Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In Augusta, Maine, ironworkers wanted raises – and everybody heard about it. At “hammer time”, they slammed their hammers on beams, tables, and the columns which supported the company’s second-floor office. The reverberations could literally be felt at the negotiating table. No wonder they won. Speaking of wins, a historic…
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Humanity vs. Headless Mannequins, Chocolates & Chats, Bakeries For All Minds
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. As I studied the image of the Stop EACOP rally against a large oil pipeline in Uganda, I noticed something odd. What appeared to be rows of supporters demonstrating from the balconies of the buildings – a clever tactic that could…
Turkish Forest Defenders, Japan’s Darting Boy & Texas’ Thirst Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Turkey’s Akbelen Forest has been razed relentless by loggers, but women and community members are mobilizing to halt deforestation. They face arrests, tear gas, and intimidation, but they won’t back down in their protection of this dwindling ecosystem. It’s the kind of courage and determination that we all need to…
Tenants Act, Tiny Russian Peace Protesters, Pilots Strike Wins, Israel In the Streets
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Sometimes, you hear a demand so impactful in its strategy that you can’t help but cheer the campaign on. In the United States, tenants are demanding that President Biden implement rent control on all government-backed housing projects. This move could impact up to 1/3 of all renters in the United…
Heat Wave Triggers Strike Wave – When Social Issues Collide
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In Nonviolence News this week, you can see the burning ties between environmental justice and labor rights. Last week, we shared a report about the first-ever strike among Amazon drivers who, in the middle of a brutal heatwave, protested their equally brutal and punishing schedule. Now, 340,000 UPS drivers are…
Uruguay Saltwater Protests, Orange Cones Vs. Driverless Cars & the Friendship From Hell
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun If you zoom out to a distant vantage point of human history, you can see the arc of the universe bending toward a certain kind of justice. If we secure a future for humanity, historians will look back on these times and identify them as an era in which ordinary…
Safety, Dignity, Living Wages, a Healthy Planet – Is This Too Much To Ask?
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Looking around the globe in this week’s Nonviolence News, it’s evident that people are gripped in “struggles of survival”. The demands are sensible, reasonable: people want safety from brutal repression, they want wages that pay the bills, and they want a planet they can live on that won’t poison them…
Argentines Defend Indigenous Rights, Hotel Workers Flex Muscles & World’s Biggest Human Peace Sign
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Argentines faced police repression that injured hundreds as they protested their governor’s overhaul of the provincial constitution. Though they have succeeded in getting the discriminatory clauses that undermined Indigenous Rights dropped, many continue to push to get the entire document subject to review by tribal groups – as is required…
Mothers Rebellion, Taiwan’s #MeToo, Turkey’s LGBTQ+ Pride
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun One of the things that heartens me about editing Nonviolence News is seeing change happen every week. You can count the victories, one by one. Watch them gaining ground, inch by inch. A mine shut down. A length of an oil pipeline turned off. An anti-trans bill ruled unconstitutional. Wind…
Youth vs. Apocalypse, Spray-Painted Private Jet, Nonviolent Protection & PRIDE Under Siege
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun June is PRIDE month and amidst an onslaught of anti-trans bills, homophobic book bans, and other anti-LGBTQ activities, these marches, rallies, and events showing love to LGBTQ+ individuals and culture are much needed. Unfortunately, many are facing counterprotests from homophobes and anti-trans factions, with some escalating into attacks and assaults….