Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun As the death toll in Gaza passes 7,000 – including 3,000 children – actions to stop the genocide of Palestinians are escalating worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of people are demonstrating across Indonesia, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia, Chile and beyond. Mass actions have taken place throughout Europe (including…
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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…
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….
3K Migrant Caravan, 12K Belgiums March & 8K French Citizens Block New Motorway With DIY Wall
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…
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…
Sri Lankan President Resigns, Protests Of Survival & Resistance Tips From A WWII Spy Manual
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun “Protests of Survival” – that’s what some editors are calling the many economic protests erupting around the world. I like that term; it’s descriptive of what people are feeling as they try to oust corrupt presidents, stop banks from freezing their funds, oppose high fuel prices, and more. Also dubbed…
Tunisia’s General Strike, Anonymous Wired Ukraine Sirens To Sound Alarms In Russia, Airports & Trains Shut Down By Strikes
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Across Europe, airports and train routes are being disrupted by strikes, including the UK’s largest rail strike in decades. After the South Korean truckers strike won important concessions, it seems like Argentine truckers may be taking a page out of their playbook, shutting down roads to protest diesel shortages and…
Sugar the Horse, Anti-Racist Light Projections & South Korea’s Truckers Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun South Korean truckers have won important concessions from the government after bringing exports to a grinding halt for over a week. The strike sent shockwaves through global industry, especially since it threatened the critical microchip supply. Disrupting business-as-usual can be a vital part of waging struggle. It makes sure you…
Women’s Day, Don’t Say Gay, Ecobarrios, Migrant Workers & Beach Battles
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News is wide-ranging, stretching from stories of how virtual reality is making imaginative space for social justice to how Black-owned farms in the US have to fight to hold onto their land. The breadth of organizing is staggering and eye-opening. Puerto Ricans are mobilizing to stop rich…