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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…

Special Report: 50+ Victories For Political Change & Social Justice In 2020

Posted on December 17, 2020December 18, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Here’s something to cheer you up after this rough, tough year: when I sat down and reviewed 2,343 stories in Nonviolence News’ 2020 archive, I found a startling surprise. We have 300+ victories and success stories to celebrate! Over the holidays, I’ll be sending out a series of special reports highlighting collections of…

Women = Half The World. They Won’t Surrender To Sexism.

Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Women’s rights are human rights. Half of the world’s population lives in an on-going state of inequality. In this week’s Nonviolence News, you’ll find articles about women’s rights campaigns in Nigeria, Iran, Panama, India, and the United States. In the photo, above, Panama’s women protest in the streets over the…

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…

500+ Strikes, 2 Million-Person Digital Rally: The Movement of Movements Is Growing

Posted on June 27, 2020June 27, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Each week, Nonviolence News collects and shares 30-50 stories of nonviolence in action. I love all these links to stories. You love all these links to stories. Spam filters, unfortunately, do not. Many people’s newsletters are ending up in their spam box. To help Nonviolence News reach our thousands of readers,…

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…

Wildcat Strikes & Take-Away Tips: We Learn People-Power From Each Other

Posted on March 2, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Who are the world’s leading experts in people-powered change?  People, of course.  The brave humans on the front lines of waging struggle, building solutions, challenging injustice, and organizing their communities are learning on their feet, in the streets. We can learn a lot from watching one another.  This week, I…

Pots-and-Pans Protests Raise a Racket for Justice

Posted on December 8, 2019

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nonviolence comes in thousands of shapes and sizes.  It’s a force, a field of potential, a method of making change, even a way of life.  While this week’s headline celebrates the Latin America-wide cacerolazo (pots-and-pans protest), I’m also uplifting a few stories that show the wide-ranging potential of nonviolence, from small acts…

Mass Protests Erupt Around the World. What Are People Striving For?

Posted on October 27, 2019

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News is full of success stories . . . and stories to learn from. Lebanon’s “rave as revolution” protests have forced ministers to resign, major reforms to be passed, looted funds to be returned, and more.  Meanwhile, in Chile, protests were met with violent repression and the…

Climate Strikes, Car Blockades, and Autoworker Strikes, Oh My!

Posted on September 21, 2019September 28, 2019

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun The Global Climate Strikes are the headline grabbers this week. 4.1 million people in 185 countries took to the streets to demand climate justice. And some people are warning that this is just the beginning: the General Strike for Climate is coming up on Friday, Sept 27th. No work, no…

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