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#LandBack & Sacred Object Returns: Indigenous Resistance Gains Traction

Posted on July 16, 2021July 17, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Indigenous climbers representing 10 nations scaled a grain silo in Kansas to demand #Landback (above). While four were arrested, the action comes amidst news of the US Department of the Interior finally returning 18,000 acres of the National Bison Range to the Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The move follows a…

Heating Up: Women’s Rights, Indigenous Resistance, and Workers Struggles

Posted on July 9, 2021July 9, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, a BIPOC-led struggle in Tennessee succeeded in getting the Byhalia Pipeline cancelled. First Nations drummers helped save a man’s life. Peace teams replaced police at a street festival in Minneapolis. In large and small ways, nonviolence is showing up for a better world. You’ll also hear “a tale…

Making Strides, Weathering Setbacks: From Colombia to Catalonia

Posted on June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s a week of reflecting on the rise and fall of global movements. Some are making headway, like Colombia’s national strike. Others have nearly vanished, like Hong Kong’s mass protests. In Spain, the Catalonian independence movement’s secession attempt took a hard hit with the imprisonment of its leaders for sedition…

Women Have Had Enough. Global Protests & Feminist Revolts

Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There’s that famous quote (often misattributed to Gandhi, it comes from Churchill): First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you … then you win. The “Injustice League” is at the fighting stage. Sexism, racism, classism, dictators, coupists, oppressors, earth destroyers are being pushed to the ropes…

Bat Signals, Trump’s 20K Lies, Pancakes Against Fascism, and Dancing In The Streets

Posted on November 14, 2020November 14, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Ever wonder what 20,000 lies look like? Artists in New York put Trump’s 20,000 false and misleading statements up across a 100-ft wall, helpfully color-categorized by topic. It’s a visual reminder that this is a president who lies through his teeth – just like he has since Election Night, claiming…

1,000 Strikes … And Those Pesky Media Spins

Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Media can be a problem. A big one. Extinction Rebellion just blockaded newspapers over their failure to report on the climate crisis. Meanwhile, a new report dispels the media narrative about the “violent” Black Lives Matter protests. The report finds that in 93% of the thousands of protests involving nearly…

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…

Got Dictators? Never Fear, Nonviolence Is Here

Posted on July 25, 2020July 27, 2020

Editor’s Note: The United States is going through some growing pains.  (Understatement of the year.) With secret police snatching protesters off the street, journalists being arrested for doing their jobs, and the Portland mayor being simultaneously tear gassed by federal agents and booed by his constituency (for doing the same thing to the protesters the…

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…

Black. Lives. Matter. Rising Up For Racial Justice

Posted on June 1, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun The United States is, once again, erupting with racial justice struggles. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops comes on the heels of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and just days after a white woman in Central Park overreacted to Christian Cooper as he told her to control her…

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