Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun When I read that India’s farmers led a record-breaking, 250 million person strike against corporate agriculture laws, I cheered. Then I found out that Peru’s farmers rose up against a similar farmworker-abusing law and got it repealed. Double cheers! I come from a farming family. When I train people in…
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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…
Actions in Bolivia, Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, Zimbabwe, and so many more!
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun It was a huge week in global protest movements. There was so much going on, in fact, that it took an extra day this week simply to read up on the global protests. I wanted to dig beneath headlines and slants to gain a clearer picture of what was happening….