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Palestinian Strike, Sri Lanka Tea Growers Resistance, Doctors in Peru

Posted on January 30, 2021January 30, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News has incredible stories from around the world. Palestinians won a significant labor strike, including an apology for racism from the employers. Sri Lankan tea plantation workers are on strike to protect their rights and their jobs; the owner wants to ditch tea and move into tourism….

Special Report: 50+ Victories For Political Change & Social Justice In 2020

Posted on December 17, 2020December 18, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Here’s something to cheer you up after this rough, tough year: when I sat down and reviewed 2,343 stories in Nonviolence News’ 2020 archive, I found a startling surprise. We have 300+ victories and success stories to celebrate! Over the holidays, I’ll be sending out a series of special reports highlighting collections of…

Lobster Boycott, Tenants Blockade, & the Earth On Fire

Posted on October 24, 2020October 24, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun “You can’t lose if you never give up,” said Gene Sharp about waging nonviolent struggle. Bolivia just proved those words. After a right-wing faction contested last year’s election results, fomented confusion in the streets with protests, and took power with military backing, the people of Bolivia have spent the entire…

#ProudBoys & Poor People, Reclaiming & Resisting

Posted on October 9, 2020October 10, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News is full of stories of how ordinary people are reclaiming their dignity, pride, and rights. Around the world, people are resisting violence and injustice. They’re taking action with creativity, heart, and soul. Take #ProudBoys, for example. This week, gay men rose up across social media to…

Election Uprisings

Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

Editor’s Note Election uprisings are in the air. Mass protests in Belarus are decrying the elections results that claim Lukashenko won his sixth term with 80% of the vote while Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the opposition candidate, was forced into hiding for fear of her safety. With police crackdowns, arrests of journalists, and repression of protests rocking…

Crumbling Racism, Pillar By Pillar

Posted on June 6, 2020

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…

Giant Murals, Banner Blockades, Street Dances, and More

Posted on May 25, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun The pandemic has shape-shifted activism, but it hasn’t stopped it. In our opening image (above), these activists blocked four streets in downtown San Francisco while they painted a giant mural (side image – and notice how small the people are!) of a hot air balloon that was visible from the skyrise…

250 Million People Strike In India

Posted on January 13, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Wow! Check out the Successes & Victories section.  Amazing! And that’s not all: this week, up to 250 million Indians went on strike in what might be the largest strike in world history. The most interesting article I’ve read about actions in India was on the women of Shaheen Bagh who have been…

Pots-and-Pans Protests Raise a Racket for Justice

Posted on December 8, 2019

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…

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…

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