Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun After hundreds of solidarity rallies around the world, a Palestinian general strike, widespread boycotts, dock workers refusing to load weapons ships, and more, Israel finally agreed to a tenuous ceasefire. The end of its attacks on Gaza is not enough, however. It is merely a necessary step that should be…
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Pots-and-Pans Protests Raise a Racket for Justice
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nonviolence comes in thousands of shapes and sizes. It’s a force, a field of potential, a method of making change, even a way of life. While this week’s headline celebrates the Latin America-wide cacerolazo (pots-and-pans protest), I’m also uplifting a few stories that show the wide-ranging potential of nonviolence, from small acts…
Turning the Titanic: Belfast Shipyard Workers Want to Build Windmills
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun: Each week, I read hundreds of articles and survey close to a thousand headlines in search of the stories I feature in Nonviolence News. Finding these reports bolsters my heart. In New Zealand, 10,000 weapons have been turned in through a buy-back program after the Christchurch massacre. In Brazil, Indigenous women…