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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…

Not My President. No Es Mi Presidente.

Posted on November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Dictators, despots, power-grabbers, presidents-for-life . . . autocrats around the world are being challenged by nonviolent movements. This week’s edition shares the many tales of presidents and protests. In Peru, mass protests forced the interim president to resign after a shady parliamentary coup shoved the previous president out of power….

#AnswerUsElonMusk – Climate Justice Means Justice For Everyone, Not Just Some

Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There seems to be a misperception that the climate justice movement has subsided. It hasn’t. The flashier mass demonstrations – which were largely symbolic – have diminished under the pandemic restrictions, but the blockades, boycotts, and direct action campaigns have gotten smarter and stronger. Indigenous Peoples across Russia (above) are…

#CancelRent, Bad Jazz, and Something Fishy About Nonviolence

Posted on September 5, 2020September 5, 2020

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

Posted on August 29, 2020August 29, 2020

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…

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…

Skywriting & Street Murals: Get Creative To Get The Message Out

Posted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020

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…

Action Is the Antidote To Despair – And It’s Working!

Posted on April 18, 2020April 21, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Today is a good day for some uplifting news. Therefore, I direct your attention to the 12 success stories. Worker strikes are winning some change. People continue to step up to take care of one another. Anonymous took down child porn dark web sites. The KXL pipeline was handed a…

Wildcat Strikes & Take-Away Tips: We Learn People-Power From Each Other

Posted on March 2, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Who are the world’s leading experts in people-powered change?  People, of course.  The brave humans on the front lines of waging struggle, building solutions, challenging injustice, and organizing their communities are learning on their feet, in the streets. We can learn a lot from watching one another.  This week, I…

Empty the Streets

Posted on February 19, 2020

Although it’s tempting to call for the people to “take to the streets,” sometimes it’s safer, more powerful and just as effective for them to stay home. by Rivera Sun, Editor of Nonviolence News This article was created for our collaboration with the Metta Center for Nonviolence and was originally published on Waging Nonviolence. In…

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