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Making Strides, Weathering Setbacks: From Colombia to Catalonia

Posted on June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s a week of reflecting on the rise and fall of global movements. Some are making headway, like Colombia’s national strike. Others have nearly vanished, like Hong Kong’s mass protests. In Spain, the Catalonian independence movement’s secession attempt took a hard hit with the imprisonment of its leaders for sedition…

Yaqui Women Dismantle Pipeline, Scottish Neighbors Thwart Immigration Raid, Oakland Unhoused Residents Build A Village

Posted on May 15, 2021May 15, 2021

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun “Direct action gets the goods,” is a popular movement saying. And it’s true. This week’s Nonviolence News stories include some truly stellar examples. Yaqui women (Mexico) mobilized their entire community to dismantle an illegal pipeline. They took it apart with blow torches and sold it for scrap metal. In Scotland,…

Safe Schools, Healthy Kids, Ending Racism: Public Health As Nonviolence

Posted on August 7, 2020August 8, 2020

Editor’s Note Public health is nonviolence in action. It’s a collection of policies and practices rooted in systemic and structural nonviolence as opposed to “systemic and structural violence“. For example, in a bid to stop obesity and diabetes, Oaxaca, Mexico, just banned the sale of junk food and sugary drinks to minors. It’s a stunning…

War & Peace: 2020 Launches Into Action

Posted on January 5, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun The year 2020 launched into nonviolent action with a bang. Chileans rang in the New Year with mass protests. Fridays for the Future and the Student Climate Strikes walked out on the first Friday of the year. After President Trump ordered a drone strike assassination of the Iranian General Soleimani, hundreds of…

“A Message To the World: Nothing Can Stop Us”

Posted on December 22, 2019

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun It’s that time of year when every blog and news journal in the world starts sharing recaps of 2019.  This report on 99 good news stories in 2019 caught my eye. As I was scrolling down the list, I noticed that so much of the “good news” was also Nonviolence News. …

Train Bridge Blockades & Duct-Taped Bananas

Posted on December 16, 2019January 6, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nonviolence News offers a weekly round-up of amazing stories . . . but it doesn’t stop there.  Week after week, month after month, I’ve collected awe-inspiring stories. As I pause and look back over these six months, I see incredible statistics. Millions of people have participated in major campaigns and actions all…

Save the Whales, Solidarity Strikes, Women Against Violence, and the World Leaders In Nonviolent Struggle

Posted on December 1, 2019December 1, 2019

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nonviolence News is packed with awesome stories this week.  Iraq ousted its prime minister. Black Friday protests swept the globe, many targeting Amazon’s inhumane worker policies. And tens of thousands of women took to the streets in dramatic and evocative protests against the global epidemic of violence toward women. The…

People and Planet Are Worth More Than Gold

Posted on September 15, 2019September 21, 2019

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News is packed with stories about people redefining what’s important in our world. A fleet of cruise ships has been coming to the rescue in the Bahamas, eschewing luxury trips for helping people. The Seminole Tribe has been airlifting drinking water to Bahamas for nearly a week. It seems…

From Algeria to Ecuador, Sudan to Pakistan

Posted on July 22, 2019July 22, 2019

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun: In this week’s Nonviolence News, you’ll find stories from around the world. People on every continent are rising up for human rights, political freedoms, and environmental protection. Many of them are using nonviolent action in the global quest for rights and justice. Here are some of there recent stories: Indigenous Hawai’ians blockade the construction…

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