Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Sometimes, you can hear the cries of the people echoing like rolling thunder from one country to the next. Across the globe, human beings use nonviolent action to lift up common dreams and shared senses of outrage over injustices. Italian unions mobilized 40,000 people to protest the government plan to…
Tag: May Day
Palestine’s Half-Day Strike, May Day Rallies, Canada’s Fed Workers Strike Deal
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun From the global labor movement’s resurgence to interesting strategies in a wide range of campaigns, Nonviolence News offers a lot to mull on this week. Latvian teachers held an intense 3-day strike that led to higher wages. New York took thousands of guns off the streets with a buyback program….
Cuba’s Massive May Day March, Sri Lanka’s National Strike & Anti-War Activists Everywhere
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun On May 1st, the international date honoring workers, marches and strikes launched around the world. Many countries’ laborers used the moment to call for peace in Ukraine, recognizing the longstanding connection between labor justice and anti-war organizing. Cuba held an impressively enormous day of action, mobilizing half its population in…
Strikes Grow Bigger, Bolder, Broader
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Rent strikes, worker strikes, debt strikes, shopping strikes . . . they’re all building toward the goal of a general strike. On May Day, hundreds of organizing groups held strikes to support the many campaigns for healthcare, PPEs, hazard pay, paid sick leave, decarceration, keeping stay-at-home orders while increasing economic relief…
Meat Boycotts, Sidewalk Mural Protests, & Kites For Climate Justice
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Never doubt the creativity and determination of your fellow human beings. Canada banned assault weapons in the wake of a mass shooting. Walmart workers launched their own contact tracing program to help protect people during the pandemic. The Lebanese mass protest movement is back in action with enormous car protests…