Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s been a big week. 3,500 climate actions happened in 150 countries. Amid continuing pandemic restrictions and concerns, children sent their shoes to stand in protest in their place. In addition, another 4,000 actions and events took place for a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty,…
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Women = Half The World. They Won’t Surrender To Sexism.
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Women’s rights are human rights. Half of the world’s population lives in an on-going state of inequality. In this week’s Nonviolence News, you’ll find articles about women’s rights campaigns in Nigeria, Iran, Panama, India, and the United States. In the photo, above, Panama’s women protest in the streets over the…
1,000 Strikes … And Those Pesky Media Spins
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Media can be a problem. A big one. Extinction Rebellion just blockaded newspapers over their failure to report on the climate crisis. Meanwhile, a new report dispels the media narrative about the “violent” Black Lives Matter protests. The report finds that in 93% of the thousands of protests involving nearly…
#CancelRent, Bad Jazz, and Something Fishy About Nonviolence
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun #CancelRent. Fifteen cities in the United States recently had uprisings for housing justice. People are occupying vacant homes, holding sit-ins at public offices, setting up encampments, and organizing anti-eviction blockades. Recently, the National Eviction Moratorium delayed evictions in federal housing until January … when tenants will be forced to pay…
Honduras’ Giant Murals, Miami’s Mangrove Swamps, and Defiant Postal Workers
Editor’s Note Follow the money is a popular activist slogan. In this week’s Nonviolence News, you’ll find that people take that advice literally – and creatively. To protest corruption, Hondurans have painted dozens of giant murals on highways asking “Where’s the money?” (¿Donde está el dinero?) Meanwhile, cities around the world are countering the pandemic…
From Blockades To Embroidery
Editor’s Note Moving beyond protests, people around the world are using nonviolent acts of noncooperation and intervention to strive for change. From blockades to embroidery, they’re using dozens of tactics. In Bolivia, 140 road blockades are shutting down the nation to stop the delays in their elections. Arizona schoolteachers, worried about unsafe school re-openings amidst the…
Got Dictators? Never Fear, Nonviolence Is Here
Editor’s Note: The United States is going through some growing pains. (Understatement of the year.) With secret police snatching protesters off the street, journalists being arrested for doing their jobs, and the Portland mayor being simultaneously tear gassed by federal agents and booed by his constituency (for doing the same thing to the protesters the…
Skywriting & Street Murals: Get Creative To Get The Message Out
Editor’s Note It’s been quite a week. Alternatives to militarized police are making headlines left and right. Virtual game players have been staging digital Black Lives Matter protests. A group with a biplane is skywriting the word “MapX” above migrant detention centers to reveal their locations across the United States. In the United Kingdom, citizens…
500+ Strikes, 2 Million-Person Digital Rally: The Movement of Movements Is Growing
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Each week, Nonviolence News collects and shares 30-50 stories of nonviolence in action. I love all these links to stories. You love all these links to stories. Spam filters, unfortunately, do not. Many people’s newsletters are ending up in their spam box. To help Nonviolence News reach our thousands of readers,…
Crumbling Racism, Pillar By Pillar
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun If you watch what’s happening in the United States carefully, you’ll spot a key insight into how nonviolent struggle works. In nonviolent change, we use a model called Pillars of Support to describe how groups, individuals, organizations can prop up a problem or injustice in our world. These may be groups like…