Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Thousands are on the march for a range of social justice issues this week. After 41 deaths in a detention center fire, a migrant caravan of 3,000 people is marching to Mexico City to speed up legal immigration routes. Argentines filled two lanes of a divided highway as they marched…
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Yellow Ribbon Digital Resistance, Oar-Powered Ocean Clean-Up & LA School Workers Win
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Los Angeles City Schools shut down for 3 days as school workers (custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers) went on strike. United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) joined them in solidarity, bringing the total number of striking workers to over 60,000. It worked. The 30,000 support workers have won a tentative deal for…
Tunisia Takes Streets, Portuguese Teachers Protest, Germany Marches For Peace
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s a busy week in Nonviolence News. The stories are varied and diverse, though they share a common theme of people getting fed up with constant injustice. Tunisia’s unions took action against the rising cost-of-living. They’re not alone: Moldova erupted with protests against high fuel prices, the United Kingdom’s strikes…
Sudan Protests Military Rule, Morocco Marches & Okinawa’s Poison Foam
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Protests have erupted in Sudan, once again, after a new power deal was brokered against the will of the 5,000 Resistance Committees who earlier rejected a power-sharing deal with the military. Citizens have been consistent in demanding a full civilian government since they ousted a 30-year-long dictatorship in 2019. Meanwhile,…
Haiti Marches, France Strikes, Chad Protests, Egypt Demands Rosetta Stone Back
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There’s a lot going on in the world. In Chad, protesters are mourning after security forces opened fire on people demanding that the military regime transition to civilian rule. France is bracing for the moment when widespread protests turn into a general strike. Afghan women held protests against the Taliban,…
Pakistani Workers Want Safety, BLM Protests For UK Rapper, South Koreans Push For Fair Medicine
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The United Kingdom is asking whose lives matter after the police killed an unarmed Black rapper. When protest organizers were urged to cancel the demonstrations due to the queen’s death, they refused. They felt the greater insensitivity was asking them to cancel a protest over a Black man’s murder for…
Thailand’s Radical Grandmas, #EnoughIsEnough & China’s Mortgage Boycott
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The United Kingdom is about to erupt in protests. An economic justice campaign called #EnoughIsEnough launched with a bold video decrying poverty wages, cost of living, and concentrated wealth. Over 100,000 people crashed the website trying to get on the email list. It’s a sign of the times. People around…
Mexico’s Water Caravan, Mongolia’s Empty Stomach Uprising & Puerto Rico’s Beach Party Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun If you were wondering where this week’s Nonviolence News has been … the answer is Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and finally Maine. I’ve been on the road this week, moving to Maine, which delayed the release of the new edition. But never fear! Between dodging…
100 Elephants Take Over London, Plastic Whale Tours World & Sharks Against Deep Sea Mining
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun A herd of one hundred, sculpted elephants took over London. They’re “marching” to raise awareness of the critical need for conservation efforts. Each sculpture was handmade by Indigenous communities in India. In a similar vein, Yalata women in Australia made a giant right whale sculpture from “ghost nets” and other…