Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Students at John Hopkins University disrupted two meetings in protest of a plan to form a private police force on campus. The project was paused for two years following the George Floyd Protests in 2020, but is now being fast-tracked. By shutting down the two mandatory town hall meetings, activists…
Sri Lankans Persevere, Mexican Surfers Fight Wave Extinction, Guatemalans Protect Weavings, Hungarian Teachers Protest
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun As tricky as it is to mobilize a nonviolent movement, maintaining the movement’s capacity to follow-through is perhaps even trickier. Around the globe, campaigns are facing challenges in making sure their demands are upheld after they “win”. Sri Lankans (pictured above) ousted their previous president, but they’re facing a new…
Haiti Marches, France Strikes, Chad Protests, Egypt Demands Rosetta Stone Back
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,…
Pig Rescuers, Theatrical Play Ends Solitary Confinement & Chinese Bank Depositors
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s a week of … unexpected … Nonviolence News. Many stories are distinct, unique, and have an element of the unexpected to them. One story like this is the recent acquittal of Direct Action Everywhere (DXE) animal rights activists who entered a Smithfield animal factory and rescued sick piglets. They…
Love Is Law in Cuba, Just Stop Oil Blocks Bridge, Iran’s Feminist Revolt, and Fracking Halted In Australia
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Let’s start with some victories! In Australia, a coalition of First Nation and climate campaigners got a three-part fracking project canceled. Cubans voted “love into law” with a sweeping same-sex marriage bill. The Oneida Nation is putting up dual-language road signs. And California highways just got a lot safer for…
Enough Is Enough, Whales Swim Safe & Nonviolent Resistance In Ukraine
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Cost-of-living protests continue to grab global headlines. In the United Kingdom, synchronized demonstrations launched the Enough Is Enough campaign, which has five reasonable demands (proper living-wage rises, decent homes for all, higher taxes on wealth and windfalls, and an end to poverty of food and heating). Many groups are part…
Iran Erupts, Russians Refuse, Ukrainian Coal Miners Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Massive protests have erupted in Iran after the death of a woman held in custody (and probably beaten) by morality police for refusing to comply with the nation’s stringent dress code for women. In Russia, 1,300 people have been arrested during protests against conscription and the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile,…
Pakistani Workers Want Safety, BLM Protests For UK Rapper, South Koreans Push For Fair Medicine
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The United Kingdom is asking whose lives matter after the police killed an unarmed Black rapper. When protest organizers were urged to cancel the demonstrations due to the queen’s death, they refused. They felt the greater insensitivity was asking them to cancel a protest over a Black man’s murder for…
Sip-ins for Starbucks Unions, Indonesia Protests Fuel Prices & the Underwater Boulder Wall
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In this week’s Nonviolence News, thousands of Indonesians are protesting high fuel prices. Puerto Ricans are flooding the streets in objection to power outages from the partially privatized electric utility. XR UK superglued themselves to the floor of parliament for climate action. Iranian women’s rights activists are facing renewed attacks…
One Million Bolivians March, Intermodal Workers Double Salaries, Scientists Issue Paper On Necessity of Climate Action
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Bolivia’s use of nonviolent struggle has already reached epic proportions – and they’re at it again. Recently, a million Bolivians marched in La Paz in support of their left-wing government. The action was meant to counter right-wing attempts to destabilize the government and oust the president. If this all seems…