Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Most news outlets smack you with a barrage of terror. Nonviolence News provides the solutions and the stories of the people working for those changes. This week’s headlines on the climate crisis show this contrast. In the regular news this week, the United Nations’ Climate Chief warned that we have…
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Senegal Saves Democracy, Worker Strikes Work & Lookbacks At Sunflower Movement & Fish Wars
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Let’s start with some recent successes in Nonviolence News. A new report showed that 2023’s US worker strikes worked, winning wage increases that haven’t been seen in decades. The Yurok Tribe has become the first tribal group to steward land in partnership with the National Park Service. Sacramento declared itself…
Congo Marches Against Attacks, Greek Call Center Strike, Palestine Action Escalates
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News edition delivers a high volume of reflective, insightful, and thought-provoking pieces along with current events. You’ll find articles on the history of the prison books movement in the United States, who is beating back book bans, ways Southeast Asians are organizing to get around digital repression,…
Feminist Strike For Food in Argentina, Greece Stands For Trans Safety, Mexican Women Protest Femicide
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun March 8 marked International Women’s Day with protests around the world. Across Argentina, women went on strike over cuts to food assistance amidst a hunger crisis caused by their president’s economic policies. In India, mothers and wives turned out in force to support ongoing farmer protests. More than 180,000 women…
Finland’s Standstill, Strings of Strikes, Cross-Border Solidarity & Uniting People Power
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun We have more power, together. This could be the motto of many of the stories in Nonviolence News this week. People are finding strategic alliances to amplify the pressure they can put on megacorporations, industries, and governments. In Mozambique, community-based organizers are working with global allies to stop some of…
7K Textile Workers Strike In Egypt, Jewish-Led Ceasefire Actions In USA, Nigerians Protest Hardship
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Have you noticed the uptick in global protests and strikes? It’s hard to miss. Mass actions are happening more frequently around the world as people rise up against economic hardship, tyrants and military coups, corruption, the climate crisis, racism, war, and more. This is a pivotal time in human history…
South Korean Trainee Doctors Strike, Croatia & Hungary’s Mass Demonstrations, & Sports Fans Protest With Remote Control Cars
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Around 8,000 trainee doctors in South Korea have submitted their resignations and gone on strike. They are opposing a plan to admit more students to medical school while trainee doctors are grossly overworked and underpaid. Argentine health workers also held a 24-hr strike for better salaries, part of a series…
Unions Call For Ceasefire, French Tractor Blockades & Machu Picchu Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun After blockading the roads around Paris with their tractors, French farmers won offers of major concessions from the government, including promises of cash and easing of regulations. Two major farmer unions called off their protests, though other groups may continue to push for more demands. Across Europe, farmer protests continue…
#IStandWithBalochMarch, Slovakia Protests Corruption, Argentina’s General Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In this week’s Nonviolence News, I especially enjoyed the excellent overview of the campaign organized by women from Balochistan (pictured), Pakistan, that has been trying to stop forced disappearances by holding sit-ins, rallies, protests, and a march for justice. You’ll also find an article about the hundreds of thousands of…
Tractor Protests & Train Strikes in Germany, Pakistan’s Women-led Movements & Serbia’s Disputed Elections
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There’s a lot going on in Nonviolence News this week: Myanmar’s allies in the US are pushing to stop jet fuel and weapons sales to the military junta, Serbia and Guatemala are struggling over disputed elections, and First Nations activists broke into Trans Mountain Pipeline offices in Canada to stop…