Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun How much injustice, harm, and destruction takes place in our world because democracy remains an aspiration rather than an actuality? Democracy and nonviolence go hand-in-hand. From Gandhi’s independence movement (which he called Indian Self-Rule) to the Philippines People Power Movement to keep the dictator from stealing the election, nonviolent action…
Pink Vest Safety Teams, Stroller Lock-Downs, Singing Protests & a Historic Win
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News is just full of fascinating stories: Cornell University workers just won a historic contract that includes up-to a 25.4% increase in wages, a cost-of-living adjustment, elimination of a two-tiered wage system, and much more. Australians can now ignore their bosses on the weekends, thanks to a…
South Africans Mourn Coal Mines, France’s Water Village, UK Imam Counters Hate With Empathy
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun One of the powers of nonviolence action is its ability to embody the full range of human emotion. Beyond the expression of justifiable outrage, activists can express worry, fear, compassion, vision, sorrow, hope, and even humor. In South Africa, climate activists mourned the plans to build two new coal mines…
Madrid’s Tree-Huggers, Israeli Objectors & Indian Women Take Back The Night
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The International Court of Justice has issued an advisory opinion that nations, businesses, and others have a duty to boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) Israel over its illegal occupation and apartheid state. They say that BDS is “not just legal, but obligatory”. This has already prompted the Church of England…
Bangladesh Wins, UK Rises Against Hate & Nigerians Protest Bad Governance
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, we celebrate the remarkable success of Bangladesh’s student-led movement to get their prime minister to resign. Facing discriminatory policies, economic hardship, and political corruption, the weeks-long mass protests finally forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country. The movement proposed Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a Noble Prize winner,…
Africa’s Powerful Movements, Baloch Women Rise Up & Gibraltar Activists Halt Military Fuel
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Nonviolence News shares stories from around the world. However, much of our readership resides in the United States. We’ve made a conscious choice to uplift nonviolence as a global field and offer our readers the opportunity to learn from their fellow human beings worldwide. They’re doing some remarkable things with…
Netanyahu Protests, Uganda Erupts & German Punks Spoil Holiday Island
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to US Congress set off a firestorm of protests. Around half of the Democrats skipped his speech to congress. Several came in protest, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib who held up a sign that said “guilty of genocide” on one side and “war criminal” on the other….
Bangladesh Quota Reform, Gazolinazo Protests & Wedding Dress Library
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…
Protest Weddings, Mock Funerals, Train Blockades & Rainforest Protection
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Let’s celebrate a small victory in a bigger, still-ongoing struggle. Striking South Korean junior doctors walked out by the thousands months ago – and the government suspended their licenses. Now, the authorities are promising to restore the licenses as part of its effort to get the junior doctors back to…
Poor People’s March, Kenya Resists, Stonehenge Paint & Rock Climbers for Palestine
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Economic injustice is one of the major drivers of mass movements. This weekend, thousands of poor people and allies gathered in Washington, DC, as part of the Poor People’s Campaign’s March To The Polls, an effort to mobilize some of the 140 million poor and low-income US citizens into a…