, Uzbekistan is on the verge of passing landmark laws to prevent gender-based violence. The activists have faced an uphill climb in a culture where domestic violence is rampant. But if the president signs the bill passed by parliament, it will offer women and…
Portugal High Rent Protests, NFTs Gender Gap & Persistent Resistance From Sudan to Wet’suwet’en
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Longevity. Persistence. Determination. All of these matter to the short and long term success of movements for change. In this week’s Nonviolence News, we’re tracking several campaigns that have stretched across years. In Sudan, the Resistance Committees continue to organize for the full vision of a corruption and military-free, civilian-led…
Yellow Ribbon Digital Resistance, Oar-Powered Ocean Clean-Up & LA School Workers Win
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Los Angeles City Schools shut down for 3 days as school workers (custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers) went on strike. United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) joined them in solidarity, bringing the total number of striking workers to over 60,000. It worked. The 30,000 support workers have won a tentative deal for…